9/9/14
So in the last few days of the summer holidays I went up near Chester to visit my cousins. It's always a laugh going to see them and this time was no different. We visited a place called Manley Mere which is basically an adventure walk with activities along the way that you 'control' yourself without supervisors. (things can get muddy!)
Unfortunately the photos aren't great quality... I didn't want to take my camera because inevitably it would have got wet and muddy! But my cousin Aidan has a go pro so we took that but the pictures aren't great and there aren't that many but at least there is something.
At the beginning you start all dry and the first activity you want to avoid because it involves getting wet straight away by shooting water at each other, but once you get further on you realise just what your in for and by the end you shooting water each other without worrying!
During the walk there are balances across muddy streams, rope swings, hamster wheels, zip wires, balance beams across muddy ponds and things beyond your wildest imagination!
I hope you enjoy the pictures below! We got wet and muddy...
This had to be one of my highlights. He may look strong and he may be a ginger but balance is not his strong point. Aidan was the first to go and my goodness, did he go. XD Sarah (Aidan's girlfriend) and I managed to get along the beam across the pond, I took a more slow approach and Sarah basically ran across (IT WAS A FLUKE OKAY?! I'M BETTER AT BALANCING!)
A few things after the balance beams here was a random rope above some water. I was the only one out of the five of us who tried it, at first I tried the arm approach and then went mission impossible.
We then walked back to the car and had a lunch break for going onto the better/worse bits, it depends how you look at it. :D. We then went and did all the best things that we had done previously and then went onto things we hadn't done. Such as things called manly or womanly which we will get on later.
Now for the famous dunking chair. Kind of self explanatory but for you information, you get dunked into a muddy pond in a chair using a see-saw type method.
Manly or Womanly is a 'game' my cousins Aidan and Simon invented. A zip wire across a muddy pond. No seat, just a knot, hard to get off without getting wet. Manly or Womanly is when you have to jump off first time when you zip line across the pond. Bit sexist but your manly when you succeed and womanly if you don't. Stupid. Stupid. Why can't womanly be when you succeed! So I was obviously 'manly'. I went a few times and had a few battles on the metal bridge with Simon to push each other in. I ended up dragging him in and being sat on and for a brief moment, being completely submerged in water!
I have now been to manley mere twice, and it was so much time, although getting changed after is a pain..
Tash
