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- | EVOLUTION | + | =====Evolution |
- | My aiscoveries | + | |
- | For the present, however, we were restricted to near-city areas and bean | + | by "Ubi". |
- | to receive offers of lifts though we were safeguarded by other transnort | + | |
- | The first premeditated " | + | My discoveries |
- | At this stage of my evolution a lift arranged beforehand by inter-change of letters or spoken sentences in a reasonable approximation to the King's English seemed quite legitimate but to express one' | + | |
- | world lay just outside our Tantalus grasp. "For all experience is an arch | + | For the present, however, we were restricted to near-city areas and began to receive offers of lifts though we were safeguarded by other transport |
- | where through gleams that untravelled world that fades for ever and forever | + | |
- | as I move" sighed Ulysses and beyond our reach rose peak after peak dimly seen, haunting names which could become haunting memories if only | + | The first premeditated " |
- | At last frustration became unbearable so I decided upon 11. " | + | |
- | decided, in desperation, | + | At this stage of my evolution a lift arranged beforehand by inter-change of letters or spoken sentences in a reasonable approximation to the King's English seemed quite legitimate but to express one' |
- | large sedan so I modestly cast my eyes down. The car stopped, I was invited | + | |
- | 3. | + | At last frustration became unbearable so I decided upon a " |
- | and off we went. I happened, to mention that Cunninghamle | + | |
My notes record a very cheap trip on May Day week-end - a very appropriate time for the working and walking classes - to wit, 40 miles by truck, 60 by train and tram home for 2/2d. | My notes record a very cheap trip on May Day week-end - a very appropriate time for the working and walking classes - to wit, 40 miles by truck, 60 by train and tram home for 2/2d. | ||
- | My having been to Cunningham' | + | |
- | Just before lunch the next day we left the Gap retharking | + | My having been to Cunningham' |
- | ins, few minutes the driver took up to Mt.Edwards although the only indication to him of our hopes had been telepathic. Upon resuming after lunch and a diversion up the mountain we had a very barren time until transport just froze and there is nothing more annoying to a hitcher than nothing to hitch; I was just mentally calculating how long it would take to walk 29 miles when, once again just at dusk, salvation came in the form of an American | + | |
- | It must not be assumed that hitching does not require technique. This weekend, for example, our limousine episode caused us furiously to think with the result that we put out a new method of attack for sedans which will give some idea of the psychological problems which have to be grappled with Having gathered that a sedan is approaching from behind the best idea is not to look around until the driver is sufficiently close to be able to see you clearly. Then look back with quick expectancy giving the impression that you would have possibly hitched, had the vehicle been a broken-down truck but | + | Just before lunch the next day we left the Gap remarking |
- | with a sedan it is different. This display of humility and sense of proportion has a good effect on the driver, puts him on his mettle and seems to | + | |
- | afford him an opportunity to improve his releutation-addshow | + | It must not be assumed that hitching does not require technique. This weekend, for example, our limousine episode caused us furiously to think with the result that we put out a new method of attack for sedans which will give some idea of the psychological problems which have to be grappled with. Having gathered that a sedan is approaching from behind the best idea is not to look around until the driver is sufficiently close to be able to see you clearly. Then look back with quick expectancy giving the impression that you would have possibly hitched, had the vehicle been a broken-down truck but with a sedan it is different. This display of humility and sense of proportion has a good effect on the driver, puts him on his mettle and seems to afford him an opportunity to improve his reputation and show he can be decent to the lower economic |
- | Unfortunstely the milk lorry posit: | + | |
- | lying across the middle of the road to sleep ae it was most unlikely that late goods trein, resulting in the formulation of a plan which consisted of | + | Unfortunstely the milk lorry position |
- | another vehicle would happen along this road betw4: | + | |
- | A fortnight later Frank and I wanted to catch this truck and, ",being a holiday weekend, we knew that WE MUST NOT FAIL. We had gained the additional information that before leaving town the driver picked up meat at a certain | + | A fortnight later Frank and I wanted to catch this truck and, being a holiday weekend, we knew that WE MUST NOT FAIL. We had gained the additional information that before leaving town the driver picked up meat at a certain |
- | Thus have I been forced from the orthodox to the unorthodox and thus have some Of my pet prejudices been iminhandled, | + | |
- | our destination, | + | Thus have I been forced from the orthodox to the unorthodox and thus have some of my pet prejudices been manhandled. |
- | 5. | + | |
- | -G-I' | + | ---- |
- | by ilex Coll' | + | |
- | It sometimes hapnens that canoeists, beceuse of the lack of water "eanike" long distences, and Talkers | + | =====Gingera.===== |
- | In April the mountains had been whitehed | + | |
- | Our first camp in the mountains was somewhat of an experiment. How cold would it be? We chose a sheltered spot out of the wind, prepared a bed of bark and grass, put large logs on the fire to keep it going and slept in close phalanx or ' | + | by Alex Colley. |
- | To lighten the next stage of our trip, Doreen and I set off next morning,,. with a load of food, which we left at the site of our base camp, while Jean and Ron " | + | |
- | August, but we knew a warm comfortable hut in a small valley below to which we could retreat if the weather | + | It sometimes hapnens that canoeists, beceuse of the lack of water "canike" long distances, and walkers |
- | and,i t was justified, for on the Southern | + | |
- | So next day we set out, still carrying our skis, an also the remainder | + | In April the mountains had been whitened |
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- | of a weeks food. In the afternoon we really used our skis. The next couple | + | Our first camp in the mountains was somewhat of an experiment. How cold would it be? We chose a sheltered spot out of the wind, prepared a bed of bark and grass, put large logs on the fire to keep it going and slept in close phalanx or sardine |
- | of days we spent there too. The ski-ing was often quite incidental, except for Ron, who skied so ardently and acrobatically that his knees were & | + | |
- | , stream flowed from the snow field through | + | To lighten the next stage of our trip, Doreen and I set off next morning with a load of food, which we left at the site of our base camp, while Jean and Ron " |
- | ' | + | |
- | 6 | + | So next day we set out, still carrying our skis, and also the remainder of a weeks food. In the afternoon we really used our skis. The next couple of days we spent there too. The ski-ing was often quite incidental, except for Ron, who skied so ardently and acrobatically that his knees were strained |
- | and the rugged granite peaks at the head of the Cotter. | + | |
- | Our base camp was sheltered | + | Our base camp was sheltered |
- | I had often ' | + | |
- | After the dayls rain, knowing that much of the snow we had ntt-Worn | + | I had often thought |
- | . . | + | |
- | JNI?it..day we -parked the skis against a tree and set Off for Bimberi. The ridge proved too-broken-for Us to get there that day. We were not disappointedi | + | After the day' |
- | eyonl, | + | |
- | And unreal. Slowly the clouds | + | Next day we parked the skis against a tree and set off for Bimberi. The ridge proved too broken for us to get there that day. We were not disappointed, |
- | 7. | + | |
- | In the morning we started back, wondering how we would get do ,in to the Brindabella Valley with our s'leis. But it proved easy and the following evening found us camped by the swift-flowing, | + | In the morning we started back, wondering how we would get down to the Brindabella Valley with our skis. But it proved easy and the following evening found us camped by the swift-flowing, |
- | Next morning we arrived at Brind-Lbella Pos:t Office where we were glad: to | + | |
- | \ leave our skis after their 40 mile journey | + | For a few miles below the Post Office the River flowed through a rough gorge, but we followed a wide easy track over the foothills and camped under the casuarinas at the Junction |
- | , before. Here we were joined by Joan Hunter and Jean Thirgood who came out in the mail-car to meet us. | + | |
- | For a few" Mlles' | + | Next afternoon we went up Tumbledown Creek till we came to Flea Creek, a clear rocky little stream flowing under casuarinas |
- | the casuarinas at the Junction | + | |
- | the middle Cox, except that the River was larger and so far unsilted. | + | In the morning |
- | Next afternoon we went up Tumbledown Creek till we came to Flea Creek, a clear rocky little stream'flowing under casuarin; | + | |
- | flats. A little way up Flea Greek we "got among" the trout, as the fishermen say, Not that we tried to catch. them of course. That would have been But one member of the party was so overcome by the sight Of 15 large ,fresh fish in a clear pool throe feet deep, that he plunged in and started | + | This was the last of our never-to-be-forgotten campsites. Here we left the intrepid Jean and Joan to journey through the trackless pine forests to the Cotter Dam and thence to the Mount Stromlo turn-off where they were met by a car/ |
- | needed wiping, Ital. sure the trout enjoyed the fun aff much as we did. ' | + | |
- | In the mopning | + | Now we are back in buildings and streets, working as we must, but just around |
- | Half way up we had our first view of Came, which rooked | + | |
- | pictures I have seen of the Tasmanian | + | ---- |
- | ing mountans41 | + | |
- | while just below nestled a little clearing on Condor Creek, our, campsite-for that night. But it' | + | |
- | This was the last of our never-to-be-forgotten campsites-. Here we left the intrepid Jean and Joan to journey through the trackless pine forests to the Cotter Dam amd thence to the Mount Stromlo turn-off where they were net by a car, | + | |
- | Now we are back in buildings and streets,. working as we,must, but | + | |
- | just araund | + | |
- | 8, | + | |
OCTOBER NEWS | OCTOBER NEWS | ||
Alust to offset the touch conditions imposed by the Railway Comissioners, | Alust to offset the touch conditions imposed by the Railway Comissioners, |
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