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An Annual or Half-Yearly General Meeting without constitutional amendments is something like roast lamb without mint sauce. Perhaps he realised the deficiencies, | An Annual or Half-Yearly General Meeting without constitutional amendments is something like roast lamb without mint sauce. Perhaps he realised the deficiencies, | ||
- | Then it was Lavender and Old Accounts as the minutes of a bygone era were read. The constitutional amendments of September 1951, with their " | + | Then it was Lavender and Old Accounts as the minutes of a bygone era were read. The constitutional amendments of September 1951, with their " |
Correspondence contained sundry replies to our most recent campaigning on bush fire control, a letter which reported that the Victorian Mountain Tramping Club had devised a special walker' | Correspondence contained sundry replies to our most recent campaigning on bush fire control, a letter which reported that the Victorian Mountain Tramping Club had devised a special walker' | ||
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My travels in the British Isles and Scandinavia have been made easier for me by the kind help of Frank Leyden, who allowed me to leave unnecessary equipment, maps and brochures I had collected at his home at Chelmsford. By the time I reached his home I must have increased the 70 lbs. I left Sydney with to 80, which load I reduced to about 60 lbs. for touring through the British Isles and still further to 40 lbs. for the Cook's Tour. This was made possible, I say, by making Frank Leyden' | My travels in the British Isles and Scandinavia have been made easier for me by the kind help of Frank Leyden, who allowed me to leave unnecessary equipment, maps and brochures I had collected at his home at Chelmsford. By the time I reached his home I must have increased the 70 lbs. I left Sydney with to 80, which load I reduced to about 60 lbs. for touring through the British Isles and still further to 40 lbs. for the Cook's Tour. This was made possible, I say, by making Frank Leyden' | ||
- | If Charlie Chaplin became famous by stimulating laughter, I consider I should be equally famous. When I arrivsd | + | If Charlie Chaplin became famous by stimulating laughter, I consider I should be equally famous. When I arrived |
In the British Isles , as on the Continent, I made the greatest use of Youth Hostels I could, in order to keep down expenses but, whereas on more than one occasion I visited an English hostel to be confronted with the notice " | In the British Isles , as on the Continent, I made the greatest use of Youth Hostels I could, in order to keep down expenses but, whereas on more than one occasion I visited an English hostel to be confronted with the notice " | ||
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- | =====Kurnell Peninsula (Australia' | + | =====Kurnell Peninsula (Australia' |
(Extract from an item by Mr. Hume, Secretary, Parks & Playgrounds Movement, received through our P. & P. Delegate, Mrs. H. Stoddart). | (Extract from an item by Mr. Hume, Secretary, Parks & Playgrounds Movement, received through our P. & P. Delegate, Mrs. H. Stoddart). | ||
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I was a worried little boy on the 5.20 ex town that Friday for I hadn't spotted Neil. Somehow I missed him at Campbelltown, | I was a worried little boy on the 5.20 ex town that Friday for I hadn't spotted Neil. Somehow I missed him at Campbelltown, | ||
- | Frank was waiting for us at the store near Spring Corner, having parked his " | + | Frank was waiting for us at the store near Spring Corner, having parked his " |
I'll sing you four ho!... etc...\\ | I'll sing you four ho!... etc...\\ | ||
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We enquired about transport at the " | We enquired about transport at the " | ||
- | It was going to be cold on the tray of that truck, we considered, so we rugged up in balaclavas, gloves and all. Neil pointed to the virtues of a beard. We squatted in a little hollow where gravel had been scooped out for surfacing the road, a handred | + | It was going to be cold on the tray of that truck, we considered, so we rugged up in balaclavas, gloves and all. Neil pointed to the virtues of a beard. We squatted in a little hollow where gravel had been scooped out for surfacing the road, a hundred |
At 7 p.m., when we were still by the road, Neil decided that you left Yerranderie only when you were carried out. We had built a twiggy straggling fire, and had a bucket of water standing by for quenching it. We brewed up a mix of three different kinds of soup cubes and waited. The comings and goings of the truck periodically brought us to our feet, water bucket at the " | At 7 p.m., when we were still by the road, Neil decided that you left Yerranderie only when you were carried out. We had built a twiggy straggling fire, and had a bucket of water standing by for quenching it. We brewed up a mix of three different kinds of soup cubes and waited. The comings and goings of the truck periodically brought us to our feet, water bucket at the " | ||
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Eleven for the telephone lines that were down. | Eleven for the telephone lines that were down. | ||
- | Probably there wouldn' | + | Probably there wouldn' |
- | I,ll sing you twelve ho!... etc...\\ | + | I'll sing you twelve ho!... etc...\\ |
Twelve for the twelve enquiries. | Twelve for the twelve enquiries. | ||
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====Baby, It's Cold Outside!==== | ====Baby, It's Cold Outside!==== | ||
- | Sparta had its Spartans, Bondi has its icebergs, and S.B.W. has - what? On a recent combined walk, with a braw frosty night descending, one Nature Boy demonstrated his toughness and utter disdain for the elements, | + | Sparta had its Spartans, Bondi has its icebergs, and S.B.W. has - what? On a recent combined walk, with a braw frosty night descending, one Nature Boy demonstrated his toughness and utter disdain for the elements, |
Note: This habit could develop into serious Club rivalry and could easily cause Paddy to go out of business as walkers frantically scuttle sleeping bags, tents, groundsheets and other luxuries to be in the fashion. | Note: This habit could develop into serious Club rivalry and could easily cause Paddy to go out of business as walkers frantically scuttle sleeping bags, tents, groundsheets and other luxuries to be in the fashion. | ||
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Practice Weekend is being organised; Section would like to know how many members are likely to attend and what would be a convenient date. The place is to be kept secret until the weekend agreed upon, but it will be within the 8/- fare radius of Sydney. | Practice Weekend is being organised; Section would like to know how many members are likely to attend and what would be a convenient date. The place is to be kept secret until the weekend agreed upon, but it will be within the 8/- fare radius of Sydney. | ||
- | ===The | + | ===The |
Was reported to be a social and financial success. A fuller report will be presented to the October Meeting. Mr. J. Fletcher was appointed Acting Convener of the 1953 Ball committee in an attempt to have a hall booked in the near future. | Was reported to be a social and financial success. A fuller report will be presented to the October Meeting. Mr. J. Fletcher was appointed Acting Convener of the 1953 Ball committee in an attempt to have a hall booked in the near future. | ||
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A further meeting of this section had worked out scales, size of sheets, title blocks, etc. Four lectures over two field weekends had been arranged. The order of preparing maps had been made somewhat along the following lines :- | A further meeting of this section had worked out scales, size of sheets, title blocks, etc. Four lectures over two field weekends had been arranged. The order of preparing maps had been made somewhat along the following lines :- | ||
- | Wild Dogs, The Castle and Pigeon | + | Wild Dogs, The Castle and Pigeon |
Ten pounds was granted to the Mapping section for the purchase of materials. | Ten pounds was granted to the Mapping section for the purchase of materials. | ||
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Long may that Youth, and others who come after,\\ | Long may that Youth, and others who come after,\\ | ||
- | Walk the buth tracks, seek out the life that's free,\\ | + | Walk the bush tracks, seek out the life that's free,\\ |
Meet perils, scars - and hakeas - with laughter\\ | Meet perils, scars - and hakeas - with laughter\\ | ||
(Mingled at times with mild profanity). | (Mingled at times with mild profanity). | ||
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|Len Scot| L |and| | |Len Scot| L |and| | ||
- | This was the origin of the term " | + | This was the origin of the term " |
The secret of the " | The secret of the " | ||
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- | WHAT PLACE-NAMES MEAN TO US. | + | =====What Place-Names Mean To Us.===== |
- | .....................rwlmoramaalmo=101101.....mmowisso.o. | + | |
By Myles J. Dunphy. | By Myles J. Dunphy. | ||
- | The writer has been asked to throw some light on the subject of | + | |
- | named features in the Greater Blue Mountains, particularly as they | + | The writer has been asked to throw some light on the subject of named features in the Greater Blue Mountains, particularly as they affect bushwalkers. The subject is too wide and involved to be covered in this article, which only scratches its surface, so to speak. |
- | affect bushwalkers. The subject is too wide and involved to be covered in this article, which only scratches its surface, so to speak. | + | |
- | When the bushwalkers of this generation have passed on to Elysium, the ten million or so people who will be living in the population centres surrounding the Greater Blue Mountains will realize that the | + | When the bushwalkers of this generation have passed on to Elysium, the ten million or so people who will be living in the population centres surrounding the Greater Blue Mountains will realize that the bushwalkers of the past were constructive in their time and had some vision for the future. They not only made persistent efforts to save their bushland wilderness for its environmental value and biologic content, but also invested it with the aura of romantic interest. It will be recognized, thankfully, we hope, that they played a prominent part in the creation of national parklands of great intrinsic value, in the face of insidious destruction caused by commercial interests of one kind and another. The necessarily |
- | bushwalkers of the past were constructive in their time and had some | + | |
- | vision for the future. They not only made persistent efforts to save their bushland wilderness for its environmental value and biologic content, but also invested it with the aura of romantic interest. It | + | Many years have passed since bushwalkers opened up this matter, that is, their angle of conservation, |
- | will be recognized, thankfully, we hope, that they played a prominent | + | |
- | part in the creation of national parklands of great intrinsic value, in | + | It may disappoint some of our colleagues of the outdoors to learn that not many names of bushwalkers appear on the features of our bushland |
- | the face of insidious destruction caused by commercial interests of one kind and another. The necessarily | + | |
- | Many years have passed since bushwalkers opened up this matter, that is, their angle of conservation, | + | There is no objection to euphonious aboriginal place-names, |
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- | our recreation is educational, | + | |
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- | It may disappoint some of our colleagues of the outdoors to learn that not many names of bushwalkers appear on the features of our bush- land environment. Mainly because of origins some early walkers' | + | |
- | topographically but important to bushwalkers, | + | |
- | There is no objection to euphonious aboriginal place-names, | + | |
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In the work the writer has done in this way, in the Greater Blue Mountains region, spread over many years, he has been guided by an urge to provide a basis for a great national park, to fix points of history and to build up a romantic atmosphere about a remarkably scenic tract of country which deserves the best of treatment from everybody. With the help of many walkers the original expressionless blanks on the old parish and tourist maps of this area of some 3,500 square miles have become intelligible to foot travellers, by reason of charted features and a considered nomenclature. The Department of Lands produced the standard map required. Now it is possible to discuss this region with confidence as to places and time-distance, | In the work the writer has done in this way, in the Greater Blue Mountains region, spread over many years, he has been guided by an urge to provide a basis for a great national park, to fix points of history and to build up a romantic atmosphere about a remarkably scenic tract of country which deserves the best of treatment from everybody. With the help of many walkers the original expressionless blanks on the old parish and tourist maps of this area of some 3,500 square miles have become intelligible to foot travellers, by reason of charted features and a considered nomenclature. The Department of Lands produced the standard map required. Now it is possible to discuss this region with confidence as to places and time-distance, | ||
- | The People of the Little Tents have had a lot of high adventure in this region. The grand idea is to preserve both the scene and the | + | |
- | 34. | + | The People of the Little Tents have had a lot of high adventure in this region. The grand idea is to preserve both the scene and the spirit of adventure; for this the primitive wilderness is a necessity. It is considered to be a heritage of inestimable value, to be handed on, in the best possible condition - and cared for - to future generations of appreciative outdoors people. All along we have been taking action to have the unproductive tracts of this scenic wilderness region preserved for this best ultimate use, whilst appealing to the various authorities for assistance. |
- | spirit of adventure; for this the primitive wilderness is a necessity. It is considered to be a heritage of inestimable value, to be handed | + | |
- | on, in the best possible condition - and cared for - to future | + | In our own social way we have learned about the natural |
- | generations of appreciative outdoors people. All along we have been taking action to have the unproductive tracts of this scenic wilderness | + | |
- | region preserved for this best ultimate use, whilst appealing to the various authorities for assistance. | + | The standard tourist |
- | In our own social way we have learned about the natural | + | |
- | ions of the great mountainous barrier region, until now we are very certain of its general value as environment. We know its interesting plateaux and peaks, frescoed walls and vast buttresses, master-ranges, | + | In this limited article there is little space left for information about particular place-names. As an earnest of what is meant by giving interest to the features of this region, let us consider two of the most prominent peaks of Tallarat Crags: Arabanoo Peak and Cambage Spire. Where Christy' |
- | The standard tourist | + | |
- | northern half of the region - shows that MUCh interest has been added | + | Our two peaks stand opposite and close to each other in splendid companionship, |
- | to the face of what was really wild country when heavy-pack exploring walkers first engineered their routes across it. To a certain extent | + | |
- | it was the haunt of cattle-duffers and moonshiners. Its trails were | + | Arabanoo was the first native captured by Governor Phillip and made partly civilized, 1789. He was adopted by the Governor, lived in his house, and was educated to be an intermediary between |
- | known only to local bushmen who had reasons for riding into and across | + | |
- | it. Within its fastnesses were scrubber cattle and brunbies, at least one stag, and a great quantity of marsupial, reptilian and bird life | + | Richard Hind Cambage, F.L.S., M.R.S.(N.S.W.), |
- | up to 1916, when skin-getting became a business. Then trappers, | + | |
- | shooters, timber-getters, | + | For another reason, also, Cambage Spire was so named. It was R.H. Cambage who first realized the importance |
- | wild-life. | + | |
- | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 IP 0 0 | + | Cambage Spire stands as a monument |
- | In this limited article there is little space left for information | + | |
- | about particular place-names. As an earnest of what is meant by giving interest to the features of this region, let us consider two of the | + | Away over on the other side of the Kanangra Tops, beyond Kanangra Deep, the vast Thurat Walls stand up about the bases of Big Thurat (4,200 feet), Mount Danae (4,100 feet) and Big Misty (4,000 feet). Between the Thurat Spires that rise almost |
- | most prominent peaks of Tallarat Crags: Arabanoo Peak and Cambage Spire. Where Christy' | + | |
- | Blue Mountains, there is a chaotic array of canyons, crags and peaks. | + | (Refer to " |
- | The twisting Tiamat Canyon of East Christy7s | + | |
- | upper end of Bulga-Denis Canyon. East Christy' | + | ---- |
- | southward. | + | |
- | Our two peaks stand opposite and close to each other in splendid companionship, | + | =====Bushwalker Achievements In Conservation.===== |
- | Canyon which, in its special type of ruggedness, may be said to represent the abysmal chaos from which all life has sprung. The two peaks stand as brothers in a ruggedly romantic scene, symbolic of | + | |
- | blackman and whiteman, Neolothic aborigine and modern Caucasian. | + | |
- | They will serve to perpetuate the memory of two remarkable men. They | + | |
- | will remind thoughtful Australians of the understanding union which should have existed between the original inhabitants of this land and | + | |
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- | the white intruders - a union which Governor Phillip and his friends tried to establish in the early days of the First Settlement at Port Jackson, but which others consistently neglected as an unimportant and profitless matter. | + | |
- | Arabanoo was the first native captured by Governor Phillip and | + | |
- | made partly civilized, 1789. He was adopted by the Governor, lived | + | |
- | in his house, and was educated to be an intermediary between | + | |
- | ful to the Governor but died of smallpox and was buried in the Governor' | + | |
- | but not animated. His fidelity and gratitude | + | |
- | undeviating and deserve to be recorded | + | |
- | part | + | |
- | retaliation of merriment he was often happy | + | |
- | docility | + | |
- | from choice | + | |
- | Richard Hind Cambage, F.L.S., M.R.S.(N.S.W.), | + | |
- | For another reason, also., Cambage Spire was so named. It was R.H. Cambage who first realized the importance | + | |
- | Cambage Spire stands as aanonument | + | |
- | *Away over on the other side of the Kanangra Tops, beyond Kanangra Deep, the vast Thurat Walls Stand up about the bases of'Big Thurat (4,200 feet), Mount Danae (4,100 feet) and. Big Misty (4,000 feet). Between the Thurat Spires that rise Almost | + | |
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- | form the rimrocks of the Golden Terrace about Mount Danae, | + | |
- | of The Pooken, the great mist monster, which conceals its tenuous bulk (, in the depths of ferny jungles, rock-crevices and scree-runs for long periods during warm weather, so that it will be overlooked by innocent travellers. Whenever a cool, damp, south-easterly wind blows in from the distant sea, The Pooken stealthily emerges under a darkness of its own making. Its cold, wraithy tentacles rise against the terraced walls; they lap over the rimrocks, then curl with amazing speed across the Thurat moors and rills to envelop the surprised and fleeing travellers upon which the mist monster subsists. | + | |
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- | r (Refer to " | + | |
- | by M.J.D., in "Into the Blue", journal of the Coast and Mountain Walkers of N.S.W., September 1951 issue. It deals. with place- names.) | + | |
- | 1100100.01100.1.00000=0011M0. | + | |
- | mam1.0YadMIAmmIMM.1m1 | + | |
- | BUSHWALKER ACHIEVEMENTS IN CONSERVATION. | + | |
By Ken Matthews | By Ken Matthews | ||
- | Every bushwalking club knows that Sydney is, of all the Australian capitals, the one most favoured by nature in the provision of abundant areas particularly suited for bushwalking. | + | |
+ | Every bushwalking club knows that Sydney is, of all the Australian capitals, the one most favoured by nature in the provision of abundant areas particularly suited for bushwalking. | ||
An important factor to be considered is the expanding population of the metropolitan area. As the population increases bushwalking is likely to become increasingly popular so that more and more people will spend their leisure hours in the bush areas. But the demand for new roads, power-lines, | An important factor to be considered is the expanding population of the metropolitan area. As the population increases bushwalking is likely to become increasingly popular so that more and more people will spend their leisure hours in the bush areas. But the demand for new roads, power-lines, | ||
- | It is not only for the bushwalking community that steps should be taken to see that the scenic | + | |
- | There can be no bringing of the bushlands to the people. The | + | It is not only for the bushwalking community that steps should be taken to see that the scenic |
- | people, if they want it, must go to the bushland. Attempts to bring | + | |
- | 37. | + | There can be no bringing of the bushlands to the people. The people, if they want it, must go to the bushland. Attempts to bring the bush to the people by opening up roadways beyond a given point only succeed in pushing the bush farther away or destroying it altogether. Supposing in a moment of mad enthusiasm, under a caption |
- | the bush to the people by opening up roadways beyond a given point only succeed in pushing the bush farther away or destroying it alto- | + | |
- | ether. Supposing in a moment of mad enthusiasm, under a capLio' | + | The bushwalking community has not been unmindful of the position, and it is to the credit of the Bushwalking Clubs and their Federation that something, small though it may be relative to what remains to be done, has been achieved in the way of conservation of areas. A brief account of those achievements is here attempted. While, in a bushwalking journal, emphasis is placed on the energies of the Bushwalking Movement, grateful |
- | Bring the Bushlands to the People", | + | |
- | lookout, scenic spot, in every valley, stream, glade and glen - would not the very reason for building them have then been destroyed? Would not the 'next step' | + | One of the first attempts at conservation - and a highly |
- | The bushwalking community has not been unmindful of the position, and it is to the credit of the Bushwalking Clubs and their Federation that something, small though it may be relative to what remains to be done, has been achieved in the way of conservation of areas. A brief account of those achievements is here attempted. While, in a bushwalking journal, emphasis is placed on the energies of the Bushwalking Movement, grateful | + | |
- | One of the first attempts at conservation - and a highly | + | The Lands Department, quite unaware of anything worthy of protection, had given a grazing lease over the area to a farmer living on the surrounding plateau. It just happened that on one occasion when some members of the S.B.W. and M.T.C. were encamped there, the echo of an axe resounded through the stately blue gums. Upon investigation |
- | The Lands Department, quite unaware of anything worthy of protection, had given a grazing lease over the area to a farmer living on the surrounding plateau. It just happened that on one occasion when some members of the S.B.W. and M.T.C. were encamped there, the | + | |
- | echo of an axe resounded through the stately blue gums. Upon investiga, tion the lessee was seen ringbarking the trees, a legal right he had towards every one of the few thousand blue gums there. He was unresponsive to the pleas made to him: he had a grazing lease and wanted to use the area for his cattle. But he was found to be responsive to bargaining and himself offered to sell his lease over the 40 acres for 130 payable within three months. So, the S.B.W. and M.T.C. set about raising money, and with the help of other agencies and private citizens, succeeded in purchasing the lease. Thus the Blue Gum Forest was handed back to the Crown to be dedicated as a camping reserve for all time. The Government appointed four members of | + | In its early days, the S.B.W. |
- | 3S. | + | |
- | the S.B.W. as trustees. Since then the Blackheath Council has added strips of land to the area. It must not-lass unnoticed, however, that | + | A similar lease for a camping reserve and sanctuary of 85 acres was taken out by the M.T.C. |
- | a strip of adjacent | + | |
- | it unlikely that the owner will use in a way that would thwart the purposes of the camping reserve. | + | The Heathcote Primitive Area, a strip of country eight miles long by about half a mile wide, of about 1,640 acres, along Heathcote Creek, and accessible from Waterfall |
- | In its early days, the S.B.W. | + | |
- | A similar lease for a camping reserve and sanctuary of 85 acres was taken out by the M.T.C. | + | The first monument to the Federation of Bushwalking Clubs by way of conservation is Bouddi Natural Park. The Park comprises an area of about 2,000 acres, six or seven miles wide, varying |
- | The Heathcote Primitive Area, a strip of country eight miles long by about half a mile wide, of about 1,640 acres, along Heathcote Creek, and accessible from Thterfall | + | |
- | The first monument to the Federation of Bushwalking Clubs by way of conservation is Bouddi Natural Park. The Park comprises an area of about 2,000 acres, six or seven miles widai- ' | + | The second monument to the Federation and to the bushwalking movement and individual clubs generally, is the Garawarra Park. " |
- | a mile wide, situated behind Maitland | + | |
- | he control of a trust comp: | + | To provide a camping area and to preserve the water supply, the S.B.W. bought 40 acres at North Era in 1947. This area was thrown open to the public as a free site for non-permanent |
- | The second monument to the Federation and to the bushwalking movement and individual clubs ganer411y, is the Garawarra Park. '' | + | |
- | 39. | + | These, then, are the achievements of the bushwalking movement in conservation. There are others on a less grand scale but space will not permit of their mention. A brief reference, however, should be made of the National Perks and Primitive Areas Council founded by Myles J. Dunphy. Its objects are to locate |
- | 1932 the Federation immediately campaigned and in short time no less than 5,000 signatures were obtained to a petition for conservation. The result was that in August 1934 all the available Crown Lands in the area, about 1,300 acres, were officially dedicated as a reserve. Small additions now make it 1465 acres. The reservation includes Burning Palms beach, Bulgo Trigonometrical station and adjacent plateaux. Attempts by the adjoining National Park Trust to absorb Gara Park have been successfully thwarted. Gara Park has, since 1935, been under the control of seven trustees including minority representation from the bushwalking movement. | + | |
- | To provide a camping area and to preserve the water supply, the S.B.W. bought 40 acres at North Era in 1947. This area was thrown open to the public as a free site for non-permanent | + | ---- |
- | These, then, are the achievements of the bushwalking movement in conservation. There are others on a less grand scale but space will not permit of their mention. A brief reference, however, should be made of the National Perks and Primitive Areas Council founded by | + | |
- | Myles J. Dunphy. Its objects are to locate | + | =====List Of Presidents.===== |
- | 1110/M | + | |
- | LIST OF PRESIDENTS. | + | (Chairmen |
- | 771FiREFE | + | |
- | DEBERT, Jack 10/2/28 - 13/ 9/29 | + | |Debert, Jack|10/2/28 - 13/9/29| |
- | DUNCAN, Frank 13/9/29 - 13/ 3/31 | + | |Duncan, Frank|13/9/29 - 13/3/31| |
- | CHARDON, Harold 13/3/31 - 8/ 4/32 | + | |Chardon, Harold|13/3/31 - 8/4/32| |
- | RITSON, Clifford 8/4/32 9/ 3/34 | + | |Ritson, Clifford|8/4/32 9/3/34| |
- | HERBERT, Thomas 9/3/34 - 13/ 3/36 | + | |Herbert, Thomas|9/3/34 - 13/3/36| |
- | ROOTS, Walter 13/ | + | |Roots, Walter|13/ |
- | BERRY, Maurice 10/7/36 - 10/ 3/39 | + | |Berry, Maurice|10/7/36 - 10/3/39| |
- | CROKER, Richaid | + | |Croker, Richard|10/3/39 - 14/3/41| |
- | COLLEY, Alex 14/3/41 - 13/ 3/42 | + | |Colley, Alex|14/3/41 - 13/3/42| |
- | LAWRY, Dorothy 13/3/42 - 10/ 3/44 | + | |Lawry, Dorothy|13/3/42 - 10/3/44| |
- | S TEAD, David 10/3/44 - 9/3/45 | + | |Stead, David|10/3/44 - 9/3/45| |
- | GARRAD, Edna 9/3/45 - 8/ 3/46 | + | |GarradD, Edna|9/3/45 - 8/3/46| |
- | ROSE, Jack 8/ | + | |Rose, Jack|8/ |
- | MOPPETT, Thomas 14/3/47 - 14/ 3/52 McGREGOR, Malcolm 14/3/52 - | + | |Moppett, Thomas|14/3/47 - 14/3/52| |
- | 40. | + | |McGregor, Malcolm|14/3/52 - | |
- | RABBITS AMONG THE TIGERS. | + | |
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Rabbit Among The Tigers.===== | ||
By Grace Noble. | By Grace Noble. | ||
- | Eleven an a food-list, I went along muttering to myself, eleven on a food-list -- me Who's always been a blooming individualist with me own foods that I cooks how I likes or don't cook at all: still, I suppose it ma7 lighten the weight - but it's much against my better judgment that I'm in on this at all. " | ||
- | Besides Gordon, the original starters. from Ginkin were Jack Debert (whipper-in of the weaklings), Bill Hall (who committed the sacrilege of annointing his Christmas pudding and cream with bran), Roley Cotter (helping maidens in distress 'way back in those dim, dark ages), Reg Alder, Alex Colley, and a non-bushwalker friend of Alex, Edgar Phillips who looked like something out of Scheherezade, | ||
- | As to this being "a first down the Upper Kowmung" | ||
- | it is always dangerous to make such a claim - some obscure geologist or surveyor was probably there long before - but at least I am pretty | ||
- | sure we were the first S.B.W. party to travel the length of the Kowmung from the Hollander-Tuglow junction, actually on or in the river - as | ||
- | distinct from other parties which had followed its course from a route | ||
- | well up on the ridges. | ||
- | We spent the first few days in a deceptively easy and pleasant amble from Ginkin down the rivers till we got to Morong Creek, where we said goodbye to Dot, Alex and his friends, who had only the Christmas part of the holiday and were returning from there. This left the experimental part of the trip - down the Morong Deep and so on to Yerranderie - to be 'done before New Year, When we had to Dick up food, some more members of the trip, and get rid of myself. This may not sound much, but When you consider that we did not yet know whether one could make a pack float in a reasonably water-tight condition for any corinerable distance, or even how far we were likely to have to float 1 | ||
- | 41. | ||
- | them, it was enough to cause a few misgivings (to the rabbits, at any rate). | ||
- | I might remark here that the original idea, vvhian we had all faithfully followed, was to buy each a small rectangular surf float (about 3' x 21), on which we would tie our packs. As the granite gorge narrowed, we came to the first testing place - sheer walls and a long narrow pool. I am not quite sure of the next bit, but I think the guinea pig's pack (not mine) was first wrapped in a groundsheet, | ||
- | In case there are any folk remaining who have not done it, the Morong Deep" is cut deep into granitic rocks, with theKowmung flowing in a series of long pools of varying depth, and anything up to 300-yards long, with sheer walls, and ending in a mass of granite boulders and a drop, or a series of drops, into the next pool - and so on for miles. I don't recall the total length, but I do know that the hardest day's going was eight miles: and that was from dawn to dark. Needless to say, wear a-id tear on groundsheets and gear is nearly as bad as that on personnel. I remember a time when Reg, somewhere below in the depths of the gorge, spreadeagled against a very knobbly piece of granite, and arrayed in the conventional masculine mode for doing the Kowmung, was carefully lowering Mary's pack by cord to the pool below. Mary calls out: " | ||
- | The trials of this part of the trip were added to by this elevenon-a-food-list stunt. The theory is that, instead of cooking and washing up f or yourself all the time, 7011 have a turn at doing it for eleven. I think three or four cooks were rostered. for eaOh meal, but only one or two washers-up: just imagine about 20 plates, with accompanying cutlery, and incredible numbers of dirty billies, and you may agree that in practice it's not so hot. To a dispassionate observer, the tribal ceremony involVed. in dishing out was also amazing. Eleven dishes were set cut in a row, and three or four billy-bearers, | ||
- | I might point out that individualism was severely frowned upon. You were given a share of everything eXactly equal to everyone else' | ||
- | 04. were served out; I took one look at it, and hurriedly sneaked my plate t_ | ||
- | 42. | ||
- | over to Reg (who was always hungry), unfortunately was caught in the act, pounced on and ordered to eat. Whereupon I shamed myself forever by weeping quantities of salt tears into the aforesaid mess. This un-nerved the entire party, who all acted very remorseful and bunged me into my sleeping bag and put me away for the night. | ||
- | As the river emerges from the narrower part of the gorge, the level stretches between the pools are more frequent. One advantage in being a rabbit was that (when no-one was sufficiently alert to check up on me) I could meander along in the rear, enjoy the cool strangeness of the gorge itself, with its grey-blue and grey-pink walls and silent pools, and murmur to myself Mary's favourite quotation: | ||
- | "There is sweet music here, which softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass; Or night-dews an still waters, between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass". | ||
- | Needless to say, sooner or later, the spell would be broken, the whipper-in would remember me, and baying at m7 heels would round me lap at least to the middle of the party. | ||
- | The rest of the trip (as far as I was concerned) was a pleasant stroll down the Kowmung and in to Yerranderie (where some of the party accompanied me in order to get more food), and where the New Year arrivals, David Stead, Dot, Bill Mullins and (I think) Irving Calnan and Bill Whitney joined the party to do the rest of the Kowmung and so to Katomba. My only regret at this stage was abandoning the said Bill M., who was our Hero of the Moment, to the unscrupulous clutches | ||
- | of H. and C., who I feared Took an Interest. | ||
- | Incidentally, | ||
- | with the result that a photo entitled hDot eating ice cream on the Kowmungh which subsequently appeared in the Bushwalker, was greeted with jeers of derision as an obvious fake. | ||
- | Well, looking back on it,11m glad to have done the trip --- once .. | ||
- | los11.1MMIIIIMIII=t | ||
- | - IN THE NAME OF SPORT. | ||
- | During the 50'z of last century.it was estimated that there were 60 million buffalo in Canada and U.S.A. By 1880 they h ad almost | ||
- | been destroyed Today, despite 70 years of careful preservation, | ||
- | " | ||
- | 4 | ||
+ | Eleven an a food-list, I went along muttering to myself, eleven on a food-list -- me who's always been a blooming individualist with me own foods that I cooks how I likes or don't cook at all: still, I suppose it __may__ lighten the weight - but it's much against my better judgement that I'm in on this at all. " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Besides Gordon, the original starters from Ginkin were Jack Debert (whipper-in of the weaklings), Bill Hall (who committed the sacrilege of annointing his Christmas pudding and cream with bran), Roley Cotter (helping maidens in distress 'way back in those dim, dark ages), Reg Alder, Alex Colley, and a non-bushwalker friend of Alex, Edgar Phillips who looked like something out of Scheherezade, | ||
+ | |||
+ | As to this being "a first down the Upper Kowmung" | ||
+ | |||
+ | We spent the first few days in a deceptively easy and pleasant amble from Ginkin down the rivers till we got to Morong Creek, where we said goodbye to Dot, Alex and his friends, who had only the Christmas part of the holiday and were returning from there. This left the experimental part of the trip - down the Morong Deep and so on to Yerranderie - to be done before New Year, when we had to pick up food, some more members of the trip, and get rid of myself. This may not sound much, but when you consider that we did not yet know whether one __could__ make a pack float in a reasonably water-tight condition for any considerable distance, or even how far we were likely to have to float them, it was enough to cause a few misgivings (to the rabbits, at any rate). | ||
+ | |||
+ | I might remark here that the original idea, which we had all faithfully followed, was to buy each a small rectangular surf float (about 3' x 2'), on which we would tie our packs. As the granite gorge narrowed, we came to the first testing place - sheer walls and a long narrow pool. I am not quite sure of the next bit, but I think the guinea pig's pack (not mine) was first wrapped in a groundsheet, | ||
+ | |||
+ | In case there are any folk remaining who have __not__ done it, the " | ||
+ | |||
+ | The trials of this part of the trip were added to by this eleven-on-a-food-list stunt. The theory is that, instead of cooking and washing up for yourself all the time, you have a turn at doing it for eleven. I think three or four cooks were rostered for each meal, but only one or two washers-up: just imagine about 20 plates, with accompanying cutlery, and incredible numbers of dirty billies, and you may agree that in practice it's not so hot. To a dispassionate observer, the tribal ceremony involved in dishing out was also amazing. Eleven dishes were set out in a row, and three or four billy-bearers, | ||
+ | |||
+ | I might point out that individualism was severely frowned upon. You were given a share of everything exactly equal to everyone else' | ||
+ | |||
+ | As the river emerges from the narrower part of the gorge, the level stretches between the pools are more frequent. One advantage in being a rabbit was that (when no one was sufficiently alert to check up on me) I could meander along in the rear, enjoy the cool strangeness of the gorge itself, with its grey-blue and grey-pink walls and silent pools, and murmur to myself Mary's favourite quotation: | ||
+ | |||
+ | "There is sweet music here, which softer falls\\ | ||
+ | Than petals from blown roses on the grass;\\ | ||
+ | Or night-dews on still waters, between walls\\ | ||
+ | Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass". | ||
+ | |||
+ | Needless to say, sooner or later, the spell would be broken, the whipper-in would remember me, and baying at my heels would round me up at least to the middle of the party. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The rest of the trip (as far as I was concerned) was a pleasant stroll down the Kowmung and in to Yerranderie (where some of the party accompanied me in order to get more food), and where the New Year arrivals, David Stead, Dot, Bill Mullins and (I think) Irving Calnan and Bill Whitney joined the party to do the rest of the Kowmung and so to Katoomba. My only regret at this stage was abandoning the said Bill M., who was our Hero of the Moment, to the unscrupulous clutches of H. and C., who I feared Took an Interest. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Incidentally, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Well, looking back on it, I'm glad to have done the trip --- once... | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====In The Name Of The Sport.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | During the 50's of last century it was estimated that there were 60 million buffalo in Canada and U.S.A. By 1880 they had almost been destroyed Today, despite 70 years of careful preservation, | ||
+ | |||
+ | " |
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