Student Interview

The Esmonde Children Trip Around Australia For Term 3

With our van and our car, the Esmonde children are off on a different type of education, exploring the great country we live in.

We’ve been through South Australia and have just finished our adventures in Northern Territory. We still have 2/3rd to go.

We are currently in El Questro Station at the top of Western Australia.  We are starting on the the GIbb River Rd, which is only a 4 w drive track for 2 weeks - we are most excited.

We have just been to Purnululu and camped in there. You only camp if you had a small van and 4 wheel drive - it was amazing to visit.

The temperature is 35 degrees every day and the scenery is postcard perfect daily.

The children have answered some questions about the trip.

Favourite experiences of the trip thus far:

Saxon (Year 5): LIttle Roper Mataranka. Holding the reptiles, ie King Carl the Carpet python who weighed 16 kgs. Bitter Springs - floating down Bitter Springs, Bitter Springs.

Frankie (Year 3): Uluru because it is the red heart of Australia and also I loved Josephine’s Gallery. Here I got to feed the orphan kangaroo's  named after me: Frankie and Francesca I also got to hold Lester the 5 month old kangaroo.

Cormac (Year 1): Riding around Uluru and listening to the audio of Uluru. I enjoyed the Dreamtime stories.  I also loved  Darwin  for the water slides.

Clotilde (Prep): Swimming in Maguk falls and jumping in off the rocks. Seeing the dingoes in The Territory Wildlife Park. 

Least favourite experiences of the trip.

Clotilde (Prep): long drop toilets

Cormac (Year 1): setting up and packing up.

Frankie (Year 3): mosquito’s

Saxon( Year 5): boiling hot weather. 

We look forward to seeing you on our return for term 4 and catching up on your adventures and sharing ours

Love Saxon, Frankie, Cormac and Clotilde Esmonde