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 early start. The ridge on which the track climbed ran into rain forest where the branches of the trees practically met overhead and there were quite a few orchids in the tall trees. I met an old prospector with swag on back on his way to Daintree for rations. He assured me he was getting a little gold in the creeks hereabouts.
-Three hours walking brought me to Gold Hill, about 3,000 ft. From here there was a fine view. Away to the east on the skyline was Capt. Cook's monument or "Pieterbot", a tall spire-like rock first sighted by the famous navigator on his voyage up the coast. I had reached the highest point and the track now led down into open grassland where I had lunch at a small creek. I was now in the "China camp" area, once the centre of tin and gold mining but now deserted save for a few old miners who made a living washing the gravel in the creek beds for tin. I noticed all the gear - sluices, cradles, dishes - as I passed through. The country was now dotted with termite mounds about 5 ft. high. As the track persisted in going west I was getting
+Three hours walking brought me to Gold Hill, about 3,000 ft. From here there was a fine view. Away to the east on the skyline was Capt. Cook's monument or "Pieterbot", a tall spire-like rock first sighted by the famous navigator on his voyage up the coast. I had reached the highest point and the track now led down into open grassland where I had lunch at a small creek. I was now in the "China camp" area, once the centre of tin and gold mining but now deserted save for a few old miners who made a living washing the gravel in the creek beds for tin. I noticed all the gear - sluices, cradles, dishes - as I passed through. The country was now dotted with termite mounds about 5 ft. high. As the track persisted in going west I was getting anxious as I should be bearing north; however I decided to follow it until sundown. About 5 o'clock I came upon a tin shack with a set of cattle yards. The shack consisted of one unlined room furnished with three hessian bunks. In the centre was a table and food cupboard.
+There was a small verandah at the front entrance. On pegs driven into the wall hung all the gear of a cattle camp - pack saddles, hobbles, harness, branding irons and two rifles. The shack was deserted. Outside on the clothes line were pegged numerous white objects. Closer inspection revealed what is known as "jerked meat". The meat is treated with coarse salt and then hung on the line to cure in the sun. I pitched camp a short distance from the dwelling and was cooking tea when the owners arrived - two young chaps and a station hand. They were very friendly and invited me over for a talk. The place was known as the "Ten Mile" and I was about six miles off course. However it
-anxious as I should be bearing north; however I decided to follow it until sundown. About 5 o'clock I came upon a tin shack with a set of cattle yards. The shack consisted of one unlined room furnished with three hessian bunks. In the centre was a table and food cupboard.
-There was a small verandah at the front entrance. On pegs driven into the wall hung all the gear of a cattle camp - pack saddles, hobbles, harness, branding irons and two rifles. The shack was deserted. Outside on the clothes line were pegged numerous white objects. Closer inspection revealed what is known as "jerked meat". The meat is treat-
-ed with coarse salt and then hung on the line to cure in the sun.I
-pitched camp a short distance from the dwelling and was cooking tea when the owners arrived - two young chaps and a station hand. They
-were very friendly and invited me over for a talk. The place was known as the "Ten Mile" and I was about six miles off course. However it
 was a blessing in disguise as I had travelled around the headwaters of the Bloomfield River across which I would have had to get a boat or wait for low tide and wade. It is infested with sharks and crocks.
-My hosts were very interested in Paddy's "Federation" rucksack
-and camping gear and obtained his address from me. I was invited to
+My hosts were very interested in Paddy's "Federation" rucksack and camping gear and obtained his address from me. I was invited to breakfast and loaded up with as much jerked meat as I could carry. I found the meat, when boiled with potatoes and pumpkin, very appetising. It will keep for a long while. It is the custom on most stations to give travellers a handout of moat.
-breakfast and loaded up with as much jerked meat as I could carry.
-I found the meat, when boiled with potatoes and pumpkin, very appetis-
+My friends directed me to the track which led to Ayton, a small village at the mouth of the Bloomfield river, 14 miles distant. The country was similar to that which I had traversed the previous day. It was quite hot walking as I was down about sea level again. I arrived at the township about 4 o'clock and stocked up with some food as the rations were getting low. All the stores are brought into Ayton by sea, a boat calling once a month. The main export is timber. The tropical fruits, pawpaws and pineapples, grow well here.
-ing. It will keep for a long while. It is the custom on most stations to give travellers a handout of moat.
-My friends directed me to the track which led to Ayton, a small
+I followed the road around to the sawmill and made camp for the night in a deserted cottage at the mill. On Saturday I arose at dawn and left camp early. The road followed the river for a while. It was very pleasant walking on the sunny spring morning, the country here on the coastal frings being flat and open. There were a lot of wild pigs and a few dingos in this area. After lunch a utility came along on its way to Cooktown and offered me a lift. The road here was just a rough track. After a few miles we came to some wild jungle country dotted with large boulders laced with fallen tree trunks and lawyer vine, the quaint umbrella palm and the wild banana bushes. On some of the large rocks one could see Aboriginal drawings, mostly outlines of the human body.
-village at the mouth of the Bloomfield river, 14 miles distant. The country was similar to that which I had traversed the previous day. It was quite hot walking as I was down about sea level again. I arrived at the township about 4 o'clock and stocked up with some food as the rations were getting low. All the store are brought into Ayton by sea, a boat calling once a month. The main export is timber.
-The tropical fruits, pawpaws and pineapples, grow well here.
+We were now in the open cattle country and stopped a while at the small township of Rossville. The local inn is appropriately named the "Lion's Den". The walls of the bar room were lined with the skins of pythons which Mine Host had killed in his fowl pen. The pythons kill the fowls by crushing their heads with one snap. After gorging, the snakes are unable to get through the wire mesh and so fall easy prey to the irate Innkeeper.
-I followed the road around to the sawmill and made camp for the night in a deserted cottage at the mill. On Saturday I arose at
-dawn and left camp early, The road followed the river for a while. It was very pleasant walking on the sunny spring morning, the country here on the coastal frings being flat and open. There were a lot of wild pigs and a few dingos in this area. After lunch a utility came along on its way to Cooktown and offered me a lift. The road here was just a rought track. After a few miles we came to Some wild jungle country dotted with large boulders laced with fallen tree trunks and lawyer vine, the quaint umbrella palm and the wild banana bushes. On some of the large rocks one could see Aboriginal drawings, mostly outlines of the human body.
+On the road once again, the Annan River was crossed. The trees here were of the ghost gum variety. A few miles from Cooktown is Black Mountain, an awe-inspiring heap of black granite boulders, bare except for a green bush scattered here and there. The rocks expand and contract with the changes of temperature caused by the sun setting
-We were now in the open cattle country and stopped a while at the small township of Rossville. The local inn is appropriately named the "Lion's Den". The walls of the bar room were lined with the skins of pythons which Mine Host had killed in his fowl pen. The pythons kill the fowls by crushing their heads with one snap.
+or a cloud covering the sun. The action of contracting makes a clicking sound. The natives fear them on this account and say a Debbil-Debbil dwells there. Black Mountain is also the home of numerous rock pythons which prey on the small rock wallabies that infest the mountain.
-After gorging, the snakes are unable to get through the wire mesh and so fall easy prey to the irate Innkeeper.
-On the road once again, the Annan River was crossed. The trees
+I arrived in Cooktown as the sun was setting and camped in what was once the park. It had now reverted to wilderness. There was a strong wind which blows continually for weeks on end around this time of the year. In its heyday Cooktown was quite a large town, kept going by the gold and tin that were found in the area. One can still see signs of the large Radio and Aerodrome Station that were here during the last War. The bank and hospital are two fine buildings that give a hint of its former glory. There is a fine monument to Captain Cook who landed here, also one to Kennedy, the ill-fated explorer who lost his life exploring the Peninsula.
-.
-here were of the ghost gum variety. A few miles from Cooktown is Black Mountain, an awe-inspiring heap of black granite boulders, ilare except for a green bush scattered here and there. The rocks expand and contract with the changes of temperature caused by the sun setting
-or a cloud covering the sun. The action of contracting makes a clicking sound. The natives fear them on this account and say a DebbilDebbil dwells there. Black Mountain is also the home of numerous rock pythons which prey on the small rock wallabies that infest the mountain
-I arrived in Cooktown as the sun was setting and camped in what was once the park. It had now reverted to wilderness. There was a strong wind which blows continually for weeks on end around this time
-of the year. In its heyday Cooktown was quite a large town, kept
-going by the gold and tin that were found in the area. One can still see signs of the large Radio and Eerodrome Station that were here during the last War. The bank and hospital are two fine buildings that give a hint of its former glory. There is a fine monument to Captain Cook who landed here, also one to Kennedy, the ill-fated explorer who lost his life exploring the Peninsula.
 I returned to Sydney via the Mulligan Highway, but that is another story.
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-===== Letter from Joan and Bev at Alice Springs =====
+===== LETTER FROM JOAN AND BEV AT ALICE SPRINGS =====
-C/O - P.O. ALICE SPRINGS|| 30th July
+C/O - P.O. ALICE SPRINGS
+th July
 Dear Everybody,
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 We had two extra days on the train at the expense of the Commonwealth Railways. As you would no doubt have guessed from Sydney weather forecasts we had quite an interesting trip to Adelaide and count ourselves very lucky to have been delayed only two days. The Murray Valley, of course, was impassable to everything but a helicopter and we finished up pussy-footing through the backblocks to Bendigo and on through Bordertown to Adelaide. In addition to being experts on which type of semi had the most comfortable seats, we are going to set up an information bureau on the ailments of sheep and the impossibility of growing wheat under present conditions. Didn't dare suggest that they (the farmers) might sow a crop of rice with excellent results!
-Adelaide was very disappointing to us both; it's rather a scruffy little city. (Dalai Lama please note! Ed.) I guess you couldn't guess in 1,000 years who walked up to us on an Adelaide street corner and talked for 2.5 hours solid? None other than our "silent gent in the corner "- Jim Weston.  He was himself returning from spending his holidays up north and well, 2 cups of coffee and 5 buses later we were on our way northward again.
+Adelaide was very disappointing to us both; it's rather a scruffy little city. (Dalai Lama please note! Ed.) I guess you couldn't guess in 1,000 years who walked up to us on an Adelaide street corner and talked for 2.5 hours solid? None other than our "silent gent in the corner"- Jim Weston.  He was himself returning from spending his holidays up north and well, 2 cups of coffee and 5 buses later we were on our way northward again.
-One important point worthy of mention when hitching on trailers: Don't put your pack on the back of the prime mover; somehow it doesn't seem to improve the pack when it gets "mixed up" with the trailer:
-We got through to Quorn quite easily and duly pickedvp the train which duly took 2 days to travel 50 miles:
+One important point worthy of mention when hitching on trailers: Don't put your pack on the back of the prime mover; somehow it doesn't seem to improve the pack when it gets "mixed up" with the trailer!
-Quote. -
-Porter: We don't build bridges across the creeks that flood here. Just run a bank of dirt across and then it gets washed out we just build a new line.
+We got through to Quorn quite easily and duly picked Up the train which duly took 2 days to travel 50 miles!
-Passengers, (with a wail): Whenever will we get through?
-Porter (with mock concern): If more water doesn't come down
+Quote.
-maybe in a couple of days...maybe a week."
+Porter: We don't build bridges across the creeks that flood here. Just run a bank of dirt across and When it gets washed out we just build a new line.
-It did have its funny side and allowed us to show off at Hawker where we took a quick stroll in the Hawker hills. Being late also
+Passengers (with a wail): Whenever will we get through?
-,
+Porter (with mock concern): If more water doesn't come down maybe in a couple of days...maybe a week.
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+It did have its funny side and allowed us to show off at Hawker where we took a quick stroll in the Hawker hills. Being late also gave us a daylight view of the Flinders Range, normally passed at night. This blue range runs parallel with the railway --- wait a bit, that's unfair to old age --- the railway runs parallel with the range for some hundred odd miles and from local reports there are some very interesting spots in the ranges worthy of a visit. We learned that at the end of August square miles of country form a veritable flower garden absolutely covered with Salvation Jane (blue) and Red Hop (of course, red). All we Could do, of course, was "-oo" at somebody else's slides! Sheets of flowers with the blue ranges as a backdrop would be a sight truly memorable. These ranges were really the most interesting part of the trip up; after that comes miles of flat plain with intermittant shrubs, then when Ooodnadatta is about 20 miles off you cop the blinding glare off the gibber plains and these continue well beyond Oodnatlatta with its tiny group of houses with the inevitable pub. Whilst the men went in for a "quickie"; Joan and I walked out of town, a very quick and easy walk, and came back to the train. Then on and on over miles and miles of flat country with its patches of red and yellow sand well sprinkled with gibber stones until you were sick of the sight of it. Up on the bunks to play "Jack's grab", and then an even better and more adult game - "Animal grab" - down again and miles and miles more of flat plain until bed and the welcome dusk.
+We are both anxiously waiting the return of our first films, Joan to check the results and me because I've been trying to be smart - not too smart I'm hoping - and we expect either a thumping great 20 good shots or a dazzling bunch of flops. High spirits prevail - Alice at 3 o'clock in the Morning!  Well, we seem to have written
+lots and lots, so will leave you with that to digest. Bye... JOAN & BEV.
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+COME TO OUR STORE 13 HUNTER STREET AND SEE OUR WONDERFUL RANGE OF HEALTH-FOODS
-gave us a daylight view of the Flinders Range, normally passed at night. This blue range runs parallel with the railway --- wait a bit, that's unfair to old age --- the railway runs parallel with the range for some hundred odd miles and from local reports there are some very interesting spots in the ranges worthy of a visit. We learned that at the end of August square miles of country form a veritable flower garden absolutely covered with Salvation Jane (blue) and Red Hop (of course, red). All we eould dopof course, was "-oo" at somebody else's slides: Sheets of flowers with the blue ranges as a backdrop would be a sight truly memorable. These ranges were really the most interesting part of the trip up; after that comes miles of flat plain with
+- FOR WALKING TRIPS AND HOME USE -
-intermittant shrubs, then when Ooodnadatta is about 20 miles off you
-cop the blinding glare off the gibber plains and these continue well beyond Oodnatlatta with its tiny group of houses with the inevitable pub. Whilst the men went in for a "quickie"; Joan and I walked out of town, a very quick and easy walk, and came back to the train. Then on and on over miles and miles of flat country with its patches of red and yellow sand well sprinkled with gibber stones until you were sick of the sight of it. Up on the bunks to play "Jack's grab", and then an even better and more adult game - "Animal grab" - down again and miles and miles more of flat plain until bed and the welcome dusk.
+===== ANOTHER LETTER=====
-We are both anxiously waiting the return of our first films, Joan to check the results and me because I've been trying to be smart - not too smart I'm hoping - and we expect either a thumping great 20
-good shots or a dazzling bunch of flops. High spirits prevail -
+This one from Pat and Ian who have just heard of the Wagg-Aird Engagement
-Alice at 3 o'clock in the Morning:  Well, we seem to have written
-lots and lots, so will leave you with that to digest. Bye... JOAN & BEV.
+Canberra.
-.
-ANOTHER LETTER - this one from Pat and Ian who have
+Dear Geoff,
-just heard of the Wagg-Aird Engagement
+What's this we hear about this 'ere decision to engage
-Canberra. Dear Geoff,
+A special combination set to last you all your days?
-What's this we hear about this 'ore decision to engage A special combination set to last you all your days?
 A floor-scrubbing, dish-washing, hot-potato-masher,
-A door-closing, bread-cutting, cup-and-saucer-smasher; A spin-drying, bean-stringing, dirt-and-dust-wiper, A bed-making, biscuit-baking, pay-packet-swiper;
+A door-closing, bread-cutting, cup-and-saucer-smasher;
-A back-warming, sock-mending, fast-efficient-cooker, A clothes-pressing, tea-brewing, extra-good-looker;
+A spin-drying, bean-stringing, dirt-and-dust-wiper,
-A beth-running, nappy-changing, string-bag-lumper,
+A bed-making, biscuit-baking, pay-packet-swiper;
-And whit is more, to cap it all, a Geoff-Wagg-thumperl
+A back-warming, sock-mending, fast-efficient-cooker,
+A clothes-pressing, tea-brewing, extra-good-looker;
+A bath-running, nappy-changing, string-bag-lumper,
+And what is more, to cap it all, a Geoff-Wagg-thumper!
 Dear Grace,
 We hate to cast a shadow but we often pause to wonder
 If the average in dream-men doesn't end up just as under:-
-. You'll find he is a shower-hogging, early-morning-moaner,.
+You'll find he is a shower-hogging, early-morning-moaner,
 A Sunday-paper-snatcher, and a frosty-morning-groaner;
-A practised-alibier and a secretary-slayer,
+A practised-alibier and a secretary slayer;
-A champion-putter-offer and a regular-mislayer;
+A champion-putter-offer and a regular-mislayer,
-A bathroom-floor-flooder and a cold-foot-putter, A grubby-hanky-hider and a birthday-overlooker;
+A bathroom-floor-flooder and a cold-foot-putter,
-A doormat-misser and a drying-up-escaper, -
+A grubby-hanky-hider and a birthday-overlooker,
-A cake-tin-cleaner and a pudding-basin-scraper; A saucepan-lid-lifter and a bad-bargain buyer,
+A doormat-misser and a drying-up-escaper;
-A long-grass-grower and a cut-finger-cryer;
+A cake-tin-cleaner and a pudding-basin-scraper;
-SI sock-holing, baby-spoiling, leaky-tap-forgetter,
+A saucepan-lid-lifter and a bad-bargain buyer;
-But if you thump 'him hard enough you're bound to make him betterl
+A long-grasss-grower and a cut-finger-cryer;
-We hope we haven't made you feel you'd rather be a lone you, For you'd miss the life-long audience you each will need to moan to
+A sock-holing, baby-spoiling, leaky-tap-forgetter,
+But if you thump him hard enough you're bound to make him better!
+We hope we haven't made you feel you'd rather be a lone you,
+For you'd miss the life-long audience you each will need to moan to!
 And moaning on your ownsome is a lonesome sort of game,
-And marriage sees there'll always be "the other one" to blame:
+And marriage sees there'll always be "the other one" to blame!
 The Woodies.
-vo6 gt&crys
-from THE INDIAN FORESTRY DEPARTMENT.
-QiI
+===== GREETINGS FROM THE INDIAN FORESTRY DEPARTMENT=====
-Forest Research Institute & College Dehradun, INDIA.
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+Forest Research Institute & College, Dehradun, INDIA.
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+This year 1956 is the two thousand five hundredth anniversary of the death of the Buddha who taught his deciples to have love and kindness towards plants, trees, insects and animals, as well as man.
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-anniversary deciples to insects and
-year 1956 is the two thousand five hundredth of the death of the Buddha who taught his have love and kindness towards plants, trees, animals, as well as man.
-"The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the product of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axemen who destroy it."
+"The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demands for its sustenance and extends generously the product of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axemen who destroy it." Gautama Buddha.
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-Gautama Buddha.
 - Marie Byles.
-WALKS REPORT FOR JULY, 1956. - Malcolm McGregOr.
+===== WALKS REPORT FOR JULY, 1956. - Malcolm McGregOr.
 A rather mixed bag of walking this month, again; rain has hampered quite a few trips and no doubt deterred some of the walking people.
 Bev. Pricers caving trip drew a complete blank to start off the month. The leader is in Central Australia with Joan Walker and there was no enthusiasm amongst others in the club to set out for the cave trip. Score O.