SPECIAL EVENT - Coomalie Creek - Bush Rogaine
In conjunction with 80th anniversary commemorations...
Our next event is taking place on Saturday 16th August 2025.
This will be a BUSH ROGAINE located at Coomalie Creek and will coincide with 80th anniversary commemorations for the last operational RAAF mission from Australian soil during WW2. This mission was flown by No. 87 Squadron using a Mosquito aircraft. The Mosquito returned to Coomalie when peace was declared, marking the end of operational flights from Australian bases.
All levels of rogainers are welcomed to this bush event, with training available for those learning the ropes. More info coming soon, but please mark your calendars now as it is going to be a very special weekend including a lot of activity at the Coomalie airstrip, with some amazing old aeroplanes and acrobatics on display! A once-in-a-lifetime event.
Looking forward to seeing many of you at Coomalie Creek in August!
Thank you for continuing to support and participate in the wonderful sport of rogaining.
What is Rogaining?
Rogaining is the sport of long distance cross country navigation. Teamwork, endurance, strategy and map reading are features of the sport. Rogaining is a team activity for people of all ages and levels of fitness, which aims to support and encourage people to develop respect for and enjoyment of rural and bushland environments, and to encourage the development of navigational skills, self reliance, general fitness, and the ability to work in a team.
About the NTRA
Rogaining found its way to the NT in 1999 (about a quarter of a century after the sport's invention in Victoria), courtesy of the energetic Andy Black and David Palmer who organised the first NT rogaine, the Croc and Rock, at Litchfield National Park in August of that year.
With their rogaining experience from southern states, Andy and David spent much of early 1999 battling Wet season humidity, flooded creeks, thick high grass and the almost totally unroaded bush of Litchfield National Park to set the course for what turned out to be an historic (and for many competitors very tough) 24 hour event.