Probus Club of Unley - Previous Outings
Our club has a numerous outings which members are encouraged to join.
Visit to Jurlique Farm and Lunch at the Bridgewater Inn
Visit to the Sir Thomas Playford ETSA Museum
Celebrating Probus Day at Carrick Hill
The Cedars, Hahndord - Heysen Gallery visit
Happy Art enthusiasts
To Hans Heysen's studio
Sketches before the final oil painting is painted
Tour of Lochend House, Campbelltown.
Members participating in the 'Wooly Jumper' contest.
Members at Lochend House
Tour Capri Theatre
Torrens Island Quarantine Station
Sophie's Patch - Open Garden Scheme
St Patrick's Day celebration: Lunch cruise on West Lakes
St Valentines Day Picnic at the Mitcham Reserve
Christmas Lunch at the Hawthorn Bowlling Club
Melbourne Cup Lunch
Picnic to celebrate Probus Day
26 members braved the chill winds to celebrate Probus Day with a Picnic at the Mitcham Reserve. The warmth of the fellowship and friendship on the day alleviated any inconvenience from the weather.
Visit to workshop of artist and sculptor Silvio Apponyi OAM
24 members, hosted by member Stan Davis, enjoyed an outing to the Adelaide Hills Sculpture Trail with a visit to the studio of Silvio Apponyi who won a German Academic Exchange Scholarship, and went on to study for a year at the Munich Acadamy. A delicious lunch was enjoyed at the Kelsey Cottage Cafe.
Fun and fellowship with games at the Biggest Morning Tea
Members arrived at the hall with their cards, board games, tower game, upwords and many others. Members showed remarkable dexterity with the 'pull the piece from the tower' game, great concentration with various card games, steady nerves with '21' and great vocabulary knowledge with UpWords. There were other activities as well, members tried their hand at quoits, guess the 7 types of tea in the cups and other paper sheets with puzzlers. However the most important ingredient was the fun and fellowship as games were played all in the interests of raising money for cancer research. And to make the morning more enjoyable, organisers Josie and Noushe provided a delicious morning tea. What an enjoyable way to spend the morning.
The Morning Tea
Checking the Players
Visit to Planetarium
27 members were enthralled and amazed as we watched the night sky from dusk to dawn. We learnt how early mariners were able to navigate using the stars. Communication with far flung planets is complicated by the astounding distances when light years are used to measure distance.
Following the visit we enjoyed a sumptous lunch at the Mawson Lakes Hotel, finishing with a complimentary coffee and cake.
Thanks to Josie for the work she put into organising the event.
St Patricks Day Mystery Tour
Many Mysteries Solved on St Patrick’s Day
On a fine sunny day 41 members and friends from the Unley Probus Club, SA went on a Mystery Bus Tour. Not only was the destination a mystery, but some of the questions and games on the bus were also a mystery. Did we know the national Anthem of Ireland or the colours of the Irish flag.
Helen certainly did and had the appropriate hair colours to prove it.
Some questions were challenging with two more quirky questions like; how did the leprechaun beat the Irishman to the pot of gold? Did a Leprechaun secretly get on the bus?
Be assured, there was no time to nod off.
The first stop was at the Davidson Reserve, Kapunda, for a cuppa, biscuit and a chat. The next mystery had many of us puzzled, how come the urn had hot water in it? There was no power point to be seen around the picnic table.
Irish magic. Plug the electric cord into the air and ....hot water
A local tour guide joined us on the bus as we meandered through the 10 kilometre 'Kapunda Heritage Trail' past the town's historic buildings, churches and remnants of previous lifestyles.
There were some quirky sites in Kapunda with bears seen climbing windmills.
Kapunda is Australia's oldest commercial copper mining town (1844). We stopped at the historic mine site, and followed the walking trail past the Steel Horse Statue, Whim, Open Cut Mine and Chimney.
We drove past "Eringa", the home of Sir Sidney's Kidman, The Cattle King'. (1870 - 1921) which, since 1922 has been used as the Kapunda High School.
Returning to one of the historic hotels, we enjoyed a two-course lunch, drinks and friendly chatter.
Thinking we were heading home after lunch turned into another mystery. The cry went up, “Where are we going now?” Mystery solved when we ended up at the well-known Virginia Nursery. It took a strong-willed person not to buy an item or two either from the homewares shop, the restaurant or from the beautiful display of plants from ground covers to trees.
"What IS in that bag?"
Our driver, stored our loot carefully in the luggage hold and as we returned to Adelaide members were busy sharing their stories about the day’s outings, sending photos to each other’s phones while being challenged again by questions by our wonderful Outing’s Officer, Josie and ably assisted by Noushe. A huge thank you to all who made this day not only a mystery day, but a great fun day.
Australia Day Picnic
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