Meeting was opened by Sargent Murray
Passed over to Pres Pete
Rotary grace done by Bob
Invocation done by Harry Z
Secretary- Chris said nothing tonight
Director- Harry spoke about board meeting and money donated to an overseas project and wants to do a FAME trip, Harry also mentioned that we will be doing a trip to the DIK factory in Melbourne.
Director- Geoff spoke about money donated and how it will grow through the grants programme.
Member Mark spoke about RYLA and how it was a very successful weekend, the students got a lot out of it, Chris made the joke that he told the organisers that we would do it again for the next 2 years, VERY FUNNY CHRIS.
Member- Cole spoke about the ride and how they raised $40,000 dollars and with a grand total of over 1 Million Dollars, great Job.
Lotto was won by- Elaine BB
Seagents session- None this week.
GUEST SPEEKER –
Geoff Taylor and Ian MacIntosh
Ian got up and spoke first about Chuuck Lagoon, it’s a group of small islands used by the Japanese during the 2nd world war, it was used as there base to attack northern Australia, Darwin and Broome were there targets, Ian and Geoff had a good slide show of the hospital and an google earth look at the whole islands, they also had underwater shots of a lot planes that were sunk, these planes were shot down just after they took of, there were also some planes that had run of the end of the run way, due to inexperienced pilots, they now only land there once a week using more experienced pilots, the sea life including fish and coral were very good to see, the depth went to 60 meters, Ian and Geoff went to 30 meters only, as they had to stop at certain depths to stop getting the bens, they said it was a very expensive cost if you did get the bens.
The islands had sections built all around them to stop incoming ships from attacking the Japanese fleet, one of the islands was made for aircraft take of and landings, it took 10 years to do.
The Japanese had sent a crew over to remove all the human remains from the sunken aircraft and sent back to Japanese, Ian said he saw a human bone while diving as well as Sarky bottles and other relicks.
Geoff said it still wasn’t safe to wonder around over there in certain places, but they both really enjoyed the experience.
Please enjoy the picks supplied by Ian and Geoff.