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One of the delights of having an outer suburban cottage is in growing a garden which reminds you enough of the bush so that you don't have to go walking and can stay at home to grow a garden which reminds you of the bush, etc., but it's still good to get away from it all now and again, especially when you leave the day before six inches of rain overnight, and even if you run into foul weather at Kosciusko and rain in Melbourne and come home worn out to find that ... | One of the delights of having an outer suburban cottage is in growing a garden which reminds you enough of the bush so that you don't have to go walking and can stay at home to grow a garden which reminds you of the bush, etc., but it's still good to get away from it all now and again, especially when you leave the day before six inches of rain overnight, and even if you run into foul weather at Kosciusko and rain in Melbourne and come home worn out to find that ... | ||
- | The weeds across the garden grew in wildest profusion. \\ | + | The weeds across the garden grew \\ |
+ | in wildest profusion. \\ | ||
'Twas hard to pick just what was what\\ | 'Twas hard to pick just what was what\\ | ||
Which weeds were flowers and which were not\\ | Which weeds were flowers and which were not\\ | ||
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====== Your Walking Guide ====== | ====== Your Walking Guide ====== | ||
- | Walk No. | + | Walk No.\\ |
- | 5. interest of this walk is the Davies Canyon Section with rock scrambling and some rope work might be necessary. The walk back to Katoomba is river and track walking. Cost - 52/2. | + | 57. interest of this walk is the Davies Canyon Section with rock scrambling and some rope work might be necessary. The walk back to Katoomba is river and track walking. Cost - 52/2.\\ |
- | 58 An easy walk through the scenic | + | 58 An easy walk through the scenic |
- | added attraction of the famous "glow worm tunnel" | + | 59 A good test walk through country that deserves more attention, All types of walking with kodachromatic |
- | 29/5. | + | views makes a camera an essential. Cost - 22/2.\\ |
- | 59 It good test walk through country that deserves more | + | 60 "The Mount Solitary Test Walk". An excellent walk for prospectives who have done little or no mountain trips. A medium climb of 2,000 feet, then a good track to Katoomba. Excellent views of Cox and Kedumba Valley. Cost - 22/2.\\ |
- | 59 attention, All types of walking with kodachromatic | + | 61 A pretty walk along creek and river.\\ |
- | views makes a camera an essential. Cost - 22/2. | + | 62 A good Grose River trip with the ever popular Blue Gum Forest. Rock scrambling along river. Walk would be accepted as a test walk. Cost - 26/-.\\ |
- | 60 "The Mount Solitary Test Walk". An excellent walk for prospectives who have done little or no mountain trips. A medium climb of 2,000 feet, then a good track to Katoomba. Excellent views of Cox and Kedumba Valley. Cost - 22/2. | + | 63 rock climbing trip to the famous Three Sisters. A combined climbing weekend with the Sydney Section of the New Zealand Alpine Club and the Sydney Rock Climbers. Cost - 22/2.\\ |
- | 61 A pretty walk along creek and river. | + | 64 A typical Admiral Trip in the Glenbrook area. The walk would be interesting. Cost - 12/3.\\ |
- | 62 A good Grose River trip with the ever popular Blue Gum | + | |
- | Forest. Rock scrambling along river. Walk would be | + | |
- | accepted as a test walk. Cost - 26/-. | + | |
- | 63 | + | |
- | I. rock climbing trip to the famous Three Sisters. A combined climbing weekend with the Sydney Section of the New Zealand Alpine Club and the Sydney Rock Climbers. Cost - 22/2. | + | |
- | 64 L typical Admiral Trip in the Glenbrook area. The | + | |
- | walk would be interesting. Cost - 12/3. | + | |
65 A good test walk in the Shoalhaven area and Bungonia Gorge. Walk includes two 2,000 feet climbs with | 65 A good test walk in the Shoalhaven area and Bungonia Gorge. Walk includes two 2,000 feet climbs with | ||
- | panoramic views. Cost - 37/5. | + | panoramic views. Cost - 37/5.\\ |
- | 66 L medium test walk through the lower Grose River with | + | 66 A medium test walk through the lower Grose River with some ridge walking. Cost 16/3.\\ |
- | ,. some ridge walking. Cost 16/3. | + | 67 A scenic walk in the Hawksbury |
- | 67 A scenic walk in the Haw6sbury | + | |
- | WALK NO. 65 JULY 4-5-6 SHOLLMVEN R-BUNGONIL | + | WALK NO. 65 JULY 4-5-6 SHOALHAVEN BUNGONIA\\ |
- | LEADER - Ron Knightley. This walk will NOT go as per programme, as transport will, be by car, from Sydney to Long Point and back. Numbers will be limited - first come, first booked. The Saturday is rough and tough, with about 4,000 feet of uphill and 2,000 feet down. Sunday is easier, with a mere 2,000 feet down and up. Moderate walkers need not be scared, 'though, as some white anting | + | LEADER - Ron Knightley. This walk will NOT go as per programme, as transport will be by car from Sydney to Long Point and back. Numbers will be limited - first come, first booked. The Saturday is rough and tough, with about 4,000 feet of uphill and 2,000 feet down. Sunday is easier, with a mere 2,000 feet down and up. Moderate walkers need not be scared though, as some white anting likely on the Saturday. |
- | LIKE TO THROW OTHER PEOPTRIS | + | |
- | Then COMB to the Judo Display on the 25th June and see how it's done. A collection will be taken to assist a fund for purchasing Judo Mats. | + | **LIKE TO THROW OTHER PEOPLE' |
- | pTPIISE | + | Then come to the Judo Display on the 25th June and see how it's done. A collection will be taken to assist a fund for purchasing Judo Mats. |
- | 11. | + | |
+ | PLEASE | ||
====== The Smoke of Their Passing ====== | ====== The Smoke of Their Passing ====== | ||
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As it was only mid-afternoon, | As it was only mid-afternoon, | ||
- | Having caught on, I was first back in carp and soon had the fire coked up. Perhaps at this juncture I could slip in a serious word of commendation for my carping | + | |
- | she had discovered. Before long, even Irish pronounced the dammed water fit for human consumption - only she didn't define " | + | Having caught on, I was first back in camp and soon had the fire coked up. Perhaps at this juncture I could slip in a serious word of commendation for my camping |
- | A starlit evening was spent in quiet yarning by the campfire - culture, lotteries, theology and Dormie' | + | |
- | into the down. Thc bench order was; Audrey, Pam, me. All slept well except Audrey - the tent was abdulled and Pam spent the night,. | + | A starlit evening was spent in quiet yarning by the campfire - culture, lotteries, theology and Dormie' |
- | rolling in Audrey' | + | |
- | with Audrey pushed out to shiver under the stars. The next night we reversed the order and put Pam on the outside - so she rolled the other way and pushed us both out. How's that for gratitude? | + | The leader' |
- | The leader' | + | |
Dawn found us flannel flowers pounding the same path and just as the sun rose into a cloudless sky we witnessed the simple but impressive commemoration service. It would be sacrilege for one so flippant as I to attempt the description of this moving ceremony, so I'll leave it for someone more coherent. | Dawn found us flannel flowers pounding the same path and just as the sun rose into a cloudless sky we witnessed the simple but impressive commemoration service. It would be sacrilege for one so flippant as I to attempt the description of this moving ceremony, so I'll leave it for someone more coherent. | ||
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- | In front J Horrors1 That if we took a wrong turn and got lost? S R would search the rearguard positions and I wouldn' | + | In front : Horrors! What if we took a wrong turn and got lost? S R would search the rearguard positions and I wouldn' |
- | before my eyes. Or was it an enigmatic smile? | + | "Oh, come off it," said I. "We couldn' |
- | "Oh, come off it," said I. "We couldn' | + | "We better make sure," said John. " |
- | crossed just down the gully' | + | |
- | "We better make sure," said John. " | + | |
As the echoes of our cries died away, faint calls came back. " | As the echoes of our cries died away, faint calls came back. " | ||
"Ditto ditto," | "Ditto ditto," | ||
- | We cooeed again. | ||
- | " | ||
- | "No, up there," | ||
- | that two other parties were also converging on Blue Dog? | ||
- | We yelled yet again. | ||
- | "Over there j," we cried together, both pointing east - we knew, because the response had sounded like a public address system, butchers' | ||
- | Soon we were with them once again, metaphoric tails between our legs - and whether it was by accident or design know not, but when we got mobile again someone else was guarding the rear. | + | We cooeed |
- | Up and down, along, around, about - a half hour of this kind of progress and we were looking down on the Breakfast Creek CoxRiver junction. Like terriers after a,snake the party began the long drop down the Blue Pup. Something went wrong, though, because by the time Irish and I had done a hundred feet the rest were out of sight in a flurry of dust and flying pebbles - and yet, as we..-two scrambled out on to the banks of the Cos, there was only Brian to greet us with fire going end billy on. | + | "No, up there," said John Webfoot pointing east and west. Trouble |
- | Ls the first lady down, Irish was rechristened the Greyhound | + | |
- | "What happened to you?" she asked with studied innocence. | + | |
- | "Well," began Jack Gentle. (This paragraph censored. | + | |
- | Sufficient | + | |
- | Ls we munched lunch a whirlwind passed along the bank, over Breakfast Ck., end disaPpeared round the bend towards Harry' | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | It was Michael Elfick with some S.T.C. confreres, setting | + | |
- | a Hilltop-to-Katoomba record - over the hundred miles in two days. I made a mental note never to be following an Elfick sortie. | + | |
- | At the Harry' | + | We yelled yet again. "Over there" we cried together, both pointing east - we knew, because the response had sounded like a public address system, butchers' |
- | to travel, eat and sleep in my wet dads, even when pushed out into the cold by Pam. | + | |
- | I mast have had aquatic amnesia, for my mind is a blank until 4.45 p m., when John Sorefoot and I were to be soen loungingg' | + | Soon we were with them once again, metaphoric tails between our legs - and whether it was by accident or design know not, but when we got mobile again someone else was guarding the rear. Up and down, along, around, about - a half hour of this kind of progress and we were looking down on the Breakfast Creek Cox River junction. Like terriers after a snake the party began the long drop down the Blue Pup. Something went wrong, though, because by the time Irish and I had done a hundred feet the rest were out of sight in a flurry of dust and flying pebbles - and yet, as we two scrambled out on to the banks of the Cox, there was only Brian to greet us with fire going end billy on. |
- | "Of course," | + | |
- | first in camp tonight, and my tent goes right there on that lush patch of lawn." | + | As the first lady down, Irish was rechristened the Greyhound and there was an impish gleam in her eyes when the misguided ones began trickling in a few minutes later.\\ |
- | Having picked the site I departed up the creek to gather firewood. | + | "What happened to you?" she asked with studied innocence.\\ |
- | were to rest. Foiled again. | + | " |
+ | |||
+ | As we munched lunch a whirlwind passed along the bank, over Breakfast Ck., and disappeared round the bend towards Harry' | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | It was Michael Elfick with some S.T.C. confreres, setting a Hilltop-to-Katoomba record - over the hundred miles in two days. I made a mental note never to be following an Elfick sortie. | ||
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+ | At the Harry' | ||
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+ | I must have had aquatic amnesia, for my mind is a blank until 4.45 p m., when John Sorefoot and I were to be seen lounging | ||
+ | |||
+ | Having picked the site I departed up the creek to gather firewood. | ||
Breakfast next morning was interrupted by the rugby league whistle and the public address system. | Breakfast next morning was interrupted by the rugby league whistle and the public address system. | ||
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Well, no - not quite. As I cleared the trees at the top of the track I became conscious of someone breathing down my neck. It was Beryl Collins, flimsiest-looking of the prospectives, | Well, no - not quite. As I cleared the trees at the top of the track I became conscious of someone breathing down my neck. It was Beryl Collins, flimsiest-looking of the prospectives, | ||
- | At the causeway we found Ron and Colin, fire going and tea ready. I had to admit that Brian' | + | At the causeway we found Ron and Colin, fire going and tea ready. I had to admit that Brian' |
- | Canada - well, now, let's be frank about this. Let's admit that Isobel Wilkie and P.udrey | + | |
- | By the time us males and the two girls reached Explorers' | + | By the time us males and the two girls reached Explorers' |
- | a pub, it not - it's a cafe; but it was just as good as, because Brian' | + | |
the presence of The Law at an adjacent table we were soon washing down our fillets mignon with beer and hock. | the presence of The Law at an adjacent table we were soon washing down our fillets mignon with beer and hock. | ||
- | The walk was over; but if you think this is the end of the story you're wrong. It goes on for a long time yet - | + | |
- | hilarity every time we meet in the club; chuckles over kodachromes at odd times; and I still haven' | + | The walk was over; but if you think this is the end of the story you're wrong. It goes on for a long time yet - hilarity every time we meet in the club; chuckles over kodachromes at odd times; and I still haven' |
- | seeds out of my sox. In fact, the story is probably just | + | |
- | beginning, because I give notice of a motion at the next Annual General to appoint Messrs. Baker and Fergumn | + | |
And I'm sure that all my companions on that trip will carry with acclamation (magno clamor) my vote of thanks to an excellent leader. | And I'm sure that all my companions on that trip will carry with acclamation (magno clamor) my vote of thanks to an excellent leader. | ||
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====== Commemorative Service at Splendour Rock ====== | ====== Commemorative Service at Splendour Rock ====== | ||
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On the morning of 26th April, just as the sun rose clear above the cloud sea in the valley of the Cox, Federation President Paul Driver led an assembly of bushwalkers in a moving ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary of the dedication of the memorial plaque at Splendour Rock. | On the morning of 26th April, just as the sun rose clear above the cloud sea in the valley of the Cox, Federation President Paul Driver led an assembly of bushwalkers in a moving ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary of the dedication of the memorial plaque at Splendour Rock. |
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