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Originally Posted by Amunous
just eager lol ive heard you can get lost at the camp ground if you dont rock up as a group. plus i like to know what im doing at least a few days in advance rather than the night before lol
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Hey Michael.
Why don’t we organise a meet on Friday morning now and then anyone else who may be interested can jump on board as it gets closer?
I know at least one other person has messaged me and said they’d be interested in meeting up along the way, so it might be good if we can formalise some plans.
Building on a previous post, Richmond seems to be a fairly central place I think most people would be passing through. This would be traveling via Bells Line of Roads & Castlereagh, which is directly on the route that is suggested by google maps for traveling to Ilford from both the
Central Coast and also from
Sydney.
The alternative route gmaps suggests is via Castlereagh Highway which is parallel but south of Richmond, if anyone wants to go an alternate route and still meet up, post here and we can amend the plans. Otherwise, does Richmond seem a convenient meeting place? Any others want to mention interest at this stage? It’d just be a matter of meeting up at a convenient location and heading up to Ilford as a group so we can stick together once we arrive and ensure we’re not too spread out on the field.
We’d also need to decide a meeting time. According to the info pack, the opening address is at 2:30PM, so I suspect we’ll want to arrive at Wiruna well before that, with enough time to check in and register (registration tent), drive to and setup our scopes on the observing field, drive back and setup our tents on the camping area (correct me if my assumptions are wrong).
It’s 150km and approximately two hours travel time from Richmond to Ilford, so perhaps suggesting a meeting time of 10AM at Richmond? Is that a good idea? Anyone with more knowledge/experience traveling to the SPSP, please feel free to suggest changes/alternatives.
Patrick
