1. Meeting Place and Time: Carpooling can be arranged from Hungry Jacks at Watergardens, meeting by 8:00 am.
2. Meeting Place and Time: Carpooling from Daylesford Post Office. (Vincent Street) before 8:45 am.
3. Meeting Place and Time: If driving direct from Melbourne to Firth Park, it is best to go via Woodend and Trentham East and meet outside Firth Park Camping Area before 9.30 am

Details: Firth Park is situated just off Firth Road deep within the Wombat State Forest. The park has facilities for camping, picnicking and barbecues, with old forestry equipment for children to play on. It makes an ideal start/finish area for bushwalking around the Wombat State Forest, with plenty of parking.

This walk is a circuit around the park making use of logging tracks and forestry roads. Some of these tracks have been badly eroded and holes left by off road vehicles can be filled with water after rain. These areas are easily avoided but boots are recommended, and walking poles would come in handy. There are no steep climbs but a few undulations. Contact Ron if you need any other info.

Unfortunately, Firth Park is currently closed following the storms in 2022. Work is progressing to have the Camping Area ready to reopen by the end Of February 2023, and is therefor closed to the public.

There is an area opposite the entrance to the Camping Area that we can use for parking, but must stay clear of the actual entrance area.

1. Meet Place and Time: Carpooling from Daylesford Post Office. (Vincent Street) before 9:00am.
2. Meeting Place and Time: Blackwood General Store before 9:30am.

Details: A circuit walk along tracks north east of Blackwood, going past the historic Yankee Mine.  Moderate hills totalling a climb of about 200 meters.

Starting and finishing at the Woodend Railway Station (on the left  side of the road as you come into Woodend and near Coles), this is an easy 10 kilometre walk . We'll pass through some back streets of Woodend on some gravel and dirt tracks before joining the Five Mile Creek track. Here the track meanders along the creek through a series of shady parks along the way.  After a few kilometres, the Five Mile Creek track joins up with the Rotary Community Exercise track. This track is surrounded by trees and circles us back to Woodend's main street where a bakery and some cafes await!!.   

Starting and finishing at the Woodend Railway Station (on the left  side of the road as you come into Woodend and near Coles), this is an easy 10 kilometre walk . We'll pass through some back streets of Woodend on some gravel and dirt tracks before joining the Five Mile Creek track. Here the track meanders along the creek through a series of shady parks along the way.  After a few kilometres, the Five Mile Creek track joins up with the Rotary Community Exercise track. This track is surrounded by trees and circles us back to Woodend's main street where a bakery and some cafes await!!.   

Meet at:

1. Flinders Street Rail Station at 8:30am.

Description:   We start at Burwood station for a slight long incline south along the Anniversary Trail.  We travel on shared paths and back streets.  Mostly hard surfaces, but there’s options to walk beside the paths in several places.   There are some undulations and small hill, but the route is predominately downhill.   Soft soled shoes are recommended, and poles aren’t necessary.    Toilets are at Flinders Street, and at parks along the way.   Train home from McKinnon to Flinders Street.

Meet at:

1. Flinders Street Rail Station at 9:00am,

Description:   We start at McKinnon station and proceed through back streets and through parks along shared paths to the Bay.   We then follow the Bay Tail from Elwood to Port Melbourne.  Mostly hard surfaces, but there’s options to walk beside the paths in several places.   There are some undulations but mostly flat.   Soft soled shoes are recommended, and poles aren’t necessary.    

This walk also includes a 6 Billion kilometre tour of the Solar System from St Kilda to Port Melbourne.

Toilets are at Flinders Street, McKinnon Station and at various places along the way.   Return travel on Tram 109 to Southern Cross.

Make the most of the last week of summer on this circuit walk around Aireys Inlet.  Starting the Distillery Creek picnic ground we will make our way to the beach along  Bounday Road and then follow the coast for about 3km taking the opportunity to look at the spectacular scenery and the Split Point Lighthouse, before heading inland to wind our way through the hinterland stopping at Moggs Creek and Painkalac dam.

This walk is all on track and will have its ups and downs, but we will be rewarded with wonderful sceney along the way.   This walk  is suitable for Bobs and non-Bobs.

If the day is going to be really hot, I will modify the walk to be a car shuttle and potentially shorten the distance, regardless it should be an enjoyable day.

The second in a series of short walks, this walk starts at the Westmeadows Oval offArdlie St. Westmeadows and follows the Moonee Ponds Creek to the Dam near the entrance to Woodlands Historic Park. After a morning tea break at the Dam the walk returns to Westmeadows via a different route., with refreshments available at the nearby cafe if required. We may make use of some easy off track walking but runners should be suitable.

This walk has been regraded as Easy Medium but is still classified as a non qualifying walk.

Our meeting place will be at the Jubilee Lake Caravan park in the carpark in front of the toilets.  We will begin by following the GDT along the rail trail, with a side trip to walk through one of the beautiful culverts underneath the trail, for those who are interested.  Our walk will take in sections of the GDT, quiet bush tracks and a short section on a gravel road, before meeting up with the rail trail again and back to the cars for a well earned afternoon tea somewhere in Daylesford. 

There are a few ups and downs, but no serious hills and it should be a pleasant day walking and friendly for everyone including Bobs.

Our annual river "cruise" and day on Herring Island. This year we,ll do the round trip and walk to the ferry landing along the Batman Ave side of the Yarra River and return on the Alexandra Ave side. Lunch will be on the island before we check out what Herring Island has to offer along with the enviromental sculptures and the art gallery. Afterwards, coffee or cool drinks at Kanteen on the mainland near the ferry area. Sneakers will be fine, sun hat , UV cream and water as per this time of the year . If its warming up , we can cut back to 9km or even back to 5km and if its too, too hot we,ll postpone for later in the month. A lazy start, meeting at the Flinders St coffee shops for a 10.15 departure.