This is the story of the journey through schooling and boarding school life for girls, and for a time boys, in a seaside settlement of Yeppoon forty kilometres north east of Rockhampton. The voices and recorded memoirs over 100 years of women and men about their childhood and schooling as boarders are important components of this history. Through oral history there is a stronger understanding, both of the history of boarding school life and of the broader historical, and social contexts in which the students and their families lived, some located in the remotest regions of Central Queensland.