Byron Bay Lighthouse Walk

Location: Byron Bay
Distance: 8K return Plus
Difficulty: Easy - Moderate Grade 2
Meet-up time 9.55am (QLD Time)
Start Time: 10.00am
Carry your lunch in your back-pack
Cost: $2
Meet-up: Car Park opposite James Cook Apartments on Lighthouse Road.
Walk leader: Warwick 0408 300056
Please read the Conditions of Group Membership and event participation at the end of the walk description.
Always heavy traffic leading into Byron so please allow an extra 15 minutes of travel time.

PLEASE NOTE IMPORTANT INFO: At Byron there are very HIGH parking charges in the parking spot therefore our location for parking maybe changed.

Car Pooling: Please use our message and comments facilities to organise car pooling. Leave a shout out that you are offering or seeking a lift,. Please give driver $10. Please, please car pool.

Walk leader: 0408 300056 Warwick

Byron Bay Whale spotting: Today’s walk will commence from the car park opposite James Cook Apartments on the Lighthouse Road. This is an easy walk on good pathways for the most. Being right on the coast the temperature should not affect us, being accustomed to being 10° cooler up the mountains so must rush this through before the real heat of summer descends upon us all.

The views on this walk are some of the best along the coast, some would say spectacular.

Please arrange car pooling early as this is another opportunity to share the transport costs and make the most of limited parking.

Conditions of Group Membership and event participation
1 GCMWWG is not an incorporated association or organisation and is composed of individuals who join with each other in an informal manner to engage in the pleasurable activity of bushwalking and accordingly each individual member is required to take personal responsibility for his or her own safety and to comply with the recommendations published on the Group’s meet up website and with directions given from time to time by any walk leader of a Bushwalk undertaken by the Group.
2 Participants are recommended:
(i) to wear walking boots which provide ankle support;
(ii) carry his or her own rucksack which will contain at least 1 litre of fresh water in watertight containers and personal first aid items including band-aids (or similar), bandages, antiseptic, insect repellents and sunscreen and foodstuffs appropriate to the length and timing of the bushwalk;
(iii) to make a realistic assessment prior to participating in a bushwalk as to whether the participants’ physical condition will allow the participant to enjoyably and safely engage in the bushwalking activity without endangering the safety and enjoyment of other participants;
(iv) to wear or carry clothing suitable for each walk including clothing (such as a waterproof jacket or poncho) that is appropriate for unexpected changes in the weather.
3 Each bushwalk undertaken by the Group shall have a nominated leader who will walk at the front of the Group (“walk leader”) and a nominated person who will walk at the rear of the group (“back marker”). The walk leader will set the pace of the walk and will halt the walk at appropriate times in his or her discretion for rests and drink breaks and meal breaks. The back marker will endeavour to keep the group together at all times and to notify the walk leader if any untoward accident or injury is sustained by any participant. The walk leader and the back marker for each bushwalk will be nominated by the Group Leader.
4 Each participant will be required to observe any directions or instructions given by the walk leader including any instruction to shorten the walk, change the route of the walk or abandon the walk due to any unexpected change of circumstances such as track closure or obstruction, inclement weather and/or injury or illness suffered by any member.
5 Any one of the Group Leader, walk leader or back marker for each bushwalk undertaken by the group shall carry with him or her a mobile phone and a first aid kit.
6 There shall be published in each event's description a degree of difficulty by the Group a statement as to the degree of difficulty of the proposed bushwalk so that members may realistically assess whether they (or their guests) have the requisite degree of physical fitness required to pleasurably and safely undertake the proposed bushwalk.
7 Details of each proposed bushwalk including the walk route, the commencement time and the anticipated time required to complete the walk will be published on the Group’s meet up website.