Hinchinbrook Island 5 Day Hike 五天在欣钦布鲁克岛徒步旅行

Hiking is one of our other passions in the Mandarin Motion family!  We recently did a 5 day hike on Hinchinbrook Island, and of course hiking is a great opportunity to integrate some math (weighing each item in our packs, totalling, spatial awareness, spreadsheet of  distances between towns on our long drive etc), Science (ecosystems, micro-organisms, water purification etc), Health (training, safety etc), and of course Mandarin!  Kids created a video diary in Mandarin of some of the fun and challenges of our hike 🙂 The transcript, with pinyin and translation is below 🙂 

To see our hike in Tiger Leaping Gorge in China earlier this year you can click on the link 🙂 To see our Mandarin Diary Video of our Wilson’s Prom Hike in Victoria last year you can click on the link 🙂

We will post about all the things that need to be packed on a hike soon, in English and Mandarin 🙂

Transcript: 

我们坐船穿过红树林来到欣钦布鲁克岛上。 很快,受大风!

(Wǒmen zuò chuán chuānguò hóngshùlín lái dào Xīnqīnbùlǔkè dǎo shàng 。 hěn kuài , shòu dà fēng !)

We took a boat through mangroves to Hinchinbrook Island. Fast ride, very windy!

我们顺着橙色的箭头,这样我们不迷路。

(Wǒmen shùnzhe chéngsè de jiàntóu , zhè yàng wǒmen bù mílù)

We followed the orange arrows, so we didn’t get lost.

我们涉过溪流。

(Wǒmen shèguò xīliú)

We tramped through creeks.

每天搭帐篷。

(Měi tiān dā zhàngpeng)

Every day we set up camp.

每天找流水,收集水。

(Měi tiān zhǎo liúshuǐ , shōují shuǐ)

Every day we found flowing water to collect.

水在饮用前要净化。

(Shuǐ zài yǐnyòng qián yāo jìnghuà)

We had to treat the water first before we could drink it.

我们砸开了椰子,喝椰汁,我们跟椰子玩游戏,吃里面的椰子肉。

(Wǒmen zákāi le yēzi , hē yē zhī , wǒmen gēn yēzi wán yóuxì , chī lǐmiàn de yēzi ròu)

We cracked open coconuts, drank the juice, played games with the coconuts, and ate the coconut flesh.

我们用贝壳和小树枝在海滩打井字游戏。

(Wǒmen yòng bèiké hé xiǎo shùzhī zài hǎitān dǎ jǐngzì yóuxì)

We used shells and sticks to play tic tac toe on the beach.

我们在大瀑布潭游泳。

(Wǒmen zài dà pùbù tán yóuyǒng)

We swam in big water fall pools.

土生土长夜行的老鼠会咬破徒步旅行者的背包和帐篷吃他们的食物!  所以没晚上我们把食物放在金属盒子里面。

(Tǔshēngtǔzhǎng yèxíng de lǎoshǔ huì yǎopò túbùlǚxíngzhě de bēibāo hé zhàngpeng chī tā men de shíwù ! Suǒyǐ méi wǎnshang wǒmen bǎ shíwù fàng zài jīnshǔ hézi lǐmiàn)

Native nocturnal rats chew through hikers’ backpacks and tents to eat their food! So we put our food in the food boxes at night.

各种地势  :海滩、红树林、沼泽、热带雨林 和崎岖的海岸线。

(Gèzhǒng dìshì : hǎitān 、 hóngshùlín 、 zhǎozé 、 rèdàiyǔlín hé qíqū de hǎiànxiàn)

All kinds of terrain:  beach, mangroves, swamp, tropical rainforest and rugged coastline.

我们成功了!

(Wǒmen chénggōng le !)

We did it!

再见!  欣钦布鲁克!

(Zài jiàn ! Xīnqīnbùlǔkè !)

Goodbye Hinchinbrook!

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