Eight of us met at Medlow Bath on a perfect, sunny morning to explore Hat Hill Creek and it’s canyons, following Tom Brennan’s excellent track notes. After some messing about we headed down the hill at 10.10, reaching the creek about 15m later. A few minutes walking down a not-too-scrubby creek brought us to the first constriction, which starts with a slide into a short swim. The constriction…
After Saturday night dinner at the Royal Hotel in Oberon, we camped at the sparsely populated Boyd River Campground and set the alarm for Sunday 4.00am. It was 5.30 before we headed north along the Mount Thurat Firetrail. Across the Kanangra Ck fords, and up past a marker cairn onto Thurat Broad Ridge before we turned east and descended to our target gully. Dave Noble’s…
The Christmas Dinner Walk, a SUBW tradition that pre-dates even the PBT, has in recent years become the largest annual gathering of SUBWarians on the club calendar. This year was no exception, with over 35 people participating in the trip in one way or another. Some came primarily to learn to abseil and do the beginners’ canyon on the Saturday morning. Some came…
Hey guys, can’t believe this. It’s been going on in my head for the last week, and yes I had to leave it till last minute:( My holidays starts in 2 hours (providing, I manage to catch my flight). So, just briefly …. OK, arriving in 4 different cars (couple lone rangers, couple cars packed to the rafters), plus minus same time. The weather…
It was yet another lucky break with the weather, being a mild sunny day sandwiched between two very hot days. One complication though was the lack of trains to Circular Quay that weekend because of trackwork. A couple of people didn’t show up (apart from Javan who had to withdraw sick); whether they got confused with the replacement buses I just don’t know. Anyway eight…
The walk got to an interesting start as, although almost everyone got to Cowan Station at the start time, my train was a little late and I texted Mariana to tell people to wait for me on the opposite platform. The I got a call from Heloisa to say that she had been delayed by the interminable trackwork at Erskineville, and was on the following train. As some…
We all met together at Woy Woy Station on saturday morning, and as there were only 4 of us, decided to fit everyone in Tracy’s care (or rather, Tracy’s brother’s car, kindly lent for the trip). We then set off for the first stop which was lunch at Dungog at a cafe (see photo), which was pretty good. The staff…
A few people were caught out by the change-over to Daylight Saving the same morning, especially some overseas students, so we were a bit down on the numbers expected. Happily there were no “no-shows”. Still, we all met up at Woy Woy Station, and Linda left her car there and we all went in mine to the start of the walk at Umina Beach. As it…
Six of us met up at Central Station and proceeded west in the Blue Mountains train, collecting Conrad at Parramatta. On the way we noted the Bat colony at Clyde. We arrived at Wentworth Falls where Janice, Tim, Paul and Liz were waiting. They entertained themselves while waiting for us by watching the steam train which passed through there ahead of our train. So we…
The morning dawned fine as I left home, promising yet another fine Sunday – my luck still holding after the previous several rainy days. On arrival at Central I noticed that the down escalators to the platform weren’t working, so I hoped that no-one was leaving it to the last minute as they would be caught out. As it…