Monthly Archives: August 2022

Warby Tower Lookout to Pangarang Lookout : August 28

Today’s walk had 17 participants, with one new casual walker, and two casual walkers on their second walk with our club. Following the car shuffle, we began our walk from the Spring Creek Picnic Area under a cloudy sky, and headed off to the Warby Tower Lookout. Here we had morning tea, with great views…

Typo Station : October 7-9

The club is holding a walks weekend during October at the historic Typo Station, in the Rose River Valley. Here’s the program for the weekend; the Typo Station brochure is available via the link shown below. Friday 7th – Sunday 9th October A weekend at Typo Station, Rose River, with easy and medium walks, and…

Winton Wetlands : Thursday, 18th August

The Winton Wetlands were created by draining former irrigation storage (Lake Mokoan); Aboriginal people once occupied the areas around the original wetland area, and would have found this to be an ideal environment for their hunter-gatherer life-style. This walk around the wetlands included the Spit Walk Loop and the Lotjpatj Natjan Danak Sculpture Walk. Fifteen…

White-Box Walking Track : August 13

Perfect weather (and company) was shared by 14 walkers who had travelled from afar, including two new casual participants, to undertake the 8.5km circuit known as the Whitebox Walking Track. Though some of the participants had done this walk previously, the sight of the old Golden Bar Open-Cut Mine was a new one for many,…

Kancoona Gap : July 31

There are meaningful moments in history when something momentous occurs, and you know exactly where you were on that day. It becomes significant. Often life changing. Events like the Berlin wall going up, JKF’s assassination, NASA landing an Apollo mission the moon, Fleetwood Mac releasing the Rumours album, the Berlin wall coming down, Lady Di’s…

Monthly Archives: August 2022

Warby Tower Lookout to Pangarang Lookout : August 28

Today’s walk had 17 participants, with one new casual walker, and two casual walkers on their second walk with our club. Following the car shuffle, we began our walk from the Spring Creek Picnic Area under a cloudy sky, and headed off to the Warby Tower Lookout. Here we had morning tea, with great views…

Typo Station : October 7-9

The club is holding a walks weekend during October at the historic Typo Station, in the Rose River Valley. Here’s the program for the weekend; the Typo Station brochure is available via the link shown below. Friday 7th – Sunday 9th October A weekend at Typo Station, Rose River, with easy and medium walks, and…

Winton Wetlands : Thursday, 18th August

The Winton Wetlands were created by draining former irrigation storage (Lake Mokoan); Aboriginal people once occupied the areas around the original wetland area, and would have found this to be an ideal environment for their hunter-gatherer life-style. This walk around the wetlands included the Spit Walk Loop and the Lotjpatj Natjan Danak Sculpture Walk. Fifteen…

White-Box Walking Track : August 13

Perfect weather (and company) was shared by 14 walkers who had travelled from afar, including two new casual participants, to undertake the 8.5km circuit known as the Whitebox Walking Track. Though some of the participants had done this walk previously, the sight of the old Golden Bar Open-Cut Mine was a new one for many,…

Kancoona Gap : July 31

There are meaningful moments in history when something momentous occurs, and you know exactly where you were on that day. It becomes significant. Often life changing. Events like the Berlin wall going up, JKF’s assassination, NASA landing an Apollo mission the moon, Fleetwood Mac releasing the Rumours album, the Berlin wall coming down, Lady Di’s…