Echuca College will offer our Year 9 and 10 students the opportunity to travel to Queensland in November this year. This tour will be offered to replace the Northern Territory tour which was cancelled due to lack of numbers. We hope that the Northern Territory will be offered again in 2016 as it is a unique experience.
The 2015 Queensland tour will express to the Gold Coast. Students will visit Wet’n’Wild to get the kinks of long distance our of their system while enjoying a wide variety of water activity. Students will enjoy surfing lessons on the famous Gold Coast beaches and have time to enjoy some shopping at Pacific Fair or Harbourtown. Students will spend a day at ‘Hollywood on the Gold Coast’, Movieworld promises a star studded look behind the scenes of making movies. Take a journey into fantasy with some of Hollywood’s most colorful legends on the Looney Tunes Studio Tour. Students will have the opportunity to visit Dreamworld – Australia’s premier theme park – offering a variety of rides, entertainment and quality education programs for a unique learning experience. On the way home students will visit the iconic CSIRO Radio Telescope in Parkes.
The tour will leave the College on Monday the 16th November and return on Saturday the 21st. The cost is $720 to be paid in full by the 31st of July, a $200 deposit to confirm your seat will need to be paid by the 4th of May. Seats are limited and names need to be given to the front office.