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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 ...
-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\\
 Which weeds were flowers and which were not\\
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 ====== Your Walking Guide ======
-Walk No.
+Walk No.\\
-.  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.
+.  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.\\
-An easy walk through the scenic Walgon Valley with the
+An easy walk through the scenic Wolgon Valley with the added attraction of the famous "glow worm tunnel". Cost - 29/5.\\
-added attraction of the famous "glow worm tunnel". Cost -
+ A good test walk through country that deserves more attention, All types of walking with kodachromatic
-/5.
+views makes a camera an essential. Cost - 22/2.\\
- It good test walk through country that deserves more
+"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.\\
- attention, All types of walking with kodachromatic
+A pretty walk along creek and river.\\
-views makes a camera an essential. Cost - 22/2.
+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/-.\\
-"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.
+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.\\
-A pretty walk along creek and river.
+ A typical Admiral Trip in the Glenbrook area. The walk would be interesting. Cost - 12/3.\\
-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/-.
-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.
- L typical Admiral Trip in the Glenbrook area. The
-walk would be interesting. Cost - 12/3.
 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.\\
- L medium test walk through the lower Grose River with
+ A medium test walk through the lower Grose River with some ridge walking. Cost 16/3.\\
-,. some ridge walking. Cost 16/3.
+A scenic walk in the Hawksbury River area with good tracks and some patchy scrub.
-A scenic walk in the Haw6sbury River area with good tracks and some patchy scrub.
-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 see= likely on the Saturday.
+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 WEIGHT AROUND?
-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'S WEIGHT AROUND?**\\
-pTPIISE NOTE: This is an alteration to the Social Programme where 25th June is marked as a Members Slide Night,
+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.
-.
+PLEASE NOTE: This is an alteration to the Social Programme where 25th June is marked as a Members Slide Night.
 ====== The Smoke of Their Passing ======
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 As it was only mid-afternoon, we quickly despatched a brew of peat-bog and tea and took a stroll out to Splendour Rock. An overcast sky robbed the scene of colour but the mere majesty of the view made the walk worth while. We left for camp as the Federation president and secretary finished installing the new log-book container.
-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 companions. Pam had already stacked up enough wood fer a cheery fire all through the evening aid Audrey had built a dam in the gully to impound a meagre trickle
-she had discovered. Before long, even Irish pronounced the dammed water fit for human consumption - only she didn't define "consumption".
+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 companions. Pam had already stacked up enough wood for a cheery fire all through the evening and Audrey had built a dam in the gully to impound a meagre trickle she had discovered. Before long, even Irish pronounced the dammed water fit for human consumption - only she didn't define "consumption".
-A starlit evening was spent in quiet yarning by the campfire - culture, lotteries, theology and Dormie's 5%. Then we snuggled
-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's 5%. Then we snuggled into the down. The bench order was; Audrey, Pam, me. All slept well except Audrey - the tent was abdulled and Pam spent the night rolling in Audrey's direction. I soon had the tent to myself, 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?
-rolling in Audrey's direction. I soon had the tent to myself,
- 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's rugby league whistle aid Ron Baker's shouted "Rise and Shine" (he has a built-in public address system, butcher's picnic style) brought startled forms from their bags at 5.15 next morning, just as a herd stampeded through the confluence aforementioned. As the dust settled we were told that they were C.M.W.'s and others, headed for the sunrise service.
-The leader's rugby league whistle aid Ron Baker's shouted "Rise and Shine" (he has a built-in public address system, butcher's picnic style) brought startled forms from their bags at 5.15 next morning, just as a herd stampeded through the confluence aforementioned. As the dust settled we were told that they were C.M.W.Is and others, headed for the sunrise service.
 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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 "That's right," said John. "There are no footprints. We're in front of them."
-In front J Horrors1 That if we took a wrong turn and got lost? S R would search the rearguard positions and I wouldn't be there. Visions of a puzzled frown on Paddy's fact floated
+In front : Horrors! What if we took a wrong turn and got lost? S R would search the rearguard positions and I wouldn't be there. Visions of a puzzled frown on Paddy's face floated before my eyes. Or was it an enigmatic smile?\\
-before my eyes. Or was it an enigmatic smile?
+"Oh, come off it," said I. "We couldn't be. They've crossed just down the gully'\\
-"Oh, come off it," said I. "We couldn't be. They've
+"We better make sure," said John. "Let's yell."\\
-crossed just down the gully'
-"We better make sure," said John. "Let's yell.
 As the echoes of our cries died away, faint calls came back. "They're over there," said I pointing north.
 "Ditto ditto," said John Footrot pointing south.
-We cooeed again.
-"They're down there," said I pointing north and south.
-"No, up there," said John Webfoot pointing east and west. Trouble was, we were both right. How were we to know
-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' picnic style.
-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 again. "They're down there," said I pointing north and south.\\
-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 was, we were both right. How were we to know that two other parties were also converging on Blue Dog?
-Ls 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.
-"What happened to you?" she asked with studied innocence.
-"Well," began Jack Gentle. (This paragraph censored.
-Sufficient to say that the Blue Pup was renamed the Blue Bitch - Ed.)
-Ls we munched lunch a whirlwind passed along the bank, over Breakfast Ck., end disaPpeared round the bend towards Harry's River.
-"Whawassat?" I asked, startled.
-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's River cross-over your narrator took a well merited bath by the simple process of walking where the river bottom wasn't. If my teeth chatter from here on, you'll know that it's only because I had no change of clothes and henceforth had
+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' picnic style.
-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' in the grass at the mouth of Galong Ck, John answered my querulous look by saying, "We're in front."
+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," said I. "I made a mental note to be the
-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. A1asJ I omitted to mark the spot, "Reserved for an old retired member," and by the time I got back Peter Cummings had a tent peg where my hip would have gone and a fire where my feet
+"What happened to you?" she asked with studied innocence.\\
-were to rest. Foiled again.
+"Well," began Jack Gentle. (This paragraph censored. Sufficient to say that the Blue Pup was renamed the Blue Bitch - Ed.)
+As we munched lunch a whirlwind passed along the bank, over Breakfast Ck., and disappeared round the bend towards Harry's River.\\
+"Whawassat?" I asked, startled.\\
+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's River cross-over your narrator took a well merited bath by the simple process of walking where the river bottom wasn't. If my teeth chatter from here on, you'll know that it's only because I had no change of clothes and henceforth had to travel, eat and sleep in my wet duds, even when pushed out into the cold by Pam.
+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 in the grass at the mouth of Galong Ck, John answered my querulous look by saying, "We're in front." "Of course," said I. "I made a mental note to be the first in camp tonight, and my tent goes right there on that lush patch of lawn."
+Having picked the site I departed up the creek to gather firewood. A1as I omitted to mark the spot, "Reserved for an old retired member," and by the time I got back Peter Cummings had a tent peg where my hip would have gone and a fire where my feet were to rest. Foiled again.
 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, but quite disappointed that I didn't carry on at the same speed. I explained that it would be polite to wait for the rest, trying not to let her see the heaving of my chest.
-At the causeway we found Ron and Colin, fire going and tea ready. I had to admit that Brian's organisation was sine qua non. Not only had he organised this advance preparation, but also portage in the Ferguson car and Baker buggy for our packs. There was room for some of the girls as well, Eileen Taylor, having sprained her ankle, was first priority. Then Pam Baker discovered that she had to catch an early train; then
+At the causeway we found Ron and Colin, fire going and tea ready. I had to admit that Brian's organisation was sine qua non. Not only had he organised this advance preparation, but also portage in the Ferguson car and Baker buggy for our packs. There was room for some of the girls as well, Eileen Taylor, having sprained her ankle, was first priority. Then Pam Baker discovered that she had to catch an early train; then Canada - well, now, let's be frank about this. Let's admit that Isobel Wilkie and Audrey Kenway were the only two ladies Spartan enough to walk out via Nellie's Glen.
-Canada - well, now, let's be frank about this. Let's admit that Isobel Wilkie and P.udrey Kenway were the only two ladies Spartan  enough to walk out via Nellie's Glen.
-By the time us males and the two girls reached Explorers' Tree, the automobiles were waiting to whisk us into the All - British in Katoomba. Now, in case you think the All British is
+By the time us males and the two girls reached Explorers' Tree, the automobiles were waiting to whisk us into the All British in Katoomba. Now, in case you think the All British is a pub, it not - it's a cafe; but it was just as good as, because Brian's organisation had extended even to this and despite
-a pub, it not - it's a cafe; but it was just as good as, because Brian's organisation had extended even to this and despite
 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't got all the grass
+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't got all the grass 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 Ferguson as honorary chauffeurs to official test walks and Brian Harvey as permanent honorary organiser of post-walk catering at the All British.
-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 as honorary chauffeurs to official test walks and Brian Harvey as permanent honorary organiser of post-walk catering at the All British.
 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.
-.
 ====== Commemorative Service at Splendour Rock ======