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Dragon's Quest comes to Occombe Farm!

14th April 2009

The wizard and dragon at Occombe's Dragon's Quest event We ran an exciting new event at Occombe this Easter weekend - a Dragon's Quest around our nature trail, which over 850 children took part in.

Families followed clues around the trail, collecting a secret password and leading them to a Dragon's Lair.  Here they met a dragon and a wizard, who they must tell the password to in order to collect a prescious marble.  Then they had the task of guarding the marble back to the Farm Shop to exchange it for - the best part - a chocolate prize!

South Devon College students with their dragon creation The dragon was the star attraction - created using 2,000 recycled cans, it measured almost 4 metres nose to tail.  The magnificent sculpture was made as part of a project by South Devon College students Alistair Pethick and Ryan Berry, who are studying undergraduate degree courses in Furniture Design and Illustration & Photography.

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