4WDNSW&ACT will provide all further information directly to attendees – queries may be addressed to him on 0409668175 and at vplands@4wdnow.com
20230204 UPDATE: Further particulars / clarifications for Green Gulley
At this date there are a dozen advising Green Gulley weekend attendance excluding HK4WD (currently 3), NPWS personnel and 4WDNSW&ACT personnel.
Porta-Loos will be on our (separate from public campers) site. The Saturday lunch and evening meal is being catered by4WDNSW&ACT funded by an expiring government grant. Water may be available but not guaranteed at this time. In all other respects attendees are to be camp self-sufficient.
The (Sunday) excursion(s) to the Warragamba catchment are directly managed by the Water Authority who have prescribed six as the number of vehicles at any time. There are several possible means of ensuring those that wish to participate can do so. The trip is a round circuit, meaning commencing at point A and returning to point A. Options may include doubling up in vehicles or running more than one journey. Running more than one journey (eg Saturday or duplicating on Sunday) takes staff to water authority required attendance on the excursion instead of continuing with rehabilitation and tree planting work so is not a preferred option.
“Go / No go” – The working bee is 95% certain to proceed irrespective of weather as it is desired by NPWS to proceed. The catchment excursion is subject to water authority dictate and subjective and notice of “no go” may not be much in advance of the proposed trip(s).
20230129 UPDATE: The 4WDNSW&ACT January newsletter (including Green Gulley info and a better map) has been circulated via gmail to all members today.
Green Gulley Volunteer NPWS work weekend
Thus far in only two lines I have lied to you thrice. The dates for this event are February 25 & 26 which are not the gazetted Clean-Up Australia Day dates, the event has nothing whatever to do with Clean Up Australia organisation and the expectation for work really only applies to the Saturday – but READ ON!!
Those assiduous and compulsive consumers of information may be aware, or recall, that the Green Gulley Rehabilitation weekend has been proposed on three previous occasions, each cancelled through wet or other natural phenomena which might include Covid19. There is also the not remote chance the proposed February weekend will suffer the same fate if today (Friday) is anything to go by.
If you do not have immediate recall of all of the details I attach a blurb received regarding the event which will also be included in the imminently to be issued monthly 4WDNSW&ACT newsletter for January (which latter will be either circulated or posted at TeamApp).
I am informed Green Gulley, a NPWS area requiring our efforts to somewhat rehabilitate and the restricted Warragamba catchment area to be the guided tour on the Sunday are especially scenic and normally completely inaccessible areas.
I am further informed (by 4WDNSW&ACTinc) that there is a keenness on behalf of that organisation to have the urban 4WD clubs participate and to some degree associate with other like-minded clubs that may be in attendance.
While free steak knives may not be on offer, the Saturday evening feed is catered and for this reason the organisers would like advance knowledge of how many are likely to attend.
In addition, an enquiry is with them regarding their stated limit on vehicles (5#) permitted on the Sunday excursion.
Not only those star attractions provided to induce you to come and work for nothing, but further and better information may be available to make contact with NPWS personnel with whom we can demonstrate multiple great reasons why we at HK4WD should have unrestricted access to everywhere in the world!
As matters stand, committed to the prior weekend at Wallerawang and somewhat limited physically (beyond making pots of tea or BBQs) I am unlikely to attend this function, but that may change.
Cheers
Alan Croker
Secretary, Hornsby Kuringai Four Wheel Drive Club Inc
PS: Keep watching – there will be edits to this listing
1) the map below is only vaguely correct indeed, almost completely false – see also attachments and the circulated blurbs

Location

Megalong Valley NSW 2785, Australia