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Northern NSW Helicopter Rescue Service Limited
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Drovers Run 2024
This WRHS provides 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year to anyone in need, and very importantly, anyone receiving help, not having to pay.
The WRHS operational area extends from the Hawkesbury River in the south, to the Queensland border in the north, and as far west as Brewarrina and Nyngan or even further if tasked. The WRHS operates from three bases across northern NSW, Newcastle, Tamworth and Lismore, using AW139 helicopters.
In March of 2015 a Doctor and Paramedic were included on the helicopter crew 24 hours per day, and the WRHS now responds to over 1,500 life-saving missions each year.
The AW139 Helicopter cost $1,000 per hour in fuel, $1,000 per hour to run the engine, $1,500 for the airframe and for $500 avionics, that’s a total of $4,000 per hour, not including crew.
The Drover’s Run 4WD Outback Adventure is a major fund-raising activity for the WRHS and is being held from the 5th to 22nd August, 2024. Scott and Warren are participating in the Drover Run, to assist with this fund raising.
We invite individuals, or your business to be a Supporting Donor of the 2024 Drover’s Run Outback Adventure, and in turn, we will not only promote your business to the broader community during the event but you will also be assisting to save lives through your tax-deductible donation.
We are looking forward to the 2024 Drover’s Run raising a substantial amount of money for the WRHS and we look forward to and, thank you for you supporting this event.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Kangaroo Island
🌟 George Bates
Sealer and trader George Bates left his vessel at Kangaroo Island in 1824 and became one of its long-term European inhabitants before formal South Australian colonisation. He later lived at Hog Bay, now Penneshaw, trading local products and building a cottage. His history also includes the abduction and exploitation of Aboriginal women, whose knowledge and labour supported the sealers’ survival.
🩺 Joy Seager
Joy Seager answered an urgent request for a doctor at Kingscote in 1925, when Kangaroo Island had no hospital. At first she had neither car nor telephone, travelling by horse to patients and consulting from a small metal shed. Later, from the family property at Hawks Nest, she combined regular Kingscote sessions with emergency work across the island. She established a temporary hospital before a permanent one opened in 1930. Her memoir, Kangaroo Island Doctor, eventually inspired a television drama. The remarkable story rests on a long local practice, with transport and communications often as challenging as the medicine.
⛵ Nicolas Baudin
Nicolas Baudin’s French expedition gathered natural-history specimens on Kangaroo Island during its exploration of Australian coasts in the early nineteenth century. The voyage combined chart-making with the work of scientists collecting plants and animals. François Péron became a major contributor to its published record. Baudin also encountered Matthew Flinders at Encounter Bay on the mainland, linking French and British surveying histories. The island’s association is the expedition’s documented scientific work, one part of a much longer human history that did not begin with the arrival of European ships.
