Melbourne City - S&S - Lightscape Botanical Gardens

Come and join us for this 2km trail through the Botanical gardens and celebrate the beauty of nature after dark. Be mesmerised by an eight-metre sphere filled with over 20,000 moving LEDs, singing trees and a flickering fire garden amongst colour-changing installations, soundscapes and large-scale illuminated sculptures.

Escaping Your Comfort Zone is Body Positive Adventures for women and non-binary crew.  The outdoors don't care about your size, your speed or your fitness, and neither do we!  100% body positive, no focus on weightloss. Just having fun in the outdoors, cause we can! 

This is 100% achievable for anyone without mobility issues, and we will take it slowly, with plenty of breather stops.

Please note you are responsible for purchasing your entry ticket to Lightscape. This is done through the Tickettek website. They are $40 each and will sell out, so don’t leave it until the last minute. Ensure you select the 7pm time slot for the 8th July.

Hike Leader: Mel - 0412113229

Important COVID Information - 

• Due to Victorian government health directives on community sport and recreation, all participants be fully vaccinated, or have a valid exemption.
• All participants are required to carry a a mask.  
• Carpooling is accepted, but please be respectful of other passengers. Masks may be required where requested by the driver.  
• Please review the latest COVID information that applies to this hike

Hike Rating: Slow & Steady (refer to Hike Ratings for details)

• This hike is on wide, well-formed, pavements, mostly flat, with some undulations.
• The path has with some stairs, short hills, or small obstacles.
• We will walk for 1.5-2hrs in total, with tons of drink and breather stops.
• This hike is beginner friendly, for those without specific mobility concerns, and always paced at the slowest in the group, to ensure no one is left behind.
• This hike is at night and will be very busy.

If you are wondering if you're fit enough for this hike, the answer is YES! We all need to start somewhere and this is a great place to start - this is an excellent hike for beginners. Please contact me if you have any specific questions or concerns!

Kids:  This event is fine for kids if they can walk for this amount of time with little complaint . Please note it will be extremely busy and you must be able to supervise them closely at all times.

Dogs: This hike is not appropriate for dogs

Accessibility: This hike is not suitable for wheelchairs

What to bring

• Hand sanitiser.
• Wear comfortable exercise clothing, and layers are great as you can add and remove as you get hot or cold. Any comfortable shoes with laces will be fine.
• Bring a light, waterproof raincoat if you have one and rain is forecast.
• First aid kit, including any medications you might need, such as asthma puffers and antihistamines. Your health is your responsibility. Please alert the leader to the location of your medication (if you are carrying any).
• Emergency Contact/Medical Details form  Please print out and fill in a copy of this form before your attend any EYCZ event, and leave it in your pack.  If you can't access a printer, please simply write the details on a plain piece of paper, and put it in a ziplock bag in the top of your pack.  Any medications you are carrying should be stored in the same section of your pack.

Other key information:

• Toilets - available in the visitors centre at the botanical gardens
• Parking - public transport is strongly recommended.

I look forward to seeing you join us!

Cheers

Mel 0412 113 229