How exciting to walk the most popular Camino pilgrimage route in Spain the Camino Frances. This route starts in St Jean Pied de Port, France. It is the busiest and best-supported route and Santiago de Compostela, Spain is the destination. Our guest speaker, Dr John Montagner said “there are many Camino routes; you can walk, cycle, or even ride these walking paths, but most pilgrims walk”. John’s talk was one to inspire us to walk…
What stars that shone brightly last Friday morning as we developed our first video for club membership. Elaine Hart was the interviewer and interviewees were John Pearman, Carol Jeffs and Peter Rixon. Elaine employed an informal approach as the three interviewees sat on the couch and were asked questions regarding their reason for joining Rotary. As expected three people gave three different reasons. Yet the underlying theme was to be of service to those who…
Tony has taken the time and effort to summarise some of the key points of this year’s district conference and he shares them here
An adventure of a life time, expressed energetically and with a heap of enthusiasm was Rowan as he detailed his walk along Larapinta Trail. The Larapinta trail adventure was presented with vibrant energy and heaps of enthusiasm supported with striking photos. Rowan Huxtable gave a great description of his walk of a lifetime along this beautiful track. The Larapinta Trail follows the spine of the West MacDonnell range and has some challenging stages, passing over…
WOW, what a conference. I have only been to two District Conferences before and found them both a ‘bit ordinary’ however this year had three exceptional keynote speakers:
Family & friends along to listen to his presentation on their walking trip along the Iarapinta Trail which started & ended near Alice Springs. The trail follows along the MacDonnell Ranges. (They went with Treck Tours Australia). A good looking cheer squad & some amazing photos. L to R cyclists & fellow walkers Pip Aiken & Jan Kerr plus Rowan & Theresa.
Jean Thompson is a member of the Rotary club of Corrimal. Jean along with her colleagues has recently returned from a visit to Nepal to review the progress of the financial support given to the poor after the earthquake 2015. With dismay we listened to Jean with dismay of the terrible effects from the earthquake that rocked Nepal’s remote area. A sense of hardship that these effected people can be seen from several photos presented. …
A powerful team braved the rain on Mt Keira to help with Cleanup Australia Day on Sunday 5th March
We cleaned up at the summit lookout, above the hairpin bend, and at Robertsons lookout.
