WRITERS' GROUP QUEENSCLIFF TRIP

On Friday 20th of June, the Oberon Writers’ Group was once again on the road to visit and write about an interesting location. This time, our writing took us to Queenscliff where students completed a scavenger hunt, taking photographs of key locations in and around the town that might inspire their writing. We started our walk at the Rip View lookout where we read some of the shipwreck memorials from this dangerous stretch of water. We then walked past the Queenscliff Fort and on to Hesse Street where students were able to look through the museum and then the infamous Shipwreck Bell.

We paused for lunch in the park and when Ms Parsons arrived with the hot chips, they disappeared almost immediately. After a walk out on the pier to visit the lifeboat shed, students settled in at the picnic tables to write. They had three titles to choose from to develop their work: ‘Drifting’ ‘Washed Up’ and ‘The Forgotten Holiday’. Some students chose to write about shipwrecks and others wrote murder mysteries set in the seaside town. We were very lucky to have such a perfect sunny day in the middle of winter.

Photographs by Luka Grant, Vaeda Williams, Ellis Ante and Zainab Khurram