Holey Plains Report

Over the previous weekend a number of scouts went on a hike to the Holey Plains State Park. Three of the five scouts arrived at the scout hall at 9:00am, sorted a 

few things out and left. When we arrived at Holey Plains it was around 11:00am. We walked around for about 1 hour before realising we were going the wrong way turned around and eventually found the correct path. Tahlia arrived after playing a game of netball luckily we hadn’t gone too far. We eventually found the correct path and continued on. We had been walking for a while until we got to the next path, we walked past it a few times before realising that Colin had set out a couple of clues, we ended up finding some mm’s left in the shape of an arrow pointing in the direction of the path, so we walked in the direction of the arrow. After a little while the path slowly disappeared and we

ended walking through the bush with no idea where the road was, for about 2 hours or at least that is what it felt like. We eventually found our way back to the road. It wasn’t for another 2-3 hours until we got to camp. Finally Darcy arrived but by that time we had almost set everything up. We all had dinner and stayed up for a while before going to bed.

When it came time to get up it was 7:00am. We all got up and made breakfast; we had to make the milk it was actually really nice. After breakfast we had to pack up camp and finish pin pointing the map after that we left. We hadn’t even walked 1 kilometre and we saw something running in the distance and then

realised that it was an emu, Colin came along shortly after and I warned him of the emu and he sped off after it. Three of us where ahead of everyone else and eventually we had to wait for the rest of them to catch up. We had a little 2 minute break then kept on going for a few more kilometres. We finally finished and had our lunch and left.

By Vanessa