Walking Group

Special Interest Groups

Walking Tour Leader: Ron Tooney 4958 7910 Mob: 0409 467 910

WALKS FOR 2021

Every Wednesday, except the last Wednesday of the month, we will gather at the car park in Speers Point Park opposite the main entry to the park and Sal’s Cafe. We will meet there at 9.00 am. Our journey takes us through the park heading right along Cockle Creek and under the Five Islands Bridges towards Boolaroo. After 30 minutes or so we commence our return to the vehicles. If there is sufficient interest we may indulge in coffee and refreshments in Sal’s cafe provided adequate seating is available. We have become visible in our RED tops and BLUE (Probus) caps. Masks are at your discretion.

COFFEE WALK WEDNESDAY 30th JUNE 2021

Green Point (From Green Point Drive)

Coming from Valentine Shops you turn right at the Valentine Public School into Macquarie Drive and head towards Belmont. Turn right at Belmont Hospital into Green Point Drive and continue straight ahead to the end of that street. We will park outside house numbers 75/77 Green Point Drive, Green Point. The walk is for 40 minutes downhill on the pathway to Green Point then along the lake foreshore to the car park at Ross Street, Belmont. We will pool cars to leave some at Ross Street car park for the return trip back to vehicles parked in Green Point Drive. We then make a short drive for coffee to 16 FT SAILING CLUB.

COFFEE WALK WEDNESDAY 28th JULY 2021

The Fernleigh Track from Burwood Road through the FernleighTunnel towards Adamstown.

Park in the bush car park adjacent to the track and pedestrian traffic lights on Burwood Road. Walk for 50 minutes through the magnificent Fernleigh Tunnel, it is another 15 minutes to the Adamstown exit. Then return to the car park. From there we will drive to PEGS Café at Dudley Road, Whitebridge for coffee, refreshments and friendship. Due to the pace travelled by some cyclists on the Fernleigh Track we will have to be very conscious of keeping to the left of the path and walk in groups of two.

Thanks Ron T

Men’s Probus Club Of Valentine WALKING GROUP.

Fellow members,

Our group has been functioning in our club for many years. For new Club Members, I thought I would enlighten you about our activities.

We meet every Wednesday morning at 9.00 am, which we have found is a convenient day and time. In day light saving months when the weather is warmer and the temperature is rising, we decide upon a date and time to meet earlier, usually mid-November at 8.30 EDLST.

I send an email to all our participants on Monday or Tuesday jogging their memory of the Wednesday walk and those who can’t make it generally send an inability reply or ring me. Should the weather gods be unkind, and the walk needs to be cancelled, I send an email by 8.30 am or 8:00 am EDLST Wednesday cancelling the walk. Those who do not have a computer receive a telephone call or SMS message.

Unlike an “organised walking group” out to climb the highest peaks or to traverse the longest of walks, we are a group of friends out to keep the limbs moving, the lungs working and our minds active. We tend towards walks we consider are reasonably flat, safe for our age and are not health risks.

On the last Wednesday of every month we do a COFFEE WALK. I try to go to different locations in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie where we can engage in a pleasant walk of similar distance, i.e. 2 kms and stop mid-way or at the end for COFFEE, at a suitable Cafe.

A few of our members are accompanied by their wife who are regular attendees, so if you are able to participate and your wife/partner would like to join the group, they are most welcome.

Unlike most activities the only expense is the petrol to get you to and from the location plus a monthly coffee and cake.

If you would like to join us, please contact me.

We hope to see you for the walk, fellowship and talk on Wednesdays.

Ron Tooney
Group Coordinator

Phone: 49587910

Mobile: 0409467910

Email: rgtooney1@bigpond.com