1970 School Magazine

.A, €'".rpt fron ilr" Tury "f J"[i. Qronl. (One of the 50 girls usbo rulfed it lor a week on Fraser Island) Saturday, 15tb August : Got up at 5.L5 this morning to get to bus

on time - left school 6.L5 a.m.! ( Never thought I could ever make it to Grammar before quarter to nine ) - two buses full of fishing nets, billies, pillows, girls, food, sleeping-bags, and sleeping ieachers., -By noon we had reached Fraser Island everyone in trucks churning up a thirty mile stretch of beach to this camp site had lunch, then explored this place it's really great - no people, f,o roads, no shops, no parents, no batlis, no 'boys just miles of surf and sand rolling into the blue. Tomomow Mrs. Middleton says we're going to some lake, and then a ship- wieck - should be good. ( Boy, are these sleeping bags fun! ). Sund,ay, 76th: After breakfast, everyone in mucks, and a long drive to Lake \fabby a beautiful, gleen thrJe hundred feet deep iake and so cold, it numbs ( had to hike over two miles of sand-trills to get there ! ) - back to trucks . . and another bone-rattling drive to the Mahino \7reck, and its marine invertebrates lunch ( I'd better start liking Tip Top Late Bake ) - then a look at some cliffs of coloured sandstolle. Back to camp (oh boy, these sleeping bags aren't very warm at night ). Monday 17 th : Today was our "Rain Forest Study" - to think thij island is all sand, with no real soil, and it supports a ruin forest ! - talk by a-forester ( one of ih. twenty-seven permanent residents ol1 ihir island ); then on to Lake Birrabeen - lunch and swim was on Dinner Roster tonight ( and everyone got

sick - burnt the custard ). ( These sleeping bags are getting all sandy and dirty. ) Tuesday 78th : Everyone up at 5.30! ( the less time in those sleeping bags the better ) - and a windy journey in those trucks up to Indian Head - it was just a sphere of blue, looking out to sea and sky from the outcop, To Eli Creek for lunch ( i.e. Tip Top Late Bake and S7indsor Sausage and Quick- Eze) - on to Happy Valley ( saw some houses! ) then back to those tents ( and oh! Those lumpy sleeping bags! ) W ednesday 79tb : Supposed to have wakened at 5.00 this morning ( bird-watching of all things! ). After breakfast ( porridge, Tip Top Late Bake and Vegemite ) down to a lagoon ( "Notice the underw atet sttata, gids ! " ) . This afternoon v/e went for a walk along the beach, trying to- reach infinity - got a ride back in a fisherman's jeep ! Had tuff steak and burnt spaghetti for tea so f'm not the onlv one who can't coolc round lrere. ( Can't bear these hard, flat, dirty sleeping- bags another night ! ) Thursday 20th : Had first shower this morning then another swim in Lake \Wabbv. S(/orked on pro- jects all afternoon; after barbeque tea up the beach to a camp-fire cooked onions and potatoes in coals then midnight walk along beach. ( Think I'11 come here, and live, if I fail Senior ). ( Boy those sleeping-bags are THE end! ) Friday 27st : \7ell, goodbye tents, sand, Tip Top Late Bake and dead fish hello Brisbane, family, soft bed, hot bath, food and reality. Had free morning to pack then back in the trucks to our buses on the mainland - tea in Gympie, and home by 9.00 p.m. That sure was fun Mum says I'm looking healthy; Dad says I'm looking dirty; and my brother wants to know, what happened to his sleeping bag?

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