Camp Recount

Last week on Thursday 3rd of April I went on an overnight survival camp in 1 my teacher’s backyard.

It was about 5 pm in the afternoon Byron, heaps of other kids and some more adults went down to the creek with the Enaki to try and catch some eel’s overnight.”The way the eels get in is that the bait goes at the front so the go through the first part of the net then they get trapped a bit then they go into the second part the they a really trapped then when they get to the bait they can’t get out” Byron said. At 9 pm or so we went down to the        creek with our torches off and had to make our way through the trees to get to the creek. The job was complete and we got a chance to see the eels in the Hinaki. There were about 12 to 15 eels in the Hinaki. Byron tried to spare a few but they kept getting away.

In the morning when we were dressed and packed up Brendon and Mr Cottrell took us down to the Hinaki so we could pull it up and eat a few. There was at least 30 or 40 eels in the Hinaki. When we pulled it up we let the eels find there way to the water. The class and I chased after the eels and tried to catch some I caught a medium sized   .We took two up back to the fire and killed the eels. When they were killed we put them on the fire and had some smoked eel. The eel taste like chicken at the start and at the end it tasted like crayfish.

By Hugh