Initially 16 members joined, with 3 cancellation and 2 that never gave me a sign. It left one more that accidentally catch the Wollongong train and not Illawarra south line. Beside that we all made it in time and started our walk down to the creek at Karloo pool, where we had our first break waiting for one more member to join us, mean while at Karloo pool I was the only brave enough to dip in, taking account it was shading and perhaps to early for others. The water…
Saturday: we wake up to the sound of honking trucks, and gaze at a hideous brown hillside, scarred with brambles and burnt pine trees. We trudge beside the road for a few KMs till we reach a pine plantation. We see a kangaroo, and tramp along on Pardon’s Road, then Ruddy’s Road, with alternating stands of pine trees and bare desolate hills. We stop…
I am probably the wrong person to write this trip report, the wrong person to write trip reports in general. I feel like they require capabilities of scientific observation that I do not have. Nevertheless, someone has to do them. I will begin by stating a fact that should be obvious, but that some reports generate less awareness of. I am…
We all eventually met up at Woy Woy, with Frank missing the train after finding out the hard way that the North Shore Line is not the Newcastle Line, and Lauren also experiencing a delay beyond her control – a stuck lift. Still, the wait allowed Linh, Yumi and myself to get a coffee at Macca’s (the only café open in Woy Woy at that hour) and pick up a bottle of quality Port fro Saturday night. So we…
Been wanting to get to the Gangerang Plateau for ages. All indications were that the area around the base of Cloudmaker is a wonderful mess of open scrub between assorted hillocks, and (more to the point) several decent-sized caves which would have come in handy on a few trips when the weather rolled in during the thrash up Strongleg. Almost made…
The group can be bigger, sadly Phillipa and Linjing was called in sick couldn’t made to join our clew, 12 people for my first time leading trip is already a good challenge for me.As the plan set up we meet at Stratfield station no later than 9:20am waited for the 9:31 train, except for Louise, Pedro and Christian, who were coming from Central station. I had…
We all met up at Cowan Station just before 10am, after some concerns about trains being late due to an accident at Redfern (as it turned out only my train originating from Newcastle was late). So we lined up on the rail sidings for a group photo, and – disaster! I found that after just one photo my camera was out of juice! It appears that connecting it to the computer to download the photos of the Blackheath and Mt Vic walks had drained it. So no…