January 2015 Report
Venue
The Central coast
Participants
Ron, Chris, Peter, Richard, Helen, Colin and Natalie
The start
Most of the group met at Central station and enjoyed the music and costumes from those going to Parkes to join in the Elvis festival. Elvis would have been 80 on this day. Two more of the group joined us at Strathfield.
Highlights
The train passes through Sydney suburbia before reaching the national parks of the Ku-ring-gai Chase and Broken Bay. The water views at Brooklyn and across to Dangar Island were great. We left the train at Woy Woy and had morning tea before setting off on the walk.
-past the ferry wharf, the war memorial with gardens set out in a pattern of the Australian flag and down to the point. People were out fishing, sitting in their house boat, rowing an outrigger canoe, walking the track or playing in the park.
There was such a variety of accommodation along the water front from the once popular fibro ‘shack’, to renovated cottages and newly built modern style houses.
Birds-loads of pelicans (many sitting on top of the piers), ducks, currawongs, plovers were to be seen.
Across the water we noted the Rip bridge and St Hubarts Island which was built on reclaimed land. Once at the end of the track, the boat ramp, we had to join the road and weave through the streets to Ettalong beach. The cool breeze coming off the water was appreciated.
The finish
After lunch ($9) at the Ettalong Beach Diggers club, the group caught the bus back to Woy Woy and then the train to Central
Venue
The Central coast
Participants
Ron, Chris, Peter, Richard, Helen, Colin and Natalie
The start
Most of the group met at Central station and enjoyed the music and costumes from those going to Parkes to join in the Elvis festival. Elvis would have been 80 on this day. Two more of the group joined us at Strathfield.
Highlights
The train passes through Sydney suburbia before reaching the national parks of the Ku-ring-gai Chase and Broken Bay. The water views at Brooklyn and across to Dangar Island were great. We left the train at Woy Woy and had morning tea before setting off on the walk.
-past the ferry wharf, the war memorial with gardens set out in a pattern of the Australian flag and down to the point. People were out fishing, sitting in their house boat, rowing an outrigger canoe, walking the track or playing in the park.
There was such a variety of accommodation along the water front from the once popular fibro ‘shack’, to renovated cottages and newly built modern style houses.
Birds-loads of pelicans (many sitting on top of the piers), ducks, currawongs, plovers were to be seen.
Across the water we noted the Rip bridge and St Hubarts Island which was built on reclaimed land. Once at the end of the track, the boat ramp, we had to join the road and weave through the streets to Ettalong beach. The cool breeze coming off the water was appreciated.
The finish
After lunch ($9) at the Ettalong Beach Diggers club, the group caught the bus back to Woy Woy and then the train to Central