Photo Album

Our Medicine Hat (Canada) friends plant a tree in our Memory Garden at the Ourimbah Campus.	Ray & Barbara Bockman from Medicine Hat, Canada, enjoying the welcome dinner.
Great help, great food - Tom and Hazel Chaplin cooking up a storm for our Medicine Hat BBQ at Yvonne's house.	Four surgeons from the St Petersburg Friendship Force Club being shown around the operating theatres at Gosford Hospital.
Welcome on a very blustery day - Bundaberg inbound August 2008	And away they go after a fantastic week - red carpet treatment is standard. Bundaberg inbound August 2008
New Mexico visitors enjoy Central Coast hospitality The Central Coast Friendship Force Club hosted a group of 20 members from the New Mexico, USA Club for one week from the 28th October to 4th November 2010. Our local Exchange Director arranged a varied programme of activities for the week, commencing with an Official Welcome by Gosford City Council with a tree planting at Sensory Park in Showground Road, Gosford. Other activities enjoyed by the American visitors were a trip to Tobruk Sheep Station at Maroota, morning tea cruise on Lake Macquarie with a visit to William Dobell Cottage, picnic lunch at Avoca Beach followed by bare-foot bowls and Melbourne Cup functions. The visit to the Australian Wildlife Walkabout Park was a great hit with the visitors because they could get so close to, and interact with our native wildlife - especially the kangaroos and koalas. The visitors and their hosts also enjoyed much more together sightseeing the wonderfully unique Central Coast region. The New Mexico visitors gave the Central Coast Club a gift of US$200 to donate to a charity of our choice and the Aspect Central Coast School for Autism at Terrigal was chosen. The New Mexico Exchange Director Mr. John Farris presented the cheque to the Principal Janet Millhouse. After the presentation we were all given a tour of the school and saw first hand what a wonderful job the teachers and staff are doing.	The picture shows the New Mexico Exchange Director Mr. John Farris, presenting the donation to Principal Janet Millhouse, with Central Coast Club Exchange Director, Anne Coggan.