MGS Huts (Melbourne Grammar School Camp)
Photograph courtesy of David Sission © 2000.
Known as MGS Camp, Grammar Camp or the L. G. Robertson camp.
Located near Breakfast Creek and the Wellington River, beside Tamboritha Road north of Licola.
Approach from Licola along the sealed lower section of Tamboritha Road towards the Wellington River camping areas. This is a school outdoor-education property: arrange a visit and obtain the precise entrance, gate, parking and walking instructions from Melbourne Grammar School before entering. Public campsites nearby are separate from the school camp.
History
The earlier account describes a former forestry-workers’ camp subsequently used by Melbourne Grammar School. The school’s 2024 Senior School Parents’ Handbook confirms that the L. G. Robertson site at Breakfast Creek became a permanent outdoor-education campus in 1963. The earlier attribution to “Lindsay Gray Robinson” and the claimed 99-year lease need checking against school or land records.
Construction
A group of corrugated-iron-clad huts.
Caretakers: Melbourne Grammar School.
References
David Sission, personal communication;
Andy Reynolds, Ballarat Grammar School;
John Mitchell, personal communication;
Melbourne Grammar School, Senior School Parents’ Handbook 2024;
VHCHA hut map.
Mapping Guidance:
GPS: 37.51690°S, 146.61551°E. UTM Zone 55H: 466022 m E, 5847714 m N. Approximate VHCHA camp position, treated as WGS84; individual buildings and public entry have not been field-verified.