Activities for 2025: this page is updated at the end of each month

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Jan-Mar 2025 reports
Date Activity Grade Leader
Jan Wed 01 Killarney sunset stroll   Lothar
Jan Sun 05  Radfords Rd: cancelled, total fire ban   Lothar
Jan Sat 11 Mt Sturgeon: cancelled due to heat   Dina
Jan Sun 12 Cape Bridgewater instead of Mt Sturgeon 12 km  Dina
Jan Tue 14 BYO picnic in the Warrnambool Botanic Gardens   Lothar
Jan Sat 18 Deakin Uni to Warrnambool: beside the rail tracks 8 km Rob
Jan Sat 25 Childers Cove: a walk along the cliff tops   Lothar
Feb Sun 02 Bike ride: Timboon to Port Cambell and back cancelled too hot 40 km  Mabel
Feb Sun 02 Timboon Gourmet Walks 11 km  Lothar
Feb Sat 08 Port Fairy: a morning walk   Janice
Feb Tue 11 Meeting    
Feb Sat 15 Budj Bim, Mt Napier, Mt Rouse 9 km, 250 m↑ Rob
Feb Sun 16 Russells Creek loop   Mabel
Feb Sat 22 South Warrnambool postponed    
Feb Sun 23 Illowa / Koroit rail trail loop   Mabel
Mar Sun 02 Clean up Australia day: scavenging along Russell Creek   Coralie
Mar Sun 09 Port Fairy: East Beach, West Beach, and looking at the Folk Festival's buskers and market   Robyn
Mar Tue 11 Meeting    
Mar Sat 15 Around Portland: to visit various features   Christine
Mar Sat 22 Mt Abrupt: the GPT from the Dunkeld-Halls Gap Rd to the Victoria Valley Rd 11 km, 550 m↑ Ali
Mar Sun 23 Lake Pertobe and Kellys Swamp: along the W'bool-PF rail trail to the ex-horse-riding school. 9 or 18 km Mabel
Mar Sat 29 Mt Sturgeon to Dunkeld: the last "hill" of the Grampians Peak Trail  11 km, 425 m↑   Mabel
Mar 29–Apr 5 GSWW day walks: 4 nights will be based at Nelson and 3 based at Portland   Lothar

Apr-Jun 2025 reports
Date Activity Grade Leader
Apr Sat 05 Cape Nelson to Yellow Rock: share the final day for Lothar's GSWW walkers 8 km Rob
Apr Tue 08 Dinner meeting   Lothar
Apr Sat 12 Shelly Beach loop: in the late afternoon with a BBQ at Lake Pertobe   Ali
Apr Sun 13 4 Peaks Challenge: Friends of Mt Leura's ask us to climb Mts Leura, Sugarloaf, Elephant and Noorat 4 climbs of 100 m Rob
Apr Sat 26 Port Campbell to Two Mile Bay and back: includes easy walking along a sea level rock ledge. 9 km, 100 m↑ Rob
May Sat 03 Mt Sturgeon circuit: our old faithful start of the year walk, postponed because of January's heat 7 km Dina
May Sat 10 Beeripmo day walk: it will be interesting to see the regrowth after the fires last February 16 km, 550 m↑ Janice
May Tue 13 Just a committee meeting    
May 17–Jun 4 Portuguese Camino: Porto in Portugal to Santiago in Spain 270 km Lothar
May Sat 17  Griffin Fireline to Cassidy Gap: along a just reopened part of the GPT 13 km Rob
May Sat 24 Explore Hamilton: looking at such things as the cemetery, Botanic Gardens and Art Gallery   Coralie
May Sat 31 West Barwon Dam to Lake Elizabeth: through tall trees and treeferns 15 km Rob
Jun Sat 07 Tower Hill too wet   Rob
Jun Tue 10 Dinner meeting   Gwenda
Jun Sun 15 Lake Pertobe to the Japanese Garden and back: using Warrnamboo's roads, paths and parks   Rosalie
Jun Sat 21 Bike ride around Lake Linlithgow: is a ride on quiet roads   Coralie
Jun Sat 28 Signal Peak   Dina

Jul-Sep 2025 reports
Date Activity Grade Leader
Jul Sat 05 Timboon to Glenfyne   Khyl
Jul Sun 06 Story telling: The ways of walkers   Rob
Jul Tue 08 Committee meeting only    
Jul Sat 12 Deakin Uni to Warrnambool: by paths along the river, beside the train line and through Lady Bay's dunes   Gwenda
Jul Sun 20 Cobden and Camperdown: Cobden's machinery display, Camperdown's Botanic garden, and more   Rosalie
Jul Sun 27 Christmas in July at Koroit railway station   Lothar
Aug Sat 02 Dundas Range   Janice
Aug Tue 12 Meeting: The Portuguese Camino   Lothar 
Aug Sat 16 Mud-Dadjug Camp 7.5 km, 250m Coralie
Aug Sat 23 Day walk: Moonlight Heads to Ryans Den and back   Janice
Aug Sun 31 Out Coleraine Way: Two waterfalls, a railway station and an arboreatum   Ali
Sep Sun 07 Bike ride: Timboon to Port Campbell cancelled atrocious weather   Mabel
Sep Tue 09 Committee meeting    
Sep Sun 14 Budj Bim lava Canal, Tae Rak   Rosalie
Sep Sat 20  Tower Hill Try Bushwalking   Coralie 
Sep 25–28 Wyperfeld    Lothar
Sep Fri 26 Timboon to Schultz’s Cafe and back 12 km Gwenda

Oct-Dec 2025 reports     
Date Activity                                       Grade Leader
Oct Sat 04 Moleside to Pritchards along the GSWW 15 km Rob
Oct 4–6 Blanket Bay overnight cancelled   Robyn
Oct 11–12 FedWalks    
Oct 11–12 Saints and sinners bike ride   Mike 
Oct Tue 14 An eating meeting    Pauline
Oct Sun 19 Mortlake and Mt Shadwell: A stroll around the town and then a Lions Club fundraiser to the mountain   Campbell
Oct Sat 25 Colac by train: botanical gardens, the lake front, etc   Robyn
Oct 29–Nov 5 Sydney revisited: 6 day-walks along the coast.   Lothar
Nov Sun 02 Linton to Haddon bike ride   Coralie
Nov Tue 11 AGM    
Nov Sat 08 Princetown to 12 Apostles 8 km  Claudia
Nov Sat 15 Beeripmo circuit 21 km  Janice
Nov Sat 22 Yarram camp on the GPT: A there and back walk from Yarram Gap Rd 10 km  Rob