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- | THE SYDNEY BUS HW A LKER | + | I believe it is because to these members, |
- | A Mnnthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sj(iney Bushwalkers, | + | |
- | No.112 m:Y7 1944 Price Lld, | + | |
- | .Editors C. Kinsella Productionl Yvonne Rolfe | + | |
- | AsSist. G. Jolly Assistant Alice Wyborn. | + | |
- | J51-14-Manager: | + | |
- | CONTENTS ;I. | + | |
- | . Page | + | |
- | Cotte? River .:',O ;421 Alex Colley 2 | + | |
- | 76 The Coachwood ,,.., 044 Abf:res Australis 4 | + | |
- | Sunmer Days on Tumbltidown Ckc. Alice Wyborn 5. | + | |
- | Nerar4:2 (,,c.. .., Ubi , 6 | + | |
- | Wnat I've Heard z. 0..- t.. 8 | + | |
- | Letters from Lads. :). CO] Gent 8 | + | |
- | Letters to the Editor .. ,,. 10 | + | |
- | Our Own Meeting C04 C40 444 IL | + | |
- | An EnglishmanTs impression of the Bush, Dr, Thomas Wood in " | + | |
- | All day we had the sombre bush, a twisting road, and the sky. Colours sank to. a few greens and greys, spaced with a brown or two and the endlessly varied glimDeee caught by the eye f,..se into one in the memory - a track walled in by ta:neE, bridged across by cloud. Monotonous? Yes, In the unim-r.Lginable number of trees which make the bush, the individual beauty of each is swalloli7eai Only the mass remaiils,. Tt has 1.1:) cha-c. Its one | + | |
- | beauty is colour. Take that alivay and what is left'? In Australia, nothing, Worse than nothing i if seen at zpeed, Than its vastness is brought home to you, rammed It eternal brooding silence chdile you like winter cold, I never felt when I was In the Bush or going th:ruV it, that it wished,. me larm; | + | |
- | in a tropical forest, waiting for a chance to strike. -.a soMething that:made me start and look over my-shoulder, | + | |
- | COTTER RIVER | + | |
- | by Alex Colley. | + | |
- | In March 1937, Bill Hall and I, locking for new country for a ten day walk, noticed on the map Tiicunt Binberi. 6,274 ft. high, with several other mountains of o' | + | |
- | Cotter R17er, abf0; 25 rLesIlrJns on the map. That was all we knew | + | |
- | when we Get crA .rorcr, Fr.,-071 Corra along the road to the Cotter dam, We | + | |
- | were picked 1:e, 1De- a rc,nt Inglhnian who couldn' | + | |
- | -up to but wcs th pu: | + | |
- | Let it be said ever, we ha-7,1 always thought highly of him, for not only did he save 1.0 en maa of road walking, but he took us over a path to a point well 7.170 the dam, where he left us, proferring no caution and asking no question!, | + | |
- | Most of that afternoon we walked in the water along the rocky river bed. Only occasionally die wo leavo tbe stream for the steep banks covered with stiff, wiry, thorny g-fot:1, VIG canped that night on a shele covered hillock next the river, having covered about a mile and a half by the map. Next | + | |
- | day was much the same We developed a technique of following the bankh on the inner sides of bends, often rising far above the river and scrambling down the precipitous slopes where the river had cut in before deflecting round the end of a ridge. The only place we could find to cane was a small patch of grass in a hollow - all right if it didn't rain. It did, and midnight found us sitting on a rock with our pecks watching the water swirl through the tent. There was nothing for it but to crawl up the hill-side and pitch camp on the stones, That day we had covered three miles by the map (so far as we could tell), Next afternonn we were overjoyed to come upon Ginini Creek and nearby a f at with white gums and grass. We did five miles that day. There was more rcil": | + | |
- | My net vie w.of the Cotter was at Easter 1939 (those who were on the trip please omit this paragraph). This was in the good old days when there was petrol. Fourteen club members were induced to part with L2/14/7 each and we hired a PiOneer' | + | |
- | a beautiful. flats loped up to the Cotter homestead, climbed Bimberi, sped down the other side to Gurrangorambla, | + | |
- | 3. | + | |
- | But time is kind. It obliteratss oar sufferings, and Easter, 1944 found eleven of is once men, bound for the Cottsr, This time there was no petrol, so We had to waLk roade; throuh 9 miles of arid sheeP country then 7 | + | |
- | miles, mostly uphill along a dry creekbed, and 4 More miles uphill along a road. This was our first day 7 from whinh we didnit recoTer, The next day | + | |
- | was 12 miles along a track, according to t're,e mp It was meant to be an easy, | + | |
- | day with good scenery, it would ha7e beenif the t..i arek had still existed, but as we found out the tracks on the Federal Capital Territory male in this region have mostly disappeared long ago, Howeverthree cf the unblietered and one blistered member of the party found time to rush up Mount Kelly. | + | |
- | a (6,001 ft) and obtained one Of the best views in the district - a complete panorama, including Jaglingal, the Kosclue)ho plateau, the Fiery Range, all the mountains on either side of the Cotter, the Murrumbidgee plains and the . | + | |
- | Tinderry Range, Each mountain in the foreground was a separate peak, so that there was no continuous range on any side to obstruct the vie w; It was a splendid 'vista of granite cape rounded mountain masses and distant peaks. Right beneath were some beautiful little upland flats dotted with snow-gums, | + | |
- | Next morning, after walking for over 3 hours at a steady 3 m p.h, we had covered a track marked 6t miles on the ma.-e, In the aftrnnon the blistered ones got an early start and went up Kangeroo Creek, where there was supposed to be a track, The unblistered, | + | |
- | must be on the ridge above the Creek and started up to look for it This was | + | |
- | a bad mistake, It is psychologically impossible to come down a mountain from half way up, There were calls for a while, Once they sounded quite near. Tho ones on topthought the others were half way up, The ones below thought the others-were half way down. So both parties waited half an hour. The ones | + | |
- | below were s itting on the track.- quite godd one The ones on top climbed and climbed, inevitably, right to the top of the highest mountain in the vicinityl Mount McKeahnie then along the ridge top over granite boulders and through wet succulent undergrowth, | + | |
- | Back at the railway station we were glad to find that the Sectlands had turned up, On the- first day they haft staysc[ to tend a wounaed calf stuek between two roe17.0 They had a map with the rfmte marked but mis-ed us rihen we | + | |
- | deviated from the course for a few miles and didn't find us again, hed we stayed to look for them we would probably have had to spend th whole four days in the sheep country, | + | |
- | This st-o' | + | |
- | early days of the Club when the Southern Blue Mountains was new country. Now, thanks te.MilasTunphy, | + | |
- | MAY THE COACTNOOD BE EXTERMINATED ? | + | |
- | By Abores Australis. | + | |
- | The coachwood (csratopetnlum apeta]um) is the tree with green glossy leaves like- thtpse of the sassafras, but without their aromitic smell, with flowers like the Christmas bush, and with a tendency for the base of the trunk to be Trramid in shape because | + | |
- | Its danger of extinction lies in the fact that it has not been found how to propagate it It is noticed that along the upturned soil of a new road; it may spring up like wheat!, but although the seed may duly germinate in nurseries, o nTe:' it has never been grown in forests artificially, | + | |
- | been laid bare and there are now plantations of it The same must be done in respect of coachwood) and the Forestry Department has its eye on a promising young student, who alDpoars to have a flair for this kind of thing, and has sent him to Sydnoy Uni7ersity for a special course of training. In a few years time he will set to work on the coachwood and other trees, but at the earliest it will be many years before we feel secure about the coaehrood. | + | |
- | Meanwhile the timber of this tree is in tremendous demand, It is a' hard soft-woad of cven and consistent grain so that it can be cut into very fine plywood useful for making) among other things,' | + | |
- | to make the wooden heels of ladiest shoes, One small way in which bushwalkers | + | |
- | might help to preserve the coachwood until it is learned how to propagate it, would be to give up wearing or admiring high-heeled shoes; | + | |
- | When the tree is cut under the supervision of the Forestry Department it iv very carefully taken out3. only' | + | |
- | Even more fatal to the life of the coachwood than our desire to destroy Japanese people. or wear high-heeled shoes, is our failure to keep bush | + | |
- | fires in check. It is only in the state forests that there is any fire- prevention scheme in working order, Outside the state forests the fires | + | |
- | spread unchecked every year; especially in primitive virgin country; and | + | |
- | as we all know, once our brush country is swept by fires there is no possibility of itsregeheration in our-life-time and possibly never, and the | + | |
- | coachwood, which lives on the humus of decayed leaves, suffers irretrievably, | + | |
- | SUMMER DAYS.MTUMBI=RN CR1]R, | + | |
- | ee-Pi,ier oaks etchakagainsta' | + | |
- | By Alice Wyborn. | + | |
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- | -We 'had been., | + | |
- | -6x.PsIcLifnt fishing at the: | + | |
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- | 'Creek (also knoTrA as.Fiea' | + | |
- | justifieathe'' | + | |
- | 0-or tent was quickly erected on a lovely green flat surrounded by Lnk blossomed briar roses,and we then went eIeJloring, | + | |
- | . After leaving Brindat;' | + | |
- | roar and sweeps in an abrupt turn to the north-west, The creek was flowing; ,-crystal clear, and its lovely green flats and ferny banks make an ideal .,. Spot for peaceful camping, | + | |
- | We enjoyed perfect weather for swimming and explering the river ind creek, and in -t;he evenings we went fishing when the last rays of the sun), shining et' | + | |
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- | . One day we went five miles u-o the creek' which we found to be vt,ry. pretty, and after leaVing th e. cool green glades, climbed out on a long ridge, cur -objective being the,summit of Nt, | + | |
- | ilact lunch. and enjoyed a wonderful panorama of the surrounding country and could look back over tbe mountains and plain S we h ,d traversed the previous week:: ,Away to the east was the city of Canberra, its white buildings just visible in the sunlight, and the water in th-e dotter Dam sparkling like a deep blue sapphire,. The trip back to camp as made in much quicker time, for we were anxioUs to get back t.0 our, | + | |
- | Never did we tire of scrambling among the rocks on the river and wandering through the cool glades of the creek, inhabited by many varieties of birds and plenty of rabbits, The latter would sit up at our approach; eyeing us curiously before scurrying away to their burrows, with little white tails bobbing, | + | |
- | , | + | |
- | NERANG | + | |
- | - By " | + | |
- | Nobody could claim we encouraged the dog - not at first anyway, Having alighted frem the tr en we set eff in the heavy rain to look for the show- | + | |
- | ground., ,The night q4i.5' pitch blaek, we were drawn into our ground-sheets like | + | |
- | snails before a r3-nell of salt and the dog did not possess a single white hair, However, as we beael eeeAleg arcund in a pertially built sawmill looking for shelter our suee-l-ieee that we were being shadowed were confirmed, We did not actually see the anienal but vaguely referred to it as " | + | |
- | Nevertheless in the morning light everything appeared irtact until | + | |
- | we found only the top of the pineapple remaining but, until further evidence | + | |
- | was forthcoming, | + | |
- | We moved fcr breakfast to the shcwground - the dog followed, Here, | + | |
- | all ye hard-hearted, | + | |
- | inherit the Kingdom of Eeave-o. - we gave that dog the remainder of the steak. Of course the dog new showed marked attention in keeeing up with us but | + | |
- | as it was collarless afad apparently ownerless we did not begin to worry | + | |
- | until just before lunch when we se6rztenly rialisedthat the position was acute as we could not feed the animal and we could not induce it to leave us I | + | |
- | concocted a plan en' | + | |
- | spirited argumentatica so: a neme seeming desirable, we christened her ' | + | |
- | ' someness if keet much lorger7 she received her sh,re. She also received some | + | |
- | caka which the3r.Dtally ehould hqve been eaten before this and which I | + | |
- | thought a good eeeral:: eeeeuee for feeding to the addition of our party. As at breakfast andf:ar- flrr, Narane proved the case for heredity over environment by taking no ieterest in our food or attempting to beg; she merely lay | + | |
- | down and slept and gratefully accepted what was given her. | + | |
- | When we arrived at Binna Burra our real worries began. The guests in | + | |
- | an excess of sympathy all remarked 9n the thinness. of " | + | |
- | of pity produced numerous morsels from the kitchen. Nerang ate them but | + | |
- | refused to leave us and kept coming into the dining room-whenever the door was | + | |
- | left open, But did she obstruct or annoy the guests? No she dropped at our feet and slept entil we attempted to move, Uncertain of the welcome dog would recoiae at Binna Burra we repeatedly denied ownership in wards not harsh but indiffeeent, | + | |
- | We were ho-.eed in a tiny attic reached by a ladder in which it was | + | |
- | obviously impospible to have a dog yet Nerang commenced to howl down below. We breathed a few soothing words and, as though satisfied with our', | + | |
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- | ten feet abov,:h c4led up under a seat beside the wall and did-:' | + | |
- | were lotent,' | + | |
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- | All day day ahotte, | + | |
- | of the party except whene, | + | |
- | instinct for keeping the rd together, I suppose. It wes still veste of | + | |
- | time attempting to light a fire at lunch-time so more sauseges were doled out to Nerang who was probably being better fed than ever in her life before. Just | + | |
- | as we, Nerang caught her quota of leeches Head occasionIlly had to be de- leeched a proces6 to wilich she submitted with extreme docility, with as much apparent understanding as' a human being nc1 with much less squealing than some. | + | |
- | Further problems arose at u' | + | |
- | two schools - those primarily worried that the other dogs would harm Nerang | + | |
- | and those concerned that his (sorry, her) howling mieht disturb their sleep. For, after having ' | + | |
- | quietly...We could have easily solved the problem by having Nerang sleep outside the door of our hut but, alas7 in the yard were numerous small ducks at large, | + | |
- | A keen debate followed and the guests arguments were so distressing that we decided. to risk Nerang in the bedroom, So, dragging a mat a8 far from my bed as possible,.I put Nerang on it and before you could say "Jack Robinson" | + | |
- | The breakf-t' | + | |
- | This morning Nerang had a nar-ow escape from a snake which I had seen and avoided. She was at my. heels but when I jumped aside she stopped within inches of the saeake' | + | |
- | coaxed her away. She, joined in our next snake hunt with more fun than appreciation of danger for when our six foo;; black friend was surrounded he was quite vicious, | + | |
- | The next great event in Nerang' | + | |
- | Whenever we met anyone we expatiated on Nerang' | + | |
- | the train, Nerang Wduld h-eeieeto remain, - I had-a scheme for distracting her atten' tion at the last moment with some sausages but. the town TpoSsessed no such luxuries. Instead, as the train ran through the fieq ds Nerang ran after it until even | + | |
- | her training of sixty six miles in three days was of no avail. | + | |
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- | 8. | + | |
- | WHAT I'VE HEARD 1 | + | |
- | The Easter ,holidays brought the Bushwalkers 0.0 in crowds, but it is doubtful if the bue'll feels any better for the holiday. Canberra must be suffering badly frohl searched earth, ' | + | |
- | ino u i s f three and one over. The re-union at the | + | |
- | staticn o ast;-:r MorEclay, when two parties of eight and one part of five, came 1...51 7.as cvrything that could be expected, and everYthirq that could be expe3ted, vdas said.' | + | |
- | Another doubtfu l.ben efit has been conferred on the country down south, This part of the country' | + | |
- | of a full set of teeth (upper). 'This, or these were not abandoned in th'at first fine careless rapture that hblidays inspire but deliber, | + | |
- | Many members | + | |
- | We owe, rzid offer profuse apologies to Mr..W.Mullins. Bill, we hear was married a- f711i7 n()nths ago to Sheila White, and this oversight on our part occurred bnli we were unable to contact someone who had been at the ceremony. We the happy couple think so less of ,ur congratulations for being extended so late. | + | |
- | After Ray Bcan's effort in 1'7,st monthle.Bushwalker., | + | |
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- | LSTT7i3RS FROM TH-11 LADS AND LASSES | + | |
- | Lett:ers were received during April from:- | + | |
- | ji an Ray, C.M.W. Jack Campbell | + | |
- | R'..1; Morrison Tom Moppett | + | |
- | Gordon Upton Keith Benne11 | + | |
- | Gordon Mannell Ron Galley | + | |
- | S1 Norden Jack Watson | + | |
- | Frank Gentle Jack Adams Bruce Simpson | + | |
- | Gordo 7 - F1.: | + | |
- | and besides visiting London | + | |
- | a :r time hae spent a woek on a farthinp.; 7.)roperty in Yorkshire, I | + | |
- | havo also spen som) little time in and ar-our-cl. -Glasgow, aerdeen and Efinb,:rgh. Pe,;ently I spent a wk in and Dround 3lasgo7 and WiS able o m ke ).1) | + | |
- | C he Scottish Illg o..1FInds as far as Lo- 'a Lomond, I wa:- fortunnto | + | |
- | the HiFIniands wt-re un,.ler snow durin,; My vipjt and good tiYie was 'had by all, | + | |
- | Tom 10-7-44, I am glad to see quitea.-number of members aro | + | |
- | in S' | + | |
- | ubt tht7.-s aJc t1k a lot) like exTerts, Go"od thing, Im all for ito By | + | |
- | 1L-... way I bhol lgh 12,12t 7i=liera, story cf his involuntary snow tri-p to Kallanin. a (I: | + | |
- | its tar too long since-I aw tbm, _Since last August or therabouts walking, cycling and..-photography ha,re been out for 7.r,3, Have Spent leaves in London lookingund and-seeing a few shows, Howsver am beg:inning to look away from the city no* and start counting film, Unfortunattfly will have only three wek o, leave between now and 3rd S-ptember, Have two very p: | + | |
- | Ja: | + | |
- | waihr when Ne7 Brue passed away suddenly, A decent chap Nev, It is splendid to know that Bill Cawood is at last -home - bet he can't get his ruchsaand, | + | |
- | police s-potted at-gorth.Bra. Good to know th73.t Era will co at | + | |
- | ., | + | |
- | last pre se rved,fors and posterity, I read yesterday in our "News. Lette.' | + | |
- | in and Robert Bur s home q.-t Allaway, beside pictur,Fque Edirburgh " | + | |
- | again s,-,on, . | + | |
- | 2=oi-:res Straits 26,-3/44, -1.t's about time I replied to your relcome le-ctc,r tt6 ,11:," inst.; whi,ch-T received on the.4th, I've been kept bupy lately, bef ng engaged ou prining wcr" | + | |
- | a-r swe7 - please excu-3,3 t[ad:F. delayed..re ply, Thanks very mu,-:b for se_nding | + | |
- | c1la177.a:: | + | |
- | 10. | + | |
- | LETTERS TO TI-1 EDITOR | + | |
- | May T. cpace in the " | + | |
- | to three rdat5 ,.).f interest appearing in the April issue of The Sydney | + | |
- | Bushwu:l ks:r,: wh iCa I hare just received? | + | |
- | They | + | |
- | (a) :TYCOP= SPELLING OF NATIVE FLORA. | + | |
- | I shoul lil:e to support Mr. David D.- Stead' | + | |
- | This is, as Mr. Stead says, a very im-)ortant matter, more particularly having regard to the wide circulTtion of the Club Magazine. Such a Journal often beeomes a document of reference and it is in my opinion most essential that any matter anpearinre in it should be as correct as possible. The same could be sAd of the Club's l' | + | |
- | riOlt spirier. ' ,hose concerned and will have the desired result, at the sime time hac-e the eCfect of drawing attention to the desirability of having Place-names correctly spelt also. | + | |
- | (b) THE BLUE LABYRINTH INCIDENT, | + | |
- | Hearty congratulations to Ray. Bean for his " | + | |
- | (c) DRIED FRUITS & VEGOTABLOS. RAY KIRKBY' | + | |
- | I would refer all interested to a pamphlet available on a:nlication to the Tt1m Angliss Food Trades School o Melbourne, Vid., (associ=)ted with, I understand, the Technical Col,ege) for some ver7 interesting- information on this subject and that of 5 simple home-made Dehydrator. | + | |
- | I am, etc. | + | |
- | Jci3EH V * | + | |
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- | 11, | + | |
- | .. , , -, | + | |
- | LETTERS TO THE EDITORJCONTD) | + | |
- | With Pay Beemis open letter many of us mwst, agree. Many Bush | + | |
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- | walker ,ore intolerant, They look down on other walkers, oCner clubs,. other r embers of their own olub. They are particularly intolerant of the non-bushwrIlker publics They don't ilk:: picnickers, they don't like socats, they don't like shacks, they don't like aliens, they don:t like motorists, Wild statements often made about frmers' | + | |
- | o. | + | |
- | I believe it is because to these members, buAliiaiking | + | |
- | Ci*er-indulgence in bushwalking is as bad as over-indulgence in alcohol, or picture-shows. My advice to those affliCted with the habit is to get out and look at the world - and fight it, if need be. Ta-Sr to' make' one -chaugeolon' | + | |
- | :RUBY PAYNE-SCOTT. | + | |
- | OUR | + | |
- | ' , | + | |
- | Mr. David Stead was in the ,chair.. | + | |
- | Resignation of Office-beei-s: | + | |
- | Miso7-2 3e-erley Druce was cilected-Ao-n; | + | |
- | 12, | + | |
- | .OUR OWN- MEETING (CONTD) - | + | |
- | Da-771 771..-F welcomed as a new member and Mrs. Devitt of Woodhill, | + | |
- | Wa3 11.7aI,?. an Hon0Membe..r4 | + | |
- | Mr, C.7:11ey c17...x attention to a press notice on fire in N,Itional Park, pl' | + | |
- | Soil 1-2, | + | |
- | T1)-17: 2;7,:rd appreciated our letter re siltation of ljarragamba DamJ | + | |
- | Stcp.3 ars big takento' | + | |
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- | TO A BILLY | + | |
- | Old Billy-battered brown, D,nd block With many davs of cam-,Ding, Companion of the bulging sack, | + | |
- | And friend in all our tramping: Hcw often on the Friday night- | + | |
- | Your cubic measure testing-- | + | |
- | Ti-,h jam and tea we stuffed you tight | + | |
- | Before we started nesting: | + | |
- | How often, in the.. moonlight pale, Through gumE, | + | |
- | T:Tafirst io Watch you boiling; Who2 at the lane the tent Wa spread. | + | |
- | _ The iF,ilver wattle-under | + | |
- | AT.).d early shaft & of rosy red | + | |
- | Cleft sea-born miots asunder' | + | |
- | And so, old Billy, you recall | + | |
- | A hod: of sun-burnt faces, And bring us back again to all | + | |
- | The best of camping places, . True flavor of the bush you bear, | + | |
- | Of camp and its surrounding, | + | |
- | Of freedom and of open Air, . | + | |
- | Of healthy life abounding. | + | |
- | You bring us more--with those we love Tre watched you boil : nd bubble And in the sunny skis above | + | |
- | Forgot each schb lboy trouble:: So not withoUt a 14n4y. glance. | + | |
- | r'e eye you in the study, | + | |
- | Although you've met with some Although you're bl ck and muddy:. | + | |
- | James L.Cuthbortson(1851-1910) | + |
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