Oct 28 2023
Distance from PJP car park 48km. 3. 25/10/2023. Trampers. Cairn Valley/Shannon, Grade 3, 48km. Leaders: Heather Kirk, Diane Paterson. Lovely sunshine greeted 30 keen trampers for a good day’s walk on Cairnvalley Farm Shannon. Strath Taieri offers something different in scenery with tussock hills, huge rock formations and at this time of the year fresh […]
Oct 28 2023
Outram 10 km / Henley 21 km – from car park. 4. 25/10/2023. Hikers. Outram Loop. Grade 1.5, 11km, Leaders: Sue Nichol, Kathryn Fagg. Outram turned on another scorcher for 16 hikers. We started at the West Taieri Rugby Club and walked around Kings Court and Anzac Court subdivisions where the gardens were in full […]
Oct 22 2023
Click Grahams Bush history for background information. Click Mount Cargill history for background information. No. 19 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Sawyers Bay – Grahams Bush. M Deuchrass. Summer.” Sawyers Bay Road 28 km from car park; Mount Cargill Road car park: 25 km. 17. 18/10/2023. Grahams Bush/Mt Cutten. Leaders Pam Cocks […]
Oct 21 2023
1. 18/10/2023. Maia to Port Chalmers. Hikers. Leaders Mike and Max Once again Max and Mike showed their dedication to the TRTC by leaving a delicately poised England v Italy football match on TV to catch a bus to Maia to meet up with the hiking team who were assembling by the parking area at […]
Oct 17 2023
17 km from car park. 17. 11/10/2023. Hikers. St Clair, St Kilda, Ocean Grove. Grade 2, $5, 17km, Leaders: Bruce Spittle/Alex Griffin Nineteen hikers left Marlow Park in sunny conditions at about 0930 after singing happy birthday to Liz Griffin and walked over the Kettle Park Sports field and up a track to the Barnes […]
Oct 15 2023
No. 47 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Toko Beach. M Young”; also No. 65 on old hardcopy list of 113 club tramps. “Chrystalls Beach Farm”. Location: 59 km from the car park. Best in Summer. The stock winter over. Directions: On SH1, before Milton, at Helensbrook intersection, left onto Forsyth Road, right […]
Oct 05 2023
*Click this Wikipedia entry on Quarantine Island, if you wish. *Click here for a PDF fact sheet of the original Quarantine Island *And here is the St Martin Island Community web page. Click the photo at the bottom to see original buildings! *Click a quarantine-island-botanical-report for a (bit dated) 1987 report on the island’s vegetation, […]