Port Macquarie’s Richard Grimmond will on Thursday walk from Point Plomer to Port Macquarie.
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And that’s no mean feat for the retired school principal. The 15 kilometre walk is part of his 90th birthday celebrations.
Richard will be walking with several members of his Thursday Walking Group. The group includes, John Kaye, Joy Woodward, Christine Jilg, Cob Cobley, Peter Aitchison, Gerry Nagle, Sue Nagle, Margaret McCracken, Bill Darling, Ron Vollebergh and Richard’s daughter Jan Grimmond.
While a 15 kilometre beach walk seems an odd choice for a birthday wish, Richard is new new to walking.
He joined the Newcastle Bushwalkers in his late teens, straight after the war ended. He was recently an honoured guest at the club’s 70th year celebrations in 2015.
As a teenager he designed the Newcastle Bushwalkers Club badge and the same badge is still used by the club today.
He has walked extensively in the Barrington Tops, the Kosciusko National Park – before the Snowy Scheme was there – through Tasmania, in the Lamington National Park in Queensland, the Milford Track in New Zealand, and at age 65 years he walked in the Himalayas, and at 75 he rediscovered the Beckett’s Cataract, named by Oxley and lost for 185 years.
He walked with the Port Macquarie Adult Education Walking group for about 20 years and still walks with the Thursday Walking Group each week.
Richard attributes his health and physical fitness to being a non-smoker and non-drinker his entire life as well as his love for bushwalking.
