Community
8 April, 2026
Egg hunt proves popular
A LARGE group of excited children gathered at the Port Campbell tennis courts on Good Friday to participate in the annual Easter egg hunt, which this year was organised by a new group called the Port Campbell Community Events Committee.
The egg hunt was split into two age groups; which were five and under, and six and up, to allow everyone the chance to find eggs in celebration of Easter.
One eager participant on the six and up side explained the golden egg policy, which was the egg all the kids were after due to its prize-winning possibilities.
“The golden eggs, you’re allowed one only, and you get an Easter bunny,” Sienna McKenzie said.
“You line up at the end and you get it.
“If you get normal eggs you just get normal chocolate eggs at the end.
“I’m excited for this year, I did it last year too, I think I only got about five eggs last year.
“I’m the second youngest of my siblings and my youngest sibling is doing the little kids’ hunt and my older siblings are with me.”
Children exchanged the plastic eggs they found with chocolate eggs at the end of the hunt, which committee member Clare Younis said went smoothly.
“It looks like, the way we’ve organised it this year, everyone’s really happy with the way it was managed and the results, which was great,” she said.
“We’ve had 73 children register for today’s event and that’s a lot of families who have attended.
“We’ve had the Port Campbell Boat Club assist us as well and we also have the support of the Port Campbell Public Purpose Reserve.
“To me, that’s really successful because it’s lots of public community groups run by volunteers actively helping one another.
“The boat crew has donated fruit and sausages and helping us cook.”
Ms Younis said the Port Campbell Community Events Committee was created to support events for Port Campbell children, with more events planned for later in the year.
“We wanted to make a committee that was dedicated to creating really fun experiences for the children of Port Campbell,” she said.
“We already traditionally have heaps of fun experiences for the kids in the community but we wanted to make sure there was an official committee dedicated to it so they were well organised and so that they were well funded and reliable.
“So far we’ve had a Christmas tree celebration, we’ve run a Halloween trail, and we’ve run this year’s Easter event.
“The majority of people who are on the committee have run multiple other events as well, but in this particular format those are the events we’ve run so far.
“This year we also plan to run a winter solstice lantern festival that will also celebrate the First Nations season of Chinnup, which is the cockatoo season, around that time as well.”
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