Friday, 18 March 2011

Moff's History Tour 1 & 2

Moffs History tour 1

On the 22nd of March we hoped on the bus for the Moffs 1st history tour. Our tour envolved some of the history about the trees, Mines and the settlers in the southern yorke peninsula. Our tour involved going to Innes national park and having tours around that area. With Moffs knowledge all of the boys who took part in the history tour now have more of an understanding of how the Southern Yorke Peninsula developed into strong country towns. In dot points down below I will mention all of things we found out.

Trees-
  • Northfolk Island Pine. The North Folk Island has been proven to be one of the only trees that have been around since the times of the Ice Age.
  • Pepercorn tree, The Pepper corn tree has been said to be used as a spice in various locations such as china and India. The spice countries of the world.
  • Aleppo Pine, The Aleppo Pine was first introduced in Australia as decorations for rich people with long driveways but can now be considerd as a pest as it effects the habbitats and the enviroments
  • Malle gum, The Malle gum trees were once used for fires
  • Shee oak, Like the Malle gum tree the Shee oak is also used for fires
  • Cypress pine, The cypress pine can be found in places like queensland. One of the attributes of the cypress pine is they burn easily.
Mines-
  • Point Turton mine, The Point Turton min is located at the current Point Turton carravan park. At this old site they used to mine limestone
  • Stenhouse bay, At Stenhouse bay they used to Mine MgCO3 and CaCo3. In the olden days Stenhouse bay was also a big Gypum mining area.
Settelers-
  • Point Turton Boiler, The Point Turton boiler is located right by the Point Turton Boiler. The old boiler was once and old tug boat which one day sunk.
  • 1 room stone house, While on our history tour Moff pointed out a few 1 room stone houses. Moff told us that these house have been around for a long time and were generally used by the rich.
  • Ethal, The Ethal was the name of an old boat which had a long time ago and washed up on the beach now known as Ethal beach named after the boat. The boat is still there today.
  • Ferret, The Ferret was the name of an old steam boat which was one day stolen by pirates and then retrived again until one day it was washed up on Ethal beach like the Ethal. To this day on some conditions can be seen on the beach.
  • Desalintaion plant, In Marion bay they have a desalintion plant to help out with the water shortage. The Desalination plant works by getting water from the sea and taking out the salt to make it drinkable.
  • Wateringhole, Wateringholes were once used in place for tribal aboriginies as their wells. when we looked at the holes they were extremly small. The idea of the hole is like pumping borewater out of the ground except from the fact that they used sticks and branches to collect the water from the ground and then suck out the juices.
Moffs Histrory Tour 2
On the 2nd of April we begun our 2nd history tour with Moff. todays History tour involvled going to the Warooka Museum, Sanderwoodpark and Calvenist Cemetrys of the Southern-Yorke-Peninsula

Museum-

  • The house, The old house in which the museum is located today used to be an old troopers place
  • The house, The old house in which used to be the museum after the troopers had moved out of it, 3 families and 2 borders lived in there
  • China, Located inside the museum is a china plate, Which is said to have been found before the settlers. This plate if known could change Australia's history completely.
Cemetry- 
While we were touring around the SYP area we stooped off at a Calvenist Cemetery. The Calvenists were very much against Catholics and had a very strong culture.

One of the Grave stones I noticed-

Gone is the face we loved
So dear
Silent the voice we long
to hear
Life was desired but god
did see
Enter rest was best for
thee

One Thing Moff relised when I told him about this grave stone was that this was not a calvenist grave stone. The reason why Moff believes this is because the Calvenists where very strong believing people and believed in tough love after death so this being a really loving grave stones tells us that these people were not calvenists.

Sanderwood park-

  • Amy Buried in the back yard of home
  • Last cart in Australia at sanderwood park
  • had a Smoked house to cook better tasting food
  • One of the few rock walls around a property to this day.

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