Wattle Grove Primary School 2014 YEAR 7 CAMP TO KALGOORLIE DAY FOUR: Thursday •Kalgoorlie Town Hall •Kalgoorlie Town Walk •Kalgoorlie Museum •Royal Flying Doctor Base •Weather Bureau •Mt Charlotte Reservoir •Evening – Games Night Wattle Grove Primary School 2014 YEAR 7 CAMP TO KALGOORLIE DAY FOUR: Thursday •Kalgoorlie Town Hall •Kalgoorlie Town Walk •Kalgoorlie Museum •Royal Flying Doctor Base •Weather Bureau •Mt Charlotte Reservoir •Evening – Games Night
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Wattle Grove Primary School2014 YEAR 7 CAMP TO KALGOORLIEDAY FOUR: Thursday•Kalgoorlie Town Hall•Kalgoorlie Town Walk•Kalgoorlie Museum•Royal Flying Doctor Base•Weather Bureau•Mt Charlotte Reservoir•Evening – Games Night
Wattle Grove Primary School2014 YEAR 7 CAMP TO KALGOORLIEDAY FOUR: Thursday•Kalgoorlie Town Hall•Kalgoorlie Town Walk•Kalgoorlie Museum•Royal Flying Doctor Base•Weather Bureau•Mt Charlotte Reservoir•Evening – Games Night
Ready for breakfast…
Cooked breakfast ready to serve…
Heavy rain after breakfast…
Paddy Hannan statue outside the Town Hall after rain clears…
Town Hall across Hannan Street…
Inside the council chambers…
Mayoral Chain…$105 000 of gold
Inside the Kalgoorlie Town Hall…
Velvet upholstered seating a contrast to wooden chairs in Boulder…
Original copper Paddy Hannan statue…
Outside with replica Paddy Hannan statue…
Room 10 Year 7’s…
Room 22 Year 7’s…
Year 7’s from Room 15…
Off on the Town Walk…
Refurbished York Hotel…
St Barbara, patron saint of miners…
Old Post Office building…
Foyer of the Palace Hotel…with ornate carved mirror sent to one of the barmaids by
Herbert Hoover, mining engineer, later to be US President.
Entering the museum grounds at the top of Hannan Street
Minehead installed over the museum
Up on the platform of the minehead to see the view of Kalgoorlie
Modern minehead on nearby underground mine
Mount Charlotte Reservoir where the pipeline from Mundaring Weir finishes
Old houses in museum grounds below
More groups on the minehead platform
Gold exhibition in the vault of the museum
Infamous stories of gold told as well…
Visiting the Royal Flying Doctor Base
John Flynn, flying doctor founder on $20 note
Looking over a flying doctor plane, equipped like an emergency department in a hospital
Next we visit the Weather Bureau nearby…
Mr Petch with Amos holding a weather balloon…
Radar building in the Weather Bureau grounds
Learning about weather instruments the bureau uses
Stevenson Box holding thermometers to record maximum and minimum temperatures.
Visit to Mount Charlotte to see the reservoir where the water pipeline comes to from Perth
Reservoir is covered to reduce evaporation
Students around original pipe outlet from which the water flowed into the reservoir…
Serving up Chicken Snitzel for dinner
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Garlic bread and salad to go with the snitzel…
Concentrating on playing soccer game…
No puck, so we had to use a domino tile instead. Seemed to work well though…
Table Tennis was popular…
Some had fun playing Charades…
Mr Petch joined in playing Spoons…
Singing Happy Birthday to Mrs Lavery after playing the games…
