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- | 3. | + | =====Katoomba To Picton The Hard Way - 130 Miles.===== |
- | KATOOMBA TO PICTON THE HARD WAY - 130 MILES | + | |
- | FOR ALL YOUR TRANSPORT | + | |
- | HATTSWELLTS TAXI & TOURIST SERVICE | + | |
- | RING, WRITE, WIRE OR GALL | + | |
- | ANY HOUR, DAY OR NIGHT | + | |
- | Telephone: BTHEATH 128 or 249, Booking Office - 4 doors from Gardners Inn Hotel (LOOK FOR THE NEON SIGN.) | + | |
- | SPEEDY 5 OR 8 PASSENGER CARS AVAILABLE | + | |
- | LARGE OR SMALL PARTIES CATERED FOR. | + | |
- | FARES: | + | |
- | JENOLAN STATE FOREST 20/- " If 5 | + | |
- | GARLONTS FARM 10/- per head 4! 5 | + | |
- | .1.1411.1.1.e- | + | |
- | WE WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE OTHER TRIPS OR SPECIAL PARTIES ON APPLICATION. | + | |
- Dot Butler | - Dot Butler | ||
- | " | + | |
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Can put off till September." | Can put off till September." | ||
- | Now I'm all in favour of long endurance walks occasionally - say once or twice in a lifetime; it gives the walker some idea of | + | |
- | the stuff he's made of and boosts his confidence in his own strength,- mental even more than physical, for therels | + | Now I'm all in favour of long endurance walks occasionally - say once or twice in a lifetime; it gives the walker some idea of the stuff he's made of and boosts his confidence in his own strength,- mental even more than physical, for there' |
- | Well; we started right enough on that occasion, but as the Opera tells; things went awry at HarryTs | + | |
- | "But what of Dot; Garth; Stitt and Putt? DonTt tell me they have all gone phut" | + | Well, we started right enough on that occasion, but as the Opera tells, things went awry at Harry' |
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+ | "But what of Dot; Garth; Stitt and Putt?\\ | ||
+ | Don' | ||
and the answer is | and the answer is | ||
- | "By the bend of the river a little group sat, | + | |
- | And they waited, and waited, and waited They were ready to move at the drop of a hat | + | "By the bend of the river a little group sat,\\ |
- | For their energy | + | And they waited, and waited, and waited\\ |
- | Everyone knows the ' | + | They were ready to move at the drop of a hat\\ |
- | Feeling we had failed to finish merely by a stroke of mismanage- | + | For their energy |
- | ment, we decided it must be done again if only to prove to ourselves | + | |
- | that we could do it. We chose for our next try a week-end which proved to be the wettest of a wet winter - 26 points (or was it inches?) of rain in 24 hours. The Cox was running 30 ft0 abanker, its various tributary trickles were roaring torrents. Although this | + | Everyone knows the sad story; these leaders of the pack continued to wait for the rest of the field who never turned up as they had taken a short cut to McMahon' |
- | made New Zealanders like Colin and Garth feel they were home again,it | + | |
- | nevertheless washed out any attenpt | + | Feeling we had failed to finish merely by a stroke of mismanagement, we decided it must be done again if only to prove to ourselves that we could do it. We chose for our next try a week-end which proved to be the wettest of a wet winter - 26 points (or was it inches?) of rain in 24 hours. The Cox was running 30 ft. abanker, |
- | drowned rats, on Saturday night. Pete hadn't been able to make it because of exams, which was lucky for him. | + | |
- | Third time proves it. We set the date for the first week in September when the moon was full, and just as far from the shortest day as Geof's trip had been, only this side of it instead of the | + | Third time proves it. We set the date for the first week in September when the moon was full, and just as far from the shortest day as Geof's trip had been, only this side of it instead of the other. Still no Stitt - more exams. We left it too late to book on the Fish so we caught the Chips, and at 8.30 stepped out smartly for Devil' |
- | other. Still no Stitt - more exams. We left it too late to book on the Fish so we caught the Chips, and at 8.30 stepped out smartly | + | |
- | for Devil' | + | In next to no time we were at Kanangra, |
- | white clouds cast a diffused glow over the country, and after descend- | + | |
- | ing the Devil' | + | Now we're at Harry' |
- | detail, recalled the route we had prospected some weeks ago by identifying each gate we encountered by its lock, be it a chunk of wood or a bolt, be it round at the end, be it square, be it shiny, be it rusty, or what. The same sheep as chased Jim and Kevin | + | |
- | ba-a-a-ahed at us, the Paddock Love grass which had scented the night | + | Right. They shook the gravel out of their socks and rinsed out their boots - I was wearing |
- | air on Geof's trip was now golden in death, but the briar rose bushes | + | |
- | with their poignant nostalgic perfume were the same as always, scenting the air as we dropped down to where the Cox gleamed in the moonlight. We walked about a mile along the river bank and camped | + | Swayed by the weight of numbers I had brought my hob-nailed mountaineering boots on this trip - Did you ever hear of anything so silly? (Still, they __had__ |
- | in a thicket of flowering blackthorn. Ten minutes to cut a heap of | + | |
- | bracken, a swift dip to disperse the dust of travel, then we demolished a slab of cake, set Colin' | + | With packs containing now only lunch and sleeping bag and a few minor oddments we hit the road once more. The boys were having trouble with their heavy clinkered boots. " |
- | were sound asleep by midnight. We awoke in the scented dawn to countless thousands of lime green flowers scattered all over the prickle bushes - there is some good in blackthorn after all, Breakfast | + | |
- | that he was about to slit the throat of the sacred cow, opened a tin | + | Garth had decided that the 85 miles that were good enough for Geof's crowd were good enough for him too, and it was Picton for him. The blisters he had acquired |
- | of condensed milk with a knife. One cow per meal was the order of things - the expendable cow. Having poured the contents on his | + | |
- | cornflakes he announced that the expendable cow was now expent and tossed its empty carcase over the blackthorn bushes, causing a herd | + | "If we reach Sheehy' |
- | of its relatives to dash off up the river bank in alarm with tails flying, We rounded off breakfast with a pre-cooked chop or sausage, then the sleeping bags were stuffed into packs and we were away by | + | |
- | 6 a.m with destination Binlow (we hope) - 50 miles away. The day | + | " |
- | was cool and invigorating, | + | |
- | had lost his watch - it dropped out of his pocket when he had | + | So Colin gave me his map and a good torch, and feeling like a captain deserting his sinking ship and crew I said good-bye and sped off up the Nattai. I ran the first ten miles to still the turmoil within.... |
- | slung his shirt into his pack at the last river crossing. He had | + | |
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- | You press tI butt,': | + | |
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- | gone back to look for it, but no luck, The light went out of the day, the sun retreated behind a cloud and we all walked on sadly, | + | |
- | "Just shows you it would pay to insure such valuables," | + | |
- | thing I'd think of," said Garth, "But I didn' | + | |
- | In next to no time we were at Kanangras | + | |
- | our bread and cheese, and Colin even found time to light a fire and brew a huge cauldron of tea, to which Garth added sugar and I added milk, and we were doing our best to drink it up when various youths hove in sight from various directions and converged on our billy of tea. They told us they were the Catholic Bushwalkers and they were engaged in (Shame!) a marathon handicap race. We didn't tell them that Bushwalkers deplore marathons: although we might have | + | |
- | so quoted Club Policy. We merely felt superior that we weren' | + | |
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- | AND PADDY EtS IT I. | + | |
- | You've all had dried eggs arid dried | + | |
- | vegetables, dried mashed potatoes and dried meat. No doubt you've also had dry bread, but there' | + | |
- | Yes folks, dehydrated butter. It's chief merit is not its lightness or compactness - 12 oz. mixed with water makes a pound of butter - (if you like your butter tasty mix with sour milk | + | |
- | Instead of water). The great point about concentrated butter is that it doesn' | + | |
- | Those hard-boiled merchants the Yanks have ordered several tons of it | + | |
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- | place to cross the Kowmung, and we sped off down Cox. Looking back we saw their vanguard streaking off up Kowmung to thanr finishing tape somewhere up on Kowmung heights. | + | |
- | Now we're at Harry' | + | |
- | clear blue sky, and we ate oranges, and oranges, and oranges. Is it | + | |
- | possible that keen intelligent adults don't know when they' | + | |
- | Right. They shook the gravel out of their socks and rinsed out their boots - I was wearing | + | |
- | did we, and about 8,30 we struck Bimlow. We settled on a nice grassy spot by a blackthorn bush, Colin took his billy and went off on what proved to be a Grand Tour to the river for waters | + | |
- | in our sleeping bags and gorged on pre-cooked chops, bread and butter, tinned fruit and cream, and despite barking dogs down by | + | |
- | the store we slept like logs till 5 a.m. | + | |
- | Swayed by the weight of numbers I had brought my hob-nailed mountaineering boots on this trip - Did you ever hear of anything | + | |
- | so silly? (Still, they had been good in Tasmania a couple of weeks | + | |
- | earlier). I had worn them as an experiment for the ten miles down | + | |
- | to the Cox on Friday night, then carried the darn heavy things on my back for 50 miles down the Cox, but now with the greatest of pleasure I wrapped then in a half-tent due to be jettisoned and a | + | |
- | piece of plastic | + | |
- | With packs containing now only lunch and sleeping bag and a | + | |
- | few minor oddments we hit the road once more. The boys were having | + | |
- | trouble with their heavy clinkered boots. " | + | |
- | it," said Colin bitterly. "Could anything be more devastating to the feet than the interminable thump, thump, pound, pound along a | + | |
- | hard road." And much as I would like to think in terms of the | + | |
- | romance of the open road I'm afraid I must agree that the modern description " | + | |
- | Garth had decided that the 85 miles that were good enough for | + | |
- | Geof's crowd were good enough for him too, and it was Picton for him. | + | |
- | The blisters he had aquired | + | |
- | with him; he was now down to the 6th layer of skin and doubted if there were any more under that; he would probably make the 25 miles to Picton and call it a day, Colin, however, had planned for a hundred-mile week-end, and the itinerary was to be up the Nattai, | + | |
- | 7. | + | |
- | up Starlight' | + | |
- | main road to make up the even hundred - "and we'll do those last few miles even if we do them on our hands and knees," | + | |
- | "If we reach Sheehy' | + | |
- | up," said Colin. Well, we reached Sheehy' | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | ridiculous hour to finish a trip" | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | IMPORTANT TRANSPORT NOTICE | + | |
- | BUSHWALKERS REQUIRING TRANSPORT | + | |
- | FROM BLACKHEATH ANY HOUR RING WRITE OR GALL | + | |
- | SIEDLECKY' | + | |
- | 116 STATION STREET, BLACKHEATH. | + | |
- | 24 HOUR SERVIC E. | + | |
- | BUSHWALKERS arriving at Blackheath late at nf.ght without transport booking can ring for car from Railway Station or call at above address -- IT'S NEVER TOO IATEI | + | |
- | ' | + | |
- | OR BOOK AT MARK SALON RADIO SHOP OPPOSITE STATION. | + | |
- | 8. | + | |
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- | So Colin gave me his map and a good torch, and feeling like a | + | |
- | captain deserting his sinking ship and crew I said good-bye and sped off up the Nattai. I ran the first ten miles to still the turmoil | + | |
- | within | + | |
- | "Oh, he rides fast to dull the pain | + | |
Who rides from home, etc. etc..." | Who rides from home, etc. etc..." | ||
- | and the green and gold clearings of the Nattai, and the tall swaying wattles in a perfection of flowering, the little deserted farm | + | |
- | buildings and the Nattai walls flashed past in a haze. By the time I slowed down I guessed it was dinner time so finished off the food in my pack except for a small chunk of bread and a handful of popped | + | and the green and gold clearings of the Nattai, and the tall swaying wattles in a perfection of flowering, the little deserted farm buildings and the Nattai walls flashed past in a haze. By the time I slowed down I guessed it was dinner time so finished off the food in my pack except for a small chunk of bread and a handful of popped rice. |
- | rice. | + | |
- | By about 2 or 3 o' | + | By about 2 or 3 o' |
- | all mod. cons. From here Colin said it was 6 or 8 miles of trackless river work to reach the foot of Sarlight's Track. Should do it | + | |
- | by dark, so on I pushed, Instructions were to keep up the side as far as possible out of the river-bed thicket, so I bore off to the | + | I spent the next a.m. from about 5 till 7 pushing up the river bed, but when I struck the same traitorous rocky creek-bed as yesterday I knew there was no point in going further and repeating yesterday' |
- | right and pressed on for several hours. Then I got into the river bed itself, which started going uphill rapidly. It was very rocky | + | |
- | and rugged, the growth very dense, and all chance of finding a clearing | + | And now what have we to say for ourself? Well, long walks such as the one described are possible, and no great hardship physically provided the footwear is suitable, but the "life is real, life is earnest" |
- | I possibly have by-passed McArthur' | + | |
- | I shall have to go back some time end find out. I climbed out of the river bed and headed up to the walls on the left, hoping I might be able to climb them and so get a long view of my whereabouts, | + | =====Federation Report |
- | could see the river nding off to the S.E. But my direction should be due east, so I cursed heartily and decided to return to the blitz | + | |
- | buggy site with all speed in the remaining hour of daylight. I ran all the way back, not losing too much height at first as I had hopes I might cut Starlight' | + | ====New Secretary:==== |
- | dark I was back at the blitz buggy site sitting in my sleeping bag | + | |
- | among the bracken and eating my miserable chunk of dry bread while | + | Mr. Peter Cameron of the C.M.W. has been elected to the position of Honorary Secretary |
- | I studied the map by torchlight. Having resigned myself to being | + | |
- | a day overdue, for the first time in all my walking experience, I | + | The publishers of " |
- | decided to spend a couple of hours next morning going upstream right in the river bed, then if there was a clearing to be found I would | + | |
- | undoubtedly find it, but if unsuccessful in two hours I would have | + | ====Bushfire |
- | to return down the Nattai and go up to Pieten. | + | |
- | I spent the next a.n, from about 5 till 7 pushing up the river bed, but when I struck the same traitorous rocky creek-bed as | + | Reported that conference |
- | yesterday I knew there was no point in going further and repeating yesterday' | + | |
- | the Nattai to Sheehy' | + | It was further reported that an alderman of the Blue Mountains City Council had requested the presence of a representative of the Federation at a meeting to be held concerning bushfires on the Blue Mountains. Mr. Allen will attend as an observer. |
- | 9, | + | |
- | the very spot where I had bid good-bye to Colin and Garth yesterday, | + | ====Federation Annual Ball:==== |
- | eating a tin of peaches and a ditto of condensed milk ripped open | + | |
- | with a piece of fencing wire, this providential tucker having been found in a deserted habitation on the way out. ,Then hp Sheehy' | + | Wed., 5th October, in the Rainbow Room of the Hotel Australia. Tickets 17/6d. from Paddy. |
- | Creek to the Waterfall, and via a road which didn't seem to be the one on the map but which brought me out to the Mowbray Park road, | + | |
- | and so in to Picton by 3 o' | + | ====The Bong Bong National Park Proposal: |
- | KEEP UP YOUR VITALITY | + | |
- | ON WALKS WITH | + | The Dept. of Lands has reported: |
- | VEGETARIAN FOODS | + | |
- | CENOVIS YEAST (CONTAINS WHOLE VITAMIN B COMPLEX, ALSO D,E,F, AND H). . | + | a. __The Barren |
- | LIGHT THIN RY-KING CRISP BREAD (100% WHOLE RYE FLOUR) WELL | + | |
- | WRAPPED IN HANDY 8 OZ. PACKET. | + | b. __The Budderoo Peninsula Section.__ All the available Crown Lands will be Reserved for the Preservation of Flora and Fauna. This should be about 5 or 6,000 acres. |
- | I BASE YOUR HOLIDAY FOOD LISTS ON WHOLESOME FOODS | + | |
- | WIDE RANGE OF DRIED FRUITS, NUTS, BISCUITS AND DRIED FRUIT | + | |
- | SWEETS. | + | |
- | 1 FROM | + | |
- | 1 THE SANITARIUM HEALTH FOOD SHOP, 13 HUNTER STREET SYDNEY. | + | |
- | .11,1. | + | |
- | 10. | + | |
- | swung opentheir | + | |
- | paved surface for the soft edge. "He doesn' | + | |
- | And now what have we to say for ourself? Well, long walks such as the one described are possible, and no great hardship | + | |
- | physically provided the footwear is suitable, but the "life is real, life is earnest" | + | |
- | FEDERATION REPORT | + | |
- | New Secretary: Mr. Peter Cameron of the C.M.W. has been elected to the position of Hon.Sec. | + | |
- | The publishers of " | + | |
- | Bushfire | + | |
- | ence had been held with Mr. Watchorn of the Sutherland | + | |
- | It was further reported that an alderman of the Blue Mountains City Council had requested the presence of a representative of the. Federation at a meeting to be held concerning bushfires on the Blue Mountains. Mr. Allen will attend as an observer. | + | |
- | Federation Annual Ball t Wed., 5th October, in the Rainbow Room of the Hotel Australia. Tickets 17/6d. from Paddy. | + | |
- | The Bong Bong National Park Proposals | + | |
- | a. The Barren | + | |
- | b. The Budderoo Peninsula Section. All the available Crown. Lands will be Reserved for the Preservation of Flora and Fauna. This should be about 5 or 6,000 acres. | + | |
It is now planned to have the Budderoo Peninsula added to the Barren Grounds when the latter becomes a Faunal Reserve. This would put a permanent reserve over most of the plateau with the hope of later encouraging resumption of some of the alienated lands. | It is now planned to have the Budderoo Peninsula added to the Barren Grounds when the latter becomes a Faunal Reserve. This would put a permanent reserve over most of the plateau with the hope of later encouraging resumption of some of the alienated lands. | ||
- | Barrington-GloucesterTELL: | ||
- | 11. | + | ====Barrington-Gloucester Tops:==== |
- | established to make recommendations to the Dept. of Lands on the disposal of Crown Lands in this area Close liason | + | |
- | between the Federation, the Barrington Club. and tha Northern Parks | + | An Inter-Departmental Committee has been established to make recommendations to the Dept. of Lands on the disposal of Crown Lands in this area. Close liaison |
- | & Playgrounds Movement. The Inter-Departmental Committee held a meeting in Newcasbleon | + | |
- | The Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia, | + | ====Bouddi Natural |
- | The N.S.W. Federation of Bushwalking Clubs, and The Caloola | + | |
- | ....before the Committee. The recommenda- | + | The Park Trust regrets to announce that moves are being made to mine Black Sands (Rutile) on the northern end of Putty or Kilcare Beach. Already much pegging and cutting of bush has been done. The Trust is objecting to the Dept. of Mines proceeding without prior consultation |
- | tions had been co-ordinated. They show two Faunal Reserves (one | + | |
- | the Barrington River, the other on the Paterson) and a National Park over the general plateau of the Barrington-Gloucester Tops. We are | + | ====Bungonia Gorge:==== |
- | also happy to record that The Fauna Protection Panel has agreed to ask | + | |
- | for the same Faunal Reserves, The Chief Guardian of Fauna was present in Newcastle to put these proposals. Mr. Moppett reports that the Newcastle Meeting appeared to be conducted in a very friendly and understanding atmosphere. The Barrington Club, the Northern Parks & Playgrounds Movement, the Newcastle Tech,,Bushwalkers and numerous local bodies also gave evidence before the Committee all of whom had general agreement with our proposals. There appeared to be assurance that no Crown Land would be alienated in the area, | + | Signatures from members of the Geology Staffs at the Universities of Sydney and New England and the University of Technology at Sydney and Newcastle, were obtained to a petition asking the Minister for Mines to cancel certain Mining |
- | Bouddi Natural | + | |
- | without prior consultatimi | + | ---- |
- | ance that the quality | + | |
- | ment of vegetation after operations have ceased. | + | ====Social Programme Alteration:==== |
- | Bungonia Gorge: Signatures from members of the Geology Staffs at the Universities of Sydney and New England and the University of Technology at Sydney and Newcastle, were obtained to | + | |
- | a petition asking the Minister for Mines to cancel certain Mining | + | The lecture by J. Savage, scheduled |
- | SOCIAL PROGRAMYE ALTERATION: The lecture by J. Savage, scheduled | + | |
- | CHILDREN'S XMAS TREAT: Jenny Madden (WL5317) has offered to act as | + | ---- |
- | Convenor of a meeting of all Bushwalkers interested in organising a Children' | + | |
- | suggestions to offer, would you please ring Jenny. (WL5317). | + | ====Children's Xmas Treat:==== |
- | e a | + | |
+ | Jenny Madden (WL5317) has offered to act as Convenor of a meeting of all Bushwalkers interested in organising a Children' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
Douglas and Marj. Johnston have a daughter. | Douglas and Marj. Johnston have a daughter. | ||
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- | 12. | + | ---- |
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- | , - e (0) 0\1 | + | =====Leaderless Legion.===== |
- | By | + | |
- | Jim Brown. | + | By Jim Brown. |
- | 2 | + | |
- | e | + | At approximately 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, 15th September, the 'phone was handed |
- | w,,,, | + | |
- | 7k1fial- ,.... | + | He said " |
- | / j1/ | + | |
- | / | + | So the Leaderless Legion began to assemble outside platform 7, Central, shortly before five on the Friday afternoon. I was first there, and shortly after the Editor tripped up brightly and was duly shocked to learn that the Navy had retreated. She fidgeted for a moment, then borrowed a penny from me and scuttled away. Three minutes later, what time I wondered |
- | - r, | + | |
- | _ kZ1 ' | + | At 5.5 they all rolled up together, Schafer and Digby and Gowar, with visitor Jack Marshall, all squiring Heather Joyce. Then Kevin arrived molto agitato lest Patsy shouldn' |
- | ,, -----9, | + | |
- | At approximately 2.30 p.m, on Thursday, 15th September, the 'phone was handed | + | |
- | nine or ten - Checked in the Club last night. | + | |
- | He said " | + | |
- | had a wide variety of sound reasons for tot going. There was a leg still misbehaving after a stumble in the snow country, his return to work on Monday, and a military parade on Monday night. Then he becam | + | |
- | rather vague with references to a car and something about dawn, all of | + | |
- | which didn't seem to tie in; I said sympathetically "kh, Ah," for it was clear that the poor fellow was unhinged and wandering. There and then he came back to the point and explained he wasn't wandering, not on the week-end of that deplorable Katoomba to Bowral walk, anyway. | + | |
- | So the Leaderless Legion began to assemble outside platform 7, Central, shortly before five on the Friday afternoon. I was first | + | |
- | there, and shortly after the Editor tripped up brightly and was duly | + | |
- | shocked to learn that the Navy had retreated. She fidgeted for a moment, then borrowed a penny from me and scuttled away. Three minutes later, what time I wondered | + | |
- | she returned to tell me her pack weighed just 12 lbs. I felt over- | + | |
- | weight | + | |
- | At 5.5 they all rolled up together, Schafer and Digby and Gowar, | + | |
- | with visitor Jack Marshall, all squiring Heather Joyce. Then Kevin arrived molto agitato lest Patsy shouldn' | + | |
We rolled away from town, Kevin still wondering how long Patsy would seek the "green Vauxhall" | We rolled away from town, Kevin still wondering how long Patsy would seek the "green Vauxhall" | ||
- | We came presently to Katoomba without any alarming developments, | + | |
- | 13. | + | We came presently to Katoomba without any alarming developments, |
- | and I had decided to visit that famous chemist Mr.Gearin on the wrong side of the track, for some of his famous restorative potion, and for us the rest of the trip became somewhat | + | |
- | Ten past eight, and we were charging out towards the Water Towers. The charge was moderate, being a leisured 3 m.p.h. Towards nine we glimpsed torches moving out along the Necks as we went down | + | Ten past eight, and we were charging out towards the Water Towers. The charge was moderate, being a leisured 3 m.p.h. Towards nine we glimpsed torches moving out along the Necks as we went down the Causeway. Some time later we sighted them again climbing out of Diamond Spray Falls as we started down. The night was calm, mild and starlit, but as we beat up over the Narrow Neck itself a darkish scum of cloud, quite a deal larger than a man's hand, drifted up out of the south east. The first few splashes of rain fell as we dropped down into Glenrapheal, |
- | the Causeway. Some time later we sighted them again climbing out of | + | |
- | Diamond Spray Falls as we started down. The night was calm, mild and starlit, but as we beat up over the Narrow Neck itself a darkish scum of cloud, quite a deal larger than a man's hand, drifted up out of thc south east. The first few splashes of rain fell as we dropped down | + | A very cosy, comfortable half-night was put in, till I heard Kevin murmuring over and over "Jimmy Brown, Jimmy Brown.." |
- | into Glenrapheal, | + | |
- | A very cosy, comfortable half-night was put in, till I heard Kevin murmuring over and over "Jimmy Brown, Jimmy Brown.." | + | Up the hill beyond Glenraphael there was a sudden upheaval in the scrub at the trackside, and Arne Jonsson |
- | off on chocolate at 5.20. | + | |
- | Up the hill beyond Glenraphael there was a sudden upheaval in | + | He accompanied us a little way, then stormed ahead, and we presently met the whole advance party in the little overhang just below Clear Hill. They were having breakfast (or some of it) sitting in their sleeping bags. Fancy, breakfast in bed on a mara...(naughty! naughty!) |
- | the scrub at the trackside, and Arne Jotssola | + | |
- | He accompanied us a little way, then stormed ahead, and we presently | + | Miracle of miracles, Kevin and I actually led the field down and over Debert' |
- | met the whole advance party in the little overhang just below Clear | + | |
- | Hill. They were having breakfast (or some of it) sitting in their | + | Breakfast by the Cox from 8.0 to 8.5.0. The runaways were off as we reached the river: the Schafer team was taking breakfast on the west bank, and Jack and Arne preparing to move on the far side. We were away in light rain twenty-odd minutes behind the rest, back in our accustomed position as Tail End Charlies. My last time over the Policeman had been in 1940, but the way was quite obvious, and within an hour we were making the gradual ascent of the range towards the Cooken track which is, by the way, virtually non existent. We identified the gate, but immediately found we had a tendency to veer too far south and west towards the rim of the Kowmung, and it cost Kevin much effort with his compass to drag me back onto a decent SE bearing. Mist end rain stayed with us as we slopped towards Kowmung House, and Jack Marshall joined us over the last half mile or so. Apparently |
- | sleeping bags. Fancy, breakfast in bed on a mara,..(naughtyl | + | |
- | Miracle of miracles, Kevin and I actually led the field down and over Debert' | + | We took a spell at Kowmung House, and trundled off towards |
- | while mists wreathed about.the higher points, and sometimes a little | + | |
- | thin sunlight put warm olive colours in the drab of the ranges. The flyers, Heather, Dot and Snow flitted past us, but for a time the rest trod close on our heels; someone said the cool overcast with a hint of rain was fine for walking, Kevin said " | + | We'd not been along Scott' |
- | Breakfast by the Cox from 8.0 to 8.5.0. The runaways were off as | + | |
- | we reached the river: the Schafer team.was taking breakfast on the west bank, and Jack and Arne preparing to move on the far side. We | + | For those who follow, there' |
- | were away in light rain twenty-odd minutes behind the rest, back in our accustomed position as Tail End Charlies, My last time over the Policeman had been in 1940, but the way was quite obvious, and within | + | |
- | an hour we were making the gradual ascent of the range towards the | + | There was no future in shifting without light, so we breakfasted |
- | Cooken track which is, by the way, virtually non est. We identified | + | |
- | the gate, but immediately found:INC had a tendency to veer too far | + | In places we could see footprints of the others and wondered if they had managed to stay with the jeep track with enough light to pass the awkward places the previous evening. By now, of course, our own target was Wollondilly bridge and rescue by David Ingram; we couldn' |
- | 14. | + | |
- | south and west towards the rim of the Kowmung, and it cost Kevin much effort with his compass to drag me back onto a decent SE bearing. Mist end rain stayed with us as we slopped towards Kowmung.House, and Jack Marshall joined us over the last half mile or so Aploarently | + | At a few minutes past eight we came to the Tonalli, and learned there from a couple of motor campers that three (one named " |
- | We took a spell at Kowmung House, and trundled off toal,,, | + | |
- | Jan just after noon, a good hour and a quarter behind estimated. time- | + | Little remains to tell of our own walking. Kevin was anxious to get to a phone to tell Patsy at Bowral |
- | table. For the first couple of miles along Cedar Road Jack was with us, but obviously itching for a greater rate of knots, he pushed on hoping to take the rest at Bran Jan. In point of facts evrv. the sluggards met the main party, arriving at about 1.45 just Dot, | + | |
- | Heather and Snow were pulling out into the heaviest shower of the | + | Dependable David arrived at 12.7 1/2 p.m. and took us back to Spring Corner, where Kevin contacted Bowral. I settled down in my sleeping bag as we rolled sweetly south to Mittagong, where Patsy united Kevin with the beloved green Vauxhall. We went in convoy out to Wanganderry to join the rabble that waited there. Just before we arrived (4 p.m.), the cars of Jack Gentle and Len Fall had headed along the track towards Malcolm' |
- | week-end. We started lunch to a barrage of counsel and instruction | + | |
- | about the Bran Jan facilities from Neil: we finished and moved off alone again, just after 2.30, caped up against the mimzling | + | Some time after 5.30 two of the cars departed, and David and I drove 7 or 8 miles west to the Bullio region in case the walkers had reached the road beyond Wanganderry. The light was almost gone as we came back to the junction, and after a brief discussion we concluded that the strays had either (a) changed their minds and retreated |
- | We'd not been along Scott' | + | |
- | fences, and pleased at the jeep track which confirms a route otherwise | + | =====Summary Of The Report Of The Fauna Protection Panel.===== |
- | requiring pathfinding in places. The ridge top is fairly flat from a walker' | + | |
- | watches creeping towards five we began to realise that the light would | + | Year ended 30th June, 1954. |
- | dictate our future. The old jeep trail was good in daylight, but it | + | |
- | would be nearly impossible by night: I recalled a couple of"11.0c3.? | + | |
- | stretches" | + | |
- | For those who follow, there' | + | |
- | dropping directly off Scott' | + | |
- | imagined we were on the latter, but it didn't work out and we spent the last few glimmers of the day searching up and down a shafciwy | + | |
- | There was no future in shifting without light, so we breakfasted | + | |
- | 15.. | + | |
- | In places we could see footprints of the others and wondered if they had managed to stay with the jeep track with enough light to pass the awkward places the previous evening, By now, of course, our own target was Wollondilly bridge and rescue by David Ingram; we couldn' | + | |
- | .P4.t a few minutes past eight we came to the Tonalli, and learned there from a couple of motor campers that three (one named " | + | |
- | That gave the racehorses just a chance of making Bowral, but the other quartet - not in the event. | + | |
- | Little remains to tell of our own walking. Kevin was anxious to get to a phone to tell Patsy at Bowrai | + | |
- | Dependable David arrived at 12.7i p.m. and took us back to Spring Corner, where Kevin contacted Bowral. I settled down in my sleeping bag as we rolled sweetly south to Mittagong, where Patsy united Kevin with the beloved green Vauxhall. We went in convoy | + | |
- | out to Wanganderry to join.; the rabble that waited there. Just before we arrived (4 p.m.), the cars of Jack Gentle and Len Fall had headed along the track towards Malcolm' | + | |
- | explained that he was an old hand freelance walker, thinking of join- | + | |
- | ing S.B.W. who fancied he might be able to help bring in the way-wear | + | |
- | travellers - a nice gesture. We were then five cars, sundry car- | + | |
- | travellers, two retired marath...long distance walkers, and a bevy of | + | |
- | children, all waiting and brewing tea in the grey chilly afternoon, watching for Snow's gaudy red-white-and-blue cape to waft over the slope of Wanganderry Hill. Now that they knew the others were still en route to Wanganderry the drivers were quAte happy to stay on a while longer; they couldn' | + | |
- | back to the junction about five, and we brewed more tea. | + | |
- | Snme time after 503Q two of the cars departed, and David and I drove 7 or 8 miles west to the Bullio region in case the walkers had reached the road beyond Wanganderry. The light was almost gone as we came back to the junction, and after a brief discussion we concluded that the strays had either (a) changed their minds and retreat ed to Burragorang, | + | |
- | some search and rescue activities on Monday evening, and at 6.15 the cars departed in column towards Mittagong,- At that moment Snow's coat of many colours was coming down the last hill towards the road.. ....but that's another story.. .... | + | |
- | 16. | + | |
- | SUMMARY OF THE REPORT OF. THE FAUNA PROTECTION. PANEL. | + | |
- | Year ended 30th JuneL_12151.. | + | |
(Summary prepared by Alan A. Strom who was nominated by the Sydney Bushwalkers' | (Summary prepared by Alan A. Strom who was nominated by the Sydney Bushwalkers' | ||
- | EDUCATION & PUBLICITY: All school teachers are Rangers under the | + | |
- | Fauna Protection | + | ====Education and Publicity:==== |
- | given to fauna protection in the Natural History and Biology Courses, many enquiries come from teachers and pupils. | + | |
- | An essay competition for school children brought 40 entries this year During the year 1954/55 five films were added to the Panel' | + | All school teachers are Rangers under the Fauna Protection |
- | 1. "Bird Lovers of N.S.W." | + | |
- | 2. " | + | An essay competition for school children brought 40 entries this year. |
- | 3, " | + | |
- | 4. " | + | During the year 1954/55 five films were added to the Panel' |
- | 5. "Teddy Bears at Play." | + | |
+ | |1.|"Bird Lovers of N.S.W." | ||
+ | |2.|" | ||
+ | |3.|" | ||
+ | |4.|" | ||
+ | |5.|"Teddy Bears at Play."| | ||
Widespread showings to children and adults have been made of the following films from the library: | Widespread showings to children and adults have been made of the following films from the library: | ||
- | The Kcala; Australia' | + | |
- | Spiny Ant-eater; Protect | + | The Koala; Australia' |
- | A good deal of publicity has been given by the A.B.C. and press, particularly "The S.M.Herald" | + | |
- | HONORARY RANGERS: An average of 2,194 bulletins per quarter have been issued to rangers in an attempt to maintain contact and promote press publicity. | + | A good deal of publicity has been given by the A.B.C. and press, particularly "The S.M.Herald" |
- | LOCAL FAUNAL SOCIETIES: No new Societies were formed during the year, but Branches of the North Shore Fauna and Flora Protection Society | + | |
- | established at Avalon and Newport. The Societies perform very useful work both in the educational field and in direct protection. Their activities are many and varied. | + | ====Honorary Rangers:==== |
- | THE NORTH SHORE FAUNA AND FLORA PROTECTION through | + | |
- | undertaken to plant native plants, arranged film shows, and a public | + | An average of 2,194 bulletins per quarter have been issued to rangers in an attempt to maintain contact and promote press publicity. |
- | exhibition of native plants and animals, interested people in koala | + | |
- | preservation on Palm Beach Peninsula and arranged for the appointment of many Hon.Rangers. | + | ====Local Faunal Societies:==== |
- | has continued to work for the establishment of a National Park in the Blue Mts. Among the many activities of the Gosford | + | |
- | Flora Protection | + | No new Societies were formed during the year, but Branches of the North Shore Fauna and Flora Protection Society |
- | tion Societies to further a proposal to establish a National Park in the Kariong area, Other Societies operating during the year are at Leeton and Wollongong. | + | |
- | RARE FAUNA now includes 15 species. They are: Platypus (2 species), Spiny Anteater, Koala; Southern Whiptail Wallaby, Mallee Fowl, Brush Turkey, Lyre Bird (2 species), Purple-crowned Pigeon, Red-crowned | + | ====The North Shore Fauna And Flora Protection==== |
- | 17, | + | |
- | Pigeon, White-headed Pigeon, Wompoo Pigeon, Paradise Parakeet and | + | Through |
- | Ground Parrot. Penalty for interference in any way with these animals is up to 50 fine and/or six months imprisonment. | + | |
- | KOALA CONSERVATION: During the year a survey of Barren' | + | ====Rare Fauna: |
- | In the Kuring-gai Chase Koala Reserve | + | |
- | BIRD BANDING SCHEME: The Wildlife Survey Section of C.S.I.R.O. has inaugurated an Australian Bird-banding Scheme to increase knowledge of the movements and habitats of Aust.birds and thus provide a body c scientific information on which measure for protection can be based, The Panel has been working with the Wildlife Section in this work, | + | Now includes 15 species. They are: Platypus (2 species), Spiny Anteater, Koala, Southern Whiptail Wallaby, Mallee Fowl, Brush Turkey, Lyre Bird (2 species), Purple-crowned Pigeon, Red-crowned Pigeon, White-headed Pigeon, Wompoo Pigeon, Paradise Parakeet and |
- | FAUNAL RESERVES: Twn such reserves have been approved: | + | Ground Parrot. Penalty for interference in any way with these animals is up to £50 fine and/or six months imprisonment. |
- | 1. The JohriGould | + | |
- | Stephens named after John Gould, and also because it is the | + | ====Koala Conservation:==== |
- | nesting place of the Gould Petrel, | + | |
- | 2. The | + | During the year a survey of __Barrenjoey Peninsula__ |
- | The following proposals are under enquiry by the Dept.of Lands: 1. The Barren Grounds. | + | |
- | 2, Nadgee. 30,000 acres in the extreme S.E. corner of the State, | + | __In the Kuring-gai Chase Koala Reserve__ |
- | 3, Lion Island at the mouth of the Fawkesbury | + | |
- | 4. Killarney, St. Georgets | + | ====Bird Banding Scheme:==== |
- | 5, Barrington Tops, Two reserves - one on the Paterson River, and the other on the Barrington-Kerriput River area, | + | |
- | 6, Ettrema Endrick. On the headwaters of Ettreme Crk.(Near | + | The Wildlife Survey Section of C.S.I.R.O. has inaugurated an Australian Bird-banding Scheme to increase knowledge of the movements and habitats of Aust. birds and thus provide a body of scientific information on which measure for protection can be based. The Panel has been working with the Wildlife Section in this work. |
- | SANCTUARIES: Now number 402, fifteen having been added during 1954/ | + | |
- | 55, | + | ====Faunal Reserves:==== |
- | FIELD STAFF: The Field Officer has spent a very useful year policing the provisions of the Act, particularly the licensing provisions, and the inspection of areas suggested as suitable for Reserves, Whenever possible he has established touch with Hon. Rangers with a view to encouraging their interest, and he has been responsible for the appointment of a considerable number of persons as Hon.Rangers, | + | |
- | BIOLOGICAL UNIT: The Public Service Board has approved of the appointment of a Biologist to carry out scientific investigations regarding the care ond protection of fauna. | + | Two such reserves have been approved: |
- | Happy future to Tine and Don Matthews, married on 23rd Sept, | + | |
- | .15k7.0 c | + | 1. The John Gould Faunal Reserve (Cabbage Tree Island near Port Stephens) named after John Gould, and also because it is the nesting place of the Gould Petrel. |
- | Best wished to Ray and Jo Moore, married at Warrington,Lancac | + | |
- | 18. THE 851 MILER WOT AGAIN!) | + | 2. The |
- | PARTY: Jim and Kevin, | + | |
- | The Schafer push (Neil, | + | The following proposals are under enquiry by the Dept.of Lands: |
- | Don Gower, Digby.) Heather, Snow, Dot, Arne, Jock Marshall (C.M.W.) | + | |
+ | |1.|The Barren Grounds. | ||
+ | |2.|Nadgee. 30,000 acres in the extreme S.E. corner of the State.| | ||
+ | |3.|Lion Island at the mouth of the Hawkesbury | ||
+ | |4.|Killarney, St. George' | ||
+ | |5.|Barrington Tops, Two reserves - one on the Paterson River, and the other on the Barrington-Kerriput River area.| | ||
+ | |6.|Ettrema | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Sanctuaries:==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Now number 402, fifteen having been added during 1954/55. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Field Staff:==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Field Officer has spent a very useful year policing the provisions of the Act, particularly the licensing provisions, and the inspection of areas suggested as suitable for Reserves. Whenever possible he has established touch with Hon. Rangers with a view to encouraging their interest, and he has been responsible for the appointment of a considerable number of persons as Hon. Rangers. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Biological Unit:==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Public Service Board has approved of the appointment of a Biologist to carry out scientific investigations regarding the care and protection of fauna. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | Happy future to Tina and Don Matthews, married on 23rd Sept. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | Best wished to Ray and Jo Moore, married at Warrington, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====The 85 1/2 Miler - (Wot, Again!)===== | ||
By The 85i Milers. | By The 85i Milers. | ||
- | " | + | |
- | like this." | + | PARTY: Jim and Kevin, The Schafer push (Neil, Don Gower, Digby.) Heather, Snow, Dot, Arne, Jock Marshall (C.M.W.), |
- | In the Club on the preceeding Wednesday: Who's going on the | + | |
- | Admiral' | + | " |
- | can't let him down. All the other Clubs have heard of this trip; we'll be a scorn and a hissing if the trip doesn' | + | |
- | By a miracle the whole party managed to book on the Fish, i.e. | + | " |
- | all except Arne Who got the 6.30. Sim was first at Central, waiting for the others, and made the startling announcement "The Admiral | + | |
- | isn't coming." | + | In the Club on the preceeding Wednesday: Who's going on the Admiral' |
- | the party had temporarily run out of adjectives and ideas about what they would do to the Admiral when they caught up with him. At Katoomba they went through it all again when Snow heard.. | + | |
- | Jim and Kevin excused themselves and disappeared in the direction of one tavern, and the Schafer trio to another where they all had | + | By a miracle the whole party managed to book on the Fish, i.e. all except Arne who got the 6.30. Jim was first at Central, waiting for the others, and made the startling announcement "The Admiral isn't coming." |
- | one (one only) beer, then hurtled off to Narrow Neck. Snow, Heather, Dot and Jack did likewise without preliminary alcoholic | + | |
- | .11 p.m. The Schafer mob were first to the cave at the end of Clear Hill and bagged most of the level ground. 11.30 Snow's party arrived after a couple of off-the-track excursions round the swamps which | + | Jim and Kevin excused themselves and disappeared in the direction of one tavern, and the Schafer trio to another where they all had one (one only) beer, then hurtled off to Narrow Neck. Snow, Heather, Dot and Jack did likewise without preliminary alcoholic |
- | wasted a bit of time. The three sleepers were awakened by the new 'arrivals who accused them of being a low lot of skunks, catching a tax. out, but it was a dirty lie - they didn' | + | |
- | defendad | + | 11 p.m. The Schafer mob were first to the cave at the end of Clear Hill and bagged most of the level ground. 11.30 Snow's party arrived after a couple of off-the-track excursions round the swamps which wasted a bit of time. The three sleepers were awakened by the new arrivals who accused them of being a low lot of skunks, catching a taxi out, but it was a dirty lie - they didn' |
- | 6 a.m. The Cave-dwellers were having breakfast in bed. Schafer | + | |
- | drew such a lurid picture, with appropriate sound effects, of what | + | 6 a.m. The Cave-dwellers were having breakfast in bed. Schafer drew such a lurid picture, with appropriate sound effects, of what would happen to Dot if she drank her mug of Glenraphael swamp water, carried with great trouble as far as the cave, that she recoiled in terror and threw it out untouched (i.e. untouched except for the fact that she had already mixed half her milk powder ration for the week-end in it.) Snow and Heather were just finishing their grapefruit course when a pleasing apparition thudded down the track and squatted with the Cave-dwellers. Cheers of welcome! |
- | would happen to Dot if she drank her mug of Glenraphael swamp water, carried with great trouble as far as the cave, that she recoiled in terror and threw it out untouched (i.e. untouched except for the fact | + | |
- | that she had already mixed half her milk powder ration for the week- | + | Snow loves all dogs, brindle, yellow, white, etc., and all their attendant litter of pups, but his greatest love is Black Dog, and he told the party so and enlarged on all its good points, accentuated this week end by a smother of colourful wild flowers - a remarkable and beautiful sight. Snow and Dot are going to be served with a summons for rushing past Jim and Kevin on the left, while Heather is to receive a letter of commendation for sounding her horn end passing on the right. And so down to the Cox. Digby, Schafer and Don settle down for a second breakfast, Kevin and Jim, by preferential booking, took up their accustomed place at the rear, while the others crossed the Cox. Here Arne stripped to the waist and had a good all-over bath with plenty of splashing and soap behind the ears. He announced he already had sore feet before he had set out, and might not go right through. |
- | end in it,) Snow and Heather were just finishing their grapefruit course when a pleasing apparition thudded down the track and squatted with the Cave-dwellers. Cheers of elcomel | + | |
- | Speedo trunks, someone had to comment that you could hardly tell the difference between Heather' | + | Heather, Dot and Snow swung off down the cowpads of the Cox, Heather leading at a truly terrific pace (these lightweights can certainly fly), her feet twinkling under her like a metronome beating a fast six-eight time. Up the Green Hills to the track on Policeman' |
- | Snow loves all dogs, brindle, yellow, white, etc., and all their | + | |
- | 19. | + | Dropping off the range at last down to Byrne' |
- | attendant litter of pups, but his greatest love is Black Dog, and he told the party so and enlarged on all its good points, accentuated this week end by a smother of colourful wild flowers - a remarkable and beautiful sight. Snow and Dot are going to be served with a summons for rushing past Jim and Kevin on the left, while Heather is to receive a letter of commendation for sounding her horn end passing on the right. And so down to the Cox. Digby, Schafer and Don settle | + | |
- | down for a second breakfast, Kevin and Jim, by preferential booking, took up their accustomed place at the rear, while the others crossed | + | 7 a.m. saw Snow's small party astir after 8 hours of almost unbelievably sound sleep in the hay. Mrs. Hen wasn't allowing her brood to stir till the interlopers were out of the way - they looked too hungry. Snow was inoffensively lighting a small fire outside to heat up the breakfast beans when a great hulking figure bore down and threatened to kick him arseoverapex for trespassing on private |
- | the Cox. Here Arne stripped to the waist and had a good all-over bath | + | |
- | with plenty of splashing and soap behind the ears. He announced he already had sore feet before he had set out, and might not go right through. | + | Meanwhile what of Jim and Kevin and the Schafer push? To learn about the first two, you'll have to read the Brown account. Neil, Digby, Don and Jack pulled |
- | Heather, Dot and Snow swung off down the cowpads of the Cox, | + | |
- | Heather leading at a truly terrific pace (these lightweights can certainly fly), her feet twinkling under her like a metronome beating a fast six-eight time. Up the Green Hills to the track on Policeman' | + | And in the fledgling morn, a lucky dry night' |
- | mist and light rain showed the keen bushman he is. At last on to the Scott' | + | |
- | mins. along came the Schafer trio, and Jack who had waited three | + | The new trio hot-footed it into Yerranderie and of course had to bump into the identical Character who had maligned Snow's party. |
- | quarters of an hour for Arne who never appeared, and as the first trio iivere | + | |
- | Dropping off the range at last down to Byrne' | + | The conversation went something like this: |
- | evident that speed was essential if they were going to make Yerranderi | + | |
- | before dark. Dot set off at a run in the now fading light; there | + | |
- | could be no question of not getting through to Yerranderie; | + | |
- | 7 a.m. saw Snow's small party astir after 8 hours of almost unbelievably sound sleep in the hay. Mrs, Hen wasn't allowing her | + | |
- | brood to stir till the interlopers were out of the way - they looked | + | |
- | too hungry. Snow was inoffensively lighting a small fire outside to | + | |
- | heat up the breakfast beans when a great hulking figure bore down and threatened to kick him arseoverapex for trespassing on private | + | |
- | Snow was putting his point of view, amid the stream of profanity, that the footpath was not private property when Dot piped up from the shed | + | |
- | with words of apology intended to smooth him down. A secondary | + | |
- | 20. explosion took place and he bore off at a rate of knots shouting he | + | |
- | was going to "put them in." A great clatter from his backyard | + | |
- | suggested to Snow that he was forging the leg irons and handcuffs, | + | |
- | and when Dot, prior to putting her socks on, shook out a stream of | + | |
- | gravel against the iron side of the shed, Heather cried " | + | |
- | and leapt for cover. Breakfast over, these three stepped it out down the road to reach the Sheepwalk by 9.10. | + | |
- | Meanwhile what of Jim and Kevin and the Schafer push? To learn about the first two, you'll have to read the Brown account. Neil, | + | |
- | Digby, Don and Jack pulled | + | |
- | 15 mins. behind Snow's advance party. However, trouble was soon afooand | + | |
- | By a system of trial and error with remedies various, the party was eventually able to make quite'a reasonable pace by providing the sufferer with a walking stick, driving him in front and applying a good dose of rum at frequent intervals to the offending tendon. The | + | |
- | light started to fade as they swung off Scott' | + | |
- | Water Gully. Everything was dandy until a creek was crossed, | + | |
- | other side. But no, there it was again, this time a double cart | + | |
- | track. Cheers | + | |
- | and finally up a ridge and on to a saddle. The first wave of unt, | + | |
- | west, indisputably bound for the Kowmungl | + | |
- | Bowral seemed but a fantastic dream. Visions of the Admirals probably | + | |
- | quaffing beer and surrounded by dancing girls, only inflamed the | + | |
- | situation. There was only one thing to do - return to the grassy clearing and camp for the night. Ah, tucker, lashings of it, and | + | |
- | glorious, glorious | + | |
- | And in the fledgling morn, a lucky dry night' | + | |
- | Neil alone with his curses at Byrne' | + | |
- | familiar plaint, " | + | |
- | of them hitch-hiked back to Sydney, down but not quite out. | + | |
- | The new trio hot-footed it ihto Yerranderie and of course had to -bump into the ,identical Character who had maligned Snow's party. | + | |
- | The conversation went something like this | + | |
"Good morning. How are you?" asks Digby in his best greeting style. | "Good morning. How are you?" asks Digby in his best greeting style. | ||
+ | |||
" | " | ||
+ | |||
"Hmm. Have you seen any other bushwalkers come through?"' | "Hmm. Have you seen any other bushwalkers come through?"' | ||
- | 21, | + | |
- | "Yeah, the pests. I hunted three of 'em out of the hay shed this mornin," | + | "Yeah, the pests. I hunted three of 'em out of the hay shed this mornin'," he snarls, as if referring to a pack of mongrel dogs. |
- | "Oh, I see, Then they couldn' | + | |
- | Digby, and sensing a highly explosive atmosphere, the eighty-fivers sped off, spurred on now by the certain knowledge that Snow, Heather and Dot were somewhere ahead. Bash, bash, bash down the road, with | + | "Oh, I see. Then they couldn' |
- | Jack steadily pulling away at a consistent 4 m.p.h. On to the Sheep- walk and as the miles left their mark the idea of reaching Bowral was fading fast, but hopes for Wanganderry were higher than ever. As Snow, Heather and Dot sat on a hill admiring a view of the Wollondill | + | |
- | ruefully about the footprints and wondering just how many hours ahead Snow's party was. A couple of miles up the 'Dilly these two were | + | Lunch on the river at 12.30. |
- | greeted by some trackside tent dwellers. " | + | |
- | they shouted, (the stragglers' | + | Out to Malcolm' |
- | ' | + | |
- | agog It seemed incredible but it was truel The six finishers merged shortly afterwards as the river was crossed some three miles up from | + | As it was, however, they got a train at 7.20 and settled in to a box compartment all to themselves. They got in their sleeping-bags with grins of pleasure all over their faces and ate the left-overs from their packs, (that is, all except Digby who had taken an oversize swig of rum and felt ghastly), then dimmed the lights and lay all flaked out in a heap till the time came to get out. |
- | the Sheepwalk, and from there on the party stayed together. ("you mean ILE2221 | + | |
- | Lunch on the river at 12.30. | + | The trip was solid all right - much more so than the April trip to Picton was the general opinion, but a good trip to think back on nevertheless. |
- | off cn the quest for Burnt Flat Creek. When Snow came to it he said, "This is it," but Don and Digby were a little way ahead still plcddint. | + | |
- | the four following thought they had better go on too. One and a half miles further on and a poor crestfallen Digby had to admit his error and the party returned. Three extra miles all to no purposes | + | ---- |
- | Out to Malcolm' | + | |
- | 22. | + | On her recent walk to Willawarra (Refuge Bay) Jess Martin pulled a muscle soon after starting from Lovett' |
- | light dawn - This desolate spot, this dark fork in the rJ! God knows how many' | + | |
- | We've made it:. But where, alas, are the waiting cars? (The answer is, of course, just departed ten minutes ago.) Where is our Fairy Godmother? (We had been dreaming of Dave's handout of sweets for the past ten miles.) Where is Patsy-atsy-airy-ay and the krdill | + | Incidentally, |
- | Snow was all for going up to a farm about a mile away and ringing for | + | |
- | a taxi, and the others had just about agreed to this when oar- headlights bore down upon them through the blackness. Six torcLes | + | ---- |
- | As it was, however,- they got a train at 7.20 and settled in to | + | |
- | a box compartment all to themselves. They got in their sleeping-bags with grins of pleasure all over their faces and ate the left-overs from their packs., (that is, all except Digby who had taken an oversize swig of rum and felt ghastly), then dimmed the lights and lay all flaked out in a heap till the time came to get out.. | + | =====Inventions Corner.===== |
- | The trip was solid all right - much more so than the April triptto | + | |
- | On her recent walk to Willawarra (Refuge Bay) Jess Martin pulled a muscle soon after starting from Lovett' | + | ====The Compression Ignition |
- | ministrations by members of the party, Jess was still in when we arrived at Salvation Creek....4ptly named in this case 1: | + | |
- | Incidentally, | + | To obtain the initial starting compression of 750 p.s.i.g., the driver must take the Pogo Stick up a suitable cliff or tree and jump off. |
- | | + | |
- | 23. INVENTIONS CORNER | + | Components: |
- | THE COMPRESSION IGNITION | + | |
- | FOR BUSHVaLKERS. | + | |
- | To obtain the initial starting compression of 750 p.s.itg., the driver must take the Pogo Stick up a suitable cliff or tree | + | |
- | and jump off. | + | |
walker | walker | ||
+ | |||
fuel cap and lock fuel tank | fuel cap and lock fuel tank | ||
+ | |||
filter | filter | ||
- | single cylinder injector power cylinder - valve | + | |
- | Cr-\Th | + | single cylinder injector |
+ | |||
+ | power cylinder - valve scavenged 2-stroke Diesel. | ||
muffler | muffler | ||
- | 47' | + | |
air cleaner | air cleaner | ||
- | / scavenged 2-stroke Diesel. | + | |
recoil spring | recoil spring | ||
- | neumatic shock | ||
- | absorber | ||
- | (suction cup and tricounis optional) | ||
- | )' | ||
- | 1 | ||
- | C ult.' 1 | ||
- | tAy | ||
- | X"' | ||
+ | pneumatic shock absorber (suction cup and tricounis optional) | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Paddy Made.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====It Had To Come! And Paddy Has It!==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | You've all had dried eggs and dried vegetables, dried mashed potatoes and dried meat. No doubt you've also had dry bread, but there' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Yes folks, dehydrated butter. It's chief merit is not its lightness or compactness - 12 oz. mixed with water makes a pound of butter - (if you like your butter tasty mix with sour milk instead of water). The great point about concentrated butter is that it doesn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Those hard-boiled merchants the Yanks have ordered several tons of it for tropical use. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Product of Queensland, in 12 oz. tins (equals 1 lb. of butter) 4/10d. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Get some now for summer camping - from Paddy' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Phone:. BM2685. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Paddy Pallin. Lightweight Camp Gear. 201 Castlereagh St, Sydney |
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