The club has outings on the second Saturday of each month. These outings are led by someone having a particular interest in or knowledge of the area visited.
There are usually no excursions in January, July and August. In July we have a “show and tell” indoors, and August is the month for our AGM.
2026
March 14 Frome Dam with Revel Munro
Meet at 10.00 am at the junction of the Tasman Highway at Moorina and Frome Road for the 3.5km gravel road drive to a boom gate at the commencement of our walk. (At some point there will have to be a 3.5km car shuffle manoeuvre as only walking one way is planned.)
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- Meeting place March 2026
This 5km walk promises sights dominated by decaying, redundant electricity generation infrastructure, together with some next generation working assets. I expect we will witness recent heritage destruction – engineering types bring your tissues! Nevertheless, overall the setting is most picturesque.
The walk will not be fast paced, and it does involve a slow, fairly steep climb (100 metres of altitude) in open forest, as we walk up alongside the pipe column. There we will have a break halfway up.
After ascending the pipe column the remaining 3km is level, pleasant, and easy. Overall the walk is graded 3.5 out of 5 in difficulty. Pole(s) are highly recommended to aid balance, and sturdy grippy footwear is essential. The walk will conclude at the Frome Dam / old Caretakers Cottage. A short, optional, inspection of one of the 1907 sources of rock fill for the dam could happen while cars are being fetched.
Leader, Revel, had involvement with these power station operations when Australian Anglo American Resources were benevolent custodians in 1984, and has also spent time measuring the dam capacity in 1972, and thus remembers some of the past.
Similar to our last month’s outing, members of the St Helens Walking group will be invitees.
April 11 Paradise Plains