Palm Grove Mt Tamborine

Distance: 8 - 9 km return:
Time: 3 + hours approximately (+ lunchtime stop)
Area: Tamborine Mountain
Start Time: 9.30 am
Meet-up time: 9.20 am Palm Grove Avenue
Difficulty: Easy Grade 2
Lunch: Carry it with you.
Cost: $2

Please Note: We are now advising that everyone checks after 7.30am on the morning of all of the walks to see if the walk may be cancelled/postponed due to inclement weather on the day.

Walk Leader: Warwick 0408 3000 56 if delayed or lost.

Carpooling: there is not a lot of spaces there so if you would like to carpool, Meet at Nerang Fair or Helensvale Homeworld (outside Adairs) at 8.20 to leave by 8.30. Give driver $5. Leave message to indicate you will be there.

Please read the Conditions of Group Membership and event participation at the end of the walk description.

Meet Up Location:

Palm Grove Avenue
Palm Grove Circuit 2.5 kms return + Jenyns Circuit 4.5 kms return + lunch at Curtis Rd 1 km.

This circuit leads into drier eucalyptus forest. Hoop pines, brush box and grey guns abound and walkers will pass through a grove of ancient cycads. Watch for steep cliff edges and remain on the track at all times. Jenyns Falls are seasonal, with very little to no flow recorded in some of the drier winter months.

This walk is shown as 8K’s. But as with most of our walks this figure is only a rough guide and not a guarantee as things do happen and changes are sometimes unavoidable.

This walk is easy to very easy, so once again if you are new to bushwalking, then this one is for you. We all have to start somewhere and there are no easier walks than this one.

Lunch will be taken under the shade with seating in the park off Curtis Road.

After the walk, we all head to our favourite cafe, The Spice Of Life at 28 Main St North Tamborine for a coffee and chat.

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.