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- | TI E SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | ====== The Sydney Buswalker ====== |
- | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to the | + | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney. |
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- | Sydney Bush 'Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney. | + | |
No 40 April, 1938. | No 40 April, 1938. | ||
- | Editor: Marie B. Byles. | + | |Editor:|Marie B. Byles.| |
- | + | |Business Manager:|J.W. Mullins.| | |
- | Business Manager: J.% Mullins. | + | |Publication Staff:|Misses Clare Kinsella, Dot English,\\ Kathleen McKay, Flo Allsworth,\\ Messrs John R. Wood, Brian G. Harvey,\\ Stan Lumsden.| |
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- | Publication Staff: Misses Clare Kinsella, Dot English, Kathleen McKay, Flo Allsworth, | + | |
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- | Messrs John R. Wood, Brian G. Harvey, Stan Lumsden. | + | |
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- | CONTENTS | + | |
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- | Editorial. Page 1 | + | |
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- | News from Here There and Everywhere. " 2 | + | |
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- | Australiass Furthest North. by Taff Knight. n 3 | + | |
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- | Camp Fire Chatter. . by Firelight. n 5 | + | |
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- | Gentle Arts of Hitch-Hiking | + | |
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- | and Jumping-the-Rattler. by Frazer Ratcliffe* " 6 | + | |
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- | Federation News it 9 | + | |
- | ." | + | ===== Contents ===== |
- | Let us all Play Injunsl | + | |Editorial.||Page 1| |
+ | |News from Here There and Everywhere.||" | ||
+ | |Australia' | ||
+ | |Camp Fire Chatter.|by Firelight.|" | ||
+ | |Gentle Arts of Hitch-Hiking and Jumping-the-Rattler.|by Frazer Ratcliffe*|" | ||
+ | |Federation News||" | ||
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+ | |Let us all Play Injuns!|by Dorothy Lawry.|" 10| | ||
+ | |Bush Walker Ballads.|by K.M.|" 11| | ||
- | Bush Walker Ballads. by K.M. " 11 | + | ---- |
- | EDITORIAL | + | ===== Editorial ===== |
- | This is a valedictory editorial, a sad one, too, for the,journal seems to have been increasing in popularity; articles have been flowing in wIWaout | + | This is a valedictory editorial, a sad one, too, for the journal seems to have been increasing in popularity; articles have been flowing in without |
- | The various improvements to which the journal probably owes its popularity may be traced to different people. Bill Mullins is the principal one. It was he who suggested the change to a monthly, the purchase of the roneo, the roduction | + | The various improvements to which the journal probably owes its popularity may be traced to different people. Bill Mullins is the principal one. It was he who suggested the change to a monthly, the purchase of the roneo, the reduction |
The various alterations have not added appreciably to the editor' | The various alterations have not added appreciably to the editor' | ||
- | Probably you did not realize any alterations were made so lightly has her finger touched your precious manuscript. But it is her touch which makes one confident when showing the journal to outsiders. Despite this you have probably often noticcr= | + | Probably you did not realize any alterations were made so lightly has her finger touched your precious manuscript. But it is her touch which makes one confident when showing the journal to outsiders. Despite this you have probably often noticed |
- | The editor' | + | The editor' |
- | NEWS FROM ERE THERE AND EVERYWBERE. | + | ===== News From Here There And Everywhere. ===== |
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- | The journal of the Melbourne | + | The journal of the Melbourne |
- | thing we should like to see more of in our oFT. journal. Incidentally it also | + | ==== Another Climbing Accident |
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- | contains a number of typographical and cthor er-ors which were very heartening to the editor of "The Bushwalkcc", | + | |
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- | Another Climbing Accident | + | |
The saddest thing in the same publication is the announcement of another climbing fatality. Olive Sandall slipped as she was climbing in the Cathedral Range and was killed. The scene of the tragedy is a stretch of little pointed peaks much beloved by rock-climbers and not very far from Melbourne. No one would expect these pleasant little rocky summits to be the cause of a serious accident. We extend our sincere sympathy to our sister club. | The saddest thing in the same publication is the announcement of another climbing fatality. Olive Sandall slipped as she was climbing in the Cathedral Range and was killed. The scene of the tragedy is a stretch of little pointed peaks much beloved by rock-climbers and not very far from Melbourne. No one would expect these pleasant little rocky summits to be the cause of a serious accident. We extend our sincere sympathy to our sister club. | ||
- | Ring of Parks to Commemorate the Sesqui-Centenary | + | ==== Ring of Parks to Commemorate the Sesqui-Centenary |
- | In the latest issue of "View Points" | + | In the latest issue of "View Points" |
- | Randmick Rifle Range. It would indeed be a wonderful memorial if the Parks and | + | ==== Cost of Week-end Trips ==== |
- | Playgrounds Movement got what it sought. | + | Fares about 2/6 would probably be about our average. In America they appear to get off less lightly. The scheduled fares for the Mountain Club of Maryland are seldom less than a dollar, about 5/-, and often a very great deal more. It is when we read figures like these that we realise how fortunate we are in havirg cheap weekend fares and attractive places not far distant. However, Maryland has the advantage of maps and guide books in which "every mile of the walk is marked" |
- | Cost of Week-end Trips | + | ==== An Exchange Editor ==== |
- | ... 11 | + | This is one of the officers of the same club, an officer whose job it is to keep up an active correspondence with other clubs. If the S.B.W's list of exchanges increases we may have to instal a similar officer to carry on this valuable work for us also. |
- | Fares about 0 would probably be about our average. In America they appear to get off less lightly. The scheduled fares for the Mountain Club of Maryland aro seldom less than a dollar, about 5/-, and often a very great deal more. It is 77,h,: we read figures like these that we realise how fortunate we are in havirg cheap ueeLend fares and attractive places not far distant. However, Maryland has the advantag9 of maps and guide books in which "every mile of the walk is marked" | + | ===== Australia' |
- | An Exchange Editor | + | By Wiff Knight. |
- | This is one of the officers of the same club, an officer whose job it is to keo-r, | + | Reading in "Bush Walker" |
- | up an active correspondence with other clubs. If the S.B.W's list of exchanges increl. es we may have to instal | + | I will write about a trip the wife and I took to the most northern point of Australia. We were camped at Somerset, a homestead that is situated on the north eastern point of the Peninsula. We had to go to the north western point about 9 or 10 miles as the crow flies, but much further by walking. I tried to get some information from Mr. Vidgeon who owns the land at Somerset. He told me that he had not been over by land and that it was about 20 miles around through swamps and advised me not to go without |
- | AUSTRALIA'S FURTHEST NORTH. | + | Mr. Vidgeon was taking some wheat and pollard around to the other end of his land where the old family home was. A. Mr. Jenkins and his wife were living there trying to start a poultry farm. It appears that they sailed up from Sydney in a yacht, sold the yacht and started to raise fowls. They had 200 fowls in a snake proof yard and well locked up at night. The carpet snakes are very plentiful and like a chook occasionally. He had a dog that warned him of any danger; his last dog disappeared and he thought a croc. must have got him. The trip around in the boat would cut a lot of walking out. It seems funny that sandy beaches and muddy will run next to one another. We passed a headland and then a small muddy bay. We had made three attempts to get to this bay overland and had to give it up as the bush and vines were too thick only about 1 mile from our camp. On the next headland was a croc asleep. The blackboy pointed him out to me. Before I could draw the wife's attention to him he was over the edge and under the water. It put the wind up me, I thought what chance would we have of getting away from him on land. Mr. Vidgeon told me that they could travel as fast as a good horse. |
- | By Tiff Knight. | + | We put out a trailing line with a piece of white rag on and soon had a kingfish on, not a big one but enough for dinner. Then we came to a large muddy bay, more rocks, and then turned into the next bay, a long shallow one. We anchored well out about ½ (( 0.5 )) mile from shore and got into a flatbottom boat and rowed as far as we could and then got out and walked the rest. Mr. Jenkins came out with a hand-made cart of packing boxes drawn by a horse, all harness hand-made, to get his fowl feed. His house was well up off the beach. He had to come well out in the water as it was too shallow for boats. As we were to camp here I decided to get as close to his house as possible. We were invited to dinner wild turkey, wild pig, kingfish and yams with cheese custard to top off. It was well cooked and we enjoyed it. We pitched our small tent in long grass just in front of the house. Green spiders swarmed up the walls of the tent and the mosey' |
- | Reading in "Bush Walker" | + | Mr. Jenkins came with us part of the way as he wanted to shoot a bull for fowl feed. We went down to the beach and got on a track that leads to the Telegraph Station followed it inland for about a mile and then branched off on pig tracks making for a hill. This country is a bog in wet weather and the grass about 4 ft. high. Mr. Jenkins went in front with his rifle as there might be a croc about. |
- | trip from Kiandra | + | He told me that he would not think of going in the bush without his rifle and was surprised when I told him I never carry firearms. I blazed the trees high up on the side that I could see coming back. When we got to the top of the hill about 200 ft. high we had a splendid view of our direction to the beach about 1 mile away. But we had to go through a level forest. I was told to blaze a way through so that we could find our way back. Just then the dog scented a turkey and Mr. Jenkins left us and was back in ten minutes with his turkey. He told us that they are silly birds, they hide their heads and not their bodies when danger is near. We descended the hill and I arranged with the wife to stay at the last blaze until I blazed another tree in front, then pick out a third tree in line and come up to me so that we could keep straight through the bush. She soon forgot her job and was wandering about picking flowers and I ran into a wasps' nest. Then we had to both bolt with our eyes shut fighting off the wasps. I only had my shorts on and got more than my share of stings. We lost our blazes and I would not risk another lot of stings we went what we thought straight ahead until we landed in a mangrove swamp I knew we were near the beach then. Climbing on mangrove roots was a difficult job until we landed, not on our sandy beach, but a muddy one about 200 yards from our right place. That made a big difference because we sank up to our knees in the mud and when we pulled our legs out our shoes stayed in the bottom of the hole. I had to put my hand down to get them. We both laughed at each other with black legs and arms. I told the wile if she saw a croc to get up one of the mangrove trees, she said, "What are you going to do?" I said I would have to stick in the mud and with a pole I carried sharpened at the end and try and stick it down his throat. If there is one thing the wife won't do is to walk in mud but there was no way out; it had to be done. It was an awkward job every step you took meant some balancing while you pulled the other leg out. At last we landed on the sandy beach and peeled off, and were soon in the water washing the mud off ourselves and shoes and socks. We decided to have a snack and rest; it was only 11 o' |
- | route in February | + | We were only about 1 mile from our goal, it took about ½ (( 0.5 )) an hour to do as there were very rough cliffs. At last we stood right on the most northern point of Australia. As there were two rocks with about 10 ft. between them I stood on them both to make sure. I have never had a compass so could not tell which one was the exact north. The sun was my guide and mid-day sun is due north in the winter. About a stone' |
- | I will write about a trip the wife and I took to the most northern point of Australia. We were camped | + | On Sunday, two days after, |
- | eastern point of the Peninsula. We had to go to the north western point about 9 ur 10 miles as the craw flies; but much further by walking. I tried to get some inform- | + | ===== Camp Fire Chatter. ===== |
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- | ation from Mr.- Vidgeon who owns the land at Somerset. He told me that he had not been over by land and that it was about 20 miles around through swamps Land advised me | + | |
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- | not to go without a guide. The black boy told him it was not a place for a white woman to go. With this cheerful information we decided to give it a fly. | + | |
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- | Mr. Vidgeon was taking some wheat and pollard around to the other end of his land where the old family home was. A. Mr. Jenkins and his wife were living there | + | |
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- | trying to start a poultry farm. It appears that they sailed up from Sydney in a yacht, sold the yacht and started to raice fowls. They had 200 fowls in a snake | + | |
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- | proof yard and well locked up at night. The earpet snakes are very plentiful and | + | |
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- | like a chock occasionally. He had a dog that warned him of any danger; his last dog disappeared and he thought a croc must have got him. The trip around in the boat would cut a lot of walking out. It seems funny that sandy beaches and muddy will run | + | |
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- | next to one another. We passed a headland and then a small muddy bay. We had made | + | |
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- | three attempts to get to this bay overland and had to give it up as the bush and vines were too thick only about 1 mile from our camp. On the next headland was a croc asleep. The blackboy pointed him out to me. Before I could draw the wife's attention to him he Was over the edge and under the water. It put the wind up me, I thought what chance mould we have of getting away from him on land. Mr. Vidgeon told me that they could travel as fast as a good horse. | + | |
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- | We put out a trailing line with a piece of white rag on and soon had a kingfish on, not a big one but enough for dinner. Then we came to a large muddy bay, more | + | |
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- | rooks, and then turned into the next bay, a long shallow one. We anchored well out about mile from shore and got into a flatbottom boat and rowed as far as we could and then got out and walked the rest. Mr. Jenkins came out with a hand-made cart of | + | |
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- | loacking boxes drawn by a horse, all harness hand-made, to get his fowl feed. Hig house was well up off the beach. He had to come well out in the water as it was too shallow for boats. As we were to camp here I decided to get as close to his hous,: | + | |
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- | as possible. We were invited to dinner wild turkey,wild pig, kingfish and yams wiin cheese custard to top off. It was well cooked and we enjoyed it. We pitched our small tent in long grass just in front of the house. Green spiders swarmed up the | + | |
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- | walls of the tent and the mosey' | + | |
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- | until daylight. The wife told me she had not slept at all. The dog was rushing | + | |
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- | first to the beach and then over to the fowl yard barking at something - might have been snakes or croc' | + | |
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- | going to say let us go back to our main camp, but to my surprise she said let us get on with this trip and get it over. | + | |
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- | Mr. Jenkins came with us part of the way as he wanted to shoot a bull for fowl feed, We went dawn to the beach and got on a track that leads to the Telegraph Station followed it inland for about a mile and then branched off on pig tracks | + | |
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- | making for a hill. This country is a bog in wet weather and the grass about 4 ft, high. Mr. Jenkins went in front with his rifle as there might be a croc about. | + | |
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- | He told me that he would not think of going in the bush without his rifle and was surprised when I told him I never carry firearms. I blazed the trees high up on the side that I could see coming back. When we got to the top of the hill about 200 ft, high We had a splendid view of our direction to the beach about 1 mile away, 13:: Y 1 had to go through a level forest. I was told to blaze a way through so that wr) could find our way back. Just then the dog scented a turkey and Mr. Jenkins lc-ft af: and was back in ten minutes with his turkey. He told us that they are silly birdzthey hide their heads and not their bodies when danger is near. We descended th3 hill and I arranged with the wife to stay at the last blaze until I blazed another tree in front, then pick out a third tree in line and come up to me so that we cod keep straight through the bush. She soon forgot her job and was wandering about picking flowers and I ran into a wasps' nest. Then we had to both bolt with our oyes shut fighting off the wasps. I only had my shorts on and got more than my share cf stings, We lost our blazes and I would not risk another lot of stings we went what we thought straight ahead until we landed in a mangrove swamp I knew we were near tire beach then. Climbing on mangrove roots was a difficult job until we landed, not on our sandy beach, but a muddy one about 200 yards from our right place. That made a big difference because we sank up to our knees in the mud and when we pulled our legs out our shoes stayed in the bottom of the hole. I had to put my hand down to get them. We both laughed at each other with black legs and arms. I told the wile if she -saw a croc to get up one of the mangrove trees, she said, "What are you going to do?" I said I would have to stick in the mud and with a pole I carried sharpened at the end and try and stick it down kis throat. If there is one thing the wife won't do is to walk in mud but there was no way out; it had to be done. It was an awkward job every step you took meant some balancing while you pulled the other leg out. At last we landed on the sandy beach and peeled off, and were soon in the water washing the mud off ourselves and shoes and socks. We decided to have a snack and rest; it was only 11 o' | + | |
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- | We were only about 1 mile from our goal, it took about an hour to do as there were very rough cliffs. At last we stood right on the most northern point of Australis, As there were two rocks with about 10 ft. between them I stood on them both to make sure. I haveYnever had a compass so could not tell which one was the exact north. The sun was my guide and mid-day sun is due north in the winter. About a stone' | + | |
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- | next blaze and we got back to Mr, Jenkins' | + | |
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- | distance and not a tree to climb up if Mr, croc had put in an appearance. We easJ11.3' | + | |
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- | On Sunday, two days after, the natives from the homestead were in that creek spearing crabs and a croc rushed passed,. them and never touched them. I think we were very lucky. The wife signed the visitor' | + | |
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- | CAMP FIRE CHATTER. | + | |
By Firelight. | By Firelight. | ||
- | The stork has been flying around again, | + | The stork has been flying around again, |
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- | a visit from him, and he left!: them a on Olar, rrc, | + | |
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- | Reunion, and took home with him -Ci2s good_ ElsJs 71f: niary old. fy ldso | + | |
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- | By the way, the attendance at this year!s Reunion set a new record. Amongst the 129 adults at the camp fire, we were glad to see four past members - Bill Chambers, Doreen Smeaton (a foundation member), and Charlie and Vera Kilpatrick, who, of course, were our first Bon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer, We sincerely hope they will all come again next year. | + | |
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- | Of course, Wal. and Phil. Roots were there, but they had left the Inps at home in Brisbane in the care of their grannies, Six hundred and ninety-nine miles the Roots' had driven to attend the Annual Meeting and the Reunions | + | |
- | Some of the bushwalker babies did not seem to enjoy the campfire as much as | + | By the way, the attendance at this year's Reunion set a new record. Amongst the 129 adults at the camp fire, we were glad to see four past members - Bill Chambers, Doreen Smeaton (a foundation member), and Charlie and Vera Kilpatrick, who, of course, were our first Hon. Secretary and Hon. Treasurer. We sincerely hope they will all come again next year. |
- | usual this year, even though Rene Browne had very kindly supplied a tent nearby, in which they were parked. Or were the babies just trying | + | Of course, Wal. and Phil. Roots were there, but they had left the Imps at home in Brisbane in the care of their grannies. Six hundred and ninety-nine miles the Roots' had driven |
- | entertaining? | + | Some of the bushwalker babies did not seem to enjoy the campfire as much as usual this year, even though Rene Browne had very kindly supplied a tent nearby, in which they were parked. Or were the babies just trying to do their share of the entertaining? |
We have not seen Jim Cranitch for a while, but we understand he was married recently and his wife is not a member of the walking fraternity. Long life and happiness to the Cranitches! | We have not seen Jim Cranitch for a while, but we understand he was married recently and his wife is not a member of the walking fraternity. Long life and happiness to the Cranitches! | ||
- | Talking about absentees. Where was everyone on Swimming Carnival day this year? The total attendance was only about 45 although the weather was good. Anyway, the standard of performance was high, and those present enjoyed some splendid racing. Yes, of course, this is a walking club --- as we have been reminded before. | + | Talking about absentees. Where was everyone on Swimming Carnival day this year? The total attendance was only about 45 although the weather was good. Anyway, the standard of performance was high, and those present enjoyed some splendid racing. Yes, of course, this __is__ |
- | If Topsy Ankerson has her way, it will be two walking clubs. She is looking for | + | If Topsy Ankerson has her way, it will be two walking clubs. She is looking for supporters for a Junior Club, so those of you who would like to help her take out youngsters and train them in bushcraft and bushwalking ideals, get in touch with Topsy. If she gets the support of a dozen or so of you her idea will become a reality, and a lot of youngsters will have a new joy in life. An inaugural meeting will be held at Berowra on April 10th. the train being the 9:30. |
- | supporters for a Junior Club, so those of yea wIlo would like to help her take out youngsters | + | ===== An Explanatory Discourse on the Gentle Arts of Hitch-Hiking |
- | Topsy. If she gets the support of a dozen or so of you her idea will become a | + | By Frazer Ratcliffe. |
- | reality, and a lot of youngsters will have a new joy in life. An inaugural meeting will be held at Berovra on April 10th. the train being the 9:30. | + | __Part 1__ |
- | An Explanatory Discourse on the Gentle Arts of | + | |Editor' |
- | Hitch-Hiking | + | Everything has its raison d' |
- | By Frazer Ratcliffe, PART 1 | + | For some time I had wondered how jumping the rattler was done. All professed not to know. Finally I met Roy Carlton while I was cycling through Howard, north of Maryborough, |
- | Editor' | + | And this is the treasured information he gave me regarding jumping. |
- | Everything has its raison deetre. Even unto the lowly orders of " | + | "Make enquiries as to when a train is going your way, how long it stops at the station or siding and if the station masters ahead are sympathetic or otherwise. If otherwise it is better |
- | For some time I had wondered haw jumping | + | Those with bicycles generally make two s hooks of stout wire, place a hook either end of bike, lift up till the tops of hooks are over the truck side, and leave bike suspended there, climb up and pull in bike and all's well." It was this latter part of the information I wanted. Eventually I bade him farewell. |
- | not to know. Finally I met Roy Carlton Ar1-4.i1s;I was cycling through Howard, nor Li of Maryborough, one dusty hot fly 3e day Ho was sitting | + | It was many weeks later. We had left Rockhampton some hundreds of miles behind. Roads were shocking, miles of pushing through loose, hot sand, over corrugations and pot holes. Temperature over the 100° for days. At times for many miles on end the road was just a sandy track winding |
- | of the hotel fence, waiting for a car to pa:. ; 6outh so that ho m_Lght hitch alc):6irith | + | Villages were 50 or 60 or 70 miles apart, up to 40 miles between farms. First two hours in the early morn I was cool, thereafter I rode or walked along in a continual bath of perspiration. Water tanks and holes were miles apart, good water was unobtainable. If you didn't notice the stale taste of the tepod (( [sic] tepid)) tank water you drank you certainly noticed the H< |
- | it. One passed, he saw it too late, "Oh wull" he said "there'll be another cTo r; | + | So when we reached Yabula (( [sic] ? Yabulu, QLD )) the crew was ripe for mutiny. And mutiny came. For enquiries revealed that the road for the next forty miles lay over a mountain range. It wasn't just one of the ordinary bad ones we had been on for the past weeks. It was a really bad one. Any motor car which went over (very few did - only some half dozen a year) was guaranteed a broken spring or axle (or both). Any motorist who knew of this section __always__ avoided |
- | And this is the treasured information he za,ve me regarding jumping. The adjectives and expletives are not for quotation. | + | So enquiries were made at the Station. "Yes, there might be a train in the morning." |
- | "Make enquiries as to when a train is going your way, how long it stops at the | + | Morning came and with it uncertainty for my first attempt at "jumping the rattler." |
- | station or siding | + | A lone train came in and waited. Thought I, I'll ask the driver |
- | otherwise it is better to go on past their station and then jump on. For if they are ' | + | A. few minutes later a crowded jigger |
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- | Those with bicycles generally make two s hooks of stout wire, place a hook | + | |
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- | either end of bike, lift up till the tops of hooks are over the truck side, and leave bike auspended there, climb up and pull in bike and all's well." It was this latter part of the information I wanted. Eventually I bade him farewell. | + | |
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- | It was many weeks latgr. We had left Rockhampton some hundreds of miles behind. Roads were shocking, miles of pushing through loose, hot sand, over corrugations and pot holes. Temperature over the 100 for days. At times for many miles on end the road was just a sandy track winding in and out of the ever present gum forests. | + | |
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- | t) Villages were 50 or 60 or 70 miles apart, up to 40 miles between farms. First | + | |
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- | two hours in the early morn I was cool, thereaftor I rode or walked along in a continual bath of perspiration. Water tanks and holes were miles apart, good water was unobtainable. If you didn't notice the stale taste of the tepod tank water you drank you certainly noticed the He's fl avour mad mo34, or the soda effect of the | + | |
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- | warm bore water. That is, when you reached water. And in between water you simply put up with your thirat and thoughts of the fools who say that the Western and Northern lands can support several more millions. Like hell! And when you cycle (and walk) through that country with the flaming sun and no water you do look it as hell. No green grass, the trees are barely green, everything has that dead, shrivelled up, brownish appearanoe the earth everywhere has large cracks cause6 17 the torture of the burning heavens and rainless skies. The heat doesn' | + | |
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- | So when we reached Yabula the crew was ripe for mutiny. And mutiny came. For enquiries revealed that the road for the next forty miles lay over a mountain rangIt wasn't just one of the ordinary bad ones we had been on for the past weeks. It | + | |
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- | was a really bad one. Any motor car which went over (very few did only some half dozen a year) was guaranteed a broken spring or axle (or both). Any motorist who knew of this section always avoided it by taking another road many miles back. The road over MA just a rugged track full of holes, where it wasn't holey it was cov,eced by boulders. There was no water the entire distance. And when I thought of the s-at as well, no Sir, not for us. It would take about Lwv days walking and pushing that stretch. | + | |
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- | So enquiries were made at the Staticln. 'fess there might be a train in the morning." | + | |
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- | Morning came and with it uncertaintT for my first attempt at " | + | |
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- | A lone train came in and waited. Thought I, I'll ask the driver if he goes my way and if he can take ny pack, that would be a help in case I can't " | + | |
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- | A. few minutes later a crowded jigger came in, one man jumping off. Thinking that he belonged to the jigger crew I asked if he could take my pack for no provided he were going very far. | + | |
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Anxious not to miss I waited but a few seconds before doing the deed. The driver looked the other way as the fireman placed it in the cab. Down jumped the fireman. Said he, "Why not jump aboard yourself, we leave in half an hour with these trucks and some from an incoming train." | Anxious not to miss I waited but a few seconds before doing the deed. The driver looked the other way as the fireman placed it in the cab. Down jumped the fireman. Said he, "Why not jump aboard yourself, we leave in half an hour with these trucks and some from an incoming train." | ||
- | I thanked him for the suggestion, saying that I mould trylalthough | + | I thanked him for the suggestion, saying that I would try although |
I looked at the line of empties and decided upon the back one. I placed my sleeping bag in and began with the bike when along came the fireman. | I looked at the line of empties and decided upon the back one. I placed my sleeping bag in and began with the bike when along came the fireman. | ||
- | Swears he, "What the hell are you getting in that bloody thing for? These don't go only the first bloody three: You had better wait till we shunt the three on to the main line when the other bugger arrives. Don't forget don't be obvious about it." | + | Swears he, "What the hell are you getting in that bloody thing for? These don't go - only the first bloody three! You had better wait till we shunt the three on to the main line when the other bugger arrives. Don't forget don't be obvious about it." |
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- | Eventually the "other bugger" | + | Eventually the "other bugger" |
- | Over I rushed, trying to make it seem that a stranger running across a railway yard with a clattering bicycle towards a truck was quite a natural thing. In went the parcel, up went the bike, down fell the hooks. Once more the bike went up, the hooks gripped. I let goo the front hook came un-put and the front wheel brushed | + | Over I rushed, trying to make it seem that a stranger running across a railway yard with a clattering bicycle towards a truck was quite a natural thing. In went the parcel, up went the bike, down fell the hooks. Once more the bike went up, the hooks gripped. I let go, the front hook came un-put and the front wheel brushed |
- | wriggled | + | In desperation I discarded |
- | In desperation I discarded | + | Room to hide bike and self there was none. The coal was piled high above the truck level, leaving only a twelve inch space between the slope of coal and the truck side. Against this slope the bike rested for all the world to see and in that twelve inch space I lay on big beautiful lumps of dusty coal. I lay and listened. Voices there were and footsteps too but we remained undisturbed. We pulled out, I could not resist one last look, so raised my head towards the Station yet but a few yards away. What a wonderful smiling send off the group of seven gave me! So my perspiration had been for nought. |
- | till rested on the corner | + | Soon we were in the ranges where from time to time I caught glimpses |
- | Room to hide bike and self therenr-Jz6, | + | The fireman dropped my pack and all was well. |
- | truck sideo Against this ;slope thc bike rcd. f,:r all the In(J!.:ci to see and in | + | (To Be Continued In Our Next) |
- | that twelve inch space I lay on blg beautiful 7.umps of dusty coal. I lay and listened. Voices there were and footsteps too but we remained undisturbed. We pulled out, I could not resist one last look, so raised my head towards the Station yet but a few yards away. 'What a wonderful smiling send off the group of seven gave mal So my perspiration had. been for nought. | + | ===== Federation News ===== |
- | Soon we were in the ranges where from time to time I caught glimpses of the road. Each time I saw it, its state made ms shudder. I willingly put up with the coal. We passed several groups working on the line. Each time I hid and each time I received kindly enquiries rnarding my health. About 90 minutes later we arrived | + | ==== Shacks |
- | The fireman dropped my pack and all was wells | + | The Federation is not letting this matter drop. Private shacks in a public park are outrageous, |
- | ,(TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT) | + | ==== Mr. Turner' |
- | - 5 | + | After many years of useful work Jo Turner has seen fit to resign from his positions of representative of the Parks and Playgrounds Movement on the Federation Council and Trustee of Garawarra. Charlie Roberts (C.M.W.) succeeds to the former position and Tom Herbert to the latter. |
- | FEDERATION NEWS. Shacks at Garawarra | + | ==== Topographical Work ==== |
- | The Federation is not letting this matter drop. Private shacks in a pub140 | + | The hard-working Ninian Melville produced |
- | park are outrageous, and their owners cannot plead unemployment now. The Federatioa is approaching the Minister about the matters If anyone would verify the exact number and condition of the shacks for the Federation, this mould be of great assistance. | ||
- | Mr, Turner' | + | ==== The Bushwalker ==== |
- | After many years of useful work Jo Turner has seen fit to resign from his | + | The publication committee budgeted for the sale of 500 copies. It still requires a further hundred |
- | positions of representative of the Parks and Playgrounds Movement on the Federation | + | ==== The Co-operative Society ==== |
- | Council and. Trustee of Garawarra. Charlie Roberts (C.M.W.) succeeds | + | The Subcommittee |
- | Topographical Work | ||
- | The hard-working Ninian Melville produced a map of a hiker' | + | ===== The Story Of The Frieze ===== |
- | be further news about these next month* The | + | (Continued from last month) |
- | The publication committee budgeted for the sale of 500 copies. It still requires a further hundred to be sold. Have you sent a copy to all your friends abroad? | + | Nevertheless his desire was not quenched, neither were his longings stilled, so he gat (( [sic] )) him a little bag, wherewith to carry food, and journeyed into the bush on the edge of the city. |
- | The Co-operative Society | + | And he took with him a book wherein was written the way he should go and he went warily lest perchance he should lose the way and become entangled mid briar and thorn, or rend his apparel on prickly bush. Notwithstanding these things, however, he soon grew in wisdom of the bush and he ventured on longer and more arduous trips into the wilderness, and found his by by using a chart and the magic needle, like unto that which mariners use. |
- | The Subcommittee | + | And one day as he walked thus alone, he met a band of travellers like unto himself and they greeted him with friendly words. Then did he turn himself about and accompany them to the place of their encampment |
- | TBE STORY OF THE FRIEZE. | + | (The Story of the Frieze will be concluded in next month's Bulletin). |
- | Nevertheless his desire was not quenched, neither were his longings stilled, so | + | |__' |
- | he gat him a little bag, wherewith to carry food, and journeyed into the bush on the edge of the city. | + | ===== Let Us All Play Injuns! ===== |
- | And he took with him a book wherein was written the way he should go and he went warily lest perchance he should lose the way and become entangled mid briar and thrn, | + | By Dorothy Lawry. |
- | or rend his apparel on prickly bush. Notwithstanding these things, however, he soon | + | A new member wrote:- |
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- | grew in wisdom of the bush and he ventured on longer and more arduous trips into the | + | |
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- | wilderness, and found his my by using a chart and the magic needle, like unto that which mariners use. | + | |
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- | And one day as he walked thus alone, he met a band of travellers like unto | + | |
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- | himself and they greeted him with friendly words. Then did he turn himself about and accompany them to the place of their encampment and he cooked food on their fire | + | |
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- | and pitched his tent with their tents. | + | |
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- | (The Story of the Frieze will be concluded in next monthIs Bulletin). | + | |
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- | PALLIN, | + | |
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- | 'Phone B.3101. GOOD CAMP GEAR FOR NAIKERS, | + | |
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- | 327 GEORGE ST., SYDNEY. | + | |
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- | LET US ALL PLAY INJUNS1 | + | |
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- | By Dorothy Lawry. | + | |
"Dear Miss Dix, | "Dear Miss Dix, | ||
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I am not a pole-cutter, | I am not a pole-cutter, | ||
- | Mhat can I do to improve my bushcraft, and become recognised as a leader and a bush lover? | + | What can I do to improve my bushcraft, and become recognised as a leader and a bush lover? |
- A. Walker." | - A. Walker." | ||
- | "Ans. To achieve your ambition you must develop your powers of observation. Train your mind to notice, record, and correlate the information it receives from your eyes, nose, and ears. Watch your step, and always be asking yourself, and others, "What? Why? Haw?" | + | __"Ans__. To achieve your ambition you must develop your powers of observation. Train your mind to notice, record, and correlate the information it receives from your eyes, nose, and ears. Watch your step, and always be asking yourself, and others, "What? Why? How?" |
- Dorothy Dix." | - Dorothy Dix." | ||
- | We rather suspect | + | We rather suspect |
Some wish to be as tough as the toughest, so they join -parties whose members are a bit stronger, and walk a bit faster than they themselves. Then they have to barge along with their eyes on the ground all the time lest they stub a toe, or stumble. They certainly toughen themselves, and develop wonderful appetites, but they don't see a thing of the country through which they are walking, or of the plants and animals, birds and insects that live there. | Some wish to be as tough as the toughest, so they join -parties whose members are a bit stronger, and walk a bit faster than they themselves. Then they have to barge along with their eyes on the ground all the time lest they stub a toe, or stumble. They certainly toughen themselves, and develop wonderful appetites, but they don't see a thing of the country through which they are walking, or of the plants and animals, birds and insects that live there. | ||
- | For a really enjoyable trip, most of us go out with parties of about our own standard (with, for preference, one or two people in the party who are slightly slower than we are). Then we have time to look at things as we walk, glancing | + | For a really enjoyable trip, most of us go out with parties of about our own standard (with, for preference, one or two people in the party who are slightly slower than we are). Then we have time to look at things as we walk, glancing |
- | Yes, certainly, the first point in bushcraft is to take time to see things. And the second is to learn to know them by name. As you go, a question or so - - *What's that bird?", | + | Yes, certainly, the first point in bushcraft is to take time to see things. And the second is to learn to know them by name. As you go, a question or so - - "What's that bird?", |
- | Another | + | Another |
- | Does this all sound rather studious* and " | + | Does this all sound rather studious, and " |
- | faot, it is next door to childish. Do you remember how you used to admire the "Red Injuns"? | + | Let us all "play Injuns" |
- | Let us all "play Injuns" | + | Let us, rather, remember our early loves, the " |
- | love to see the bush in its primitive beauty. We want to see it like that this xvol:- end, next month, next year* and through many happy years to come, If, in our t1;41. walking, we resemble a herd of elephants, how much bush will there be left for us to enjoy next year? | + | Do let us all "play Injuns" |
- | Let us, rather, remember our early laves, the " | + | ===== Bush Walker Ballads ===== |
- | Do let us all "play Injuns": | + | ==== 1. Young Smithers ==== |
- | psm.,....11 | + | By K.M. |
- | BUSH WALTER BALLS | + | Young Smithers was a weedy youth who pushed a clerkly pen.\\ |
+ | They said: "Why don't you come and tramp the Bush, where Men are Men?\\ | ||
+ | Forget your books, forget accounts, forget your twos and fours,\\ | ||
+ | And come and see the wonders of Australia' | ||
- | .1.1 A. Rea - | + | So Smithers, not without a qualm, set off one Sabbath morn,\\ |
+ | And very soon was wishing that he never had been born.\\ | ||
+ | They walked him miles without a break; they said: "Come on, you runt!" | ||
+ | Young Smithers gulped and watched the legs of someone on in front. | ||
- | YOUNG SWITBERS. | + | They crawled through prickly underbrush, they climbed cliff-faces sheer,\\ |
- | + | They leapt across great chasms with the ease of mountain deer;\\ | |
- | By LIE. | + | They cried: "Now there' |
- | + | Be only saw the hairy legs of someone on in front. | |
- | Young Smithers was a weedy youth who pushed a clerkly pen. | + | |
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- | They said: "Why don't you come mid tramp the Bush, where Men are Men? Forget your books, forget accounts, forget your twos and fours, | + | |
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- | And come and see the wonders of Australia' | + | |
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- | So Smithers, not without a qualm, set off one Sabbath morn, ,And very soon was wishing that he never had been born. | + | |
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- | They walked him miles without a break; they said: "Come on, you runtl" Young Smithers gulped and watched the legs of someone on in. front. | + | |
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- | They crawled through prickly underbrush, they climbed cliff...faces sheer, They leapt across great chasms with the ease of mountain deer; They cried: "Now there' | + | |
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- | Downhill they went, uphill they went, rivers they forded too, | + | |
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- | And haw poor Smithers lasted out that day he never knew. Engraved upon his memory throughout that dreadful stunt | + | |
+ | Downhill they went, uphill they went, rivers they forded too, | ||
+ | And how poor Smithers lasted out that day he never knew.\\ | ||
+ | Engraved upon his memory throughout that dreadful stunt\\ | ||
Two things alone remained: the legs of someone on in front. | Two things alone remained: the legs of someone on in front. | ||
- | And now alas, his vacant desk proclaims his tragic fate, "Then did he meet his death?" | + | And now alas, his vacant desk proclaims his tragic fate.\\ |
- | + | "Then did he meet his death?" | |
- | Heavy Eaters. | + | Engulfs his mind: he cannot see whole figures as of yore,\\ |
- | + | But only legs, eternally, legs, walking on before. | |
- | "I had a wonderful day, grandmtTIME--. over the hills with a party of trampers, and oh* you should have seen the Devills Gorge*" | + | |
- | "Hush, my child, that is not the way to speak of your companions. I'm sure they | + | ==== Heavy Eaters. ==== |
- | had only healthy appetites." | + | "I had a wonderful day, grandma. |
+ | "Hush, my child, that is not the way to speak of your companions. I'm sure they had only healthy appetites." | ||
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