Day 5 Wattle Grove Primary School - Year 7 Kalgoorlie Camp 2013
1. DAY FIVE
• Karkula Bushland Park
• Hammond Park - Lunch
• Trip Home
Wattle Grove Primary School
Wattle Grove Primary School
2013 YEAR 7 CAMP
2013 YEAR 7 CAMP
TO KALGOORLIE
TO KALGOORLIE
2. Having a tour of the park, which turned out to
be very informative and interesting…
3. Tasting some of the plants the
aboriginals eat as part of their
bush tucker…
4. If you are wondering why all the
trees around Kalgoorlie are all
about the same height, it’s
because they are all about the
same age, 40 to 45 years old.
This is because they are part of
the regrowth from the 60’s and
70’s, when their was an effort to
re-establish the trees after that
were all cut down within 100
miles of Kalgoorlie, to power
the plant required for
the gold mining industry.
The dust storms resulting
from the lack of trees
was affecting the health
of the people living in the
area and so a concerted
effort was made to
re-establish the trees.
The ones you see today
are those trees.
5. Looking at the different plants and the seeds they produce…
Karkula Park has a nursery and they harvest and sell the seed,
some worth as much as $1800 a kilo.
6. Here you can see a bed of seeds
under this plant…some plants produce
something like 10 million seeds and out of that
only one might germinate.
7. It is a nice walk around the park…with a
lookout at the highest point allowing you
the see for kilometres, although there is
not a lot to see out there…
9. Waiting for the other group to finish their
tour…while in the park the students got to
plant some seedlings also to contribute to
the look of the park and the regrowth…
10. Using the time to find Qandong Nuts to crack and
eat…similar taste to an almond… The students were
shown how to crack them with a couple of rocks, but
you had to be careful not to crush the nut totally…
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14. HAMMOND PARK FOR LUNCH…
We had packed lunches from the Camp School and
Hammond Park was a lovely green place to go…with
some interesting gazebos to eat under, animals,
playgrounds and bridges over a watercourse.
25. That is the end everyone…
Well not quite, we arrived back on time
at 9.45pm…and were happy to hand
the students over to their parents. We
all agreed the kids had been great
and it had been a terrific
camp…
An especially BIG thank you to Raylene,
Sharon and all the staff at Kalgoorlie
Camp School.
