A festival to celebrate the season of Wurrkeng

‘Walks with Nature’ group invites you to join us in the bush to celebrate the season of Wurrkeng.

Thursday 14th July – Sunday 17th July, 2022

at Litchfield Park special purpose campground.

(Last weekend of the school holidays)

This place in Litchfield Park provides a comfortable bush camp, fire places to keep warm at this cool time of year under a sky full of stars.

It is a wonderful area we get to know more intimately every year, as we visit for some of our festivals. We take bush walks, sing together, crafts and night story dramas with puppets or ourselves dressed in character and we have time to share together as a community. We will do some bush weaving and dyeing of fibres, felting, lino prints, painting, clay modelling, etc.

If you have some skills to share please alert Di and please save onion skins to bring for a dye, also any old pots to boil up the dyes and some fabric or a t-shirt or a pillow cases to dye or print. Thanks.

You enter the special purpose camp facility at Florence Falls –  by the dummy locked gate opposite the Buley rock hole track. (first arrivals will find key for kitchen and store room in the sink in the disabled toilet room)

For newcomers to this place, bring all your eating and cooking utensils.  There is a small gas fridge but you are better off bringing an esky with big ice blocks.  Dinners, we usually each prepare something and put it all out as a smorgasbord to have as a shared meal. Morning tea, bring fruit to cut and share. Breakfast and lunches cater for yourselves.

Bring a coloured cloth for each child to use for the dramatized stories and a candle or lantern for the dinner tables.

Camping is easy on cut lawns, with showers and toilets close by.

Bring clothes to cover your skin from mozzies at night and to keep warm. Water bottles & shoes for bush walking, and a basket or a bag to collect bush treasures.

The Rangers do not take our rubbish away so please bring your own bucket and bags to take away your own rubbish.  We don’t mind taking the food scraps for our chooks, but can’t take other rubbish away. Please bring individual bags to dispose of your own nappies so they don’t stay in the kitchen or bathrooms for flies to gather, and please take them away when you leave, thanks.

Parks and Wildlife charge for camping is – $12  / adult /day and $6 / each day for children over 5years.

We collect the fees at the camp to send into Parks and Wildlife.

We ask a small charge of $10 per day per family for materials we supply for daily activities –

( please ensure you find the money box on the kitchen counter, even if you are only staying for the day. Sometimes I find people have forgotten to add their name and pay for the day activities and then I am out of pocket, thanks)

If you have any queries please email:  Di Lucas  dlucas@bigpond.net.au