Hello Murray Valley Bushwalkers members
No doubt you have seen the photos of the canoeing program launch last Tuesday evening October 18. It was a fantastic evening with 10 members (more than a quarter of our membership) paddling followed by a bbq in the park.
We are paddling the next two thursday evenings - October 27th and November 3rd. Previous paddling experience is desirable but not essential. We can teach you what you need to know. The cost will be $10 and there will be a byo bbq after the event. For further details you can view this event on the club website.
You can use the booking enquiry link on the right of this page or contact Tony by any of the ways listed in the event details if you wish to join us.
At the after canoe bbq we discussed the idea of promoting our club on Facebook particularly with the idea of attracting young people to our club. It was suggested that I send with this message some links to bushwalking clubs using Facebook. The first one I found was the NSW Confederation with which we are affiliated. Hans then did some investigating and wrote
"To find out how other clubs are using facebook, use the search in facebook. I knew Albury Wodonga table tennis is on face book, so I searched them first. Then I searched "bushwalking club" and came up with 5 or 6 entries. Werribee bushwalking club just joined facebook, so not much to be seen. Bundaberg bushwalking club seems to have been on facebook for a long time, and I like the way they use facebook. I would say that we'd better open a facebook account asap, especially since there are so few bushwalking clubs on facebook!"
So if you have any opinion one way or the other regarding our club establishing a Facebook site please let me get back to me with your thoughts.
Hope to have you join us for paddling next Thursday
PS I still havent worked out a way of getting rid of that stupid {Disarmed} part of the email subject which is meant to soothe your concerns about the safety of this email message!
regards
Tony