Sam Baskerville

I believe that what fundamentally sets churches apart from so many other community groups, is their open-arms acceptance policy of new folk regardless of...

One of our most loved annual events as kids, was the Coopers Sunday School picnic. This event was usually held at the sprawling, grassy...

Now if you are thinking that these are the names of some new children’s characters on Sesame Street, you would be wrong. They were...

Stradbroke Island was known to the Baskervilles as native title grounds in the 70’s, long before the Commonwealth Government made it Australian Law in...

In the 60 the only way to get to point – Point Lookout on Straddie that is – was via the day-tripping Hayles timber...

Now, there have been some pretty scary moments for me on Straddie, but the sandbank sweep on 2nd Cylinder certainly takes first prize. You...

I have had over 17,000 lunches in my life, but none will compare to those relatively few times when I shared it with my...

Cylinder Headland at Point Lookout on Stradbroke Island = hours of fun. The ever changing coastal dynamics due to the interchange of sand, tides...

Being the church youth leader, I decided one holiday period to organize a bus trip for about 40 of the young people from our...

Getting to Point Lookout Stradbroke Island in the 60s and early 70s, was not a simple case of driving one’s car onto the inter-island...