Sunday 25 February 2018
Postponed due to rain.
Sunday 25 February 2018
Postponed due to rain.
Sunday 25 February 2018
Cancelled due to rain.
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Photos by Denise and Donna
Sixteen members enjoyed an 8.5 kilometre walk around Broulee Island, along beaches & through the nearby forests. This favourite hike always offers something to be enjoyed, be it sweeping coastal views, shore birds like the pied cormorants and reef heron seen on the island’s rocky platform or just browsing the remnants of shell grit mining from the 1920 s and the many multi coloured pebbles washed smooth by the Pacific Ocean.
The walk commenced at the renowned Canoe Tree, taking walkers through a bangalay sand forest , where Karen explained the varieties of trees that occur in such a habitat. Thence it was along the beach and around the island before returning via the same route. In the forest walkers enjoyed the sight of two beautiful golden orb spiders in their webs, but the enthusiasm of the encounter wasn’t shared by the spiders, who seemed a bit camera shy.
Thank you so much Betty for a pleasant morning walk.
Denise
Saturday February 2018
Photos by Lyn and Mary
Thanks once again to Lyn and Barry for hosting our first event of the year, walking followed by a sausage sizzle. As in previous years, we were offered the opportunity to earn our ‘supper’ by taking one of 3 walks in the local area all starting from their coastal home. Walkers could choose between a rock scramble, a 3 beaches walk or an extended beach walk over a headland. The weather was perfect, the sausages cooked to perfection and a wide variety of delicious desserts enjoyed with friends made for a lovely afternoon.
Mary T
Sunday 9 December 2017
Photos by Bev and Karen
With the 2017 bushwalking year over, it was time to catch up with walking mates one last time at the Batemans Bay Bushwalkers Christmas Party – this year held at JJ’s at the Moorings, Tomakin.
Good weather saw us all out in the courtyard behind the venue, gathered around the spit roast in anticipation. Several foundation members from the Club’s inception in 1985 still walk with us and came along to celebrate with ensuing generations and new members who joined us only this year.
Best wishes to everyone for a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season. And looking forward to another big year of fun and adventure out in the bush.
Karen
Thursday 30 November 2017
Photos by Karen M and Philip I
Bushwalking Leader Phillip I led a morning walk on a 6 km scenic circuit from Mullimburra Point to Bingie Point midweek.
The southbound track followed the Dreaming Track to Bingie Beach and then the beach to the headland where we paused for morning tea looking southwards to Tuross, Potato Point, Narooma with Mt Dromedary looming on the horizon.
The return leg followed the Dreaming Track north to Kellys Lake, then along beaches, with a final rock scramble to admire Cathedral Rock and emerge on Mullimburra Point. We were lucky with the weather – not too hot for walking, but not too cold for a swim at Honeymoon Bay before heading home.
Karen M
Saturday 25 November 2017
Sunday 19 to Friday 24 November 2017
Photos by Ian B
The Bundeena Paddle/Walk camp was very successful. Eleven members attended, 10 paddlers (who also walked), and one sole walker.
We camped in the Royal National Park at the lovely Bonnie Vale campground on the outskirts of Bundeena. It is on the Hacking River estuary, just across the water from Cronulla. The water barrier allowed us to relax and enjoy a wonderful campground well within the sights of the gaze of Sydney’s 4 million residents.
On the first day, on a high tide, we paddled the 12 km upstream from Bundeena to the Audley weir. We enjoyed bushland on the left, basically unchanged in two hundred years, and to the right, expensive houses in the suburbs of Lilli Pilli, Yowie Bay and Gymea Bay, all of which seemed to be perched on their own individual sandstone rock shelf.
On the second day we walked part of the Royal Coastal Walk from Wattamolla to Garies Beach. Spectacular sandstone clifflines overlooking the Pacific Ocean, dense heath on the hinterland, and rocky creeks that empty by waterfall directly into the ocean are features of this area.
We paddled again on the third day, this time by launching at Warumbul Picnic Area on the Hacking River and exploring the nearby Yowie Bay. Paddling among the jettys and luxury moored yachts and launches, we admired all the beautiful houses, each with its extensive water views overlooking equally expensive yachts. We wondered what sort of trade-in we might get for our kayaks.
It was back to walking the Royal Coastal Walk on the fourth day, this time from Wattamolla northward to Bundeena. We enjoyed more wonderful clifflines but a feature of this section was the colours, patterns and textures in the many different layers of sandstone revealed by eons of water and wind erosion. Nature’s artistry at its zenith.
On the final night we were too exhausted for a camp dinner so we dined at the local pizza and reflected on the last four days. It was a most enjoyable camp – a relaxed campground, (relatively) fine weather, great scenery, lots of exercise, and, of course, most agreeable company. What more could we want?
Ian B