Published on: 24 October 2014




This year’s Rowing Camp, held in the last week of the Term 3 holidays, had a change of location. Previously held in Greenough, the annual camp moved to Molloy Island in Augusta with great success.

Director of Rowing Steve Saunders said 29 boys, from Years 10 and 11 as well as some Year 9s, focused on fitness, technique and “rowing lots of kilometres” in readiness for the 2014-2015 rowing season.

Mr Saunders said the Blackwood River location was ideal providing an amazing amount of water and dead calm conditions. “Our accommodation at Molloy Island Caravan Park was fantastic as the boys had just a 100m-walk from their cabins to the boats,” he said. “The national park surroundings and trips to Jewel Cave and Hamelin Bay were welcome breaks for the boys.”

Mr Saunders thanked the seven fathers on camp, who cooked breakfast and prepared lunches for the hungry rowers, as well as the six coaches who attended. He said he was also scouting the location for New Zealand’s St Bede’s College in Christchurch, who would be touring WA for the first time in December, and who had been friends to Christ Church on previous rowing tours.

“All in all it was a really great camp with a fantastic amount of kilometres rowed by the boys,” he said.

Photographs courtesy of Andrew McQuillan and Rob Weight