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- | |Warragambe-Wollindilly Wanderings|" | + | |Warragamba-Wollindilly Wanderings|" |
|Evolution of a Bush Walker|" | |Evolution of a Bush Walker|" | ||
- | |Bushwalker' | + | |Bushwalker' |
|Saving Lives or Saving Flowers|" | |Saving Lives or Saving Flowers|" | ||
|Hot News!!|" | |Hot News!!|" | ||
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+ | =====Warragamba-Wollondilly Week-End Wanderings - Part 1.===== | ||
- | ,WAI.ZRA: | + | by " |
- | A' | + | A story of weekendS in the land of plenty, complete with Introduction and two parts: |
- | two parts: | + | |
- | PAiat I in this is,SUti, ,oUtlines ()Ili. 'sojourn' | + | Part I. - in this issue - outlines our sojourn with feminine |
- | companionship ("Ah; wo1 Woel we | + | |
- | . PAT next isSue "OhlIt1.1 | + | Part II. - next issue - "Oh!, I' |
- | weekendS in the* land of plenty, c:omplete Int' | + | |
- | with women,: arid without. k | + | ====Introduction:==== |
- | u, fair maid." | + | |
- | INT ROD5CT ION : | + | This scene is laid in the Public Library, where I am poring over books and old mining |
- | This se ene is. laid in the Public Library | + | |
- | , | + | Seeking out Ron and telling him all, I soon have him dazzled by dreams of lazy affluence (an attractive vision, to a Public Servant!) It is easy to list the articles we can jettison from our packs to make room for the treasure, and we do a slight moan that Paddy packs were built for only about 70-80 lbs., wondering meanwhile if our backs will take the strain, even at umpteen pounds an ounce. Gold - and all we have to do is find those bars, and sit on our haunches, panning. |
- | datt5 Suddenly, 's-ba*.t into c-,iopc entVation I, and both eyes swing. towax4/4.41-1,6"-.T;eport'; for it | + | |
- | tells where some go ld is, or, rb:the4.i. It descries | + | We decide to risk letting others in on the secret, wherefore we invite Mavis and Betty to accompany us. " |
- | locality where" | + | |
- | my eagerness | + | The scene it set, and we are about to depart for our present-day Aladdin' |
- | . . , | + | |
- | the 'report instruct me to look aLb11g | + | ====Part I. - Some Bait Is Lousey - Really Lousey.==== |
+ | |||
+ | As with all zero days, this particular Friday dawns fine and clear; and so does it remain until a ring from Betty, saying that she cannot come because she has to work on Saturday morning, Then a later ring to say her charms have clicked, so that she is not working after all, and will meet us at Penrith by a later train. We other three board the scheduled loco, bemoaning our fate at having to wait at Penrith, in lieu of moving immediately towards our golden glory. However, just after leaving Blacktown, a huge rucsac comes wandering down the corridor, and who should be struggling behind it but the self-same Betty! On leaving work, she has rushed home to Cremorne and back to Central in 45 minutes (no, not walking all the way) to catch the train, but not knowing we are on it, has remained (and recovered) in another carriage. Being a true Bushwalker, her time has not been wasted, for she has shelled the peas, assisted by a volunteering stranger who fell for the age-old gag. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The bus roars out of Penrith with the whole quartet aboard. At Wallacia, we are prevailed upon to partake of a meal, just to be sociable with the member who hasn't eaten for two days, or so her story runs. This over, we at last hit the road. All around the undulating pasture land is bathed in gentle moonlight and our eager glances reveal our interest in the scene, especially in the road behind us. When about mid-way, our backward glances are rewarded; headlights on the skyline! Quickly, we exhort the girls to do their best - or else! They stand by the road with bewitching smiles, leaning somewhat forward as if their packs were heavy; doing their best to look demure whilst adroitly looking captivating. Yet all their charms are shown in vain, and oh! you should hear the epithets as the vehicle - a utility, mind you, just built for four, and empty at that - whizzes by unheeding! The air is thick with dust, but thicker still with vehement invective. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Midnight finds us entering Silverdale, an attractive little hamlet, in scattered seclusion on a ridge-top bathed in moonlight. The plan is to take the track which leads down to he junction of Monkey Ck. and the Warragamba, another three miles, but to find the track from the village seems a problem. Our hopes rise when down the road we hear voices, raised in song, albeit unmelodious. We stop the party and then step back - we require respite from the barrage of liquor fumes surrounding them! Our questioning is met with drunken laughter "What! Go down to Monkey Creek? Tonight? You can't do that, even in daylight. There just isn't any track!" | ||
+ | |||
+ | This we do forthwith, our ardour for the gold untramelled by their assurances of the impossibility of our plans. At the local hall, we fill the buckets and after wandering through someone' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Next morning, we have a lazy awakening, followed by a late start - why should prospective millionaires waste energy on an early getaway. Down at the Junction, we find the camp site as bad as its reputation, but as this is to be our fixed camp for the weekend we endeavour to make ourselves comfortable. The river is very low, and very muddy, but being full of the latest issue of the mag. with its article on how to catch perch without effort, we immediately set the line. Thereafter, every hour, we replace the ever missing bait. We begin to wonder whether we read the article aright; were the fish to feed us, or were we to feed the fish? Eventual conclusion is that this bait is as futile as last night's hitchhiking bait. | ||
+ | |||
+ | From the point of view of gold, the spot is not quite up to scratch, either. If there were a bar, then the heavy deposits of mud at and above water level would be concealing | ||
+ | |||
+ | At night, it rains steadily, and in the morning the river is up three feet, with the heavens weeping still. Wonderful excuse to lie in bed, for who wants to wander up the Warragamba in the rain? It clears at midday, but is now too late to wander far afield, so we give the gold away - just temporarily - with Ron and me deciding to return next weekend. | ||
+ | |||
+ | To the bitter end, the line remains hopefully in the river, but always with the same result - no bait and no fish. It is left behind to dry, and await our return next weekend and there it still remains. Seventy five yards of 45 lbs. breaking strain green linen line on a little ledge in the cave to just above the camping flat; a treasure for the finder. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Here endeth the first instalment. You were warned what a tale of woe it would be. Yet have no fear, for the second instalment is in much happier strain. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====In Gratitude.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The staff of the " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | Fraser Ratcliffe is leaving us. Before the next issue goes to print, he will be off for Perth, via Broken Hill. To quote him, he is going "to seek gold, fame and fortune." | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====River Canoe Club - Topographical Section.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mr. Ted Caines Phillips, 39 Silver Street, St. Peters, convenor of the above section, advises that the following map is now on display at Paddy' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Patonga Creek (Lower Hawkesbury River). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Map No.36. Complete tidal section. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Evolution? | ||
+ | |||
+ | By Trouper B.C. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 'Tis a pity my late friend and scientist Darwin were not alive today, for S.B.W. to him would be merely another observation in Evolution. Mean ter' say; Just think, What food for thought! Picture man's rise and fall along the following lines: | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====1. Sunday Hiker: | ||
+ | |||
+ | His luv' for the bush with a woman under one arm, a bottle of fizz(?) in the other, two Sunday papers characteristically scattered as though a paper chase were the order of the day - and, note, rarely more than 1/2 mile from the nearest railway station. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====2. Bushwalker: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Here we see improvement; | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Rock Climber: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Not being the artist of the cartoon aside, I am privileged to say it is inadequate. No sketch can portray the madness of the game! The climber surveys the rock face for suitable finger holds and after becoming entangled in rope a various stages, sometimes reaches the top. " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====4. Mountaineer: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Imagine being encased in 16 suits of clothing, attaching steel spikes 10" long to your boots, and then enjoying | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====5. Inmate? | ||
+ | |||
+ | Well, just ask the public where those " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Bushwalkers' | ||
- | 2 | ||
- | Warragamba for rock bars across the river, and at the foot of said bars, the the gold will, be lying (excuse the. pun), | ||
- | Setikl:ng out Ron and telling him all,. I soon have him dazzled by dreams of lazy affluence (an attractive vision, to a Public Servantl) | ||
- | It is easy to_list tho articles we can jettison from our packs to make room for the treasure, and wo do a slight moan that Paddy packs were built for only about 7040 lbs.1 wondering meanwhile if our backs will take the strain, even at,umpteen pounds an ounces Gold - and all we have to do is find those bars, and sit e our haunches, panning. | ||
- | We decide to ri- letting others in on the secret, wherefore we invite Mavis and Betty to company us.' " | ||
- | , hiking on the Warragamba, | ||
- | The scene it set, and we are about to depart for our present-day' | ||
- | 004 Prir `aft w | ||
- | PART I. - SOME BAIT IS TAISEY 4., REALLY LOTNEY. | ||
- | As with all zero days, this particular Friday dawns fine and clear; and so does it remain until a ring from Betty, saying that she cannot come because she has to work on Alaturday morning, Then a later ring to say her charms have clicked, so that she is not working after all, and will meet us at Penrith by a later train. We other three board the scheduled loco, bemoaning our fate at,having to wait at Penrith, in lieu of moving immediately towards our golden glory. However, just after leaving Blacktown, a huge rucsact comes wandering down the corridor, and who should be struggling behind it but the solf-same Betty! On leaving work, she has rushed home to Cremorne and back to Central in 45 minutes (no, not walking all the way) | ||
- | to catch the train, but not knowing we are on it, has remained (and recovered) in another carriage. Being a true Bushwalker, her time has not been wasted, for she has shelled the peas, assisted by a volunteering stranger who fell for the age-old gag. | ||
- | The bus roars out of Penrith with the whole quartet aboard., At Wallacia, we are prevailed upon to partake of a meal, just to be sociable | ||
- | the metber who hasn't eaten for two days, or so her story runs, This over, we at last hit the road, All around the undulating | ||
- | pasture land is bathed in gentle moonlight and our | ||
- | C- | ||
- | eager glances reveal our interest in the scene, es- | ||
- | / | ||
- | pecially in the road behind us. When about mid-way, our backward glances are rewarded; headlights on the | ||
- | skyline! Quickly, we exhort the girls to do their | ||
- | i? | ||
- | \ (j-i 1 ' i_., | ||
- | 7 | ||
- | ---- best - or else! They stand by the road with be- | ||
- | witching smiles, leaning somewhat forward as if their | ||
- | C ) j / liT-packs were heavy; doing their best to look demure . )./Cli ;70..)- V3oks" | ||
- | charms are -shown in vain, and oh$ you should hear the | ||
- | epithets as the vehicle .., a utility, mind you, just | ||
- | built for four, and empty at that - whizzes by un, | ||
- | heeding: The air is-thick with dust, but thicker still with vehement | ||
- | invetive. | ||
- | Midnight finds us entering Silverdale, an attraetive little hamlet, | ||
- | Feattered seclusion' | ||
- | the track which leads down to he junction of Monkey Ck. and the Weee, | ||
- | until one of them is able to volunteer moderately coherent information as to | ||
- | how we muet proceed. | ||
- | This we dp forthwith, our ardour-for the gold untramelled by their assuranced of ,the impossibility of our plans. At_the local hall, we fill the buckets and after wandering; through someonel s back yard, passing through sliprails galorel' | ||
- | selves on the track to "The Lookout" | ||
- | " | ||
- | out our sleeping bags by the roadeide. GlorioiS sloop, too deep for a light shower of rain to interrupt, | ||
- | e , | ||
- | Next morning, we have alazy awakening, followed by a late start | ||
- | why should prospective millionaires waste energy on an early getaway. Down at the Junction, we find the camp site as bad as its reputation, but as this is to be our fixed camp for the weekend we. ,endeavour to make ourselves coin | ||
- | fortable. The river is very low, and very Muddy, but being full of the Thiest issue of the nag. with its article on how to catch porch without effort, we immediately set the line. Thereafter, every hour, we replace' | ||
- | ever missing bait. We begin to wonder whether we_read the article aright; | ||
- | were the fish to food us, or wore we to feed the fish? Mventual conclusion is that this bait is as futile as last night' | ||
- | From the point of view of gold, the spot is not quite up to scratch, either. If there were a bar, then the heavy deposits of mud at and above water level would be concealing it from us, whilst the muddy nature of the water prevents us from seeing into the bed of the stream. Our dreams of riches, and of paying up arrears in membership fees, begin | ||
- | to wane somewhat, for there is no sign of a bar ", | ||
- | -7,' | ||
- | Monkey Crook for a little practice in panning, | ||
- | ,, .-- | ||
- | tempered by a swim here and there, (,,,, /fee 4.,.....c ..if / | ||
- | s. .f | ||
- | A | ||
- | At night, it rains steadily, and in the morning the river is up three feet, with the heavens | ||
- | | ||
- | cel | ||
- | - /--. | ||
- | weeping still. Wonderful excuse to lie in bed, for | ||
- | who wants to wander up the Warragamba in the rain? | ||
- | 4e-r_. ,,- - | ||
- | , | ||
- | ___<- | ||
- | 0 It clears at midday, but is now too late to wander far' ___,--- | ||
- | afield, so we give the gold away -1. just temporarily | ||
- | , with Ron and me deciding to return next weekend. ..."- t.., | ||
- | To the bitter end, the line remains hopefully in thu river, bu,, always with the same result no tait and no fish. It is left behind to dry, and await our return next weekend and there it still remains. Seventy five yards of 45 lbs1 breaking strain green linen lire on a J-Lti, ledge in the cave to just above the camping flat; a treasure for t1,0 finder. | ||
- | Here ondeth the first instalment. You were warned wbat a tale of woe it would be Yet have no fear, for the second instalment is in much happier. strain. " | ||
- | . Pm& | ||
- | IN GRATITUDE | ||
- | The staff of the " | ||
- | rightly be expected to do. | ||
- | Fraser Ratcliffe is leaving us. Before the next issue goes to print, he will be off for Perth, via Broken Hill. To quote him, ho is going "to seek gold, fame and fortune." | ||
- | RIVER CANOE CLUB TOPOGRAPHICAL SECTION | ||
- | Mr. Ted Caines Phillips, 39 Silver Street tjeters convenor of the above section, advises that the following map is now on dislay at Paddyis | ||
- | PATONG4 CREEK (Lower Hawkesbury River) MAP No.36, Complete tidal section* | ||
- | .4, P.. 4+ rn | ||
- | , | ||
- | by TtLiper._11., | ||
- | . 4 57 8 /_-_- ,t Tifs a pity my latefriend and scientist / | ||
- | , 0, (i Ivi P oy ,7-- 0-F ; t , | ||
- | i 1 \ , ,! 1 to him would be merely another obser- | ||
- | ,,,, , J | ||
- | / t\ ,,,.. A, AfRopt AfvF , va-cion in EvolUon. Aean ter' ' say, | ||
- | - . | ||
- | 1 ,io ! ,iv 4 f,i0,,,c, 0(2re-4 Just think, What, -food for thoughts | ||
- | r ir'. /1 ---, ...------------ -- , ----- Picture mant,g rise and fall along | ||
- | / | ||
- | \. .- , -` the _..following lines: | ||
- | ,,$.- ,, - , | ||
- | I ;',:\ ..1 | ||
- | , 14 SUNDAY HIKER Hi.S.luvI for the bu shwith a woman under one arm, a bottle | ||
- | ' 1- -I- | ||
- | P , | ||
- | of fizz( ?)-..in the othol- two Sunday -: papers' | ||
- | . , . . | ||
- | though a paper chase were the order of | ||
- | . , | ||
- | the -day, - and, note,- rarely more than | ||
- | ., | ||
- | -4:mile from the neareSt : railway - | ||
- | station. | ||
- | . 2. BUSHWALKER: Here we seP :improve- | ||
- | , '----- ------- ---=s, `ment; a bloke flat on hi's baci; 30 / yi---., | ||
- | fii E5.1,.f.Ci A LI. y | ||
- | io_los from the station, so we.--s ry he dares nought for a woman 'in one arm | ||
- | , | ||
- | and would not have the energy in | ||
- | 41 _kiF vr | ||
- | F ,tho other to lift the bottle o' | ||
- | P 1 1 | ||
- | _ __. ____--- -', 3. ROCK CLIMBER: Not bc---ing the | ||
- | , . . | ||
- | (il l artist of the cartoon aside, I.am | ||
- | privileged to say it is inadequate. | ||
- | No skotch can portray the madness I , of the gamol The climber surveys | ||
- | \ - 0 \ ---' | ||
- | the rock face for suitable finger K ,.. , | ||
- | holds and atter becoming entangled , in rope a various stages, sometimes roaches the top. " | ||
- | - -7 | ||
- | , | ||
- | 4-.-M.QUNTAI.NEER. Imagine being | ||
- | .- enclosed in 16 suits of clothing, | ||
- | attaching steel spikes 10" long to | ||
- | ,-, | ||
- | -5..-INIYIATE? | ||
- | public where those' | ||
- | your boots, and then enjoying the | ||
- | . scenerY at: 20, | ||
- | 6 | ||
- | BUSHWALKERSt- WAR MEMORIAL | ||
From Jeane Mannell, Griffith. | From Jeane Mannell, Griffith. | ||
- | I.don't know whether it is quite my plaoe to submit this article, but I am writing as I feel. | + | |
- | After reading."Mumbedahrs" article, " | + | I don't know whether it is quite my place to submit this article, but I am writing as I feel. |
- | As Gordon | + | |
+ | After reading "Mumbedah' | ||
+ | |||
+ | As Gordon | ||
Usually I am against War Memorials of the Monument type, as I feel that they are rather useless, but as the cost of a brass plaque on Splendour Rock would not be very great, I feel that the idea appeals to me very much. | Usually I am against War Memorials of the Monument type, as I feel that they are rather useless, but as the cost of a brass plaque on Splendour Rock would not be very great, I feel that the idea appeals to me very much. | ||
- | Although I have not been able to do much bushwalking since my marriage, being stationed at Griffith which is in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area and 400 miles from Sydney, | + | |
- | . Maybe I have got a bit away from my original subject, but I have often been going to write to the Magazine with a bit of an article as to our doings, so I have combined the two subjects. | + | Although I have not been able to do much bushwalking since my marriage, being stationed at Griffith which is in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area and 400 miles from Sydney, |
- | .1. | + | |
- | At the last Field Weekend, not one Prospective arose early to provide breakfast in bed for Members. Even the leader had to rely upon a visiting- male's female for this meagre comfort. Is this constitutional? | + | Maybe I have got a bit away from my original subject, but I have often been going to write to the Magazine with a bit of an article as to our doings, so I have combined the two subjects. |
- | 7. | + | |
- | SAVING LIVES OR SAVING FLOWERS | + | ---- |
+ | |||
+ | At the last Field Weekend, not one Prospective arose early to provide breakfast in bed for Members. Even the leader had to rely upon a visiting male's female for this meagre comfort. Is this constitutional? | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Saving Lives For Flowers.===== | ||
By Bona Dea | By Bona Dea | ||
- | When you read in the daily papers of the millions of people in the world who are slowly dying througli 1pck of food, have you c,ver wondered whwbher we ought to turn from our work of preserving the bush to the work of preserving men? | ||
- | Probably many humantitaxians get impatient when they hear of our deputations to save our wild flowers, and think we would be much better employed assisting to send food and clothing to destitute and starving people, | ||
- | And yet, is any life, even that of trees and flowers, to be despised? Albert Schweitzer, one of the greatest living humanitarians, | ||
- | There is a rather lovely myth current in eastern Asia which illustrates the same idea that even the life of the vegetable kingdom is to beheld sacred. It turns around the Bodhisattvas, | ||
- | that is, the right to rest from their labours and return no more to this | ||
- | world of pain and suffering. But they renounce that right, and, return to the:sorrows of earth again and again in order that they may help every | ||
- | being upwards, until "the last blade of grass is raisd to Buddhahood." | ||
- | Our work: | ||
- | | ||
- | it. i's not-tork, | ||
- | we. have 'done what te rebuileLtheHworld' | ||
- | de strUetive of all tars, | ||
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- | I | ||
- | H ro T N g r ex!: 47 ' | ||
- | . - . | ||
- | STOP PRESS on EASTER from the reporter whor-wEisc' | ||
- | SCENE ON CENTRAL: . ', ' ' - -r, "_,:, 8---c)-1 | ||
- | Mavis tisanes, fresh from bride' | + | When you read in the daily papers of the millions of people in the world who are slowly dying through lack of food, have you ever wondered whether we ought to turn from our work of preserving the bush to the work of preserving men? |
- | so that they TbAdied Tight out of .1-..]t :a:114 , 1111-841e,(V:171P-(..4-VT:', ' | + | |
+ | Probably many humanitarians get impatient when they hear of our deputations to save our wild flowers, and think we would be much better employed assisting to send food and clothing to destitute and starving people. | ||
+ | |||
+ | And yet, is any life, even that of trees and flowers, to be despised? Albert Schweitzer, one of the greatest living humanitarians, | ||
+ | |||
+ | There is a rather lovely myth current in eastern Asia which illustrates the same idea that even the life of the vegetable kingdom is to be held sacred. It turns around the Bodhisattvas, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Our work of conserving the bush may be a lesser work than of those who are working to save people death by starvation. But it is not work to be despised, and, if we do the work that lies nearest us, we have done what we can to help rebuild the world after the most terribly destructive of all wars. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Hot News!!===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | by Thistle Rockyer. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Stop Press on Easter==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | From the report who was stopped. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Scene on Central: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mavis Jeanes, fresh from brides-maiding her sister, Betty, haunted | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Barrington News:==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | N.S.W.G.R. resources were severely strained to provide transport for Roley Cotter and his party. He and his multitudinous entourage sloshed and slithered through slippery slush (whew!) to a perfect Youth-Hostel type weekend, with some 32 sleeping bags littering floor and furniture of Crosby' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====From Our N.R.M.A. Scout:==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | By the Nepean was a spacious auto tent (cries of " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | No, the current dents on Bert Whillier' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Gangerangs Service: | ||
+ | |||
+ | From pucka sahibs to travelling tramps; forcibly ejected from sleepers on the Kempsey Mail. Gladys Roberts, Bill Carter and the Ed. etc. swing the helm towards Kanangra Walls. Spent most of Easter on Railway platforms, but did find time to get bushed between Koorie-Kirra and the Cox! | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Yarrangobilly-Brindabella Trip:==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Both porters and drivers on Central co-operated in delaying departure for 1 1/2 hrs. to ensure that all of Ray Kirkby's crowd were on board. In the midst of the waiting, Allan Hardie took it upon himself to use his pack in sweeping a man from the platform onto the rails. Whilst lumbering engines shunted round him, he leisurely and unconcernedly picked himself up, dusted himself off, and climbed back to the platform. Apparently said man was so relieved at surviving a blow from Dorman's pack that oncoming locomotives held no fears at all! | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Era Express:==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Fauna and Flora reported a quiet Eastertide, with scarcely a single walker to practice conservation upon them! | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Echidna.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | by " | ||
- | ' - ' ' --. - -.7-1i- """' | ||
- | ., | ||
- | BARRINGTON '' | ||
- | _ | ||
- | reSOLli' | ||
- | _ | ||
- | care.-free cavoTng-Tpil- c,a,reYI s , Peak, ' | ||
- | - ..I | ||
- | FROM OUR N.R.M.A. SCOUT:. | ||
- | -hanWast, a- sp' | ||
- | r - , " | ||
- | No, the curr,ent dents on Bert Whillier s -thuinbs are. _due -to mishits with a hammer, but are the remains of blisters -earned in " | ||
- | GANGERANGS SERVICE: | ||
- | From - pucka sahibs to travelling tramps, forcibly ejected from sleepers on the Kempsey. Mail, Gladys Roberts.. Bill Carter and the Ed. etc. ,owittg, the heLpa:., toward s Kanangra Walls. Spent most of Easter on Railway -caatf ormesi,:bt did find time to get bushed between -koorie.L.Kirra an-ft.-the Cox- - | ||
- | YARRANGOBILLY-BRINDABEL1A TRIP: | ||
- | Both porters and driVers on Central. co-operated in dt la ying departure for 1+ -hrs. to ensure that all of Ray- larkbyt-s crowd were on. board. In the midst of the waiting, Allan Hardie took it upon himSell to use his pack in sweeping a -man, from the platform onto the ralls. Whilst lumbering engines shunted round him, he leisurely and unconcernedly Pick6d himself up, dusted himself off, and climbed back to the platform. Ap;Jarently said man was so relieved at surviving a _blow fiOrl-Dorman' | ||
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- | ERA EXPRESS: | ||
- | Fauna and Flora reported a quiet Eastertide, with scarcely a single walker to practice cons_erve tion, upon theml | ||
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It was blackberry time, so I took a billy, put on my least holey gardening gloves and went prospecting in the neighbouring bush. | It was blackberry time, so I took a billy, put on my least holey gardening gloves and went prospecting in the neighbouring bush. | ||
- | Passing through the underbrush of hakeas and grevilleas, I heard a faint stealthy rustling and paused to listen. The rustling stopped too, then went on again a few yards from where ,I was 2tanding, | + | |
- | He heard me and froze in his tracks, waiting for what might 'befall. I stooped and armed with my leather gloves tried to pick him up but no limpet on its rock clung more firmly than he to Mother Earth. In fact, he not only clung but appeared | + | Passing through the underbrush of hakeas and grevilleas, I heard a faint stealthy rustling and paused to listen. The rustling stopped too, then went on again a few yards from where I was standing. |
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- | A long time we waited in silence, I not moving a muscle and hardly | + | He heard me and froze in his tracks, waiting for what might befall. I stooped and armed with my leather gloves tried to pick him up but no limpet on its rock clung more firmly than he to Mother Earth. In fact, he not only clung but appeared |
- | daring to breathe. I wanted to see him in action, and feared that' | + | |
- | At last his head,, which ho had withdrawn as far as possible, | + | I pulled and heaved and managed to get a good look at his moist earth-sprinkled nose - or rather bill, flat and broad like that of a platypus - and at the claws, wide and horny capable, they tell us, of scraping their way through |
- | As for met I came out of a trance and wont in search of my blackberries, | + | |
- | rejoicing in even so brief a mooting | + | A long time we waited in silence, I not moving a muscle and hardly daring to breathe. I wanted to see him in action, and feared that if I startled |
- | BACKYARD BUSHWALKING | + | |
- | The ' 'stage is set for a bounteous spring in the bush, for in this genial | + | At last his head, which he had withdrawn as far as possible, |
- | climate winter barely announces its arrival before signs of spring are apparent. | + | |
- | The frequent showers have kept the soil moist and everything makes splendid | + | As for me, I came out of a trance and went in search of my blackberries, |
- | growth. The air is heavy with the scent of wattles in bloom. In my, bush garden are two shrubs'of creamy five corners (styphia laeta) which are smothered in | + | |
- | flowers and a small red one (styphelia tuniflora) has just finished flowering. A clump of lysinema pungens is also in fragrant bloom.- . | + | ---- |
- | An item of news from the nursery,- 3 seeds of fine-leaved geebung (persoonia pinifola) planted | + | |
- | soil was different or maybe the co-1 snap we had before Easter upset them. Waratahs planted out a few months ago are going well, | + | =====Backyard Bushwalking.===== |
- | GOOD NEWS; Compactum knife, fork and spoon sets are here again better than ever, 677-per set, Military Maps now released for sale, hope to have stocks | + | |
- | in a week or two, , - | + | The stage is set for a bounteous spring in the bush, for in this genial climate winter barely announces its arrival before signs of spring are apparent. The frequent showers have kept the soil moist and everything makes splendid growth. The air is heavy with the scent of wattles in bloom. In my bush garden are two shrubs of creamy five corners (styphia laeta) which are smothered in flowers and a small red one (styphelia tuniflora) has just finished flowering. A clump of lysinema pungens is also in fragrant bloom. |
- | PADDY PALLIN.a. Camp Gear for Walkers, Phone B3101. 327 George Street; Sydney | + | |
- | 10, | + | An item of news from the nursery - 3 seeds of fine-leaved geebung (persoonia pinifola) planted |
- | EASTER AGAIN | + | |
+ | ====Good News:==== | ||
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+ | Compactum knife, fork and spoon sets are here again - better than ever, 6/- per set. Military Maps now released for sale; hope to have stocks in a week or two. | ||
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+ | Paddy Pallin, | ||
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+ | Phone B3101. 327 George Street, Sydney | ||
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+ | =====Easter Again.===== | ||
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By Ray Kirkby. | By Ray Kirkby. | ||
- | Easter and Tumut? Wrong', there were twenty mutts. But no, they were not mutts for at Tumut there-had been no rain and there was no rain - just lovely sunny days. It is not possibleete) | + | |
- | At Tumut, Joyce Marchant' | + | Easter and Tumut? Wrong, there were twenty mutts. But no, they were not mutts for at Tumut there had been no rain and there was no rain - just lovely sunny days. It is not possible to say that our train was late leaving Central |
- | Our lorry haulted | + | |
- | 4 | + | At Tumut, Joyce Marchant' |
- | Our Ex Air Force driver from Brindabella drove up' | + | |
+ | Our lorry halted | ||
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+ | Our Ex Air Force driver from Brindabella drove up the steep hair pin bends with such abandon that he had to be restrained. If he had insured us as our first driver had done we should not have minded. For who would not die gladly, clutching a third party risk policy in his hand? | ||
- | . | + | =====limelight On Everest.===== |
- | . . , LIMELLIET ON E' | + | |
- | The year's scoop is presented to you per medium of the Bushwalkerr- | + | The year's scoop is presented to you per medium of the Bushwalker: |
- | Eric Shipton, English mountaineer | + | |
- | . . _ . | + | Eric Shipton, English mountaineer |
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- | eXperienee | + | Mount Everest |
- | , Mount Eleerest | + | |
- | They gave? for example, details of the climbing to be expected on the final hbiglls. Across the face of 'Everest, roughly a thousand feet below the summit, | + | They gave, for example, details of the climbing to be expected on the final heights. Across the face of Everest, roughly a thousand feet below the summit, |
- | In 1924, two climbers mere abit to b1tch the First 'Step, but were drivem | + | |
- | 11. | + | In 1924, two climbers mere able to breach |
- | mountain mists closed about them, and of their subsequent fate nothing is known. | + | |
- | This upper band of limestone | + | This upper band of limestone |
- | or two calm 'days in ti'le-year which may or may not come; waited whilst snow | + | |
- | obscured the rocks, hoping that it would not be there on the one or two deTL when the blizzards might sleep - they have suffered hardship only to be | + | Nine years later, in 1933, the Third Attempt was launched, yet it achieved no more than the 1924 climbers, except to add to the knowledge of what not to do about that band of limestone. The second assault party of this expedition comprised Frank Smythe, conqueror of Kamet, with Eric Shipton as his climbing partner. Shipton |
- | driven back again and again by those few feet of rock, the Second Step. | + | |
- | Nine years later, in 1933, the Third Attempt was launched, yet it achieved no more than the 1924 climbers, except to ado to the knowledge of what not to do about that band of limestone. The second assault party of | + | Prior to this, Shipton was a farmer in Kenya; just a plain bloke like you or me, who could see Mt. Kenya from the farm on which he worked. Because he had done some climbing |
- | this expedition comprised Frank Smythe, conqueror of Kamet, with Eric | + | |
- | Shipton as his climbing partner. Shipton | + | To return to farming after this was loathsome; Shipton had come to love the mountains, and he determined to live amongst them. He conceived the idea of running small, lightweight parties to unmapped parts of the Himalayas. The 1933 Everest show had cost £10,000 and contained 16 climbing personnel. Too costly and too cumbersome was Shipton' |
- | Prior to this, Shipton was a farmer in Kenya; just a plain bloke like | + | |
- | you or me, who could see Mt. Kenya from the farm on which he worked. Because he had done some climbing | + | That Shipton' |
- | or the Warrumbungles. Frank Smythe heard of his climbing | + | |
- | To return to farming after this was loathsome; Shipton had come to | + | The mountain was next in the news in 1935. Shipton was back, with a party comprising six climbers and a surveyor. Their object was reconnaissance: |
- | love the mountains, and he determined to live amongst them. He conceived the idea of running small, lightweight parties,to unmapped parts of the | + | |
- | Himalayas. The 1933 Everest show had cost 110,000 and contained 16 climbing | + | In 1938, the Fifth Attempt was carried out, with Tilman as leader and Shipton as a climber. This expedition was the first really light-weight |
- | personnel. Too costly and toa cumbersome was Shiptonls | + | |
- | 64monthts | + | War interrupted Shipton' |
- | That Shiptonls | + | |
- | The mountain was next in the news. in 1935. Shipton was beck, with a | + | ---- |
- | party comprising six climbers and a surveyor. Their object was reconnaissance: | + | |
- | way for another attempt in 1936. 'This, the fourth assault expedition, was placed under the 1933 leader, Hugh Ru-diedge. Ruttlodge | + | ====Wedding Bells:==== |
- | yet, in the face of the lattor1s | + | |
- | 16 in 133. Heavy snows on the mountain drove them back without even attempting | + | Those who have wondered at the absence of Betty Jeanes now have their answer in the fact that, on Thursday, 18th April, she became Mrs. Hilary Mannes. We extend |
- | In 1938, the Fifth Attempt was carried out, with Tilman as leader and Shipton as a climber. This expedition was the first really light-weight | + | |
- | 12. | + | |
- | Assault, with only seven in the climbing party. Once more they pit their strengths against the rock and ice; once more they retreated below the Second Step. | + | |
- | War interrupted Shipton' | + | |
- | WEDDING BELLS: Those who have wondered at the absence of Betty Jeanes now have their answer in the fact that, on Thursday, 18th April, | + | |
- | she became Mrs. Hilary Mannes. We extond | + | |
- | Statistics show that the number of McGregors in the club has doubled, whilst the Isaacs have been halved. This change in the status quo occurred on Saturday Anril 13th, when Elsa Isaacs became Mrs. Malcom McG. Congrats to Malcom, and felicitations to the now member of the clan. | + | |
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+ | Statistics show that the number of McGregors in the club has doubled, whilst the Isaacs have been halved. This change in the status quo occurred on Saturday April 13th, when Elsa Isaacs became Mrs. Malcom McG. Congrats to Malcom, and felicitations to the new member of the clan. |
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