Director of Tallong Campus

 
Spring has certainly sprung at the Tallong campus. This time of the year bright bursts of yellow can be seen all through the bush as the wattle turns on some beautiful colour. While COVID may have had a devastating impact on the camps at Tallong it did however allow the grounds to take a breather and recover from 20 years of almost continual usage. Combined with higher than average rainfall and lack of small feet impacting the ground has meant that there is now an extensive coverage of new growth such as wattle, banksia and she oaks across the campus. Fauna has also returned in abundance and a few months ago we spotted a koala resting in one of the tree tops in the High Ropes course.
 
This past week we welcomed St Patrick’s College from Campbelltown to the campus for their Year 8 Outdoor Education Camp. St Patricks Cambelltown was one of the first schools to become clients of the Tallong campus over 20 years ago and we are delighted to be able to continue providing powerful outdoor education programs for them. This week we will have our Gioia House Year 5 students return to the campus as their Year 5 camp was postponed from Term 1 due to flooding. To see this term out we will host a retreat from Marist College Canberra next week.
 
Kendal Hann
Director of Outdoor Education and Tallong Campus Manager