Buddy Badge Combined Outing to Cockatoo Island

Cockatoo Island A1

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.