Ngamuwahine Adventures Part 2-Orienteering

Orienteering was just a two horse race, me and Mitchell White. Mitch had the early headstart while I took the long distance. Early in the game me, Mitch and two others grouped up but they soon fell behind. Mitch took a costly mistake when he went up a hill to nothing giving me the advantage. At 20 minutes there was one more to go and after a long search with Mitch finding it first with me coming behind. Mitch got 10 points for coming first followed by me with 9 points. But mitch got more questions wrong giving me the top spot.

Results*:

1st-Naveen Saily
2nd-Mitchell White

*-There were 6 challengers competing.

You've heard of The Mexican Oil Spill, Now come's Tauranga's Turn

After last year's Gulf Of Mexico oil spill another one has come upon a city in New Zealand. This oil spill is New Zealand's worst enviromental disaster in history. Tauranga with a population of 120,000 people and being the biggest port in New Zealand had a cargo ship, The Rena, which was expected to stop in the Port of Tauranga on the 5th of October but got stranded on Astrolabe Reef and has currently:

1. Dropped more than 100 containers.
2. Killed more than 1,290 seabirds and other animals.
3. The oil has spread to Maketu
4. The ship has got some large cracks near the middle.    
5. The Rena is listing at 21 degrees.
6. More than 300 tonnes of oil has spilt from one of the ships main tanks.

100 of these containers have fallen of and some been broken on the shore.

Containers falling off the Rena.

A dead bird found on Mount Maunganui beach covered in oil from The Rena.

For more information go to the Bay Of Plenty Times or The New Zealand Herald.