Morning All
Very nice evening outing to Heysham last Wednesday; 14 of us meet up at the Heysham Village car park and, I’m sure, took some great photos on the circular route! No rain though but, unfortunately, no sunset, despite my confident predictions – another time perhaps!

Apology! Club outing!
I have had to swop Sunderland Point and Kirkby Lonsdale around, thanks to Paul’s diligent checking!
Why? Well, my excuse? I blame ‘Siri,’ when asked when the low tide was at Sunderland Point ‘it’ gave the wrong answer – well, that’s my excuse! Mind you wrong question perhaps!
So, next Wednesday – 4^th June – the club outing is to Kirkby Lonsdale. Sunderland Point will be on Wednesday 11^th June.

Notices:
Club outing: This Wednesday – 4^th June
Kirkby Lonsdale:
Parking:
New Road Car Park, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth LA6 2AB Or
Dodgson Croft Car Park, Dodgson Croft Car Park, Kirkby Lonsdale, Carnforth LA6 2AB. As you can see by the postcode these 2 car parks are next door to each other.
Meet at the car parks at 7.15 ready for the ‘off’ at 7.30.
These car parks are at the ‘top’ of the town. From here we can explore various areas finishing up at ‘Ruskin’s View. We could then take the ‘Radical Steps’ down to the River Lune and then walk along to Devil’s Bridge. Then re-trace our foot-steps back to the car parks.
Alternatively: After ‘Ruskin’s View’ we could return to the car park and drive to Devil’s Bridge parking on Bridge Brow. Open for discussion on the evening!
Weather: BBC weather says, ‘light rain showers and a moderate breeze – 11 degrees; sunset, quite possibly not!

Club outing: Next Wednesday – 11^th June to Sunderland Point; details to follow in next week’s newsletter.

Events Cup:
Our 3^rd destination is to:
Pennington Flash Nature Reserve.
Distance: 37 miles – 58 mins.
Dates: Thursday 5^th June OR Saturday 7^th June. Just a gentle reminder only one date is allowed.
Information:
Pennington Flash Nature Reserve
Address: St Helens Road, Leigh, WN7 3PA.
Directions:
Signposted from the A580 East Lancs Road. Follow the signs and turn onto the A579 Atherleigh Way then left onto the A572 St Helens Road. The main entrance is situated on St Helens Road opposite Leigh Fire Station.
Please note: Sat Nav users should use the postcode is WN7 3PA.
Parking:
Opening times: 6.30am – 7.30pm
Parking: Parking Charge: £2.50 all day pay and display.
The car park has 300+ spaces and 12 x 7kW electric vehicle chargepoints, installed in collaboration with Charge My Street.
The circular walk around Pennington Flash is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) long, taking around 1 to 1.5 hours to complete. Some sources suggest a slightly longer distance of 3.5 miles (5.7 km), with a suggested time of 2.5 hours for the walk. The walk is generally considered easy!
There are in fact eight good hides and also viewpoints, and there is a feeding station at bunting hide.

Refreshments? There is ‘The Hide Coffee House and Café’
The lakeside café is the perfect hide-out for nature lovers (so it says), – serving fresh coffee, breakfast, lunch, cakes and snacks. Dog friendly, with indoor and outdoor seating offering views over the water.
Open 7 days a week:
All images to be taken within Pennington Flash County Park; map attached.
Getting there.
I’m going on Thursday 5^th June.
I suggest, to those who may want to go on the same day, we meet up at Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3 0HS at 8.45am to car share if necessary and set off at 9am.
Please email me on info@garstangcameraclub.co.uk if you are going on Thursday or ring me on 07340 314408 or use the message me on the Garstang Camera Club WhatsApp Group then I can expect you!

L&CPU Annual Exhibition and Awards 2025:
Info attached.

Up and coming programme of events:
Wednesday June 4^th – Club outing to Kirkby Lonsdale – see above for details.

Thursday June 5^th – Events Cup 3^rd destination, possible trip to Pennington Flash Nature Reserve – see above

Saturday June 7th – Events Cup 3rd destination, possible trip to Pennington Flash Nature Reserve – see above

Wednesday June 11^th – Club outing to Sunderland Point.

Wednesday June 18^th – back in the Arts Centre – ‘Show-and-Tell’ from the 3 outings listed above; NOT the Events Cup! For your ‘Show-and-Tell’ images PLEASE bring them in on a USB ‘stick.’ Cheers!

Wednesday June 25^th – Camera Course, – ‘Your camera, Learn it, Love it’ Our 1^st week of 4 that we are running. Details next week. 

That’s all folks!

Mike