🥓Members Breakfast🥚
@ Mangrove Creek Dam

Farewell🥶Winter
🌻Hello Spring 🌻

Z Car Club NSW invites members to attend a BBQ breakfast in this bush picnic area with stunning views of the Mangrove Creek Dam.
Food and cold drinks provided by the club. If you have special dietary requirements, please advise during registration.
BYO thermos if you want a hot drink. There are well maintained toilet facilities here.

There is no café at the picnic area – so grab your morning caffeine fix at your departure point.

COST:
Members: Free
Non-Members: $10   (or… join on the day)

2 Departure Points – Cowan & Wyong

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Departing Cowan

1 – Sydney Z’s – Pie In The Sky, Cowan – Depart 8:30am
Contact: Allan Lee – 0466 691 497

Arrive from 8:00am for 8:30 departure, via Old Pacific Hwy
Grab your morning coffee here and enjoy the stunning vista before departing for breakfast at Mangrove Creek Dam.
There is no coffee shop at the destination.

Head north from the parking area, and remain on the Pacific Hwy – Do Not Enter the Freeway!
Follow to end at Calga, 22km
⚠Turn right at lights to remain on Pacific Hwy. Follow for 200mtrs. (See below)
Turn Left at Calga onto Peats Ridge Rd. Pass under M1 motorway, road will do a left hand loop at the freeway interchange before heading north
Follow Peats Ridge Rd north to Peats Ridge. 12kms.
300 mtrs after the Ampol petrol station at Peats Ridge, keep left, and take the slip lane onto George Downs Dr to Central Mangrove.
Follow George Downs Dr for 13kms through Central Mangrove and Kulnura.
1 km after passing Jerry’s Cafe, Kulnura, turn left onto Kyola Rd.
Follow for 4 kms, turn right onto Mangrove Creek Dam Rd.
Follow for 5 kms to picnic area.

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Calga lights, be sure to turn right here, or you will be heading back to Sydney on the M1

Departing Wyong

2 – Central Coast & Newcastle Z’s – Wyong Milk Factory – Depart 8:45am
Contact: Daniel Adams – 0414 434 450

Arrive from 8:15 for 8:45 departure, via Yarramalong Rd
Grab your morning coffee here and pick up a donut or chocolates before departing for breakfast at Mangrove Creek Dam.
There is no coffee shop at the destination.

Head west from the parking area onto Alison Rd, cross over the motorway and follow Yarramalong Rd to Yarramalong. 17km
Turn left at Bumble Hill Rd for a climb to the top of the ridge. 5km
Turn right onto Greta Rd (Follow sign for “The Paintball Place”) Follow to end. 2km
Turn right onto George Downs Drive. Follow for 2.5km
Turn Left onto Kyola Rd follow for  4 kms
Turn right onto Mangrove Creek Dam Rd.
Follow for 5 kms to picnic area.

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Parking

There are 15 parking spaces in the picnic area. Once those are full, overflow parking is on the side of the road.
Proceed into the picnic area loop road, and park if there are any spaces there.
If the carpark is full, continue around the loop and exit the carpark, then park on the left side of the road after passing the carpark gate.
The shoulder is wide enough to allow for 45° parking.