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Theory Friday 7.30 PM face to face
PRACTICAL Sunday 8.30 AM All Day

This is the equivalent of an MJOC trip "staycation".

If you haven‘t heard of Tourist Drive 2 - I wouldn‘t be surprised!

It‘s not well advertised, but there are relics remaining of the Tourist Drive 2 badges peppered through out Melbourne.

It tracks from Williamstown to Warrandyte, following the Yarra on the closest roads it can, passing a number of iconic Melbourne sites and streets.

This will be a cruisey trip - stopping at a couple of interesting spots along the way (TBD) and could be ideal for kids/dogs that can stand to be in the car for some traffic.

With a trip like this, there is high potential for getting lost, but I have a secret weapon - I‘ve mapped out the entire route into a Google Maps format that can be shared! Between that and UHF radios, we should be able to navigate the lights and other vehicles on our journey.

Theory Friday 7.30 PM face to face
PRACTICAL Sunday 8.30 AM All Day

Our June Members meeting will be at 7:30pm on Tuesday 25th June, 2024.

Stuart Gibson will be giving a short spiel on his 2025 Desert adventure that has the following tagline:
Australian Geographic says there are 10 named deserts in Australia. On this trip, we will cross all of those deserts!
This is a massive undertaking, which has never been done before! A ridiculous amount of time and energy has been poured into the planning and given Stuart has already accomplished many Simpson desert trips, this is surely going to be a once in a lifetime experience!

Satphone Shop will be presenting a "Satellite 101" session and will be providing all members who register on the link below with a free show-bag gift:
https://www.mjoc.org.au/handlers/celinks.ashx?id=15709

Satphone Shop Presentation Agenda:
- Demystify satellite phones
- Different satellite networks, how they operate & their differences
- Airtime, unscramble the options. Which one is right for you?
- Satellite phone models, what’s available?
- Satellite messengers, what do they do exactly?
- Starlink – What is it & will it do everything when travelling remote?
- Other products for remote communications
- Great opportunity to ask questions to the expert panel.

Satphone shop will also be providing over $1000 worth of merchandise for the raffle!

This is sure to be another great presentation, so please come along either in person or via zoom!

The meeting will be held in our normal venue at 21A Electra Avenue Ashwood. As per normal Pizza and drinks will be available from 7:00pm. Please join for some very interesting presentations and general socialising!

This MJOC event is being run over 3 separate trips. You are welcome to book on all 3 trips or only one. For this first trip we will explore Lake Mungo the Minindee Lakes, Silverton and Broken Hill. This first stage is suitable for camper trailers, however, trailers are not suitable on the second stage.

This MJOC event is being run over 3 separate trips. You are welcome to book on all 3 trips or only one. For this first trip we will explore Lake Mungo the Minindee Lakes, Silverton and Broken Hill. This first stage is suitable for camper trailers, however, trailers are not suitable on the second stage.

This MJOC event is being run over 3 separate trips. You are welcome to book on all 3 trips or only one. For this second trip we will explore the Flinders Ranges. This second stage is NOT suitable for camper trailers.

This MJOC event is being run over 3 separate trips. You are welcome to book on all 3 trips or only one. For this second trip we will explore the Flinders Ranges. This second stage is NOT suitable for camper trailers.

This MJOC event is being run over 3 separate trips. You are welcome to book on all 3 trips or only one. For this third trip we will visit Nilpena, the Farina Ruins, Lake Eyre Sth, Coward Springs, the Pink Roadhouse in Oodnadatta, Dalhousie Springs, Mt Dare, Lambert‘s Centre and Coober Pedy..

This MJOC event is being run over 3 separate trips. You are welcome to book on all 3 trips or only one. For this third trip we will visit Nilpena, the Farina Ruins, Lake Eyre Sth, Coward Springs, the Pink Roadhouse in Oodnadatta, Dalhousie Springs, Mt Dare, Lambert‘s Centre and Coober Pedy..

MJOC Trip Leader Training Weekend
Theory Monday 15th Evening - Practical Camp Out Saturday 20th July Come Home Sunday 21st July PM

Volunteer weekend for our annual working bee to clean up 15 mile hut Heading up Saturday - collecting firewood on the way, hopefully finding snow to drive in Camp overnight - enjoying a camp fire Sunday will be the working bee - clearing around the hut - digging ditches - cleaning up inside the hut - collecting stacking and filling the wood area Bring Bruch cutters, chainsaws (if certified) shovels, cleaning gear Saturday Dinner Sunday -Breakfast and lunch will be provided If wish to just come sunday very welcome.

MJOC Trip Leader Training Weekend
Theory Monday 15th Evening - Practical Camp Out Saturday 20th July Come Home Sunday 21st July PM

Assist Narbeview with Annual Maintenance tasks These include Cleaning out the wombat shelters Assistance with flooring for the new rooms Clearing tracks and grass cutting aqt the wombat release site Lunch and dinner will be provided on Saturday 24th Breakfast on 25th Bring Own drinks and morning and afternoon tea to share gloves , masks , shovels, maddock brushcutters, chainsaws this is important assistance to Shelley and Rod in keeping there shelter running there will be time for animal feeding and cuddles during the weekend Camping available on site or at Rob sharps place Meeting at Shell Buxton at 9am 24/2/24

Assist Narbeview with Annual Maintenance tasks These include Cleaning out the wombat shelters Assistance with flooring for the new rooms Clearing tracks and grass cutting aqt the wombat release site Lunch and dinner will be provided on Saturday 24th Breakfast on 25th Bring Own drinks and morning and afternoon tea to share gloves , masks , shovels, maddock brushcutters, chainsaws this is important assistance to Shelley and Rod in keeping there shelter running there will be time for animal feeding and cuddles during the weekend Camping available on site or at Rob sharps place Meeting at Shell Buxton at 9am 24/2/24

MJOC First Aid Course and CPR update

We‘ll cross all 10 of Australia‘s named deserts (according to Wikipedia) including the Simpson, Tanami, Great Sandy, Gibson, Little Sandy and Great Victoria deserts. As well as some famous Simpson tracks we‘ll do the Tanimi Track, the Canning Stock Route, a portion of the Anne Beadell "Highway" and the Connie Sue "Highway", Twighlight Cove and a small portion of the Baxter Cliffs.

We‘ll cross all 10 of Australia‘s named deserts (according to Wikipedia) including the Simpson, Tanami, Great Sandy, Gibson, Little Sandy and Great Victoria deserts. As well as some famous Simpson tracks we‘ll do the Tanimi Track, the Canning Stock Route, a portion of the Anne Beadell "Highway" and the Connie Sue "Highway", Twighlight Cove and a small portion of the Baxter Cliffs.