Our Camp 2013 - Day 3

Today was probably the busiest day of the week. Today, we got up at the usual time of 7, spent 15 minutes getting dressed and waking ourselves up. Of course, sharing the strange dreams that we might have had the night before. At 7:15, the helpers got called to the dining room and Group C (Mr Sherlocks group) got called out to the fire for our Bush Breakfasts. For the Bush Breakfast, we were making a type of toasted sandwich, called a jaffle. We were doing this, using jaffle irons, there was a selection of ingredients, such as: Skippy (kangaroo), Baked Beans, Bacon, Eggs, tomato sauce, barbeque sauce and Cheese. We could use as much or as of different ingredients as we wanted. In any order except, the cheese, which had to be in the middle of the jaffle. We then closed and latched the iron and walked over to the fires, where we would be cooking them. We put the jaffles into the heat of the fire and walked back to get plates, as we were only allowed to do one thing at a time. We then turned over the jaffle and waited a minute or two, then carefully took the jaffles out. Sharon cut off the crusts and took them out of the jaffle irons for us. We lent the irons onto a rock and went, collected our jaffle, then went to sit down and enjoy them. They were very nice and everyone enjoyed them. After the bush breakfast, we had just enough time to go and get ready for the days adventures, which we were all very excited about. To kickstart our day’s activities, we went to Lake Douglas to do some gold panning. We couldn’t wait to get started. First off, we had to get into groups and go collect as close to, two handfuls of a gold-containing mineral called Quarts. We then got showed how to crush the quarts in a big cylindrical pot called a ‘Dolly Pot’ into a very fine powder. We then emptied the contents into a plastic-type bowl, you then put a little bit of water, slosh it around and carefully empty the water out and hopefully spot some gold in the groves of the pan, where it should get caught. Some people were very lucky and found multiple pieces of gold. Others weren't so lucky and didn't find any. After this, we had a scrumptious morning tea, a got into new groups for our next activity of bush humpy building. Our task was to build a humpy out of natural materials, that could fit every person from our group inside of it. We also had to make up a song and dance to advertise our humpy, as if we were selling it. Following this, we got into our buses and headed to Coolgardie Park for lunch. Following lunch, we headed over to the town hall, just down the road from Coolgardie Park,, where we met up with our tour guide named Vic. The first thing we did with Vic was have a history lesson, whilst he past around a 3 ounce gold nugget that he had found, we then followed him into the amazing Coolgardie Town Hall. Inside the main part of the hall was a fantastic painting done to look like the curtains and props onstage. A lot of us believed it for a bit until we were told that it was actually a painting. We then went to many different places to learn about people and places of Coolgardie’s history. These included: Jack Cairns Humpy, Coolgardie Cemetery, Warden Finnerty’s house, Coolgardie’s Tourist Bureau, a museum and an extra little treat was thrown in for us as well. We went over the road and met Vic’s friend who had a collection of some signs and souvenirs of the past. Subsequent to this, we got to go home and have a rest before dinner later in the evening, which was followed by a very fun Games Night, before we were off to bed, before our last full day in Kalgoorlie. By Taylor and Merenia