Name: 🌻🥾🧺LET’S HIKE VENMAN CIRCUIT, EASY WALK IN VENMAN BUSHLAND AND PICNIC! 🧺🍉🍒
Start: 2024-09-21T08:15:00+10:00
End: 2024-09-21T10:15:00+10:00

**PLEASE RSVP ONLY FOR YOURSELF, INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN THE GROUP.**

**Details** **of the hike:**
Easy walk through bushland. The hike is a circuit relatively easy, about 8km long, allow about 2 hours. The level of fitness required is to cope with the length of the walk, about 8 km.
The hike starts at the end of Venman Road, just off West Mount Cotton Road. Let's meet at 8:15am to start the hike at 8:30am.

**What to bring:** must have plenty of water 2 litres, snacks
Hiking gear: a medium hiking backpack, long trousers and shirt with long sleeve are preferable, hiking ankle supportive boots; first aid kit; insect repellent (for environmental reasons is better to use the roll on and the cream; AVOID THE SPRAY); hat, sunscreen, gloves; light raincoat; working torch; tissues; phone; walking poles if you like to use them.
Consider to pack some extra clothes and leave them in the car. Pack some clean footwear and socks.
Money for the coffee shop and your inner happiness.
There is a collection of two dollars donation to help run the group.

**Directions**: Please allow enough time to reach the destination. From Brisbane drive on the Pacific Mwy; take the exit 30 and drive on the Beenleigh Redland Bay Rd. Turn left into California Creek Rd; turn left into West Mount Cotton Rd and turn left into Venman Rd. Drive to the end of Venman Road.

**Lifts**: if you would like offer a lift or ask for a lift, please put your request on the comments with the place you intend to travel from. Consider to offer $15.00 to the driver as a contribution, each passenger, depending on the distance. You may choose the most convenient location for you and the driver as a pick up point. It may be easier if passengers and driver exchange phone numbers for organizational purpose.
Please make sure to have with you a change of clothes and clean footwear as a courtesy to your driver. Carry with you spare plastic bags to put away muddy boots or wet clothes.

**After the hike:** Celebration of the spring with a picnic. Bring something nice to share, something special. There are tables and benches at the reserve, but bring your chair. Let's use ceramic and metal tablewere in order to reduce wastage and plastic. I am going to bring a nice cake to for this special occasion. I am try to cook some fettuccine as well! 😀

**Phone reception and Internet:** Plan your trip in advance and it is a good idea to carry a map of the area in your car. Consider that if your GPS runs on Internet it may lose the phone signal. The phone coverage may be also poor and may be difficult to send and receive messages.

**Contacts**: Cris on 0409574788 and Terry, contactable via Meetup.

**Important**
Please read the description and rsvp if the activity is suitable for you and if you are genuinely interested in this walk. Make sure to adjust your rsvp two days in advance if you realise you no longer can attend.
We walk as a group all the time. If you need to leave early please inform the Organisers.
If you would like to bring friends, ask them to join the Group so they can be nominated for all the interesting activities the group has to offer and they can have all the necessary information.
Please check the comments and all the update from the Organisers. Be mindful of any change especially if your phone automatically put the events in the calendar.
Make sure your boots are clean. Take all your rubbish with you, including used tissues, apple cores, egg shells, orange and banana peels. If you see rubbish on the trail please collect it and dispose it responsibly.
Do not disturb or interfere with wildlife. Do not disturb rocks. Do not remove plants or anything from National Parks or Natural Reserves. Stay on tracks all time. Do not use shortcut to avoid erosion.

**Personal Responsibility Principle**: This Group is not a registered association or official club. Principally it is a Group with a wide range of activities and events with organisers designed to get likeminded people together as a group, completing various activities with nature conservation and safety in mind. The Meetup group and Organisers cannot be held responsible for any accidents or injuries that may occur during the event or as a result of the event in the future. By attending this meetup you accept and acknowledge that you are responsible for your own safety. It is up to individual members to determine if they have suitable robust good health to undertake the walk.

(Photo and description by Terry and Cris)

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Please read the description to make sure the activity is suitable for you. We walk as a group all the time, if you need to move away please inform the Organisers. 

🌻🥾🧺LET’S HIKE VENMAN CIRCUIT, EASY WALK IN VENMAN BUSHLAND AND PICNIC! 🧺🍉🍒