As mentioned on our current Walks Program, we will be having a special event on Cup Day, and here are the details. We have three options for the walks on Cup Day, all beginning at Wenhams Camp, in the Warby-Ovens National Park, at various times. Places are limited to 10 participants on each walk, and…
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Killawarra Forest Camp : October 27
As usual during the pandemic, we met at Rotary Park for this walk, and then travelled in convoy to the start, at the Forest Camp, Killawarra. The distance planned for the two walks was about eight kilometres (2 x four kilometres), and we had a warm, and humid day, with a grey/blue sky. The eight…
Mount Meg : October 18
The intended walk for Saturday 17th October was held over to the next day, due to wet weather, and so, on Sunday the 18th, twenty walkers, ten in each pod, were booked into the walk at Mount Meg Conservation Park, near Thoona, in brilliantly cool, but sunny weather. Mount Meg has no tracks other than…
Magpie Creek Historic Area : October 4
Magpie Creek Historic Area adjoins Wooragee, a formal gold mining town, and is located about eight kilometres north-east of Beechworth, with many interesting relics from those boom years. The Beechworth-Yackandandah railway line was opened in 1861 (closed in 1954) and this walk covered several aspects of this history; that is gold, and the railway. A…
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Cup Day Walks Program
As mentioned on our current Walks Program, we will be having a special event on Cup Day, and here are the details. We have three options for the walks on Cup Day, all beginning at Wenhams Camp, in the Warby-Ovens National Park, at various times. Places are limited to 10 participants on each walk, and…
Killawarra Forest Camp : October 27
As usual during the pandemic, we met at Rotary Park for this walk, and then travelled in convoy to the start, at the Forest Camp, Killawarra. The distance planned for the two walks was about eight kilometres (2 x four kilometres), and we had a warm, and humid day, with a grey/blue sky. The eight…
Mount Meg : October 18
The intended walk for Saturday 17th October was held over to the next day, due to wet weather, and so, on Sunday the 18th, twenty walkers, ten in each pod, were booked into the walk at Mount Meg Conservation Park, near Thoona, in brilliantly cool, but sunny weather. Mount Meg has no tracks other than…
Magpie Creek Historic Area : October 4
Magpie Creek Historic Area adjoins Wooragee, a formal gold mining town, and is located about eight kilometres north-east of Beechworth, with many interesting relics from those boom years. The Beechworth-Yackandandah railway line was opened in 1861 (closed in 1954) and this walk covered several aspects of this history; that is gold, and the railway. A…