Autism Awareness Walkathon - 2009

This year's Autism Awareness Walkathon - one of the most picturesque in the country - was held on Sunday May 17th. Our sincere thanks go to our ongoing sponsors NAB whose staff very capably manned our rego table and cooked up a storm for our free BBQ lunch following the walk. We also wish to thank Coffs Harbour City Council, the Coffs Harbour Yacht Club & National Parks & Wildlife Service for their co-operation in providing the permission required to organise a walk taking in such a beautiful part of the country.

We tend to forget just how lucky we are to live on the beautiful Coffs Coast. We were blessed with perfect weather which made for some fabulous photos on our trek along the Marina wall, across Muttonbird Island and along Coffs Harbour Jetty.

Our appreciation also goes to Prime Possum who dropped in to see the kids off on their walk.

Thanks to all those who took part. We hope you had a wonderful family day out. All those blue balloons certainly created plenty of interest and questions so the Autism Awareness aspect of the walk really worked!

Total funds raised (not including any raffle ticket/t shirt sales) were $1,439.45. Great effort! 

For additional photos, please see Event Photo Gallery