Out Door Education 2023

With the increasing pressures on busy lives, have we forgotten to use the web to show our Walking Club members what they might see when they wander our "bush"?

• Let us walk towards the Lyonville Spa in the Wombat State Forest.
• Now that the cattle have left .. let's camp on the High Plains or climb Victoria's highest mountain.
• Wilsons Promontory beckons in 2014
• Walking in the Swiss Alps - The Alpine Pass Route.
• Once again in Winter we can enjoy the snow on the Bogong High Plains
• Sick of walking or cycling uphill?  Take a Rail Trail from Bright to Wangaratta or from Lilydale to Warburton.
• A Weekend walk on the edge of the Avon Wilderness, from Gog and Magog to Mt Hedrick.
• Day walks to Cradle Mountain, Barn Bluff or Mt. Field, the magnificent peaks of Tasmania.
• Descend and ascend the spurs of Mt. Reynard
• Climb Mt. Bogong, Victoria's highest mountain
• Returning to Wilsons Promontory, Sealers Cove to Waterloo Bay
• Wandering from Mt Wellington to Gable End
• Listen to the sounds of the bush .. Sulphur Crested Cockatoos
• Trentham Falls and the Lerdederg river gorges.
• Photographing the orchids of French Island
• Eagle's Peaks, overlooking the Eildon river catchments 
• Looking for orchids in the Hepburn Springs Regional Park.
• Walking the Wyperfeld National Park
• Cross Country Skiing at Perisher, Mt Loch, Mt Nelse and Mt Buffalo.
• A winter ascent of the Snowy Bluff on the Moroka river.
• Two long spurs to Mt Howitt.
• Seals, snakes and birds.  Roaming Phillip Island.
• The Cobberas mountains in the far north east corner of Victoria.
• Day walking over the Mt Buffalo National Park.
• Walking the Macedon Ranges track.   
• Driving to Sydney?  Then drop into the Chiltern Box-Ironbark National Park
• A long weekend trip over the Wonnangatta  river, the Viking, the Razor, Mt Speculation and Mt Howitt.
• Why not stop at Langi Ghiran on the way to the Grampians?
• Close to Melbourne the wildflowers of Brisbane Ranges and Anakie Gorge 
• Walking in the spring time flower profusion of the Northern Grampians and the Major Mitchell plateau.  And don't forget the Wonderland.
• Aboriginal wells in Victoria's historic goldfields
• Spring skiing on Kosciuszko, who has the sun cream?
• On the western basalt plain, the Granite remnant of Mt Beckworth
• A Walk around the Arches in Grampians National Park
• Mt Stirling - the quiet sister to the alpine frenzy of Mt Buller
• The golden forest of the Whipstick near Bendigo in August
• Snow Camping on Mt Baw Baw in July
• Cross Country skiing over the Alpine National Park
• Pine Mountain or Mt Burrowa - a day walk in the least visited National Park in Victoria
• The Walls of Jerusalem to Cradle Mountain National Park, a week in the World Heritage area.
• Moroka Wilderness, a long weekend in a river.
• Gippsland's Alpine retreat, the Baw Baw Plateau. 
• To the Lighthouse, Wilson's Promontory in summer. 
• Walk the coast, Point Nepean National Park
• Lake Mountain in summer. 
• Mt. Jagungal to Kosciuszko .. the roof of Australia.
• Walking in time, the Organ Pipes National Park 
• Canoe and walk in the Lower Glenelg National Park
• Sugarloaf to the Cathedrals, a great place to start young people in the outdoors
• Ride your bicycle from Wangaratta to Beechworth via the goldfield at Eldorado
• Ballarat to Creswick, the Miners walk
• Bushfire recovery, Angahook State Park, Aireys Inlet
• Hidden treasures at Tali Karng in the Alpine National Park
• The Fortress, The Arch and Mt Thackeray.  The ramparts of the western Grampians.
• The Gold in Warrandyte State Park.
• Karwarra Australian plant gardens help students identify our wide variety of endemic plants.
• Warby Ranges near Wangaratta splash with wintery colour in August
• Steam Era .. Bush workers in the Warburton Hills.  Starling's Gap to the Bump.
• The Murrindindi Scenic Reserve .. a short drive from Healesville.
• Walking in the South Island of New Zealand
• Skiing near Wanaka, New Zealand.  Students can ski in their winter break.
• A short walk around Melbourne's Maranoa Gardens June 22nd 1999
• A walk towards Mt. Difficult, Geriwerd National Park, October 1998
• The Southern Grampians Weekend, November 1998
• The Crinoline in the Alpine National Park, May 1999
• An Upper Yarra National Park Excursion in Winter, May 1999
• A Link to a Western Suburbs Walking Club .. the Other Essendon Club

This page was last updated on: Thursday, October 19, 2023