This is planned to start around 7pm on Thursday night, April 29, 2021. Note that this time it’ll be winter, so it’ll be dark by this time, and obviously colder than summer. Feel free to come earlier, set up, and have a meal before we get under way. I’ll probably be there from the night before.

PLEASE NOTE

  • If you want to eat, you’ll have to bring your own food.
  • If you want to sleep away from bugs and out of the cold, you’ll have to bring your own tent.
  • If you don’t want to sleep on the ground or in a car, you’ll have to bring a mattress and/or sleeping bag.
  • This is my list of things to bring. You don’t have to bring everything that’s on the list, and you might want to bring something different, but it serves as a pretty good guide.
  • It’s worth drawing up a meal plan (what you’re going to eat, and when) to make sure that you have a reasonably balanced, reasonable amount of food.
  • It’s worth bringing earplugs, because it’s a public campsite.
  • If there are items you can’t get, talk to me, and we’ll work something out. I have spares of most things.

WHEN

From 7pm on Thursday, April 29 until early Sunday afternoon, May 2. You will not get back for a morning church service.

WHERE

The camp site will be here: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=-33.05769,151.33405

If you’re coming from the Central Coast, follow these directions:

  • Get on the freeway, heading north.
  • Take the Mandalong Rd/B53 exit towards Morisset/Cooranbong
  • Keep left, follow signs for Mandalong Rd/Mandalong and merge onto Mandalong Rd, drive for 1.7 km
  • Turn right onto Deaves Rd, drive for 3.8 km
  • Turn left onto Freemans Dr, drive for 1.0 km
  • Turn left onto Martinsville Rd, drive for 4.5 km
  • Turn left onto Watagan Rd, drive for 3.6 km
  • Continue onto Martinsville Hill Rd, drive for 3.5 km
  • Slight right onto Watagan Forest Rd (unsealed), drive for about 3.9 km, eventually passing signs for The Pines picnic area, Olney Headquarters, and The Pines campground.
  • Turn right at the signs for the Casuarina and Turpentine camping area. If you’re getting directions from Google Maps, it’ll tell you to go past this … don’t. Turn right at the signs for the Casuarina and Turpentine camping area.
  • Follow the signs to the left, to the Casuarina camping area.
  • Follow the road most of the way to the end, and you should find me. There will be a 4m x 4m blue dome-shaped canopy somewhere near.

I’d encourage you go through the Daily Prayer, well, daily. Not as a liturgy, but as a guide to where the Holy Spirit wants to take you for the day.