Children and Clydesdales
go together perfectly.

Photo: © 1999 Lawrence Pinder

What a great holiday looking after your own horse, helping drive your gypsy wagon. Exploring the countryside, making camp and discovering wildlife in the wild rather than the zoo.

Clydesdales really are gentle giants and they love children. The feeling is entirely mutual as you can see from these photographs.

If a week without the TV or your PC sounds like the end of the world, think again.

There's fresh air and exercise…but you'll hardly notice because this is a holiday where it's O.K. to get dirty, make a campfire, and do things you could only dream about at home.

Check the lists below and use your imagination. Thousands of kids have endorsed this as the best holiday they have ever had.

• Look after the horse.
• Drive the wagon.
• Go exploring.
• Try your hand at map reading.
• Collect wood and make a campfire.
• Try some camp cooking and a bit of bushcraft.
• Keep a diary.
• Draw some pictures or take some photos.
• Track some animals.
• See how many birds you can identify.
• Do some fishing or yabbying.
• Try a possum prowl or some stargazing.

• Historic towns and ghost towns.
• Bushland and farmland, forests and rivers.
• Bushranger's hideouts.
• Gold mines.
• Wild animals (apart from your horse) such as possums, echidnas, kangaroos and wallabies and (if you're very fortunate) a platypus.
• Millions of birds.
• Wildflowers.
• Other interesting stuff.

• Dog.
• Bike.
• Torch.
• Camera. Binoculars or Telescope.
• Magnifying glass.
• Workbook, pens and pencils.
• Old clothes and walking boots.
• Fishing Rod and/or Yabby Net.
• Gold Detector.
• A compass.
• Books to read.
• Cards and a few board games.
• Maybe bring your best friend?