2018-07-30 Wambina Nature Reserve

Trekked out VKFF-2014 today. It was a pretty hard slog; in all of getting there the trek up and down the hill five times (I'll explain later) Contacts First off, I had Bill message me that he only had 45 minutes left in a very rare park, so I intended to grab the magnetic loop …

2018-07-28 Lake Macquarie State Conservation Area

VKFF-1340 is a strange "park". It's dotted in many discrete sections around the Lake. I drove up the Pacific Highway to just past Montefiore Rd, which looks to be closest to Catherine Hill Bay. There was a gate into a slightly raised area that I could set up in. Turns out I was about 144m …

2018-07-23 Tuggerah Nature Reserve

Headed out to do the park that is actually closest to home but I had not yet done as I couldn't see an easy way in. The park reference is VKFF-2005, and the grid locator is QF56rq. Gerard pointed me at a spot where he was able to pull over that was inside the park …

2018-07-19/20/21 Dharug National Park

This activation took me three consecutive days. I'll put them all in to the one blog entry. July 19 Well the plan today was to go to Iron Bark Picnic Area in Popran National Park. What put pain to that was a very steep 21m rise in the road about 600m from the park as …

2018-07-11 Blue Gum Hills Regional Park

I activated VKFF-1778 yesterday. You may note it's close proximity to Pambalong State Conservation Area (VKFF-2697). There is a reason I did this park. When I was at Tuggerah State Conservation Area (VKFF-1383) the day before, I needed my tent peg mallet to put some pegs in to guy the star picket holding the squid …

2018-07-10 Tuggerah State Conservation Area

Today I activated VKFF-1383. While pretty local to me, this one had presented a bit of a challenge as I couldn't see a good spot to get in and work from. I was initially considering the gate on Geoffrey Rd, but it is still close to houses and power lines. Gerard mentioned that he went …

2018-07-09 Tingira Heights Nature Reserve

Headed out to a new park yesterday, VKFF-2741. As such, I was the first activator. Given that I grew up a stones throw from here, that's only reasonable First thing that you may notice is that the quality of the photos is down a little. It's not that I forgot the Digital SLR camera. I …

2018-07-08 Pambalong Nature Reserve

Today I headed out to activate a new park - VKFF-2697 Pambalong Nature Reserve. I arrived around 2:45pm. but ended up spending an hour trying to find a place along Cedar Hill Dr that would be suitable. No such luck. Power lines all along the side of the road on the park side and barbed …

2018-07-06 Werakata State Conservation Area

So today I headed out to VKFF-1391. Today I remembered to take my water and I packed a lunch as well. A very quick start, 21 contacts in the first hour, then it got really slow. I got there, thanks to all who came back to me, especially those who came back on multiple bands. …

2018-07-03 Jilliby State Conservation Area

Had a discussion with Gerard VK2IO about where he activated this park, as there are not a lot of easy to get to places in here. Ended up having to install google earth on the iPad to make sure that I was inside the park (I was, by about 30-40m). Turns out that I ended …