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First Aid, fun, facts, food
Welcome to the First Aid course for Illawarra Ramblers cyclists, walkers and any paddlers who missed the course held earlier this year. Join us for an exciting day of First Aid, fun and facts! Date: Friday July 18, 2025 Time: 9.30am - 1.30pm Location: Shellharbour...
Plastic Free Cleanup Day
Fiona Nettings at Wollongong Council has contacted the Illawarra Ramblers paddling group to ask if we could participate in the Plastic Free July cleanup on 3rd July. The request is to pick up rubbish on the shores of Gooseberry and Hooka Islands - part of our...
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO MEMBERS
Please check SPAM in your email site regularly. We are having an issue with our Renewal Notices going to SPAM and hence members are not aware that they are unfinancial when they do not renew. This is a recent problem that we are trying to overcome and we want you to...
Winter Newsletter Volume 34 No.2
President’s Observations This week’s big wet has been a real dampener across NSW not sparing our activities, with a series of cancellations occurring. Please spare a thought for those who are much worse off. Just before the cold and wet came I...
New Guidelines for NSW National Park Camping Fees
NSW National Parks have just completed a survey of interested parties on the adjustment of fees for camping. Their premise is that “the current camping fee system has not been reviewed for many years and is not designed to manage issues experienced in modern...
First Aid Course for Walkers
Following the successful First Aid course for the Paddlers, Rambler walkers are being invited to submit their names for a First Aid Course to be held on the 11th or 18th July. The Group would pay 50% of the cost. The intent would be to do a general First Aid Course in...
Bucket List Tick
Having joined the Ramblers in 2009, I have been privileged to hear many stories of walks from the past that were serious, funny and sometimes both. Whenever we have been able to see Mount Carrialoo or walked past the turn off, the stories of ropes, cracks between...
Enquiry into e-bikes
Review of NSW State Government Response to NSW Upper House Inquiry into e-Scooters, e-Bikes and other e-Mobility devices With the Illawarra Ramblers being one of the very few grass-roots participants in this inquiry we had been earnestly anticipating the NSW...
Have you been Spammed?!
There have been some problems with Gmail where emails from the club have been placed in Spam folders. This has caused a problem when reminders to pay membership dues are not being received in inboxes. Please check your folders to see if this has occurred. Apparently,...
Flora Newsome
Dear Ramblers, Some of you may have heard or seen the funeral notice for our long time very active recent member Flora Newsome. For more than 20 years Flora led walks and trips away sometimes to far flung places. Some members today fondly recall the 1997 New Zealand...