Photograph, Gundiwindi School camp, 14th - 18th August 1989

Historical information

The photograph was taken in 1989 when students in Grades 4 and 5 from Bulla Primary School attended a school camp at Gundiwindi Camp. The camp is in the Yarra Valley area on the border of North Wandin and Silvan. At the camp the children were learning bush survival skills, which were practised by the local indigenous people.

Significance

The emphasis on the camp at Gundiwindi was bush survival and skills used by indigenous people.

Physical description

A non-digital coloured photograph of four children in a bushland setting attempting to build a camp fire in the cleared area. the forested area is behind the group.

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