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Friday Pre-Tours
| Tour Name | Tour Code | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Forestry Tour (BUS) | T 1 | FRIDAY at 9.30 am |
| South West: Glenelg River Cruise, Princess Margaret Rose Cave, and Laughton Park Gardens (SELF DRIVE) | T 2 | FRIDAY at 11.30am |
| Kimberly Clark Tour (BUS) | T 3 | FRIDAY at 1.30 pm |
| Scenic tour around Blue Lake, Crater Lakes & Umpherston Sinkhole (BUS)_ | T 4 | FRIDAY NIGHT AT 4.30PM |
| Cemetery Walk (SELF DRIVE) | T 5 | FRIDAY NIGHT AT approx 8.00 to 8.30PM |
Saturday Short Tours
| Tour Name | Tour Code | 10.15am - 11.45pm | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | 3.00pm - 4.30pm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical walking tour of Mount Gambier (SELF DRIVE) | T 6 | A | - | - |
| The Pepperpot Trail Walk (SELF DRIVE) | T 7 | A | - | - |
| DEH tour at Picaninnie Ponds (BUS) | T 8 | - | B | - |
| Pillion passenger/side car rides around Mount Gambier (SELF DRIVE) | T 9 | A | B | C |
| Mock Trials: Old Courthouse Trial - Judge & Jury/witness or guilty (SELF DRIVE) | T 10 | - | - | C |
Saturday Long Tours
| Tour Name Please note these tours take up at least two workshops | Tour Code | 10.15am - 11.45pm | 1.00pm - 2.00pm | 3.00pm - 4.30pm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West: Aust Kelp Farm and Worm Farm at Woakwine factory, Trout Farm, Holla Fresh Herb Farm, and Wind-farm drive (BUS) | T 11 | A - | B | - |
| South: Limestone Quarries, Fox's Dairy, tour of Pt MacDonnell (BUS) | T 12 | - | B - | C |
| North: Weather Bureau, Wagner's Rose Farm, Kalangadoo Organic Apple Farm (BUS) | T 13 | - | B - | C |
Friday Pre-Tours
Forestry Tour
How pine-tree seedlings are grown, logging in the forest and machinery demonstration. Looking at sinkholes in the forest.
Tour Guides: Trevor Wynniat Costs: Bus cost: $10 pp Tour Code: T 1 Time FRIDAY at 9.30 am
South West: Glenelg River Cruise & Princess Margaret Rose Cave, and Laughton Park Gardens
(SA Time)Travel to Nelson 27km from Mount Gambier. Board the Nelson Explorer and sail along the Glenelg River leaving at 11.30am from Nelson (take your own lunch) Enter Princess Margaret Rose Caves at 1.00pm. Arrival back at Nelson 3.00pm. Visit Laughton Park Gardens at 3.30pm for a Devonshire Tea amongst 1.5ha of garden and water features. (own transport needed)
Tour Guides: Boat: Harvey & Heather McBain Cave: Jim & Fran Hanel. Garden: David & Val Laughton Costs: Boat: $27.50 Cave: $8.50 Garden: $8.00 Tour Code: T 2 Time FRIDAY at 11.30am
Kimberly Clark Tour
Tour through the Kimberly Clark Tissue factory. See from the raw timber to the tissue paper. (BUS)
Tour Guides: Joan McNaughton Costs: 0 Tour Code: T 3 Time FRIDAY at 1.30 pm
Saturday Short Tours
Scenic tour around Blue Lake, Crater Lakes & Umpherston Sinkhole
Friday bus tour 4.30pm for 45 mins showing sites of Mount Gambier - Drive around the Blue Lake with the history of the volcano, drive into the Valley Lake with the history of the first white settlers & visit Umpherston Sinkhole.
Tour Guides: Denise / Sue Williams Costs: $5 pp Tour Code: T 4 Time FRIDAY NIGHT AT 4.30PM
Cemetery Walk
Meet at the Old Lake Terrace Cemetery. Guided tour from historians relating stories about Mount Gambier's early white settlers, Aborigines, and those ghost stories to chill your bones. Bring your torch as you wander through and a good sense of humor for those unexpected surprises.(SELF DRIVE)
Tour Guides: Pat Galpin & History Group Costs: $5.00 pp Tour Code: T 5 Time FRIDAY NIGHT AT approx 8.00 to 8.30PM
Historical walking tour of Mount Gambier
Walking tour visiting the historical buildings and churches within CBD of Mount Gambier (SELF DRIVE)
Tour Guides: Ros Hodson
Costs: $7.50 pp Tour Code: T 6 Tour Sessions A - -
The Pepperpot Trail Walk
A guided walk of about 1 hour and 15 mins (2.5kms) beginning and ending at the Blue Lake/subway car park. Walking shoes are necessary for this easy-mod grade walk. Great views of the Lakes area and a historical perspective will be given. (SELF DRIVE)
Tour Guides: Phil Richards
Costs: Nil Tour Code: T 7 Tour Sessions A - -
DEH tour at Picaninnie Ponds
Randall Johnson, a Regional Ecologist in the Dept for Environment & Heritage SE region shows us how he has coordinated projects on threatened species and environmental weed management, working to add new parks to the reserve system, and promoting wildlife and nature. Randall accompanies walkers on an outing in the bush with his knowledge of bush tucker around wetlands and Picaninnie Ponds.
Tour Guides: Randall Johnson
Costs: Nil Tour Code: T 8 Tour Sessions - B -
Pillion passenger/side car rides around Mount Gambier
Be driven around by a member of Mount Gambier Ulysses Motor Cycle Club either as a passenger or a side car pillion. (SELF DRIVE)
Tour Guides: Rory McEwen
Costs: 0 Tour Code: T 9 Tour Sessions A B C
Mock Trials: Old Courthouse Trial - Judge & Jury/witness or guilty
Tour of the 1865 Old Courthouse. Charge your friend with a crime. Take the part of judge, counsel, witness or jury, or simply enjoy the spectacle from the safety of the Public Gallery. (SELF DRIVE)
Tour Guides: Ralene
Costs: 0 Tour Code: T 10 Tour Sessions - - C
Saturday Long Tours - Please note these tours take up at least two workshops (BUS)
West: Aust Kelp Farm and Worm Farm at Woakwine factory, Trout Farm, Holla Fresh Herb Farm, and Wind-farm drive
Australia Kelp Farm: Seaweed varieties: This area delivers the largest bio diversity of Seaweeds in the world, with over 1,140 Seaweed species found. This wide range of seaweeds is extremely rich in vitamins, minerals and trace elements enabling us to create a wide range of quality seaweed products. To ensure we maintain the ecology of the shoreline, we only remove a small percentage of the available beach cast Seaweeds.
Worms Work: Worms Work™ Technologies Pty Ltd is an Adelaide based company with its main production facility at Millicent in the south east of South Australia. The company has been operating on the Millicent site since 1997 recycling organic wastes from the region and turns them into valuable certified organic farm inputs; in short using worms to create mountains of pure worm castings that are then inoculated and distributed as live soil improvement additives.
Wind farm drive: This magnificent drive takes you past the Woakwine Range Wind Farm. The dozens of giant turbines, which dominate the Woakwine Range skyline, comprise the largest wind farm development in the Southern Hemisphere. When fully operational, the 123 spectacular turbines at Canunda and Lake Bonney wind farm development will generate almost 300 megawatts which represents the equivalent of one eighth of South Australia`s energy needs. The project will cost AUD$546 million with more turbines to be built.
Holla- Fresh: Holla-Fresh is proud to offer the freshest, cleanest herbs available on the market today. Growing hydroponically in a controlled environment eliminates the use of herbicides and damage caused by elements such as frost, wind and hail.
Limestone Coast Trout Farm: Located only one kilometre from the township of Millicent. Tour the Limestone Coast Trout Farm and see the aquaculture process from small fingerlings to fully grown fish. Feed the trout and learn about the environmental systems this farm has developed. The Produce Shop on site stocks fresh and smoked trout products and an array of locally made produce including local cheeses and small goods, jams, honey and condiments, coffee and chocolates, olive oils and bush spices, fruit, vegetables, seasonal juices and gift hampers.
Lunch is served for the day. The tour is followed by a barbecue of trout fillets served with chips that are made on site with small salad, tea, coffee, juice and cake. This is a big fish and chip shop.
Tour Guides: Aust Kelp: Bevan Mills Worms Work: Terry Gay LC Trout: Carlien Holla Fresh: Crystal
Costs: Holla Fresh: $2.00 pp Tour Code: T 11 Tour Sessions A + B (long Tour)
South: Limestone Quarries, Fox's Dairy, tour of Pt MacDonnell
Visit Gambier Stone Supplies Limestone quarry and see how the stone is cut from the quarry. Limestone has been used for building since 1860. It can be seen in and around the city in early Victorian style buildings some of which have significant heritage value, through to the sleek modern buildings of today.
Foxes Dairy Farm: Visit Sharon and Ian Fox' dairy. They have the latest computurised 60 unit rotary dairy, milking 700 cows and producing 150-200 heifer calves per year. They have been dairying for 2 and a half yrs with this new system but have been share farming since 1996.
Tour Guides: Quarry: Colin Cram Dairy: Sharon Fox Port Mac: Veronica Jenkin
Costs: Port Mac $2.00 pp Tour Code: T 12 Tour Sessions - B + C (long tours)
North: Weather Bureau, Wagner's Rose Farm, Kalangadoo Organic Apple Farm
Mount Gambier Weather Station: Visit the Mount Gambier weather Bureau and have the latest technology shown to you of tracking our weather. Watch a balloon being released, and have the other weather instruments explained.
Wagner's Rose Farm: Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful roses. Hear of how Brian Wagner got started and how successful he has been. Watch how he shows you to graft a rose and care for it.
Kalangadoo Organic Apple Farm: With a background in Agricultural Science and about 25 years experience in horticulture the McColl's became involved in apple growing 15 years ago. In the begining they started growing apples 'conventionally' but it became obvious that the more orchardists sprayed, the more they had to spray. So converting to 'organic' seemed a logical step. And of course avoiding the use of synthetic pesticides is better for our health and better for yours - not to mention the environment. "
Tour Guides: Weather: Craig Marsh Roses: Brian Wagner Apple Farm: Michelle & Chris McColl
Costs: 0 Tour Code: T 13 Tour Sessions - B + C (long tour)