Paulius Grimalis -
Each year on the 25th of January a midwinter
hike is organised by the “Aukuras
club”. This is a hike in which people get together
and walk around the Kurtuvėnai
regional park. The aim of this hike is to celebrate the midwinter’s day - a day when there’s only half of winter left till spring. This
year eight students from the IB1 class with their teacher Ligita participated
in this hike on Sunday. All the participants gathered at 11 o’clock a few meters away from the Geluvos lake.
Right after hearing the instructions we began our journey.
Firstly, we headed to see the lakes. One of
them almost cracked and scared us a lot. Fortunately nobody got wet and we
continued our hike. During the hike the leader of the group showed the group a
badger. This was not an ordinary badger. There’s
a myth, each midwinter that badger gets out of its cave. If he leaves a lot of
footprints around his cave, then this winter will be short. On the other hand,
if there are no footprints - the winter will be long. Unfortunately, my
classmates and I could not see the cave of the badger because of the amount of
people standing around its’ cave. Thus we cannot tell you guys the
predictions of this winter. Then we visited the biggest oak in the whole Kurtuvėnai regional park which is called Zuikiškės
oak. It is 32m high and the diameter of its trunk is 1.5m. It made us realise how small we are in this
world. Lastly, we managed to visit even 10 lakes that are situated in the
Kurtuvėnai regional park
(Geluvos, Šermukšnyno, Raudoniuko, Barsukyno, Dubuko, Širvos, Butiškės, Bijotės,
Juodežerio and Niaukos lakes).
This journey took us approximately 5 hours to
finish but the hike was worth every minute. This was a really interesting and
challenging hike as we had to walk a long distance in order to see these
beautiful nature creations. Fresh air, great people made this event even
better. So without a doubt I recommend everyone to participate in this hike next
year!
A group photo during the hike
Happy and tired faces of IB1s after having completed the hike
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