Tour & Outing Events Coordinator – Contact Margaret Ayre
Sydney Cricket Ground with On Course Tours
Thursday, 1 August 2024
Cost $100.00 pp due NOW
Our next outing is to the Sydney Cricket Ground. with On Course coach tours.
The tour includes a conducted tour of the cricket ground followed by a 2-course lunch at the Paddington RSL then home via the Sydney Fish Markets.
There are still plenty of seats available. Love to see some new members join us on the outings, we usually have fun filled days out.
Please see flyer included in the June Newsletter
Tulip Tops Tour
2 -3 October 2024.
This tour is currently full and there are members on a waiting list
Total cost $590 pp twin share $100.00 pp single supplement & $100.00 per person deposit DUE NOW
See brochure included in the June Newsletter for more information including costs.
Don’t forget your medical cards 2nd -3rd October 2024. On- Course Coach Tours have reserved 20 rooms at the Briars Country Lodge Burradoo for Wednesday, 2 October 2024.
At present we have the 20 rooms fully booked, and already have names on the waiting list.
For more information, please see flyer in the June Newsletter or ask me. I do have copies of the itinerary.
Tulip Top Gardens
Magnificent Tulip Top gardens capturing the essence of tulips, flowers, fauna and surrounding landscape whilst classical music plays ambient in the background.
Facilities are excellent with clean accessible bathrooms. Plenty of comfortable seating throughout the gardens that are well spaced. Activities include famous artists as well as great musicians. A wonderful atmosphere for families, couples and elderly persons. Thank you to all involved in the creation of the Tulip Top Gardens as you create magic through flowers.
Corbett Gardens will be closed as from the 30th September. There will still be lots more to see.
Retford Park Historical Home
Retford Park is located on Gundungurra Country and has a European history extending back to land grants made to Edward Riley Snr by Governor Macquarie in 1821. The grand house was built in 1887 by merchant and stockbreeder, Samuel Hordern and his wife Jane nee Booth, and designed by Sydney architect, Albert Bond.
In 1964, James Fairfax AC, former chairman of John Fairfax Ltd (later known as Fairfax Media), bought Retford Park and transformed the agricultural property into a gentleman’s estate. Mr Fairfax was a well-known champion of the arts and generous philanthropist. He always believed that Retford Park should be preserved for the enjoyment and benefit of future generations and in 2016 he gifted his historic home and its magnificent gardens to the National Trust (NSW).
Any members having a National Trust membership please bring your card on the day for free admission.
Banana Cabana Primate Sanctuary
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Cost $60.00 per person. Pay by 31 October. (Limited to 30-40 people)
This is a three hour car share tour of the sanctuary including High Tea.
“For 40 years Banana Cabana has been home to many monkeys retiring from Fauna Parks, Circus’s, Research Facilities and private ownership.
We hope visitors to our Sanctuary will understand our residents may not be overly active, or looking quite as good as they did in their younger years, but they have done their bit in their former careers to educate and entertain us and can now sit back and enjoy retirement in a tranquil and peaceful environment.
At Banana Cabana we do not breed or trade animals, nor do we purposely seek to acquire monkeys of a different species to enhance our collection. Our monkeys stay with us for the rest of their lives, and we commit to providing the ultimate for each of them as an individual.
In consideration of our monkeys, we limit the days and times our Sanctuary accepts guests, and every guest is accompanied by a qualified keeper at all times.
Your support in visiting our Sanctuary is truly, sincerely, appreciated, and enables us to continue to care for our beautiful residents.
Visitors experience a fully escorted keeper tour and personal introduction to each of our residents. Keepers provide guests with information about each monkey’s unique history, the natural history and current conservation status of the particular species and the extraordinary ethnoornithological connection between human and non-human primates. Visitors can hand feed some of the monkeys through the wire and are invited after the tour to relax with complementary light refreshments (tea/coffee/soft drinks/biscuits/scones etc.) overlooking the Sanctuary and gardens.”
Proposed On Course Tour for next year
MURRAY RIVER CRUISE – see brochure in July newsletter
Cost per person is $3,775.00 which includes the 5 night cruise, all meals (except one lunch), return airfare, accommodation & touring. Single Supplement is $1,495.00.
The River Murray is Australia’s most famous river and there is no better way to experience some of its massive meandering 3,700 kilometres than at a leisurely pace on the Proud Mary on our 5 night cruise. It ranks with the Mississippi, the Nile and the Amazon and boasts some of the most spectacular and rugged Australian landscapes. The River Murray is home to an array of abundant wildlife and birdlife that will be seen throughout the entire cruise.
Departing Sydney and flying into Adelaide we will then have a brief tour and lunch before being transferred to the Murray Bridge to board the Proud Mary. The vessel caters for a maximum of only 36 passengers and provides the ideal environment for you to explore, experience, indulge and discover. The well-appointed bar, lounge and dining areas offer the perfect location for enjoying culinary delights while viewing the picturesque Australian scenery.
Highlights include:
- Adelaide City sights tour and Glenelg luncheon
- Daily nature based onshore excursions guided by an Ecologist & entertainment
- Small boat cruise taking in the River’s secluded lagoons and inlets
- Nocturnal Discovery tour under floodlight
- Swan Reach Museum and township
- Ngaut Ngaut Aboriginal Conservation area
- Final night 5 star accommodation in Adelaide
- Tour of Adelaide Hills, Mt Lofty and Hahndorf