A combined walk for Seniors Week for which eight walkers met at Barkly St and Tatong Pub and drove towards our destination. The quagmire on Tiger Hill Road at one place meant that our hike started a little further from our lunch site than originally intended.
 
We walked and talked our way up up and up uphill, negotiating logs [all sizes] wet and sometimes boggy ground and rocks until we reached ‘a top’.  Vaughan could see a track through the trees!  We were on track for lunch on Mt. Tatong.  All this uphill I might add, was without a map.  What navigation.   
 
We had crossed boggy patches with lots of wild flowers [14 species in total] including Greenhoods of two varieties, Caladenias white and pink and Harbingers of Spring (Anguillaria dioica) in profusion.  Carol recognized the calls of a number of birds and shared her knowledge willingly.
 
Lunch on top of Mt Tatong was a delightful place, on the rocks with views to Winton Wetlands filled with water and maybe even a sparkling glimpse of the Winton Raceway Pit sheds.
 
An easy walk down the road back to the vehicles with still more wildflowers and bird calls to delight our hikers for this Senior week walk.  A great hike which was probably about 10Km, enjoyable company, well led and of course afternoon tea with biscuits at Tatong Pub!!!  Thank you, Vaughan and Marion.   

Easy walk – Wednesday November 2

We will make our annual trip to the Reef Hills.  The wet weather has been good for the wildflowers this year. 

​We leave the Centre car park at 10.00am.  Ring Vaughan on 5762 1980.

There are no walks scheduled for December or January and the Easy walks will commence in April.

​Easy Walk Wednesday September 7

​Nine walkers enjoyed the warm weather and the wildflowers on the “Friend’s Track” in the Warby Ranges.  The circuit was 4.5km, but we extended it a bit by including Quat Quat Lookout, where we had lunch while admiring the views of the countryside and the mountains to the South. 

​We found 15 Genera of wildflowers, the most prominent being Box-leaf wattle, Grevillia alpina, Leopard Orchids, Stypandra glauca and masses of Greenhood orchids, both Pterostylis curta and Pterostylis nutans. 
 
To make an interesting day a bit more exciting, we met a car and caravan on the narrow road in, which required a bit of manoeuvring negotiating. 
 
Then on the return to the cars we found notices to inform us of a lost dog.  On the way out we met the dog, which was happy to jump into the car while Phyllis rang the owners.  The reunion was extremely joyful as the dog had been missing for about ten days.

Seniors Week Walk - Mt Tatong - Wednesday October 12

​The easy walkers have visited this area every few years, but it will not disappoint mid-week walkers.  This year it is a combined walk for Seniors Week.  Most of the track is along existing roads, but there is a short easy off-track section before reaching a cleared area with great views over Sam’s Creek valley. 
 
Ring Vaughan on Tuesday 11th October on 5762 1980.  We leave the Flexible Learning Centre car park at 9.30am.