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The Fee of $40.00 includes a waist tape which you keep for future caving. Please bring your prussik loops.
If you have already done a cave course with us but do not have your own abseiling gear, there is an equipment hire fee of $20.
Successful completion of this course earns participants the Caver qualification.
A pre-requisite for this course is the Abseiler qualification. Minimum age 14 years.
(Leaders please fill in leaving and returning details on this form according to transport arrangements.)
Locations:
Wednesday 12 March at Bundilla Scout Camp, 7 pm to 8.30 pm.
Saturday and Sunday 15 and 16 March at Bungonia Caves. Start 9 am, finish 4 pm (Sat.), 3 pm (Sun.) Supervision of Youth Members is provided by Region Leaders during course hours only.
Camping is available at Bungonia, with toilets and hot showers. There is a daily car fee (about $7) unless you have a NPWS sticker, and a daily per person camping fee of $10.25. Please bring your camping fees in an envelope with your name on it. Please provide correct money as we do not have change in the bush.
Details of suitable clothing, torches, directions etc. will be covered at the theory night.
The 1st Ermington & 1st Winston Hills Joeys are going on a Buddy adventure, travelling downstream to explore Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour’s largest island which in it’s varied past was a convict prison, reform & industrial schools, Shipbuilding & naval dockyard.
Parents and families are welcome to come along. Please fill in an A1 form for each person attending.
Meeting at Rydalmere Ferry wharf, John Street Rydalmere at 8.30am. We will be catching the 9am ferry to Darling Harbour then changing ferries to head out to Cockatoo Island (arriving 10.13am) to explore the convict barracks and shipbuilding and naval dockyards, stopping along the way for morning tea, activities and lunch.
We will be departing the island at 1.13pm travelling upriver arriving at Rydalmere Wharf at 2pm.
The cost involved for the day is the fare for the ferry which is $2.50 per person, payable to the Ferry Master onboard.
Please bring in a small day pack:
- Water bottle
- a packed lunch and snack for morning tea (no nut products).
- warm Jacket (it might get chilly on the water)
- Some money to buy an ice block/ ice-cream (optional)
Uniform and closed-in shoes.
Please remember to wear a hat and sunscreen.
Successful completion of this course will earn participants the Abseil Recovery Certificate (this allows participation in activities such as caving and canyoning).
Scouts must be over the age of 12 and have earned the Scout Abseil Proficiency Badge and must have done the Abseil Skill Day.
(Leaders please fill in leaving and returning details on this form according to transport arrangements.)
Locations:
Sunday 23 March: Cliff Ave Wahroonga. Start 8.30 am, finish 4 pm.
All participants should bring with them
Bring lunch,
water,
raincoat if it looks like rain.
prussik slings – 5 metres of 6 mm diameter rope.
Please note the practical days can be called off if it is raining or fire in the area.