8 days (7 nights) East Africa private Tour (Lake Nakuru, Maasai Mara, Serengeti & Ngorongora Safari) with Africa Flash MC Tours, a local based operator in Kenya. A more of an action tour that focuses on game drive, game viewing...) with massive time saved on traveling in car when compared with other tours. Itinerary can be tailored based on group interests. The tour covers the world famous Ngorongora Crater, Maasai Mara Game Reserve and Serengeti NP, some of the most renowned places for travelers.  

"Serengeti in Tanzania, characterised by the endless plains, acacia trees and puncturated by large stone kopjes presents an archetypal picture of a wild and remote Africa and supports an amazingly large number of wildlife. Animals present include lions, elephants, giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, zebras, wildebeests, leopards, cheetahs, Serengeti's essential features of climate, flora and fauna have barely changed in past million years."

Practicalities:

• Cost per person for a group of 7 people - US $2235 (AUD $3120)
• Limited of 7 people
• Deposit of 25% is required for booking
• Full payment to be paid a month prior to departure
• Closing date: 15 May (or until places taken)
• You must take out your own comprehensive travel insurance as ANB club insurance will not cover this trip

The itinerary is attached to this page, or email meiha_cheung@hotmail.com for a copy.

The Club Annual General Meeting, incorporating a special resolution to adopt a new club constitution, will be held in the Scholes room at the Woodstock Community Centre, Church Street, Burwood,  commencing at 9.30am.  All current financial members are welcome and encouraged to attend and vote on the special resolution and for a new Committee. Nomination forms for positions on the Club's Committee must be completed and received by the Club Secretary by Friday 28 June.

The AGM will be followed by the ever-popular annual photo competition and a 'bring a plate' sweet and savoury food competition; proceedings will conclude at 12:00.

This walk follows Darwin Track/ Under-Over Track and descends to the recently reopened Wentworth Pass via the Valley of the Waters Track.

Return via Slack Stairs and Grand Stairway.

Please provide membership number and mobile phone number on booking.

Come and join in our Committee meeting.

All members are welcome to contribute or just see how your organisation is run.

You'd never know, you might even want to become a committee member and that would be great.

Meeting will be held in Surry Hills, if any member wishes to attend, you must confirm attendance in advance.

6.30pm

The 'Street Photography 1930 - 1950's' exhibition showcases the mid-20th century commercial street photographers who were a familiar sight on Sydney's streets capturing everyday people as they strode by or stopped to pose.  Taken against the vibrant background of the city streets, these photographs captured candid moments in the lives of millions of people from uniformed servicemen and women to post-war migrants exploring their new city and young couples out for day on the town.

This extraordinary exhibition and largely unseen record of Sydney and its people, draws together photos from hundreds of private family albums and is a must to see.

Following the exhibition we will wander over to the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel for lunch.  When registering please include your member number and mobile phone number.

Mt Wilson map.

Dalpura Ridge is off Bell Line of road.

Significant off-track compponant,  mild exposure, use of ropes for climbing.

One of Jane Austen's most loved and moving tales as heroine Anne Elliot rekindles a lost romance.

Cost: Adults, $30.65 Concession, $25.65 (seniors, pensioners, full-time students)

Please book and pay no later than Thursday 27th June.

A circuit walk from Manly Wharf stopping at various points of interest including the Quarantine Station, view  points and former Artillary School. 

A short beach walk before ascending via bush tracks & fire trail to Warrah Lookout for superb water views of the Hawkesbury River mouth & Pittwater.

The walk is then mainly on fire trails with water views from the dry, rocky & open ridge line after the coastal cliffs above Patonga.

The last part of the walk is 3km. on urban streets to Woy Woy.

Enjoy a ferry trip from Brooklyn, morning tea at the island cafe and a walk around the quiet village on sealed roads, sans cars.

We will take a side trip to walk along Bradley's Beach and a short walk in bushland up to Kiparra Park, on the top of the island, for great views.

Come and join me on this walk around the city with scenic views of the harbour and colonial Sydney history.  We will be visiting Mrs Macquarie Chair, Botantical Gardens, The Rocks and Darling Harbour.

Off the beaten track in the Marramarra National Park, Smugglers Ridge offers scenic views down into the Marramarra creek, a tributry of Berowra Creek.  

First part of the walk is along a fire trail which is easy walking but does have a steep section at the end where we drop into the valley.  We will break for lunch at the campground before the climb back up along a pleasant bush track to the start. 

No public transport so we will need to carpool. We will met at Pennant Hills Station and it is a 30 min drive from there.  Last part of the road is a little bumpy so prefer to have cars with good clearance. 

As always, please provide your membership number, mobile and advise if you will be driving.  

The Bob Turner track affords easy access to the Colo River on a  well maintained track. From the Colo though we will follow the river upstream to Mailes cave. This section is all off track, but will have sections of foot pads along the way.

This will be a good opertunity to experience the Colo River gorge as well as some interesting rock hopping and bush scrambling.

The walk is a short distance from Gosford railway station on urban streets, then a mixture of bush tracks and fire trails.

Rhumbalara Reserve has larger than life bronze sculptures of early explorers such as John Eyre.

We will see a variety of trees, from Sydney Blue Gums, Blackbutt, Smooth-barked Apple, Ironbark & rainforest types, including Strangler Figs.

If we are lucky, the Green Catbird maycall, or be seen in the rainforest at Seymour Pond.

Other birds throughout the reserves areKookaburras, Rainbow Lorikeets, Eastern Rosellas, Black, Cockatoos and Magpies.

A murder disrupts a house party at Gulls Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian.

Who dunnit?

Will you solve the case before Agatha?

Cost: Adults $30.65 Concession $25.65 (pensioners, seniors, full-time students)

Please book and pay by no later than Thursday 29th August.

A comedy-thriller taking a dark look at political activism and posing the question: when does one person's resistance fighter become another person's terrorist?

Set in England in the 1970's at a time of government cuts, high unemployment, austerity measures and deregulation.

Cost: Adults $35 Concession $30 (pensioners, seniors)

Please book and pay by Thursday 19th September.

Sydney in the 1950's is revisited in this musical from Tom Finn.

It evokes feelings of joy and optimism reminiscing about Sydney in 1959 undergoing a cultural awakening, changing with the people who lived and loved there.

Cost: Adults $30.65 Concession $25.65 (pensioners, seniors, full-time students)

Please book and pay by Thursday 26th September.

As this will be the last performance at Kent St. it is bound to be popular and hence the early booking date.

When: Saturday, 30th November 2019 

Time: From 4:00pm to 8:00pm 

Where: Rhodes Memorial Park BBQ area, Brays Bay Reserve

A musical comedy about pursuing your dreams.

The Hoover family, dysfunctional and fractious, pack their beat-up Combi and embark on a cross-country journey from New Mexico to California, chasing the coveted title of "Little Miss Sunshine" in a children's beauty pageant.

Will this bid to change their luck succeed?

Cost: Adults $35 Concession $30 (pensioners, seniors)

Please book and pay by Thursday 14th November

I’ve booked to go on this 6-day guided walk and would love some familiar faces to join me. It’s one of the classic Australian bushwalks, through the heart of Tasmania’s World Heritage wilderness, from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair. It winds through dolerite mountains, alpine buttongrass plains, and temperate rainforest and takes in some of Tasmania’s most iconic scenery. Accommodation is in tents and three meals a day are supplied.

Practicalities:

• Tour is with Tasmanian Expeditions https://www.tasmanianexpeditions.com.au/North-West-Tasmania/Guided/The-Overland-Track
• Cost per person $2295. Includes hire of tent, backpack and camping gear
• All meals included, prepared by guides. Food drop offs along the way.
• Start and finish in Launceston
• Deposit of $400 is required for booking, full payment to be paid by 21 November
• You must take out your own comprehensive travel insurance as ANB club insurance will not cover this trip