Our Easter Fete (Carnival)

It has been an Easter tradition that Wellington State School hosts an annual fete (carnival) as the major fund-raiser for the year. Looking back, in fact it is comparable to a small community fair that many of us are familiar with in Canada. Like carnivals and fetes everywhere, this one included:

Train rides for the little ones

 

The Scrambler - we've all been on it

 The fete grounds were on an oval close to the school

 

Getting the Lucky Dip booth ready

 

Japanese food booth

Shooting galleries and a small - a really tiny - ferris wheel

 

The Round Up

Camel rides on the lower oval

A climbing wall

Sack slides

 

The police with their radar gun clocking kids running

 

 

 

Crafts, art, books, baked goods 

 

and of course - lollies!

No good school fete can be successful without a bar and beer

 

Flowerpots for sale painted by Nancy's year 1 students

The Lego exhibition

 

An audience awaiting the talent contest and, given the hot day, resting their weary feet

Budding Celtic dancers

 

 The Cent Auction

 

The lucky dip booth - pick a ticket, if the number ends with 0, 3, 6, or 9  you win a baggie of trinkets and treats.  We had over 500 bags of treats donated for this booth!

 Marching band

Easter Bonnet parade

with, of course, the Easter Bunny

Alice the Moose with her weekend mentors. She has a new Easter dress for the fete 

 

 No carnival can conclude without the requisite fireworks - in this case at 7:00 PM

Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

After a busy few weeks and a lot of rain we finally got a couple of consecutive days of pleasant weather. On Sunday we took advantage of the nice day, about 33 degrees, and decided to tackle traffic in downtown Brisbane to go to Lone Pine Koala Sancuary.

 

 

We went to a presentation on the platypus but, because it was in the dark, we weren't able to obtain any photographs.

 A kookaburra

 

 Checking out the koalas. There were about 130 at the sanctuary and each "demographic" had their own living quarters including a kindergaryen. a club house and a retirement home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A stare-off with a brightly coloured cassowary; a very aggressive bird.

No, this is not an enclosure for a teddy bear but the bear is a toy for the wombat keeping out of the hot sun in the concrete culvert to the right.......asleep on his back

 

Pluto, a collie with natural herding instincts, shows off to the crowd. The handler hardly had to do a thing!  These sheepdogs were used on almost all Australian sheep farms.

 

 

 

And now it's time for a haircut.

 

 

 

 

Nancy and Rusty, who works the sheep in the pens by running on the backs of the sheep.

We went to raptor show which was very entertaining

 

 A pure bred dingo.

 

 The reptile show.

 

 Into the Kangarro ( and emu ) reserve we go.

 

 

 

 Look at the little joey. It doesn't even have fur yet!

A bearded dragon - these were sll over the park sunning on the paths.