Year 6 Outback Tour

On Friday, our Year 6 students returned from their week-long Outback Tour of Queensland. They have penned a poem about their experience.

The Year 6 Outback Tour

Hearts racing as we anticipated the week to come
The final goodbyes soon became a memory.
Adrenaline kicked in through our souls as we saw the landscape range
From Emerald to Rubyvale, it’s crazy how our Earth can change.
The land before us blurred into one
Gazing right at the boiling sun.

We went to the Rockhampton Zoo,
There wasn’t much that we could do.
We saw turtles, birds and a snake,
Later we got on the bus and took a break.
The next day we went fossicking,
The sapphires we found didn’t need polishing.
Then we went in the underground mine,
In the tunnel there was no sunshine.

Gravel crunched beneath our feet as we stood patiently
to watch the show of a lifetime.
The intense lights pierced our eyes as the history
of Qantas unveiled in front of our eyes.
Lights reflecting off the plane
No wonder how Qantas got its fame. 

Dry dust flew and the moonlight made the countryside give an eerie glow,
We felt thousands of years of tribes come and go,
Rituals everywhere we went.
But most of all we felt the community spirit,
The farmers that would not leave their land
Because it was a generational plan.

As lightning bolts cracked on the horizon,
Darker the sky became.
The thunder was almost as loud as drums
And finally, we thought the rains had come.

By the campfire we shared some poems
We felt honoured to enjoy these people’s homes.*
We had yummy food and looked at the stars
That night was special because Earth was close to Mars.

On the bus our hearts shattered
As the whole land looked like an eggshell scattered.
We were at the station, there were no cows in sight
Once it’s wet season they can reunite.

We also listened to an iconic song,
Trust us with this one you can’t go wrong.
We’re leaving now, we’ll really miss this place
Now we know it’s not just empty space.
Now we’re gone we have so much knowledge,
We’re back at school and we’ll tell the whole College.

Year 6 Students