Probus Club of Unley - Previous Outings
Our club has numerous outings which members are encouraged to join.
Visit to Jurlique Farm and Lunch at the Bridgewater Inn


Visit to the Sir Thomas Playford ETSA Museum

Celebrating Probus Day at Carrick Hill




The Cedars, Hahndorf - Heysen Gallery visit
Happy Art enthusiasts

To Hans Heysen's studio

Sketches before the final oil painting is painted

Tour of Lochend House, Campbelltown.
Members participating in the 'Woolly Jumper' contest.

Members at Lochend House

Tour Capri Theatre

Torrens Island Quarantine Station

Sophie's Patch - Open Garden Scheme

St Patrick's Day celebration: Lunch cruise on West Lakes

St Valentines Day Picnic at the Mitcham Reserve

Christmas Lunch at the Hawthorn Bowlling Club

Melbourne Cup Lunch



Picnic to Celebrate Probus Day
26 members braved the chill winds to celebrate Probus Day with a Picnic at the Mitcham Reserve. The warmth of the fellowship and friendship on the day alleviated any inconvenience from the weather.



Visit to workshop of artist and sculptor Silvio Apponyi OAM
24 members, hosted by member Stan Davis, enjoyed an outing to the Adelaide Hills Sculpture Trail with a visit to the studio of Silvio Apponyi who won a German Academic Exchange Scholarship, and went on to study for a year at the Munich Acadamy. A delicious lunch was enjoyed at the Kelsey Cottage Cafe.

Fun and fellowship with games at the Biggest Morning Tea
Members arrived at the hall with their cards, board games, tower game, upwords and many others. Members showed remarkable dexterity with the 'pull the piece from the tower' game, great concentration with various card games, steady nerves with '21' and great vocabulary knowledge with UpWords. Members also tried their hand at quoits, guess the 7 types of tea in the cups and paper sheets with puzzlers. However the most important ingredient was the fun and fellowship as games were played, all in the interests of raising money for cancer research. And to make the morning more enjoyable, organisers Josie and Noushe provided a delicious morning tea. What an enjoyable way to spend the morning.

Checking the Players

Visit to Planetarium
27 members were enthralled and amazed as we watched the night sky from dusk to dawn. We learnt how early mariners were able to navigate using the stars. Communication with far flung planets is complicated by the astounding distances when light years are used to measure distance.


St Patricks Day Mystery Tour
Many Mysteries Solved on St Patrick’s Day
On a fine sunny day 41 members and friends from the Unley Probus Club, SA went on a Mystery Bus Tour. Not only was the destination a mystery, but some of the questions and games on the bus were also a mystery. Did we know the national Anthem of Ireland or the colours of the Irish flag.
Helen certainly did and had the appropriate hair colours to prove it.

Some questions were challenging with two more quirky questions like 'How did the leprechaun beat the Irishman to the pot of gold?' Did a Leprechaun secretly get on the bus?

Be assured, there was no time to nod off.
The first stop was at the Davidson Reserve, Kapunda, for a cuppa, biscuit and a chat. The next mystery had many of us puzzled, how come the urn had hot water in it? There was no power point to be seen around the picnic table.
Irish magic. Plug the electric cord into the air and....hot water
A local tour guide joined us on the bus as we meandered through the 10 kilometre 'Kapunda Heritage Trail' past the town's historic buildings, churches and remnants of previous lifestyles.
There were some quirky sites in Kapunda with a bear seen climbing a windmill.

Kapunda is Australia's oldest commercial copper mining town (1844). We stopped at the historic mine site, and followed the walking trail past the Steel Horse Statue, Whim, Open Cut Mine and Chimney.

We drove past "Eringa", the home of Sir Sidney Kidman, 'The Cattle King' (1870 - 1921). Since 1922, Kidman's house has been used as the Kapunda High School.
Returning to one of the historic hotels, we enjoyed a two-course lunch, drinks and friendly chatter.
Thinking we were heading home after lunch turned into another mystery. The cry went up, “Where are we going now?” Mystery solved when we ended up at the well-known Virginia Nursery. It took a strong-willed person not to buy an item or two either from the homewares shop, the restaurant or from the beautiful display of plants from ground covers to trees.
Australia Day Picnic


Christmas Lunch at Hawthorn Bowling Club

Melbourne Cup Lunch at the Clarence Gardens Bowling Club

Picnic in the Park
Glenelg tram trip and brunch


Entertainment by Concordia Junior Choir
Adelaide Wine Centre
