{"id":1297,"date":"2011-11-02T23:34:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T22:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2011-11-04T22:33:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T22:33:26","slug":"1297","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/02\/11\/2011\/1297","title":{"rendered":"Sustenance, Sea and Soggy Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight teenagers, one teacher and one instructor plus cliffs, waves and a windy day equal\u2019s terror, aching muscles and plenty of slips. This is an equation many of us learnt today. Wrapped up in waterproofs and thick fleeces we marched down the beach to our doom\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so here is what happened next in the easiest way possible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slips<\/li>\n<li>Screams<\/li>\n<li>LOTS of screams<\/li>\n<li>Grief<\/li>\n<li>Relief<\/li>\n<li>Small holes- big squeezes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now for\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 LUNCH!<\/p>\n<p>After our lunch we strapped ourselves into safety gear (\u201cAnyone feel too safe?\u201d \u201cI feel like some sort of spy\u2026\u201d) and started our adventure on the cliffs. Scrambling our way across wet rocks and seaweed we were yet to realise what was to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Now; for the best part! Tyrolene! (For those parents that just went \u2018huh?- Tyrolene?\u2018 a zip wire)\u2026 so our instructor Louise amazingly tied a rope from a rock to another rock \u2013 you have to see it to understand \u2018LOL\u2019 we zip wired (Pru manically humming the Indiana Jones theme tune\u2026) from a to b and Holly\u2019s shoe fell off!!!!! So well done everyone we did it! Then \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. The bubble bath, willingly I (Elliott) went first climbing back up \u2013 you have never seen a wave like ours! Everyone laughing watching me get bombarded by the ocean\u2019s weapons \u2026<\/p>\n<p>I decided to go second and since I\u2019m not the tallest, I was up to my shoulders in foam and seawater. Because of the foam I couldn\u2019t see the rocks I was meant to stand on and had to hang onto the wall whilst I was buffeted by waves and foam. Screams and squeals were popular ways of communicating. \u201cI never want to have a bubble bath again! Aaaah!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s sadly the end. Well , what do we finish off with?! Well I (Elliott) gladly convinced everyone INCLUDING the instructor to BAYWATCH RUN into the sea! Now that was an experience!<\/p>\n<p>Best part of the day :<\/p>\n<p>zip wire AND bubbles<\/p>\n<p>Worst part of the day:<\/p>\n<p>Bubbles! and slipping LOL.<\/p>\n<p>My best AND worst part of the day had to be the bubbles, I never knew something so innocent looking could be so horrible! My quote has to be \u201cDon\u2019t put that on the blog! My mum reads that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>by Elliott Loft and Prudence Vary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight teenagers, one teacher and one instructor plus cliffs, waves and a windy day equal\u2019s terror, aching muscles and plenty of slips. This is an equation many of us learnt today. Wrapped up in waterproofs and thick fleeces we marched down the beach to our doom\u2026. Okay, so here is what happened next in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louises-group-2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s17boM-1297","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4267,"url":"http:\/\/indoorsout.co.uk\/blog\/02\/11\/2017\/sea-level-traverse","url_meta":{"origin":1297,"position":0},"title":"Sea level traverse","author":"Cstavri","date":"2 November 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we travelled to Anglesey to get stuck into some sea level traversing which many people were slightly worried about. 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