19/06/2026
Photos don’t do our Grand opening justice, the attendance was above and beyond anything anticipated. Thankyou Cooktown for supporting us 😍 and witnessing the unveiling of the Amazing, wonderful garden which Martin Patty has created, thankyou Matty, we were very lucky to have you, and to run with the vision we had for the garden, you’ve generously given much of your time and plants and magic green fingers, we can’t thankyou enough… truly.
Our lovely garden showcases sculptures by students facilitated by Shelley Burt and Suzie de La Rue through a RADF grant, for teaching and plinths, which are dotted through out our lovely garden… who put 110% into tutoring, and supporting all those who participated in the sculpture workshops which has been going on for the last year. These very lovely first time students who’s work was displayed lastnight have put sooo many hours and days and weeks into making their wonderful original creations, thankyou, Bec, Kerry, Ori, Waratah, Emma, Mazz, Rachael, Michael, Bernie and Margy for your mammoth effort producing your wonderful works of art, we’ve been lucky enough to enjoy, you made the Sculpture Gardening Open Amazing…
So many thanks are needed to be expressed. Thankyou to Cookshire Council for allowing us to create the garden and RADF for the Grant. Thankyou so much to Julie and the RSL for the finances to create the garden, we couldnt have done it without you and thankyou so much for the donations for the bar, and eskies and ice 😍 Thankyou to Tony from the Westcoast for Beer, Annette Lee for putting up all the fairy lights, Dwayne Morrisey for picking our bistro chairs at tables up at Mareeba for us, Bobbin and the girls for their fashion parade, Kelly Whittle for running the bar, Janne Stewart for behind the scenes, liasing with RSL and Tony, and making sure we had the right paperwork to sell alcohol, thankyou to Judy Thompson for all the dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s regarding the finances, and procuring what we needed from Nelly’s, thankyou Narelle Morris for performing the ribbon cutting ceremony…. Oh and thankyou Paul Shonic and Peter Skipworth for the Plinths. And Christine Manning and Bobbin for their huge help with setting up the gazebos etc, and thankyou to all the people who brought a plate, very thoughtful of you all … and thankyou to the Soul Art Band and Nelson for the music, so that is a wrap, thankyou Cooktown ❤️
P.S. I haven’t posted all the sculptures so you can have a look for yourself. Grab a hot or cold drink, lunch even and come enjoy our garden during Business hours
