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ADVENTURE COLIN GIBBON

IN WEXFORD SHEILBAGGAN OUTDOOR
EDUCATION CENTRE

From surfing to sailing and Centre remains the fruit of that 14 years, says
fishing to quad biking and venture and in the intervening years that everything
archery there is a fun challenge has seen thousands of young people they do has an
for all enthusiasts in Wexford. and adults pass through its walls educational
The professional providers of and partake of its many and varied aspect. Colin was on Mount
ABOVE:
Ray D’Arcy these adventure sports will only activities. Leinster as we spoke, leading a
angling in be too happy to assist you and group of second-year students who
Wexford While much has happened in the
your family to plan a fun-filled meantime, tastes have changed were filling out a geography sheet
day out! while they walked and observed.
and trends have been invented
Twenty-seven years ago the powers- and reinvented, the basic premise “I’m a geography teacher by trade
that-be in vocational education of Sheilbaggan remains constant: but we can make geography
in Wexford made the far-sighted use the outdoors and our beautiful more real by standing on top of
decision to establish an outdoor landscape and natural amenities Mount Leinster, for example, and
education centre at Hook Head as a hands-on tool for educating, talking about the glaciers and the
on the western side of the county’s building bonds and nourishing a boulders and so on, where all of this
coast. love for the outdoors. happened.”
Today, the hugely-popular Centre director Colin Gibbon, who To say Colin is originally a
Sheilbaggan Outdoor Education has been working at the centre for geography teacher is a bit like saying

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