This document summarizes the activities of Day 4 of a Year 7 camp trip to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. It describes visits to Bush Breakfast, Two Up School to learn about an old gambling game, the Weather Bureau to learn about weather monitoring, and the Royal Flying Doctor Service base. It also details tours of the Loop Line railway, Boulder Town Hall, and Mt. Charlotte where a pipeline ends. The day ended with a games night and talent show.

1. DAY FOUR
• Bush Breakfast
• Two Up School
• Weather Bureau
• Royal Flying Doctor
• Loop Line Train
• Boulder Town Hall
• Mt Charlotte
• Talent Night
Enjoying cereal before making
jaffles on the open fire…
Wattle Grove Primary School
Wattle Grove Primary School
2013 YEAR 7 CAMP
2013 YEAR 7 CAMP
TO KALGOORLIE
TO KALGOORLIE

2. Sharon from camp school talking
to the students about cooking
Jaffles in the hot coals…

3. Showing Katrin how to get her
Jaffle out of the Jaffle Irons…

4. Checking if Akira’s is done
enough…

5. Sometimes there are a few burnt
bits on the edges…

6. Jett likes his…

7. Grace in pink is sampling the
barbecued Kangaroo steak…very
nice too…Elias is deciding what
to add to his jaffle next…

8. Fei is going for the Kangaroo
now…Elias is still deciding…too
many choices – eggs, bacon,
cheese, baked beans and more.

14. AT THE TWO UP SCHOOL…
A few kilometres outside Kalgoorlie. In the old
days it was the childrens’ job to climb the trees
and keep a lookout for the police…
It is only played on ANZAC Day now, but in the
past people have lost all their money homes
and families gambling on Two Up…

15. The ladies of Kalgoorlie got
together and insisted Two Up
was not played on Pay Day, so
they had a chance to get the
money they needed for the family

16. Sharon explains how Two Up is
played and its history

17. The students had some play
money to play with…when you
lost all your money you had to go
and watch from the Loser’s Seats

18. Shiva flips the two coins to see if
it is Heads or Tails or another
throw…

19. Those who choose Tails hold the
money until after the throw…

20. Some of the people on the loser’s
seats still have a smile on their
faces…

21. Zaid and Shiva all smiles towards
the end of the game…

22. And the winner is…Peace, all
smiles as she holds up her ill
gotten gains…

23. Sharon reminds the students that
gambling can become an addiction and
that there are very few real winners…as they
found out… Two Up can only be play legally
on ANZAC Day, where it is a tradition of the
diggers…

24. WEATHER BUREAU
Next we went to the airport and one
group visited the Weather Bureau and
the other, the Flying Doctor Base…

25. These thermometers are L shaped and
buried in the ground to measure ground
temperature

26. A selection of Children’s toys and games
from the period...
There are also some that lift out of tubes
in the soil, with wax in the bottom to hold
the thermometer centrally…

27. Codi finds out the hard way that there are
prickles on the ground…

28. Anemometer to check wind speed
and a tank to measure evaporation…

29. Stevenson Screen (white ventilated
box) holding the thermometers used
to measure Max. and Min. temps…

30. Rain Gauge…not going to be
needed today…

31. Laser used to bounce beam off
cloud and measure its height…

32. Device for detecting and
reporting visibility…
measures fog, smoke,
etc in the atmosphere

33. Back in the office, having a talk
about how all the weather data is
recorded and used…

34. Outside watching a Weather
Balloon inflated automatically
with Hydrogen…could have white
or orange balloons…

36. No aircraft around…so we can
release the baloon…a bird also
enjoying watching on…

37. The balloon will go up many thousands
of metres expanding as it does to the
size of a house before exploding and the
remainder falling back to earth…

38. ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR VISIT…
Having a talk before a tour of a flying
doctor plane…Mr Sherlock checking out
the displays around the room…
The Flying Doctor Service is the fourth
largest airline in Australia…

39. The aricraft are $6 000 000 to buy and are
then fitted with a million dollars of
medical equipment, equivalent to that of
an intensive care ward in a hospital…

40. We got to have a look inside…
The last few boys waiting as
Sandy has his look…

41. Outside Coolgardie Cemetery…

42. View of the Pilots’ Office…

43. Stretcher lifting device in front…

44. C Group posing in front of the plane…
A & B Groups with Mrs Lavery and Mr
Sanderson were having their tour of
the Weather Bureau…

45. LOOP LINE RAILWAY TOUR…
Next it was off to Boulder for the Loop
Line Tour. Here we are outside the Loop
Line Railway Station. It is all undergoing a
refurbishment after 10 years out of action, so there is a
lot to do…They are in the
Back at the museumhoping it will be running again next
year, with the
Town Hall… line extended up to the Superpit…

46. Loopline Train,
almost ready to go again…

48. Our buses lined up outside the
Refurbished Carriage…
Town Hall…great old building…

49. Vic invited us over the road to
see his mate Maurie’s Collection
of old equipment and other
Another carriage under way…
things…

50. He even had a Dalek
like those In the Dr Who
TV Railway workers engine and carriage
Show, much to the
excitement of Misters,lot like a caravan…
behind…looking a Sanderson and Sherlock…

51. Lots of old metal signs
Old Steam Shovel nearby…
waiting to be refurbished and sign
from the fence…

52. BOULDER TOWN
HALL VISIT…

53. Old delivery bike…

54. Interesting tap arrangement
sticking out of the wall…

55. Inside the ballroom with its highly
polished jarrah floor…

56. A variety of old petrol pumps…

57. Beautifullyhand-painted Leyland
Notice the restored old stage curtain by Philip Goacher depicting the ‘Bay of Naples’…
Truck from the twenties…
the only one of these curtains left in the world and irreplaceable…

58. Thanking Maurie for letting us
having a look around at no
At night,
charge… the curtain is raised into a huge material bag for protection and every three
years it is cleaned by experts brought over from Sydney…

59. CAMP BIRTHDAYS
Shiva and Evie had birthdays on
camp…thank you to the kitchen
staff who made and decorated
such beautiful cakes for them…
Inside the council chambers…all the furniture is original but the flooring is new…

60. MT CHARLOTTE VISIT
GAMES NIGHT
This is where the Happyto Kalgoorlie Pipeline
After singing Perth Birthday, we had a lot
designed by C Y O’Connor ends, flowing into
of fun playing lots of different games…
the reservoir on top…

61. The pipeline heading up the hill to empty its
precious liquid into the reservior.

62. Technology also sits on Mt Charlotte today...

63. In the old days the water would
flow out of the pipeline and into
the reservoir here, but today
the reservoir is rooved to
reduce evaporation…
Posers are Flynn and Jacob…!!

64. More posers, with the Superpit behind them...
Akira gets the Best Poser Award and Bailey the best smile,
followed by Grace, with Flynn is a close third…

65. That is the end everyone…
I video taped the Talent Night and so
don’t have photos to show…it went
very well and was a lot of fun, with
some talented performers
among the group…