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**The Sydney Bushwalker** | **The Sydney Bushwalker** | ||
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers. The N.S.W. Nurses' | + | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers. The N.S.W. Nurses' |
- | Box No.4476 G.P.O., Sydney.\\ | + | |
- | Phone JW1462. | + | |
- | **No.297 | + | **No.297 |
- | Price 1/- | ||
|**Editor**|Don Matthews, 33 Pomona Street, Pennant Hills. W3514| | |**Editor**|Don Matthews, 33 Pomona Street, Pennant Hills. W3514| | ||
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Visit Engadine Falls and Heathcote Waratah forest, see Creek, Heath and Woodland flora. Over 100 species to be seen. Easy walking mostly on tracks. For further information contact Len Fall JA5959. | Visit Engadine Falls and Heathcote Waratah forest, see Creek, Heath and Woodland flora. Over 100 species to be seen. Easy walking mostly on tracks. For further information contact Len Fall JA5959. | ||
- | September 20th | + | September 20th. Heathcote - Kangaroo Creek - Audley - Pleasant track and creek walking. Wildflowers. |
- | Heathcote - Kangaroo Creek - Audley - Pleasant track and creek walking. Wildflowers. | + | |
Leader - Edna Garrad. | Leader - Edna Garrad. | ||
- | September 26-27th | + | |
- | Easy walking, | + | September 26-27th |
- | twater. Wildflowers. - Jess Martin. | + | |
- | to Palm Beach - Mackeral Beach | + | September |
- | - Whitehorse Bay - The Basin - | + | Medium Track and Creek walking - waterfalls and pools. Includes a part of the Park (South West Arm Creek) not very often visited by walkers. Wildflowers galore.\\ |
- | SepteMber | + | Leader - David Ingram.\\ |
- | Heathcote Uloola Falls - Flat Rock Crossing - South West Arm Creek - Audley. | + | A handy map for the National Park area is the Department of Lands Tourist Map of the Port Hacking District. |
- | Medium Track and Creek walking - waterfalls and pools. Includes a part of the Park <South West Arm Creek) not very often visited by walkers. | + | |
- | Wildflowers galore. | + | Worthwhile reading: " |
- | Leader - David Ingram. | + | (Journal of the Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia). Fiftieth Anniversary Number Vol.4. No.4 June 1959. On page 80, " |
- | A bandy map for the National Park area is the Department of Lands Tourist Map of the Port Hacking District. | + | |
- | Worthwhile reading: | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | (Journal of the Mild Life Preservation Society of Australia). Fiftieth Anniversary Number Vol.4. No.4 June 1959. | + | |
- | On page 80, | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | Part 2 of a comprehensive account of the ecology of this well known walking area, with a list of plants to be found there. | + | |
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I found it I found it: I was quite on the job, but here at last was the map - " | I found it I found it: I was quite on the job, but here at last was the map - " | ||
- | "I found it!" I shouted in his ear, and spread out the map. Snow moved his plate until he could see the sausages again and went on quietly eating. " | + | "I found it!" I shouted in his ear, and spread out the map. Snow moved his plate until he could see the sausages again and went on quietly eating. " |
- | There was silence. Snow' | + | |
At the brink of this awful chasm my ridge vanished, reappearing about l map miles further on, and you can believe me (or as Snow pointed out, you can believe me not) but in that missing corner is a Queen Pin and a King Pin too. The way Snow laughed I could tell he thought I was beaten. Not quite though, because a little further down from where the ridge reappeared I'd spotted an " | At the brink of this awful chasm my ridge vanished, reappearing about l map miles further on, and you can believe me (or as Snow pointed out, you can believe me not) but in that missing corner is a Queen Pin and a King Pin too. The way Snow laughed I could tell he thought I was beaten. Not quite though, because a little further down from where the ridge reappeared I'd spotted an " | ||
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Edna Garrad. | Edna Garrad. | ||
- | SEPTEMBER 16 Dr. John Bunt - illustrated talk on Antarttic. | + | SEPTEMBER 16 Dr. John Bunt - illustrated talk on Antartic. |
- | Debate - "The older members are of greater benefit to the -Club". This will be good - don't miss it | + | |
- | See David Ingram regarding the Federation Ball at the Paddington Town Hall. As Federation Delegate he is arranging the S.B.W. party with Ed Stretton as hostess. David has the tickets. If you prefer | + | SEPTEMBER 23 Debate - "The older members are of greater benefit to the Club". This will be good - don't miss it. |
- | to arrange a private party - that, is all right with David too, but | + | |
- | we hope there will be an appropriate S.B:N. roll up. | + | SEPTEMBER 25 See David Ingram regarding the Federation Ball at the Paddington Town Hall. As Federation Delegate he is arranging the S.B.W. party with Ed Stretton as hostess. David has the tickets. If you prefer to arrange a private party - that, is all right with David too, but we hope there will be an appropriate S.B.W roll up. |
- | Scenic Colour Slide Competition. All photographic enthusiasts should have entries in this competition as we all do scenic work.. Please sort out your slides and let us have your very best efforts for this competition. Limit 6 slides per member. Hand to me before or on 30th September. | + | |
- | Prospective Members' | + | OCTOBER 21 Scenic Colour Slide Competition. All photographic enthusiasts should have entries in this competition as we all do scenic work. Please sort out your slides and let us have your very best efforts for this competition. Limit 6 slides per member. Hand to me before or on 30th September. |
- | 7.15 p m. This experiment is being carried out as it is felt that the | + | |
- | three lectures have always been rather much to absorb on the Field Weekend. | + | OCTOBER 28 Prospective Members Night. First aid lecture is to be held at 7.15 p m. This experiment is being carried out as it is felt that the three lectures have always been rather much to absorb on the Field Weekend. |
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- | IT 25 | + | |
- | OCTOBER 21 | + | |
- | TI 28 | + | |
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Says Ingram: | Says Ingram: | ||
THE DATE OF THE BUSH WALKERS' | THE DATE OF THE BUSH WALKERS' | ||
- | DATE: FRIDAY, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 1959. | + | DATE: FRIDAY, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 1959.\\ |
- | PLACE: PADDINGTON TOWN HALL, | + | PLACE: PADDINGTON TOWN HALL,\\ |
- | TICKETS: | + | TICKETS: |
- | Early application for tickets is essential. See Edna Stretton | + | Early application for tickets is essential. See Edna Stretton |
- | Come along and make this a prelude to our awn festivities early in December. | + | Come along and make this a prelude to our own festivities early in December. |
- | 7. | + | |
- | FOR ALL YOIR TRANSPORT PROBLF,MS | + | |
- | CONTACT | + | ====== Letter from Bob O'Hara ====== |
- | HATSWELL'S TAXI & TOURIST SERVICE | + | |
- | RING, WRITE, N1RE or CALL | + | I am kept posted of Club's doings by receiving the "Mag" and it is a comfort to me in this cold hole they call Melbourne to read the accounts of the different trips and their experiences. Although I am six hundred miles from you, I still feel I have a little corner in S.B. that I may be able to fit into again some day. |
- | ANY HOUR - DAY OR NIrET | + | |
- | LETTER FROM BOB O' | + | In the Classified Ads section |
- | 1,1 am kept posted of Club's doings by receiving the "Nag" and it is a comfort to me ixil this cold hole tl-By call Melbourne to read the accounts of the different trips and their experienoes. Although I am six hundred miles fromwou,-I -still feel I have a, little corner in S.B. that I may be able to fit into again some day. | + | Essendon. I have found it gives me more free time to myself |
- | "In the Classified Ads section | + | |
- | Essendon. I have faand it gives me more free time to mb, | + | "I was very pleased to hear the new Club Rooms are a success and I wish you all health and prosperity and hope I can see you all again soon." |
- | "I was very pleased to hear the new Club Rooms are a success and I wish you all | + | |
- | - | + | |
- | health and prosperity and hope I can see you all again soon." | + | Congratulations to Enid and Clem Hallstrom. |
- | BOOKING OFFICE: 4 doors From Gardners Inn Hotel, (LOOK FOR THE ON SIGN). | + | |
- | SPEEDY 5 or 8 PASSENGER CARS AVIATLABLE | + | |
- | LARGE OR SMALL PARTIES CATERED FOR | + | |
- | FARES: KANANGRA WALLS 30/- per head (minimum 5 passengers). | + | |
- | PER ?3 LOOKDOWN u n It It | + | |
- | JENOLAN STATE FOREST 20/- " " II It | + | |
- | CARLON' | + | |
- | WE WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE TRIPS OR SPECIAL PARTIES ON | + | |
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- | Congratulations to Enid and Clem Hallstrom. | + | |
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Here is established a Central Block with dining and recreation room, kitchen, small shop and staff quarters. Nearby are the ablution blocks equipped with scalding hot water available 24 hours of the day. On ledges a little lower down are a series of slab bungalows connected together by a covered concrete pathway. Inside, the rooms are simply furnished but the mattresses are of the innerspring variety and the sheets scrupulously clean. | Here is established a Central Block with dining and recreation room, kitchen, small shop and staff quarters. Nearby are the ablution blocks equipped with scalding hot water available 24 hours of the day. On ledges a little lower down are a series of slab bungalows connected together by a covered concrete pathway. Inside, the rooms are simply furnished but the mattresses are of the innerspring variety and the sheets scrupulously clean. | ||
- | The essentials for many walkers apart from interesting | + | The essentials for many walkers apart from interesting walking country are lots of hot water, clean comfortable beds and good home cooked food. The food is quite a feature at Binnaburra. Breakfast consists of porridge or Cornflakes etc. followed by chops, sausages or the like and lots of marmalade and bread and butter. Lunch is nearly always eaten away from the Lodge and dinner is served at 6.00 p m. You queue up for soup and take it to your place at the table and then go back for more or put your plate in at the special window to be washed up. You then step smartly to the next window and choose from three or four different roasts and take away a generous helping with several varies of vegetables. Returns are encouraged. Having absorbed sufficient proteins you then rise from the table, put the dirty plate in for washing and step smartly to the serving window and have a dish of one of the five varieties of sweets. One is appropriately labelled "Yes please" |
- | of hot water, clean comfortable beds and good home cooked food. The food is quite a feature at Binnaburra. Breakfast consists of porridge or Cornflakes etc. followed by chops, sausages or the like and lots of marmalade and bread and butter. Lunch is nearly always eaten away from the Lodge and dinner is served at 6.00 p m. You queue up for soup and take it to your place at the table and then go back for more or put your plate in at the special window to be washed up. You then step smartly to | + | |
- | the next window and choose from three or four different roasts and take away a generous | + | |
- | helping with several varies of vegetables. Returns are encouraged. Having | + | |
- | absorbed sufficient proteins you then rise from the table, put the dirty plate in | + | |
- | for washing and step smartly to the serving window and have a dish of one of the five | + | |
- | varieties of sweets. One is appropriately labelled "Yes please" | + | |
- | with a large spoonful of thick cream. Then comes coffee. In the winter time the front of the log fire is a splendid spot to digest - in the summertime seats out on | + | |
- | the lawn under the stars are equally attractive. Away in the distance a thin line of | + | |
- | twinkling lights dhows where the Seekers of Synthetic Pleasures are spending their pounds on the Gold Coast of Queensland. | + | |
- | The first day after our arrival at Binnaburra we three S.B.W' | + | The first day after our arrival at Binnaburra we three S.B.W' |
- | flanked on either side by rough timber seats, the whole set in a well kept springy lawn. TaAhe left a four feet track leads off through the trees and almost | + | |
- | ly enters the rain forest. Birds twitter and sing or chase the many flying insects, the path is dappled with sunlight, the grade is very gently sloping and invites one | + | |
- | to go on. Soon you pass the Cathedral Tree mhich is an old giant that has had a fig | + | |
- | tree seed deposited hight up by a bird. The roots have grown down and surrounded the * tree trunk with a network:of strongly supporting energy. It has finally held the tree so tightly that the sap has been stopped and the tree died in its clutches. It has quickly rotted, and now you can stand inside the fig tree looking up for 50 or more feet where once the forest giant stood. The fig tree branches now take the place of its one time accommodating host. | + | |
+ | Going along the track, from time to time there are little lookouts on to the Numenbah Valley. | ||
+ | Soon the track descends more steeply but still very easily into Palm Valley. This is filled with Arctinophoenix palms with heads of long waving plumes. Into this Valley a waterfall of purest white plunges in front of extremely black wet rocks. The stream continues on so clear and transparent as to be almost non-existent. Here, the track at the side under the palms is covered with mosses and ferns. The jungle is thick and reminded me very much of some mountainous streams I have seen in Ceylon. It only needed a few elephants to complete the picture. Palm Valley is also known as the Hidden, Valley for just as abruptly the path turns up again and leads into open country with not a suggestion of the lushness and richness of the Palm Valley below. | ||
+ | Our track led us round into the open on the edge of a high narrow ledge with beautiful views into the valleys below and a good view of Egg Rock. This curious egg shaped dome rises almost directly from the floor, of the valley and stands apart from the other hills. Soon it was clear to us why the route was known as Ships Stern for the track goes around the end of the peninsula and with a hairpin bend returns on the opposite side of the ledge. You might, quite easily, be walking around the stern of a cruiser. The track goes for a mile or so through open park-like country before it again plunges into the rain forest. | ||
- | Going along the track, from time to time there are little lookouts | + | Near the junction of the " |
- | Soon the track descends more steeply but still very easily into Palm Valley. This is filled with Arctinophoenix palms with heads of long waving plumes. Into this Valley a waterfall of purest white plunges | + | |
- | track at the side under the palms is covered with mosses | + | We came upon another group and quickly exchanged |
- | thick and reminded me very much of some mountainous streans I have seen in Ceylon. It only needed a few elephants to complete | + | |
- | -.Palm Valley is also knovn as the Hidden, Valley for just as abruptly the path | + | |
- | turns up again and leads into open country | + | |
- | Our track led us round into the open on the edge of a high narrow ledge with | + | |
- | beautiful views into the valleys below and a good view of Egg Rock. This curious egg shaped dome rises almost dLrectly from the floor, of the valley | + | |
- | Soon it was clear to us why the route was known as Ships Stern for the track | + | |
- | goes around the end of the peninsula | + | |
- | side of the ledge. You might, quite easily, be walking around the stern of a cruiser. | + | |
- | The track goes for a mile or so through open park-like country before it again | + | |
- | plunges into the rain forest. | + | |
- | Near the junction of the " | ||
- | so much beauty and so much of His handywark in the stillness and silence, without any sense of loneliness. | ||
- | We came upon another group and quickly exchanged with them the highlights of our trips$ and together laughing and joking we made our may back: to hot water, the good food, and the comfortable beds. | ||
- | Far the old and Bold and the Young and Healthy, Binnaburra has symething to offer for all. | ||
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====== You Can Easily Be Caught ====== | ====== You Can Easily Be Caught ====== | ||
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By the Bush Lawyer (Vine). | By the Bush Lawyer (Vine). | ||
- | The title, at first glance, may lead the reader into the belief that this maybe a warning against being snared into the bonds of matrimony, but actually it alludes to something worse - caught for money - and big time at that, too: | + | The title, at first glance, may lead the reader into the belief that this maybe a warning against being snared into the bonds of matrimony, but actually it alludes to something worse - caught for money - and big time at that, too. |
- | As we hurry along, through the busy city, or blithely through the bush, with our rucksack on our poflerful Shoulders, we are creating a potential liability for ourselves at Common Law, with particular regard to Negligence. All the big Court Awards one reads about in connection with motor car accidents where the driver is proved guilty of negligent driving, arise out of Common Law procedures. Sums of | + | |
- | t16,000 and the like are mentioned lightly, awarded by same kindhearted and sympathetic jury who don't have to foot the bill, and couldn' | + | As we hurry along, through the busy city, or blithely through the bush, with our rucksack on our powerful shoulders, we are creating a potential liability for ourselves at Common Law, with particular regard to Negligence. All the big Court Awards one reads about in connection with motor car accidents where the driver is proved guilty of negligent driving, arise out of Common Law procedures. Sums of L16,000 and the like are mentioned lightly, awarded by same kindhearted and sympathetic jury who don't have to foot the bill, and couldn' |
- | People who perform negligent acts, or conversely, fail to perform a reasonably- | + | |
- | expected act to ensure safety, and as a result of which another person suffers | + | There are a variety of ways in which the modest Bushwalker can bring trouble on his head by carrying weight on his shoulders through the propulsion of his feet. He can be dashing madly across the concourse at Central Station to catch his train, bump into some old lady, who falls and breaks her hip and, by virtue of her age, won't walk again. This involves medical expenses, compensation for pain and suffering, and nursing |
- | injury (or death) or damage to his property or interference with his livelihood, | + | Cafe for a cuppa hot coffee, depositing your pack in the middle of the aisle between the logues. In comes another customer who trips over it, and his collarbone is gone in a flash, and he's gashed his forehead on the edge of the seat and is concussed. |
- | can get the axe in the Courts, and are deemed liable at Common Law. | + | |
- | There are a variety of mays in which the modest Bushwalker can bring trouble on his head by carrying weight on his shoulders through the propulsion of his feet. He can be dashing madly across the concourse at Central Station to catch his train, bump into some old lady, who falls and breaks her hip and, by virtue of her age, won't walk again. This involves medical expenses, compensation for pain and suffer- | + | Loss of wages, more suffering, headaches, etc. And then you'll be concussed, too! But you're careful, you've avoided all these pitfalls, giving everything you do a second thought, making sure. You are at the base of the Warrumbungles and it's a VERY windy day. Your fire gets away and burns out the nearest homestead, a paddock of prize sheep, a tractor, the hay shed and next year's grass. A cool (or hot) L10,000. |
- | ing, and nursing | + | |
- | you have carelessly placed your rucksack on the luggage rack when, at the first lurch out of Redfern, it falls on the head of an unoff ending | + | By this time you are flat broke and mortally |
- | you were lucky, and made Katoomba Unharmed, where you repaired to the well-known AB | + | |
- | 11. | + | Yes folks, the games fraught with danger, but whether bushwalker or not, our daily life even if you are like me in the Lower Income Bracket and don't own a car, opens the door (not the car's) to all sorts of unforeseen legal liabilities of this sort, which can be taken care of, as in the case of the motorist, by proper insurance. But, as remarked earlier, we can't stop you getting caught in the lawyer-vines of matrimony! |
- | Cafe far a cuppa hot coffee, depositing your pack in the middle of the aisle between | + | |
- | the logues. In comes another customer who trips over it, and his collarbone is gone in a flash, and he's gashed his forehead on the edge of the seat and is concussed. | + | |
- | Loss of wages, more suffering, headaches, etc. And then ;you'll be concussed, too! | + | |
- | But you're careful, you've avoided all these pitfalls, giving everything you | + | |
- | do a second thought, making sure. You are at the base of the Warrumbungles and it's | + | |
- | a VERY windy day. Your fire gets away and burns out the nearest homestead, a paddock | + | |
- | of prize sheep, a tractor, the hay shed and next year's grass. A cool (or hot) E10,COL | + | |
- | Or perhaps you were the leader of the party which left closed a gate they had found open, and the livestock perished because they couldn' | + | |
- | By this time you are flat broke aid in ortally | + | |
- | without testing didn't hold his 14-stone, and he crashed down, to be paralysed for the rest of his life. A nurse at Z18 a week, and his wages. | + | |
- | Yes folks, the games fraught with danger, but whether bushwalker or not, our daily life, even if you are like me in the Lower Income Bracket and don't own a car, opens the door (not the car's) to all sorts of unforeseen legal liabilities of this sort, which can be taken care of, as in the case of the motorist, by proper insurance. But, as remarked earlier, we can't stop you getting caught in the lawyer-vines of matrimony! | + | |
====== The Twelth Day ====== | ====== The Twelth Day ====== | ||
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" | " | ||
- | " | + | " |
- | "Next day - three French hens. So all my cockerels haven' | + | |
+ | "Next day - three French hens. So all my cockerels haven' | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Next four calling birds, chattering inanely, all day: three more French hens, two more doves, and strike me lucky whaddyouknow - another partridge and pear tree."" | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Well, on the fifth day, I thought we were getting someplace - five gold rings. After the spate of feathered friends, that was a turn for the better. But the idiot sends along another consignment of calling birds, hens, doves - and another rotten partridge. | ||
+ | |||
+ | "After that he cut loose but to date he's sent us - \\ | ||
+ | Eleven Twenty Twenty Thirty Thirty Thirty Thirty \\ | ||
+ | Thirty Twenty, Twenty Eleven\\ | ||
+ | partridges and eleven pear trees turtle doves\\ | ||
+ | seven French hens, two calling birds, five gold rings, six geese a laying, five swans swimming\\ | ||
+ | two maids a milking, seven ladies dancing\\ | ||
+ | lords a leaping pipers playing altogether. \\ | ||
+ | I'm not going through it day by day, | ||
+ | |||
+ | "What do you think of all that rubbish? Oh no, never a jar of tobacco or a bottle of whiskey for me. Oh no Just look out in the yard - listen to that uproar. Just look at the mess - | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Blimey. Just get a load of the idiots, will you? down, up and down. Cop that funny little cove. Makes you seasick to look at 'em. | ||
- | two more doves, another partridge, another pear tree. Heil: | ||
- | "Next fnur calling birds, chattering inanely, all day: three more French | ||
- | hens, two more doves, and strike me lucky whaddyouknow - another partridge and pear tree. | ||
- | "Well, on the fifth day, I thought we were getting someplace - five gold | ||
- | rings. After the spate of feathered friends, that was a turn for the better. But the idiot sends along another consignment of calling birds, hens, doves - and another rotten partridge. | ||
- | "After that he cut loose | ||
- | but to date he's sent us - Eleven Twenty Twenty Thirty Thirty Thirty Thirty Thirty Twenty Twenty Eleven | ||
- | partridges and eleven pear trees turtle doves | ||
- | seven French hens two calling birds five gold rings six geese a' | ||
- | two maids afmilking seven ladies dancing | ||
- | lords a' | ||
- | altogether. I'm not going through it day by day, | ||
- | "What do you think of all that rubbish? Oh no, never a jar of tobacco or a bottle of whiskey for me. Oh no Just look out in the yard - listen to that uproar: Just look at the mess - | ||
- | " | ||
- | I hate bagpipes. Wheezing and groaning and walking up | ||
- | " | ||
- | Blimey: Just get a load of the idiots, will you? down, up and down. Cop that funny little cove at the are going to fall down anytime. Makes you seasick:to | ||
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+ | " | ||
"Then the moat's chock full of swans, and in the fowl run we've got thirty six geese and twenty seven French hens. Just as well we're getting a few eggs from 'em. I've bad to pawn the gold rings to feed the mob. | "Then the moat's chock full of swans, and in the fowl run we've got thirty six geese and twenty seven French hens. Just as well we're getting a few eggs from 'em. I've bad to pawn the gold rings to feed the mob. | ||
- | PAnd look at the orchard - full of pear trees, each with a stupid partridge squatting dismally in it. | + | |
+ | And look at the orchard - full of pear trees, each with a stupid partridge squatting dismally in it. | ||
"I tell you, he's driving me mad. Just as well it's the Twelfth Day. i I'd like to know what fresh horror he's got in store ----- What's that rumbling noise? " | "I tell you, he's driving me mad. Just as well it's the Twelfth Day. i I'd like to know what fresh horror he's got in store ----- What's that rumbling noise? " | ||
+ | "Oh Daddy, it's the present for today! Isn't he a pet - just look out" | ||
+ | "NO, no, I daren' | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "What else?"' | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
- | "Oh Daddy, it's the present for today! Isn't he a pet - just look out". "NO, no, I daren' | ||
- | " | ||
- | " | ||
"Any more?" | "Any more?" | ||
- | "Ten more lards --- | + | |
+ | "Ten more lords ---" | ||
"All right! All right: And right at the end. Is there - ? Is it - ? Not another, please, please not another." | "All right! All right: And right at the end. Is there - ? Is it - ? Not another, please, please not another." | ||
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"Yes, Daddy, a partridge in a pear tree." | "Yes, Daddy, a partridge in a pear tree." | ||
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Federation meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6.30 p m. Grace Wagg is the only S.B.W. representative on the Executive at present. Surely we can supply another member to do this comparatively easy task. | Federation meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month at 6.30 p m. Grace Wagg is the only S.B.W. representative on the Executive at present. Surely we can supply another member to do this comparatively easy task. | ||
- | TRANSPORT INSURANCE | + | TRANSPORT INSURANCE |
CAMP SPOTS. Small portions of land adjacent to public transport, railway stations, etc. and suitable for transitory camping far walkers is a matter which the Conservation Bureau wishes to take up. If you know of any likely spots, please advise Club Delegates. | CAMP SPOTS. Small portions of land adjacent to public transport, railway stations, etc. and suitable for transitory camping far walkers is a matter which the Conservation Bureau wishes to take up. If you know of any likely spots, please advise Club Delegates. | ||
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There we had an early lunch prior to making a bee line for Pt. Possibility. A change was coming over our glorious day and we arrived at P.P. just ten minutes prior to a rain squall, which the roar of camera shutters made sound like a thunderstorm. Ettrema Gorge - this was it. The unknown - the unconquerable - the great challenge: We stood in awe and looked in wonderment at a seemingly unbroken line of cliffs extending as far as the eye could see, with a secondary and sometimes a tertiary cliff line below. | There we had an early lunch prior to making a bee line for Pt. Possibility. A change was coming over our glorious day and we arrived at P.P. just ten minutes prior to a rain squall, which the roar of camera shutters made sound like a thunderstorm. Ettrema Gorge - this was it. The unknown - the unconquerable - the great challenge: We stood in awe and looked in wonderment at a seemingly unbroken line of cliffs extending as far as the eye could see, with a secondary and sometimes a tertiary cliff line below. | ||
- | The talus slopes were at angle of repose and after mentally jumping the cliff face (some 300 feet or more) the question arose as to whether it would be best to use triple hobs or butter. | + | The talus slopes were at angle of repose and after mentally jumping the cliff face (some 300 feet or more) the question arose as to whether it would be best to use triple hobs or butter. The scene was one of untamed grandeur and thrills raced up and down our spines as we gazed into the blue depths. For this was new country - untrodden by all but one or two - a challenging new playground for bushwalkers to explore. |
- | The scene was one of untamed grandeur and thrills raced up and down our spines as we gazed into the blue depths. For this was new -country - untrodden by all but one or two - a challenging new playground for bushwalkers to explore. | + | |
- | Even more mysterious became our gorge as the rain storm draped its gossamer veil - we could better understand its legend of impenetrability, | + | Even more mysterious became our gorge as the rain storm draped its gossamer veil - we could better understand its legend of impenetrability, |
- | Before long, we started looking for ways down and ways up to the other side. We would see two possible ways up - Paul picked one (Howard' | + | Pt. Possibility we found was wrongly named, it should have been Impossibility. You'd need to be a hybrid octopus to get down there. So we turned our attention to Cinch Creek and what did we find? A rift vying in sheer magnificence with Kanangra Gorge and just as inviting as a possible route to the valley floor. |
- | Pt. Possibility we found was wrongly named, it should have been Impossibility. You'd need to be a hybrid octopus to get down there. So we turned our attention to | + | |
- | Cinch Creek and what did we find? A rift vying in sheer magnificence with Kanangra Gorge and just as inviting as a possible route to the valley floor. | + | |
Believe me, Cinch Creek is terrific - the sort of place that mountain goats and rock wallabies class as mile-a-day country. | Believe me, Cinch Creek is terrific - the sort of place that mountain goats and rock wallabies class as mile-a-day country. | ||
- | The rim rocks were continuous and we could detect not one place where a | + | |
- | possibility of descent existed. It looked as if our trip was over for we were two | + | The rim rocks were continuous and we could detect not one place where a possibility of descent existed. It looked as if our trip was over for we were two days out on a four day trip and most of us commenced adjusting our mental processes to this thought - but not Paul. Paul conducted a rock by rock search and finally located a split in a cliff, some 18 inches wide, through which we were able to climb down to the talus slope. Packs had to be roped down as they could not be wangled through the cleft, Then it was a case of down, down and down. Down through the rain forest, |
- | days out on a four day trip and Most of us commenced adjusting our mental processes to this thought - but not Paul. | + | |
- | Paul conducted a rock by rock search and finally located a split in a cliff, some 18 inches wide, through which we were able to climb down to the talus slope. Packs had to be roped down as they could not be wangled through the cleft, Then it was a case of down, down and down. Down through the rain forest, | + | The daylight was still with us when we reached the waters of Cinch Creek and it remained while we scrambled down a mile or so, until we came to the only level patch we had seen for hours. We camped and how we slept! An hour after our "crack of dawn start found us on Ettrema Creek, looking up and wondering whether our climb out would be as spectacular as the descent. |
- | The daylight was still with us when we reached the waters of Cinch Creek and it remained while we scrambled down a mile or so, until we came to the only level patch we had seen for hours. We camped and how we slept! | + | |
- | An hour after our "crack of dame start found us on Ettrema Creek, looking up and wondering whether our climb out would be as spectacular as the descent. | + | Ettrema is delightful, a sort of young Kowmung |
- | Ettrema is delightful, a sort of young Kawmung | + | |
- | What a thrill it would be to spend a week following this lovely stream down to its junction with the Shoalhaven - I wonder who will be able to say "I was the first one through. | + | Howard's Pass is really a cinch (though I still believe Roots' Route is better, mark you) and to get up through the rim rocks is no trouble at all. We paused at the top and looked back into the mist and rain filled gorge we had left. We had confounded the locals, we had crossed their uncrossable Ettrema and |
- | We could only enjoy it for less than an hour while we argued Howard' | + | |
- | 18. | + | |
- | lioward's Pass is really a cinch (though I still believe Roots' Route is better, mark you) and to get up through the rim rocks is no trouble at all. | + | |
- | We paused at the top and looked back into the mist and rain filled gorge we had left. We had confounded the locals, we had crossed their uncrossable Ettrema and | + | |
it had been a grand experience. | it had been a grand experience. | ||
- | The rest of the trip was uneventful. - that is if you disregard hour after hour | + | |
- | of scrub barging on a compass course in continuous teeming rain, the swimming of | + | The rest of the trip was uneventful - that is if you disregard hour after hour of scrub barging on a compass course in continuous teeming rain, the swimming of the racing Shoalhaven in a twelve foot flood and a hair raising ride in a utility into Goulburn. And that is the end of the story - all that remains is the challenge. |
- | the racing Shoalhaven in a twelve foot flood and a hair raising ride in a utility into Goulburn. | + | |
- | And that is the end of the story - all that remains is the challenge. "The Challenge. | + | "The Challenge. We six has beens - old and bold - or what have you, pass along to you youngsters this challenge from one we have come to respect and to love, from Ettrema herself. All you who glory in your ability to climb, to explore, to map, and who love wild and untamed places, here is a new thrill worthy of the best of you. See what you can do about taming this one. But don't think I've painted the lily, that the old boys have forgotten what toughness is. Put an extra day's tucker in the rucksack and a hundred feet of rope. |
- | We six hasbeens | + | |
- | herself. | + | The Putt party divided into three groups. One was to rock climb and potter about the second was to follow the North ridge which might lead to a negotiable spur (they ran out of time before finding anything definite) and the third group .... |
- | All you who glory in your ability to climb, to explore, to map, and who lave | + | |
- | wild and untamed places, here is a new thrill worthy of the best of you. See what you can do about taming this one: | + | |
- | But don't think I've painted the lily, that the old bays have forgotten what toughness is. Put an extra day's tucker in the rucksack and a hundred feet of rope. | + | ====== Cinch Creek ====== |
- | The Putt party divided into three groups. One was to rock climb and potter about the second was to follow the North ridge which might lead to a negotiable spur (they ran out of time before finding anything definite) | + | |
- | and the third group .... | + | Mike Perryman |
- | CINCH CREEK. | + | |
- | Nike Perryman. | + | As was arranged before we left Yalwal, our expedition split into more mobile groups to explore the area of the Ettrema Rim. Our group of 8 moved south to the watershed of Monkey and Cinch Creeks. Originally we had hoped to move south along the plateau to the Sassafras Road but as time had run into late Saturday, we decided on a descent of Cinch Creek. |
- | As was arranged before we left Yalwal, our expedition split into more mobile | + | |
- | groups to explore the area of the Ettrema Rim. Our group of 8 moved south to the watershed of Monkey and Cinch Creeks. Originally we had hoped to move south along | + | Cinch and Monkey Creeks had been traversed |
- | the plateau to the Sassafras Road but as time had run into late Saturday, we decided on a descent of Cinch Creek. | + | climb of Monkey Creek but Cinch was an easy conquest. |
- | Cinch and Monkey Creeks had been Traversed | + | |
- | climb of Monkey Creek:but Cinch was an easy conquest. | + | With this fact in mind our party sidled into the upper reaches of Cinch to find a camping cave for the night. Our arrival was heralded by the local lyre birds. several nests were seen and many cries were heard during the day. Over night the white ants did some plotting and by morning departure the group again split. Some not keen on creek high jinks decided to cross on to the isolated plateau to the west of Cinch and gaze into the depths of Ettrema about 1,900 below. |
- | With this fact in mind our party sidled into the upper reaches of Cinch to | + | |
- | find a camping cave for the night. Our arrival was heralded by the local lyre birds. several nests were seen and many cries were heard during the day. | + | Four of us (Lindsey, Gwen, Snow and myself) pressed on downstream. After 1 hour of real creek hopping we came to a picturesque fall of 45'. The face was scared by broken ledges dipping right (high) to left and the way damn appeared tricky. The actual descent is just the reverse. Using the natural dip of the ledges and the seat of your pants you slide under the face of the fall all the time remembering the old |
- | Over night the white ants did some plotting and by morning departure the group | + | |
- | again split. Some not keen on creek high jinks decided to cross on to the isolated | + | |
- | 19. | + | |
- | plateau to the west of Cinch and gaze into the depths of Ettrema about 1,900 below. | + | |
- | Four of us (Lindsey, Gwen, Snow and myself) pressed on downstream. After 1 hour of real creek hopping we came to a picturesque fall of 45'. The face was scared by broken ledges dipping right (high) to left and the may damn appeared tricky. The | + | |
- | actual descent is just the reverse. Using the natural dip of the ledges and the seat | + | |
- | of yflurpants | + | |
fable "he who hesitates gets thoroughly drenched" | fable "he who hesitates gets thoroughly drenched" | ||
- | The last drop to the creek floor was about 20' along similar ledges. The face also presents several other easy descent routes. | + | |
- | The creek now approached the rim of the plateau and its narrowness became less | + | The last drop to the creek floor was about 20' along similar ledges. The face also presents several other easy descent routes. The creek now approached the rim of the plateau and its narrowness became less |
- | pronounced. When the rim was reached a maghificent | + | pronounced. When the rim was reached a magnificent |
- | valley, Point Possibility stood up above us, the right hand walls of the plateau rose up to 300' | + | |
- | into a deep green pool below. Truly a time and place for a rest and, as the walls protected us from the mind, a aunbake. (Putt' | + | Again it seemed we were to be thwarted but fortunately to our right a long scree slope clothed in brambles afforded an easy and simple descent to the creek again. The pool below was circled by Lilli Pilli' |
- | were suffering the cooling effects of a 25 mph. July westerly.) | + | |
- | Again it seemed we were to be thwarted but fortunately to our right a long scree slope clothed in brambles afforded an easy and simple descent to the creek again. | + | Luckily, Putt had waited for us and hauled our packs up Dog Ledge Pass or else four bods would be still wedged in this crevasse. It is a truly wonderful find and can only be seen to be believed as it so simply overcomes a 45' (plus) cliff drop. After a spot of scran we made haste for Yalwal. |
- | The pool below was circled by Lilli Pilli' | + | |
- | For the next mile, the creek wound its tortuous way through numerous small falls, block ups, water races, rapids and cascades, each flowed one upon the other until by 10.45 we passed the entrance of Dog Ledge Creek and then turned right into Gympie | + | Party Times: Yalwal to Bunbundah Creek (via Danjera |
- | Creek and began to climb back to Dog Ledge Pass. We did not know this creek was named Gympie until we had progressed up for some distance (20 yards) then Powie: we were surrounded. Not having gloves or "' | + | |
- | covered ridge and finally reached the cliff line much later than we hoped. | + | |
- | Luckily, Putt had waited for us and hauled our packs up Dog Ledge Pass or | + | |
- | else four bods would be still wedged in this srevasse. It is a truly wonderful find and can only be seen to be believed as it so simply overcomes a 45' (plus) cliff drop. | + | |
- | After a spot of scran we made haste for Yalwal. | + | |
- | Party Times: Yalwal to Bunbundah Creek (via Danj era Gap) -2i hours Bunbundah Creek:to Dog Ledge Pass l " | + | |
- | Monkey Creek Cinch Creek Ettrema Creek 8 n | + | |
The challenge is still there! It's a mighty piece of rugged country; go and have a look! | The challenge is still there! It's a mighty piece of rugged country; go and have a look! | ||
- | NEAT : You missed the S.B.W. Amateur Hour? "An Amateur Hour with a difference" | + | |
- | Grace Jolly came down from Wentworth Falls to join the playreading | + | |
- | Guitry' | + | NEAT : You missed the S.B.W. Amateur Hour? "An Amateur Hour with a difference" |
- | lifting act (Hey, that's not spinach, thats a Monstera Deliciosa.), Spiro 'a (Bill' | + | |
- | violin, Graham Cowell' | + | Grace Jolly came down from Wentworth Falls to join the play reading |
- | Compered and kicked along by McGregor and Magg. | + | |
- | 20. | + | |
- | OF MILLIBARS | + | ====== Of Millibars and Things ====== |
- | By " | + | |
- | Alex Colley has a sure-fire method of ensuring fine weather for his walking trips. Going down on the Nowra train on the Friday night to commence his nine days in the Corang-Mt. Renwick-The Castle Area in May, he spied the " | + | By " |
- | "How will the- weather be today, Alex?" we asked the next morning. "Fine of course" | + | |
+ | Alex Colley has a sure-fire method of ensuring fine weather for his walking trips. Going down on the Nowra train on the Friday night to commence his nine days in the Corang-Mt. Renwick-The Castle Area in May, he spied the " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "How will the weather be today, Alex?" we asked the next morning. "Fine of course" | ||
Monday morning - beaut. | Monday morning - beaut. | ||
+ | |||
Tuesday morning - beaut. | Tuesday morning - beaut. | ||
- | But his face is still red trying to explain why he had to take refuge in a cave | + | |
- | on the next three successive nights because of the RAIN. | + | But his face is still red trying to explain why he had to take refuge in a cave on the next three successive nights because of the RAIN. |
- | The latest in explosives - The Butler Bomb. | + | |
- | Best used in areas of high population density, e g. around a cooking fire in the cave under Point Possibility (Ettrema).irPlace | + | The latest in explosives - **The Butler Bomb**. Best used in areas of high population density, e g. around a cooking fire in the cave under Point Possibility (Ettrema). |
- | forget about it until ten minutes after someone stokes up the fire when it will explode violently with heavy blast within three feet and considerable fall out up | + | forget about it until ten minutes after someone stokes up the fire when it will explode violently with heavy blast within three feet and considerable fall out up to fifteen feet. This clears the area around the fire and the sausages can then be cooked in comfort while the victims are decontaminating themselves. |
- | to fifteen feet. This clears the area around the fire and the sausages can then be cooked in comfort | + | |
- | GOLD AND SILVER WALK. On David Ingram' | + | GOLD AND SILVER WALK. On David Ingram' |
- | display of golden wattles was the best ever encountered in this area. Not to be outdone, Phyllis Ratcliffe produced a silver coloured teapot at lunchtime and Thelma | + | |
- | Phillips used a genuine silver spoon for stirring her tea. Full marks to these | + | Required: One large tin of meat stew and some sausages. |
- | ladies for introducing a little extra " | + | |
- | P.S. Yes, Phyllis actually made tea in the pot, it wasn't just-for show.' | + | For Pedants only: Yes, Tennyson has been misquoted |
- | 71 Required: One large tin of meat stew and some sausages. | + | We claim that "In spring" |
- | For Pedants only: Yes, Tennyson has been misquoted | + | |
- | We claim that "In spring" | + |
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