Helpful Planning Links

 
Below are some resources that may be invaluable for planning, or running, activities.

• Emergency Management Victoria: The VicEmergency website provides Victorians with access to information and warnings about incidents.
• Emergency Plus App: Uses GPS functionality to provide your location to emergency services (000).
• St John Ambulance First Aid: Has handy first aid checklists for most common scenarios. App Store or Google Play.
• Weather – consult Bureau of Meteorology website: Victorian Weather and Warnings (includes UV index levels) and MetEye (for wind and rain patterns at different time periods) or the BOM Weather App.
• Bushfire Danger – consult CFA website: Fire Bans and Fire Danger Ratings (including their District Lookup)
• Track Status – consult Parks Victoria website: Parks Victoria
• Sun and Moon Rise & Set times – consult timeanddate.com/sun/australia/melbourne 
• Tides – consult Bureau of Meteorology website: Tide Predictions for Victoria
• Maps – see Google Maps or Melway Online as well as the Track Records stored on this website (only available to Nomads members)
• Wondering where to go?
  • Look through the Nomads Walks Catalogue and the Nomads Cycling Catalogue (available in the Members Area menu for logged-in members).
  • Consult Bushwalking Victoria's website: Find a Walk
  • Check out VictoriaWalks.org.au: walks in Melbourne, Regional Victoria and even other Australian states
  • VicRoads Bicycle and walking route maps: there's an absolute gold mine of maps here for cycling, walking or catching public transport in Metropolitan Melbourne, Regional Victoria and beyond.
  • Parks Victoria: a reliable source of accurate information. This site sometimes includes trail maps also. 
  • Goldfields Track (formerly the Great Dividing Trail): the trail from Mt Buninyong to Bendigo via Ballarat, Daylesford and Castlemaine.
  • AllTrails: a commercial site that lists lots of walking trails around the world (but will detect your location to initially display local options)
  • Bicycle Network's Ride on Melbourne guide: the title is misleading - this contains details of some cycling escapes outside of Melbourne.

Select a Victorian location using the widget on the left to get current sun protection recommendations for that location.

What is UV?

The Sun Smart website explains UV and the danger it presents, as well as a lot of other useful information on how to protect yourself from the very real danger presented by inappropriate exposure to the sun's rays.

NOTE: Using sun protection during the times stated on this widget does not guarantee that you will not get skin cancer. You may also need to use sun protection outside of the sun protection times stated on the Widget.