On June 30th, G8, N3, and N8 got to go to the Maritime Museum.
Our first activity was Encounters, where we listened to a PowerPoint about indigenous culture and how the Aboriginal people felt when they saw white men for the first time. We were then given cards with questions to answer about the first encounters around the top level of the museum.
The next activity was exploring the museum. We wandered around and explored all the different areas. We explored the basement, River Dolphin Pod, The Ketch which is a replica cargo vessel, the figure heads, artefacts from the ship and the history of the navy.
The last activity was Life on Board. We looked at different cabins from the 1840s ,1910s and 1950s. The 1950s cabin was fairly nice with soft mattresses, a telephone, and a mirror. The 1910s cabin beds were very flat and had a mirror and some drawers. Finally, the 1840s cabins were very bad, the beds were potato sacks, rats in the water buckets, and rotting bedsheets. We learned about what life was like on board a ship coming to Australia with just one suitcase.
We ate lunch at the Pt Adelaide Lighthouse and we went for a walk along the river. It was a great excursion. We had fun and learned a lot.
- Eshaal, Lenny, Leo, and Zara (G8)
