Lisarow to Gosford via Mt Elliot, St Johns Lookout & Rumbalara Reserve 🌲🌿 🍂

📝 PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION BELOW FULLY BEFORE YOU CLICK ‘Attend’!
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🗓 DATE: Saturday, 15 June 2024.
⏰ MEETING TIME: 10.25am.
🚊 MEETING POINT: Lisarow station at the entry/exit. Please use Google map for exact location, not Meetup map!
🚆 END POINT: Gosford station.
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🥾 DISTANCE: 16km - point to point.
🥾 GRADE: Easy/mostly Moderate on a steady pace, not snail pace!
💪🏽 Reasonable fitness recommended due to uneven rocky surfaces, up and down hills, stair climbs, creek crossings, rock scramblings and a bit of bush bashing at some overgrown sections. Tracks expected to be wet, muddy and slippery in parts.
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📸 WHAT TO EXPECT:
🚶Let’s explore Central Coast on all day adventure. This is an enjoyable walk with mixture of local roads, reserves, fire trails, bush tracks, temperate rainforest and lookouts with abundance wildlife.
🚶‍♂️ From Lisarow station, we’ll begin our adventure on a local roads towards our first photo stop - Mt Elliott and St Johns Lookouts with a great view of lower Central Coast. Refer attached photos.
🚶‍♂️ After byo lunch break and photo session, we’ll head towards Katandra Reserve and Rumbalara Reserve.
🚶We’ll continue our adventure along the bush tracks and tranquil temperate rainforest to Gosford station for our return journey home.
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⚠️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ⚠️
📝 DISCLAIMER:
Attending this event is voluntarily at your own risk. Organiser/s accepts no liability of any kind including injuries, accidents, misadventure etc during and after this event.
For full disclosure on Public Waiver, please refer to Meetup Terms and Conditions and the front page of this group on ‘About Us’.
✅ You must assess your own fitness and ability before participating in this event.
✅ You are responsible for looking after your own health, safety and belongings.
✅ You must adhere and follow the instructions from your organiser/s at all times during this event.
✅ You must take personal accountability for your own choices, actions and/or misadventure. If you’re not sticking with the group or getting lost during the walk, you’re responsible for finding your own way out. The group DO NOT wait for you!
✅ You must also take care not to put other people at risk.
✅ Keep well back from cliff edges at all times, especially when taking photos.
❎ NO facilities or cafes on the trails, so please come well prepared.
❎ No smoking on the walk including during photo stops and lunch break.
✅ If you’re bringing a guest/s under 18 years old, please let me know by TEXT message for confirmation.
✅ Please be mindful and respectful to members and guest/s from diverse backgrounds. This is not a dating group. Please do not ask inappropriate questions regarding marital status, sexual orientation etc.
✅ If something’s come up, please Edit your RSVP to ‘Not Going’ asap at least by 7pm the day before. It’s only take a second!
❎ Late cancellation or No Show would not be tolerated. You will forfeit the opportunity to join my future events!
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🎒WHAT TO BRING:
👕 Comfortable outfit for the weather preferably hiking gear. Jeans or cotton t-shirt may not be suitable for this walk.
🥾 Waterproof hiking boots or shoes highly recommended.
💦 At least 2L of WATER, Hydralyte or sports energy drinks, snacks or PACKED LUNCH, hat, sunscreen and hand sanitiser.
⛑ Basic First Aid Kit and a raincoat just in case of wet weather.

📝 This is a great article for tips on preparation for Day Walk Skill & Gear.
Bushwalk Skills 101:
https://www.bushwalk.com/article/8398

💵 GRATUITY:
$5 CASH per person for this event to be collected at the start of the walk. Please bring correct change on the day to speed up the meet and greet process.
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🚊 Check Opal Trip Planner for public transport services, weekend trackwork etc.
https://transportnsw.info/

🚗 Carpark at the station near the entry/exit.
🏃‍♂️ Please leave home with plenty of time and arrive promptly. If you’re running late, we don’t wait!
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✍️ I will update further information during mid week on weather forecast, train schedule from Central etc. Please check updates on comments section. So relax! 😉

📲 Any questions or concerns, please send me a TEXT message instead to avoid any confusion with unnecessary updates on comments section.

Note that I do not answer calls from unknown phone numbers.

Norra 😎
📱0405038557 (TEXT only)