Fingal Head Lighthouse Walk

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Fingal Head Lighthouse Walk:
Distance: 10-11 km return:
Time: 4 + hours approximately (+ lunchtime stop)
Area: Fingal Head
Difficulty: Very easy on level footpaths and firm sandy beach.
Start Time: 9.00am
Cost: $2

Meet-up time: 8.50 am at the car park at the Old Boat Harbour where the toilet facilities are located.

Walk leader: Warwick 0408 300056

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

If you RSVP YES and then for whatever reason change your mind (that’s okay) but please cancel and amend your RSVP to NO, at least 72 hrs prior to a walk. If you cancel the night/day before this is unacceptable to others possibly waiting. To do so once, at late notice, is forgivable, twice is unacceptable, to do so a third time, you will automatically be placed onto a wait-list for any walks you RSVP YES thus placing you at the bottom of the availability list.

Difficulty: Very easy on level footpaths and firm sandy beach.

JUST over from the Queensland border and lying at the southern tip of a sweeping sandy bay stretching from Coolangatta at the northern end, incorporating Fingal Head on the Tweed Coast all the way to Kingscliff at the southern end. Our walk will commence this time from the small car park at Old Boat Harbour on Fingal Rd.

From here we will head over to Fingal Beach, before heading up to Fingal Head lighthouse. From here we get great views along the bay stretching all the way to Kingscliff, across to Cook Island and up to Coolangatta and beyond. (Take memorable pictures) Back down the steps and through bushland to a point where we will then follow the Tweed River and the banks of Kerosene Bay.

We are now heading towards Coolangatta and Tweed Heads. We walk past vegetation and scrub land and reach a very secluded and private sandy bay and beach, which seems always to be sheltered and protected by the man-made rock formations. Anyone wishing to take a swim bring your swimmers. We will take morning tea in this shallow sheltered horseshoe bay watching the surfers come and go. Find a smooth rock and shade under the trees.

After heading back along the beach we will have coffee / lunch at the Sheoak Shack.

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.