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- | THE | + | **THE |
- | A monthly Bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, C/-. Ingersoll Hall, 256 Crown St., Sydney.. | + | |
- | No. 180 *WEMBER„ 1949 Price 6d. | + | A monthly Bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bushwalkers, |
- | Editor: Alex Colby, 55 Kirribilli | + | **No. 180 NOVEMBER 1949 Price 6d.** |
- | Av.; Milson' | + | |
- | Production and Business Manager: Sales and Subs Helen Brooks | + | |**Editor**| Alex Colley, 55 Kirribilli |
- | Brian Harvey Typed | + | |**Production Asst**| Bill Gillam | |
+ | |**Sales and Subs**| Helen Brook| | ||
+ | |**Production and Business Manager**| | ||
+ | |**Typed** | Jean Harvey | ||
CONTENTS | CONTENTS | ||
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|At Our October Meeting|2| | |At Our October Meeting|2| | ||
|Social Notes for November|3| | |Social Notes for November|3| | ||
- | |Finam;ial|3| | + | |Financial Panic|3| |
|Home on Time this Time, by "Billy the Cook:' | |Home on Time this Time, by "Billy the Cook:' | ||
|Tree Study, photograph by Jack Thorp|7| | |Tree Study, photograph by Jack Thorp|7| | ||
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|Another Word to the Ounce-Counters - Paddy' | |Another Word to the Ounce-Counters - Paddy' | ||
- | Editorial | ||
- | A Conservation Supplement | + | ====== Editorial - A Conservation Supplement |
- | For some time your Editor, egged on by the Business Manager, has been considering means of p..', | + | |
- | Hero tho matter rested for some time till we discovered the possibilities of the multilith process - like the walks programme and the photographs in the magazine. Five hundred copies of a similar Annual in this style wculd cost about £80 7 over 3/- a copy. | + | For some time your Editor, egged on by the Business Manager, has been considering means of publicising |
- | So thE idea of an Annual was out, but we might still revert to that old standby, the Clubs duplicating machine. We could bring out a conservation supplement on the machine for a few pounds. But who would buy either the supplement or the magazine? Probably about half a dozen people outside the Club. It wouldn' | + | |
- | As one of the Club's objects is '' | + | Here tho matter rested for some time till we discovered the possibilities of the multilith process - like the walks programme and the photographs in the magazine. Five hundred copies of a similar Annual in this style would cost about £80 - over 3/- a copy. |
- | But the funds are probably the easiest part. We would need writers, some photographic | + | |
- | do so willingly and enthusiastically it would not be such a hard job. But if members were not enthusiastic it would :just be a lot of hard work for one or two people. | + | So the idea of an Annual was out, but we might still revert to that old standby, the Clubs duplicating machine. We could bring out a conservation supplement on the machine for a few pounds. But who would buy either the supplement or the magazine? Probably about half a dozen people outside the Club. It wouldn' |
- | We suggest that the subject of the supplement could be "The Greater Blue Mountains National Park. If you would be willing to help produce it come along to the next monthly | + | |
+ | As one of the Club's objects is "to establish a definite regard for the welfare and preservation of the wild life and natural beauty of this country", | ||
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+ | But the funds are probably the easiest part. We would need writers, some photographic | ||
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+ | We suggest that the subject of the supplement could be The Greater Blue Mountains National Park. If you would be willing to help produce it come along to the next monthly | ||
====== At Our October Meeting ====== | ====== At Our October Meeting ====== | ||
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Reported by Jim Brown | Reported by Jim Brown | ||
- | The more voluble types must have been absent from the October meeting, which remained as tranquil as Lome of those early in the present year. About 50 members were present, and the Club acqi, | + | The more voluble types must have been absent from the October meeting, which remained as tranquil as some of those early in the present year. About 50 members were present, and the Club acquired |
- | Amongwt | + | |
- | Correspondence originating from the Club included a letter to National Park Trust, Sutherland | + | Amongst |
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- | Lands protesting against dumping of sewage in the National Park s behind Bundeena. | + | We learned from the Social Secretary that the Commodore of the Cruising Canoe Club had made a piteous plea that we defer our epidiascope night so that they could have the use of the infernal machine on the night of their one and only meeting in the month. As our Club had some hand in its being out of order for their previous meeting, we felt we should meet them, and the Social Programme was adjusted. |
- | We learned from the Social Secretary that the Commodore of the Cruising Canoe Club had made a piteous plea that we defer our epidiascope night so that they could have the use of the infernal machine on the night of their one and only meeting in the month. As our Club had some hilnd in its being out of order fcr their previous meeting, we felt we should meet them, and the Social Programme was adjusted. | + | |
- | Another Trustee was required for Bouddi, it was announced, in succession to W. Holesgrovre. | + | Another Trustee was required for Bouddi, it was announced, in succession to W. Hillsgrove. |
- | The President pointed out that the Ski Sub-committee was due - to be re-elected at the next monthly meeting: it was announced in a hesitant | + | |
- | The meeting had been sharpening its claws for the anticipated revelations about Bushcraft from Bill Gillam and Dennis Gittees, but in the absence of the latter with his report the whole business had | + | The President pointed out that the Ski Sub-committee was due to be re-elected at the next monthly meeting: it was announced in a hesitant |
- | •to lapse, and to the •amazement of all, delight of many, end disappointment of some, the mooting | + | |
+ | The meeting had been sharpening its claws for the anticipated revelations about Bushcraft from Bill Gillam and Dennis Gittees, but in the absence of the latter with his report the whole business had to lapse, and to the amazement of all, delight of many, end disappointment of some, the meeting | ||
====== Social Notes for November ====== | ====== Social Notes for November ====== | ||
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- | The social programme shows two important events this month. The first is the presentation of a number of excellent slides by Mr. E. Slater on the 18th, and the second is Ira Butler' | + | The social programme shows two important events this month. The first is the presentation of a number of excellent slides by Mr. E. Slater on the 18th, and the second is Ira Butler' |
- | Of course you all know by now that the Xmas Party will be held | + | |
- | at C.U.S.A., third floor, on Wednesday, 14th DeceIrber, Tickets are 8/8, obtainable | + | Of course you all know by now that the Xmas Party will be held at C.U.S.A., third floor, on Wednesday, 14th December, Tickets are 8/8, obtainable from me or Jean Harvey. I would like the folk who are interested to purchase tickets at least a week before the event, so that figures for catering will be as accurate as possible. Tables can be arranged if the necessary information is given to me. The Social Committee can guarantee you a bumper night.\\ |
- | - E. Strott.pn, | + | - E. Stretton,\\ |
Social Secretary. | Social Secretary. | ||
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CAN YOU HELP? | CAN YOU HELP? | ||
- | Stop being one of the forty odd unfinancial | + | Stop being one of the forty odd un-financial |
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By "Billy the Gook". | By "Billy the Gook". | ||
- | It was only when I collected the cook that I learned we weren' | + | It was only when I collected the cook that I learned we weren' |
- | So off we went to Scone, which part of the journey is best left unmentioned. At Scone we stretched our contorted limbs and settled down in a brand new bus, till the famous halfway house at Gundi was reached, Where an obliging hostess drew beers all round (or nearly all round) as the sun came up. By tleis time the heroic adventurers for Mt. Royal had precipitated themselves to the back of the bus where the map was produced - for the first time I fear - and the relative merits of North and South arm of StewartTs Brook were discussed. Woman' | + | |
- | The canny bus driver would not with his new bus go past Belltrcos and we were pacTzd into an old claptrap which rocked and bucketted its way up Stewart' | + | |
- | Inlejsurely fashion we wandered up the ridge to Breakfast Hut where, parad=ically, | + | |
- | Having seen enough of Stewart' | + | |
- | we decided to camp and look for water. Three of as set out in three different directions. I gave up after half an hour; Peter went further and climbed a long way down to a cl,eek, while Harry Snowdon, who wanted a swim, went back to Stewart7s Brook. | + | |
- | The loin chops which had caused the rot were eaten, and like Adam's apple they were very sweet. After tea there wee a slight attempt at conversation, | + | |
- | • Judith Norton, who is definitely a rival to Cotter, woke us in the morning with a cup of tea. Breakfast was done with very quickly and at last we set foot on the Long-Cockroach Ridge, or - as per epigranist Harry - " | + | |
- | Up and up we went, past numerous saddles and swamps, till at last we wore on the watershed of the Paterson and Hunter We knew | + | |
- | we must be en the watershed because it went down on either side, but just where on the ridge was hard to say. Like the Easter trip, we soon found everyone was a navigator. Price' | + | So off we went to Scone, which part of the journey is best left unmentioned. At Scone we stretched our contorted limbs and settled down in a brand new bus, till the famous halfway house at Gundi was reached, Where an obliging hostess drew beers all round (or nearly all round) as the sun came up. By this time the heroic adventurers |
- | Peter found several now types of nettle, Harry found an interesting new creeper, apparently a cross between a choko vine and an octopus. Helen, 1 believe, acquired anothr language called 941pinehutski" | + | |
- | If anyone, oven the President, suggested sidling in my prezenoe, I will promptly give him the bird. | + | |
- | We had at last left " | + | |
- | Ah, bitter pill it was. Our nice even ridge soon turned out to be a succession | + | |
- | Two more major traverses were necessary before we reached | + | |
- | blue hills, lush green clearings and a suggeotion of a violent storm over Barrington. How we hood those lovers of ease were getting a soaking0 "It always rains on Barrington' was the tone. | + | |
- | But the outlooks Our hoped-for ridge to Mt Royal was definitely a Blue Duck. It meant having to go down many hundred feet and then through several miles of rain forest. We licked our wounds and said a few words on rain forests, and looked for a now ridge. After much sucking of oranges and puffing of pipes we decided to go down a ridge more to the West, skirting Mt. Royal and its tributary Pinnacle, to a clearing which led, we hoped, to our lat peak - FietrieYs Point. This prop6sal received the assent of a majority, so off we rushed for the clearing. Harry was almost led on to the wrong ridge by a woman bit when it was discovered ncitlier had a tent they returned to the main party. | + | |
- | of rum and coffee, which was murder, brother - really murder. When I woke it was cloven o' | + | The canny bus driver would not with his new bus go past Belltrees |
- | We rushed through breakfast on Monday morning | + | |
- | We sto7.L)ed for an instant-, on top of a hill, just long enough to break some chocolate and hand it to Peter as he shot past., A tinter getter dirobted | + | |
- | By three we were all collected, including a round dozen of leeches on my foot, Driving furiously we foe,..1.d time for: a quickie at Singleton, it scarcely touched the throat, then up to the station with two minutes to spare. | + | |
- | Price. I congratulate you. A truly enjoyable trip, Wot4 it go well next King's Birthday with all the peaks andtsacldles-. covered in snow'? | + | |
+ | In leisurely fashion we wandered up the ridge to Breakfast Hut where, paradoxically, | ||
- | Shortly after arrival in England ,Roy and Kath Davies sot off on an unplanned cycle tour of the British Isles. First they made their way to Cardigan, in south Wales, then across Ireland and over to Killarney. Here they practiced their cra(:: | + | Having seen enough of Stewart' |
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+ | The loin chops which had caused the rot were eaten, and like Adam's apple they were very sweet. After tea there was a slight attempt at conversation, | ||
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+ | Judith Norton, who is definitely a rival to Cotter, woke us in the morning with a cup of tea. Breakfast was done with very quickly and at last we set foot on the Long Cockroach Ridge, or - as per epigramist Harry - " | ||
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+ | Peter found several now types of nettle, Harry found an interesting new creeper, apparently a cross between a choko vine and an octopus. Helen, I believe, acquired another language called " | ||
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+ | If anyone, even the President, suggested sidling in my presence, I will promptly give him the bird. | ||
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+ | We had at last left " | ||
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+ | Ah, bitter pill it was. Our nice even ridge soon turned out to be a succession of minor peaks and major saddles. We plunged down the peaks and laboured up the side, by which time it was dinner time, and Cockroach still as far away as ever. The girls looked so pathetic that Peter abandoned the idea of a dry camp and he and I climbed about 600' off the ridge to a creek and back again. | ||
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+ | Two more major traverses were necessary before we reached the first of the twin peaks of Cockroach. Cigarettes and chocolate were consumed, then up another 700' to Cockroach itself at 4 o' | ||
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+ | But the outlook! Our hoped for ridge to Mt Royal was definitely a Blue Duck. It meant having to go down many hundred feet and then through several miles of rain forest. We licked our wounds and said a few words on rain forests, and looked for a new ridge. After much sucking of oranges and puffing of pipes we decided to go down a ridge more to the West, skirting Mt. Royal and its tributary Pinnacle, to a clearing which led, we hoped, to our last peak - Pietrie' | ||
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+ | We rushed through breakfast on Monday morning and advanced pell mell on the clearing, only to find a rather frightening valley between us and Pietrie' | ||
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+ | We stopped for an instant, on top of a hill, just long enough to break some chocolate and hand it to Peter as he shot past. A timber getter directed us to a short cut which, like all short cuts, we couldn' | ||
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+ | By three we were all collected, including a round dozen of leeches on my foot, Driving furiously we found time for a quickie at Singleton, it scarcely touched the throat, then up to the station with two minutes to spare. | ||
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+ | Price. I congratulate you. A truly enjoyable trip, Wouldn' | ||
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+ | Shortly after arrival in England ,Roy and Kath Davies sot off on an unplanned cycle tour of the British Isles. First they made their way to Cardigan, in south Wales, then across Ireland and over to Killarney. Here they practiced their craft by lighting | ||
Dave Ingram has shown up and is reported to be flying around the countryside at great speed, Many other Australians have visited them and they don't wonder that the British rations have to be reduced now and then. | Dave Ingram has shown up and is reported to be flying around the countryside at great speed, Many other Australians have visited them and they don't wonder that the British rations have to be reduced now and then. | ||
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by Jack Thorp | by Jack Thorp | ||
- | • Placed third at our Annual Exhibition. | + | Placed third at our Annual Exhibition.\\ |
- | The judge, Mr. Eadet said that the print quality of this study could not be improved. The subject, a pleasing group of trees on a sunny day,was simple and effective. It did not nave quj.te | + | The judge, Mr. Eade said that the print quality of this study could not be improved. The subject, a pleasing group of trees on a sunny day was simple and effective. It did not have quite the same general interest as the first and second photographs (see previous issues). If it had been possible to get a slightly lower camera angle it might have been improved a little. The lights on the tree trunk were a bit lost against the background. |
- | Photographers might note too that this 'simple silhouetted type of photograph | + | |
- | C | + | Photographers might note too that this simple silhouetted type of photograph |
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====== October Holiday ====== | ====== October Holiday ====== | ||
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R. Cotter. | R. Cotter. | ||
- | At first we worried about the weather because September had been very we and our iralk was tO be a riVer walk. The next worry was when a food party' | + | At first we worried about the weather because September had been very wet and our walk was to be a river walk. The next worry was when a food party member resigned at a late hour, and finally When we assembled at Blackheath the party was three short and the cars were ready to leave! |
- | Finally we loft Blackheath. It was a perfect moonlight night and the drive down into the valley was most enjoyable. | + | |
+ | Finally we left Blackheath. It was a perfect moonlight night and the drive down into the valley was most enjoyable. | ||
The sight of the mist-filled Cox Valley shining in the moonlight as we descended into it down Black Jerry' | The sight of the mist-filled Cox Valley shining in the moonlight as we descended into it down Black Jerry' | ||
- | We roadbed the Cox by various ways and s' | ||
- | Saturday morning we got away to a late sta2-t | + | We reached the Cox by various ways and supper fires were lit whilst the sleepy heads went straight to bed. |
- | When we caae to nross the Cox' | + | |
- | him. However he finally surfaced with his glasses intact and reached the other bank. This somewhat | + | Saturday morning we got away to a late start at 8.am. We had only gone a few hundred yards when there was a chorus |
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+ | When we came to cross the Cox' at Harry' | ||
While we had been battling with the stream Claude Haynes had been exploring and he now returned to assure us that ho had found an easier way across. On tackling this we found it chest high but not running too strongly. | While we had been battling with the stream Claude Haynes had been exploring and he now returned to assure us that ho had found an easier way across. On tackling this we found it chest high but not running too strongly. | ||
- | Max, hari ng just watched all these anties, dee,ided it was not for him so with a parting shout °Itll see you at Fasterl he retraced his footsteps. | ||
- | Before starting up Harryts River the party dried out slightly and had a snack. The going up the river was seg because of the increased flow of water but no difficulties were onountered. That night we camped a little distance above Diable CrOOk and as we were much behind schedule a council of war wae he:ld, It was decided the main party would not reach jenolan but that -ao: | ||
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- | Sunday morning | + | Max, having just watched all these antics, decided it was not for him so with a parting shout " |
- | We lunched on a tributary of Little River and at the ruins on Little River the photographers spent some time trying to snap the blossom. | + | |
- | Tho photographers were the last to reach the Cox which was still running a banker. | + | Before starting up Harry' |
- | Some boys camped nearby had been fixing wire across the river and we crossed over to an island quite easily by holding the wire as a support. From here to the other bank the wire went across a pool neck high and it was a case of get across as best you collld. Mary showed us the best way by just hanging on to the wire and kicking and we all followed suit and got over with our packs more or loss dry until Claude, bringing.7idnats | + | |
+ | We lunched on a tributary of Little River and at the ruins on Little River the photographers spent some time trying to snap the blossom. Mary Macdonald climbed a fence to get the best viewpoint but found she needed more than two hands so had to ask Edna Stratton to push the plunger. This Eddie did with such gusto that she nearly knocked Mary off the fence. | ||
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+ | The photographers were the last to reach the Cox which was still running a banker. Some boys camped nearby had been fixing wire across the river and we crossed over to an island quite easily by holding the wire as a support. From here to the other bank the wire went across a pool neck high and it was a case of get across as best you could. Mary showed us the best way by just hanging on to the wire and kicking and we all followed suit and got over with our packs more or loss dry until Claude, bringing | ||
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+ | We had a good camp fire that night and what our singing lacked in quality was made up in other ways. The girls kept a constant lookout for Noel and Ron but there was no sign of them. Monday being an easy day we made another late start and after we had been going a short while the rain started, However this cooled down the walk through Megalong and after two perfect days we could not growl. | ||
- | We had a good camp fire that night and what our singing lacked in quality was made up in other ways. The girls kept a constant lookout for Noel and Ron but there was no sign of them. Monday being an easy day we made another late start and after we had been going a short while the rain started, However this cooled down the walk through Megalong and after two perfect days we could not grovl. | + | Noel and Ron caught |
- | Noel ant Ron caught later train than the main party, having had quite a strenuous trip. | + | |
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Jim Brown. | Jim Brown. | ||
- | History is absolutely rotten with instances of men who didn't know when they were beaten. Journalists | + | History is absolutely rotten with instances of men who didn't know when they were beaten. Journalists |
- | There they are, the men who were not e-iervrown by adversity but took arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing ended them Do.7ou see them - the early navigators, sailing their worm-riddled | + | |
- | ships, driving their scurvy-sick crews beyond the ends of the earth? Napolen, intolerant of the stupid_ word " | + | |
- | Now, on the other hand, take me. I know my limitations. I can give the game away with the greatest facility. I am one of the Sissy Bushwalkers. I am a pansy. I am a rabbit. So what? I can prove it. More, I can double-prove it Consider those case histories. | + | There they are, the men who were not overthrown by adversity but took arms against |
- | Chapter 1. Hurley 's Hateful Hike. | + | ships, driving their scurvy-sick crews beyond |
- | I've been loth to speak of this trip before, but since the leader has purged her contempt before the competent tribunal (Committee) | + | |
- | The leader caused a mild flutter at Cent_eal, appearing in groundsheet, | + | |
- | Room (vide Madden' | + | |
- | While the wind hammered watery nails into the walls there was some vague, romantic, visionary talk about carrying | + | Now, on the other hand, take me. I know my limitations. I can give the game away with the greatest facility. I am one of the Sissy Bushwalkers. I am a pansy. I am a rabbit. So what? I can prove it. More, I can double-prove |
- | prevail" | + | |
- | It was saidJ We all talked blatantly about going back that | + | Chapter 1. Hurley' |
- | day - provided the wretched branch line wasn/t washed out. First, though, we had to prove to ourselves that it was really too violent. (That was not the original motive - that was simply the way it worked out.) We set out for the local pub to fill in waiting time. Useless groundsheets flapped madly about our necks, rain that felt like pellets of ice rattled an the capes and stung our legs, and | + | |
- | we were blown willy-nilly about the roadway. One of the lightweights was whisked fro m the tarmac ard only the gluey roadside mud saved her from a barbed wire extrication job. Wet to the middle; we flowed into the Parlour (cosy, old-fashioned term for lounge), and ordered drinks to suit our var ying ages and degrees of chilliness. | + | |
- | One of the lasses shivered in saturated shorts until the proprietor' | + | I've been loath to speak of this trip before, but since the leader has purged her contempt before |
- | the raging wind we staggered to the station; there to drip in gyowing pools on the waiting room floor, and listen for the thin, windtatteftd Whistle of tho 4.42. | + | |
+ | The leader caused a mild flutter at Central, appearing in groundsheet, | ||
- | Chapter 2. Washout at War)g,rnder.ry. or, '' | + | While the wind hammered watery nails into the walls there was some vague, romantic, visionary talk about carrying on with the trip when the storm abated, though it would have been patent to Blind Freddy that the weather was there for an extended season. Presently it was conceded |
- | You couldn' | + | |
- | I shall say no more of his duplicity, lest the T]tlicor | + | It was said ! We all talked blatantly about going back that day - provided the wretched branch line wasn't washed out. First, though, we had to prove to ourselves that it was really too violent. (That was not the original motive - that was simply the way it worked out.) We set out for the local pub to fill in waiting time. Useless groundsheets flapped madly about our necks, rain that felt like pellets of ice rattled an the capes and stung our legs, and we were blown willy-nilly about the roadway. One of the lightweights was whisked from the tarmac and only the gluey roadside mud saved her from a barbed wire extrication job. Wet to the middle; we flowed into the Parlour (cosy, old-fashioned term for lounge), and ordered drinks to suit our varying ages and degrees of chilliness. |
- | Rain didn't deter the stalwart hearts who met at Central, nor the one who chased the 5.21 down the platform after waiting as long as he dared for the balance of his food party. Driving rain, a leaking carriage roof, the snapping of bubble gum by youthful fellow travellers didn't greatly enliven the trip, but arrangements worked smoothly and at 9.$0 p.m, at the Wanganderry turn.-off, we were hurrying up our tents in light rain. | + | |
+ | One of the lasses shivered in saturated shorts until the proprietor' | ||
+ | the raging wind we staggered to the station; there to drip in growing pools on the waiting room floor, and listen for the thin, wind-tattered whistle of the 4.42. | ||
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+ | Chapter 2. Washout at Wangenderry or "How We Did It Again!" | ||
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+ | You couldn' | ||
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+ | Rain didn't deter the stalwart hearts who met at Central, nor the one who chased the 5.21 down the platform after waiting as long as he dared for the balance of his food party. Driving rain, a leaking carriage roof, the snapping of bubble gum by youthful fellow travellers didn't greatly enliven the trip, but arrangements worked smoothly and at 9.50 p.m, at the Wanganderry turn-off, we were hurrying up our tents in light rain. | ||
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+ | It rained quietly all night. We lit breakfast fires and ate in abdulled tents in gentle rain. Moved off at 8.30 in quiet rain, back a mile down the road, and turned north into the straggly forest. It rained. In fact, it just darned well kept on raining in a calm, insidious manner. | ||
- | It rained quietly all night. We lit breakfast fires and ate in abdulled tents in gentle rain. Moved off at (7,30 in cialet rain, back a mile down the road, and turned north into the straggly forest. It rained. In fact, it just darned well kept on raining in a calm, insidious manner. | ||
Pushing through wet scrub is a bad business. You find a trail of sorts and it doesn/t quite coincide with your bearing, but you follow it because its a break from bush bashing. We did „lust that, and at 10 a.m. still in steady rain, we were in a nasty little gully west cf the correct ridge. | Pushing through wet scrub is a bad business. You find a trail of sorts and it doesn/t quite coincide with your bearing, but you follow it because its a break from bush bashing. We did „lust that, and at 10 a.m. still in steady rain, we were in a nasty little gully west cf the correct ridge. | ||
We worked east on to the spur in a sticky tangle of spiny, pea-flowered shrubbery. It rasped our cold, wet legs cruelly and the going became so disagreeable that at 11.30 I led the party off the crown of the ridge end down towards the east arm of Wilson/s (Wanganderry) Creek. Cliffs there - probably not impossible, but the vision of tangled valley and misted gorge ahead not inviting. | We worked east on to the spur in a sticky tangle of spiny, pea-flowered shrubbery. It rasped our cold, wet legs cruelly and the going became so disagreeable that at 11.30 I led the party off the crown of the ridge end down towards the east arm of Wilson/s (Wanganderry) Creek. Cliffs there - probably not impossible, but the vision of tangled valley and misted gorge ahead not inviting. | ||
- | By universal consent we looked for and found a generous sandstone overhang for early lunch and discussion of the situation. Having already done it once and got away with it, I rocked the party by recommending retreat. Such the influsnce of precedent Had the really truly leader of the tri:p been there the question would probably never have arisen, but Jupiter PlIlvius was here dealing with far more malleable material. The party looked its disbelief, but I was infinitely resourceful - I djscovered | + | |
+ | By universal consent we looked for and found a generous sandstone overhang for early lunch and discussion of the situation. Having already done it once and got away with it, I rocked the party by recommending retreat. Such the influsnce of precedent Had the really truly leader of the tri:p been there the question would probably never have arisen, but Jupiter PlIlvius was here dealing with far more malleable material. The party looked its disbelief, but I was infinitely resourceful - I discovered | ||
A goodly fire was built, viands produced and various people set about catching trickles from rock faces in buckets and billies. Still the pestilential rain. | A goodly fire was built, viands produced and various people set about catching trickles from rock faces in buckets and billies. Still the pestilential rain. | ||
- | Now, then, since we were turning in tho trip, should we remain overnight in our snug overhang, or beat it back to the road though the lacerating scrub tangle to pitch wet tents in the rain? Out of six people we obtained some fourteen various opinions and verdicts over .a period of time - the time it takes to 02t- a leisca-ed lunch. The arguments were decided for us whcn we found that the water bucket beneath our most promising water point had yielded less than a pint and a half in two hours. TiGee, sat]. Don, I don't want a dry. camp l" "Dry camp l" we echoed with horrible sardonic laughter. | + | |
+ | Now, then, since we were turning in tho trip, should we remain overnight in our snug overhang, or beat it back to the road though the lacerating scrub tangle to pitch wet tents in the rain? Out of six people we obtained some fourteen various opinions and verdicts over .a period of time - the time it takes to 02t- a leisca-ed lunch. The arguments were decided for us when we found that the water bucket beneath our most promising water point had yielded less than a pint and a half in two hours. TiGee, sat]. Don, I don't want a dry. camp l" "Dry camp l" we echoed with horrible sardonic laughter. | ||
So it was back to the road in rain developing into a windy downpour, back to camp a hundred yards east of the point where we had left the road eight hours earlier. The other two tents shared the Fire (note the capital) that night - a Fire carefully coaxed from seemingly saturated logs into a roaring, searing furnace. TI-o Fire was built between the two tents - and they were hardly six feet apart - so that the occupants slept salamander fashion in a boiler room atmosphere. Vapours curled from the leeward tent of Ron and Noel, and at intervals frightened faces peered out as the flames licked the steaming japara. | So it was back to the road in rain developing into a windy downpour, back to camp a hundred yards east of the point where we had left the road eight hours earlier. The other two tents shared the Fire (note the capital) that night - a Fire carefully coaxed from seemingly saturated logs into a roaring, searing furnace. TI-o Fire was built between the two tents - and they were hardly six feet apart - so that the occupants slept salamander fashion in a boiler room atmosphere. Vapours curled from the leeward tent of Ron and Noel, and at intervals frightened faces peered out as the flames licked the steaming japara. | ||
- | It rained all night, but with first light came a lulls then a tiny patch of pale, clear sky which widened t:11 the sur, coy at his first glimpse of Wanganderry in at least two :tays winked a tentative eye and then smiled. A chill southerly sholJherded the clouds to | + | It rained all night, but with first light came a lulls then a tiny patch of pale, clear sky which widened t:11 the sur, coy at his first glimpse of Wanganderry in at least two :tays winked a tentative eye and then smiled. A chill southerly sholJherded the clouds to regions which certainly didn't need them less. |
- | regions which certainly didn't need them less. And we road bashed in thirteen miles to Mittagong. | + | And we road bashed in thirteen miles to Mittagong. The pastoral country was green and fresh in the weak sun, the massed clouds pictorial, but it was still road-bashing. The little girl in the cafe couldn' |
- | The pastoral country was green and fresh in the weak sun, the massed clouds pictorial, but it was still road-bashing. The little girl in the cafe couldn' | + | |
- | We entrained, and Don discarded a pair of boots from the carriage window, after significant gestures to Sunday afternoon strollers who came to investigate. Two of the party actually thanked me for the trip as they left us at Liverpool — Don went his way to explain to his food party (Don't be u4ind to him, food party - his unfailing cheerfulness meant a good deal to us that weekend), drained the bitter dregs of defeat again (good cliche | + | We entrained, and Don discarded a pair of boots from the carriage window, after significant gestures to Sunday afternoon strollers who came to investigate. Two of the party actually thanked me for the trip as they left us at Liverpool — Don went his way to explain to his food party (Don't be unkind |
Well, I'm a pansy. I'm a heel. Itra a sissy bushwalker. So what?" | Well, I'm a pansy. I'm a heel. Itra a sissy bushwalker. So what?" | ||
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====== The Sydney Bushwalker Library ====== | ====== The Sydney Bushwalker Library ====== | ||
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By Jess Martin, Librarian. | By Jess Martin, Librarian. | ||
- | It is obvious from the number | + | It is obvious from the number |
- | a . | + | |
- | have forgotten that the Club has hLENDING Lfal=, and how rany | + | One evening in 1932 Mr. W.J. Cleary |
- | of our newer members are familiar with its conen: | + | |
- | One evening in 1932 Mr. W.J. Cleary | + | From time to time new books have been added, The more serious side of bushwalking is catered for in books on Map Reading and Making, Astronomy, Meteorology, |
- | The suggestion was made that the works quoted by Mr. Cleary would form the nucleus of a fine library, the idea was enthusasicelly | + | |
- | From time to time new books have been added, The more serious side of bushwalking is catered for in books on Mal:. Reading and Making, Astronomy, Meteorology, | + | Unfortunately, |
- | Unfortunately, | + | |
- | •11-zr (9nnnt-Ann nr h fnlinwina nrno.nciin-an 2- | + | The Librarian to purchase any book when nine people sign a petition for its purchase and pay a fortnightly subscription in advance. It shall be the duty of the proposer of the books to collect the subscriptions and hand them to the Librarian. Non-fiction books of interest to walkers are to be purchased by the Librarian when five people sign a petition and pay a fortnightly subscription and the Committee votes the balance of the purchase price. The Committee shall not in any period of six months, vote more than L2.10.0 for the purchase of such books. |
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+ | The charge for new books shall be ld. per fortnight (or part thereof) per 2/6d. (or part thereof) of the book purchase price. The charge for books at present in the Library shall be ld for the first fortnight and 2d per week thereafter. | ||
- | The Librarian to purchase any book when nine people sign a petition for its purchase and pay a fortnightly subscription in advance. It shall be the duty of the | ||
- | I, proposer of the books to collect the subscriptions and hand them to the Librarian. Non-fiction books of interest to walkers are to be purchased by the Librarian when five people sign a petition and pay a fortnightly subscription and the Committee votes the balanJe of the purchase price. The Committee shall not in any period of six months, vote more than E2.10.0 for the purchase of such books. | ||
- | 4The oharge for new books shall be ld. per fortnight (or | ||
- | part thereof) per 2/6d. (or part thereof) of the hockpurchase price. The charge for books at present in the | ||
- | Library shall be ld0 for the first fortnight and 2d, per week thereafter01 | ||
Now that the confusion into which the Library had been allowed to lapse has been straightened outs it is hoped that sustained interest in our Library will be renewed. | Now that the confusion into which the Library had been allowed to lapse has been straightened outs it is hoped that sustained interest in our Library will be renewed. | ||
- | ADDITIONS TO LIBRABY | + | ADDITIONS TO LIBRARY |
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+ | The following books have been donated to the library by Mrs. J. Morris :-\\ | ||
+ | "OUR SANDHILL COUNTRY" | ||
+ | "AN AVIARY OF THE PLAINS" | ||
- | The following books have been donat,•e Mrs. J. Morris :- | ||
- | "OUR SAMHILL COUNTRY" | ||
- | "AN AVIARY GP THE PLAINS" | ||
- | (Sketches of Bird Life in Western (7,; | ||
- | mramown-dv....mareor-a | ||
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- | The following is extracted | + | The following is extracted |
- | Mr. _FJ. Griffiths, Chief Guardian of Fauna, to a reue,71; | + | "The object of the survey which the Fauna Protection |
- | for information which would enable member | + | |
- | "The object of the survey which the Fai.2.7r, Pa, | + | "From information at present |
- | is very necessary for any plan for the con? | + | koalas have lived in almost the whole of the coastal strip in New South Wales as well as in parts of the tablelands. |
- | "From information at present | + | |
- | koalas have lived in almost the whole of thc.: oe.etal p ni New South Wales as well as in parts of the tablez, | + | "The principal food tree of the koala in New South Wales is the Grey Gum, but they also feed an other species including the Forest Red Gum (or Queensland Blue Gum), the tallow wood and the red mahogany." |
- | in certain areas near Sydney, particularly on .r_e Denfinsula | + | |
- | y | + | "When climbing, koalas make long, fairly deep, scratches on the bark of the tree trunks. The scratches might be 6" long and are different to the marks made by opossums |
- | 10. | + | |
- | "The principal food tree of the koala in New South Wales | + | "I might add that as koalas are nocturnal animals, they are not often seen during the day time, but just at dusk they frequently move from tree to tree. |
- | is the Grey Gum, but they also feed an other species including the Forest Red Gum (or Queensland Blue Gum), the tallow wood and the red mahogany. | + | |
- | "When climbing, koalas make long, fairly deep, scratches on the bark of the tree trunks. The scratches might be e" long | + | |
- | and are different to the marks made by opossums | + | |
- | "I might add that as koalas are nocturnal animals, they are | + | |
- | not often seen during the day time., but just at dusk they frequently move from tree to tree. | + | |
- | .CIRFITMW | + | |
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C.M.W.-=bers inured near Wattamolla (Sth. Coast) were the victims of the Bushwalkers no. 1 enemy - the loose rock. | C.M.W.-=bers inured near Wattamolla (Sth. Coast) were the victims of the Bushwalkers no. 1 enemy - the loose rock. | ||
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