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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | **THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER** |
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, The N.SW. Nurses Association Rooms, " | + | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, The N.S.W. Nurses Association Rooms, " |
- | 301 JANUARY, 1960 Price 1/- | + | **301 JANUARY, 1960 Price 1/-** |
- | Editor: Don Matthews, 33 Pomona Street, Pennant Hills. WJ3514 | + | |**Editor** | Don Matthews, 33 Pomona Street, Pennant Hills. WJ3514| |
- | Reproduction: Eileen Taylor | + | |**Reproduction**| Eileen Taylor |
- | Sales & Subs.: Audrey Kenway | + | |**Sales & Subs.**| Audrey Kenway |
- | Business Manager: Brian Harvey | + | |**Business Manager**| Brian Harvey |
- | Typed by Jean Harvey. | + | |**Typed** | Jean Harvey |
- | CONTENTS Page | + | =====Contents===== |
- | Social Notes 2 | + | |Social Notes |2 | |
- | Swimming Carnival 2 | + | |Swimming Carnival| 2| |
- | At our December Meeting 3 | + | |At our December Meeting |
- | Mount Wilson to Newnes Junction - Alex Colley 4 | + | |Mount Wilson to Newnes Junction - Alex Colley |
- | Trailing the Body - Dorothy Lawry 5 | + | |Trailing the Body - Dorothy Lawry| 5| |
- | Hatswell' | + | |Hatswell' |
- | Sanitarium Health Food Advertisement 9 | + | |Sanitarium Health Food Advertisement| 9| |
- | A Flying Holiday - Jack Giblett 10 | + | |A Flying Holiday - Jack Giblett| 10| |
- | Letter to the Editor 11 | + | |Letter to the Editor |
- | Survival - Clarice Morris, 12 | + | |Survival - Clarice Morris |
- | Paddy' | + | |Paddy' |
- | Tripping the Light Fantastic | + | |Tripping the Light Fantastic |
- | Walking Guide 15 | + | |Walking Guide |15 | |
- | News from New Zealand 17 | + | |News from New Zealand |
- | + | ===== To Our Many Friends ===== | |
- | TO OUR NAM- FRIENDS. | + | |
Although the Club does not send Christmas Cards we received greetings from numerous local and interstate Clubs, which the Committee would like to acknowledge. | Although the Club does not send Christmas Cards we received greetings from numerous local and interstate Clubs, which the Committee would like to acknowledge. | ||
- | Seasonal Greetings were also received from members at present away from Sydney including Dorothy Lawry, Sheila Binns, Lyn Baber, Margaret Ryan, Keith' | + | Seasonal Greetings were also received from members at present away from Sydney including Dorothy Lawry, Sheila Binns, Lyn Baber, Margaret Ryan, Keith Renwick (now home), Don Newis and Bob O' |
- | PLEASE NOTE THAT: | + | |
+ | **Please Note That** | ||
Anniversary Weekend is on January 30, 31 and February 1, not January 23, 24, 25 as shown in the Walks Programme. Check the Walking Guide on page 15 for details of trips. | Anniversary Weekend is on January 30, 31 and February 1, not January 23, 24, 25 as shown in the Walks Programme. Check the Walking Guide on page 15 for details of trips. | ||
- | SOCIAL NOTES. | + | ===== Social Notes ===== |
- | DON'T MISS IT : | + | |
+ | **DON'T MISS IT** | ||
JANUARY 27TH The Castle - Mt. Renwick - Pigeon House area with Brian Harvey and Bill Rodgers. | JANUARY 27TH The Castle - Mt. Renwick - Pigeon House area with Brian Harvey and Bill Rodgers. | ||
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- | SWIMMING CARNIVAL | + | ===== Swimming Carnival |
This year's Club Annual Swimming Carnival will be held on the weekend of 13-14th February at Lake Eckersley, a wide sandy bend of the Woronara River, approached from Heathcote Station by an easy 2i miles walk, mostly along the unused Water Board Road. The Official Trains are the 12.50 p m. on Saturday and 8.50 a m. on Sunday. Tickets to Heathcote. Those folk who can't come for the weekend will be very welcome on the Sunday - we'll hold up the start of the events until they arrive - but don't dawdle on the way, please: Cuppa tea waiting! | This year's Club Annual Swimming Carnival will be held on the weekend of 13-14th February at Lake Eckersley, a wide sandy bend of the Woronara River, approached from Heathcote Station by an easy 2i miles walk, mostly along the unused Water Board Road. The Official Trains are the 12.50 p m. on Saturday and 8.50 a m. on Sunday. Tickets to Heathcote. Those folk who can't come for the weekend will be very welcome on the Sunday - we'll hold up the start of the events until they arrive - but don't dawdle on the way, please: Cuppa tea waiting! | ||
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Mixed Relay Race | Mixed Relay Race | ||
Teams Race | Teams Race | ||
- | Long Plunge | + | Long Plunge - Gents Long Plunge - Ladies Peanut Scramble. |
The point score will be decided on the open races, breaststroke races and the long plunge. For the uninitiated, | The point score will be decided on the open races, breaststroke races and the long plunge. For the uninitiated, | ||
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- | AT OUR DECEMBER MEETING. | + | ===== At Our December Meeting ===== |
Our meeting commenced with a welcome to three new members - Nola Liver, Neville Colton and Julius (Wilf) Hilder. | Our meeting commenced with a welcome to three new members - Nola Liver, Neville Colton and Julius (Wilf) Hilder. | ||
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- | SEE THE PLANETS. | + | ===== See The Planets ===== |
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Our plan was to head across to Newnes Junction. We knew that, despite the tangled and run-together contours it could be done, because I had done it. But this was so long ago that I had entirely forgotten how I did it. I remembered, however, that in places the Wollangambe, | Our plan was to head across to Newnes Junction. We knew that, despite the tangled and run-together contours it could be done, because I had done it. But this was so long ago that I had entirely forgotten how I did it. I remembered, however, that in places the Wollangambe, | ||
- | We found it almost impossible, even with our military map, to sort out the tangle of ridges and gullies below us, and not for an hour or so were we sure where we were going. By this time we had located an old track leading down to the River. By about 10 am we were standing on a low saddle, about 50 feet above the stream bed, from which we could see the river flowing towards us on the south side and away from us on the north side. Obviously what the river should, and undoubtedly once did do, was to flow through the gap where we stood. But instead it almost | + | We found it almost impossible, even with our military map, to sort out the tangle of ridges and gullies below us, and not for an hour or so were we sure where we were going. By this time we had located an old track leading down to the River. By about 10 am we were standing on a low saddle, about 50 feet above the stream bed, from which we could see the river flowing towards us on the south side and away from us on the north side. Obviously what the river should, and undoubtedly once did do, was to flow through the gap where we stood. But instead it almost reversed direction a hundred or so yards above us, flowed into the mountain side in a narrow, 200 feet deep canyon, and then curved round and out again. In all my travels in the sandstone country it is the most extraordinary feature I have seen. |
- | reversed direction a hundred or so yards above us, flowed into the mountain side in a narrow, 200 feet deep canyon, and then curved round and out again. In all my travels in the sandstone country it is the most extraordinary feature I have seen. | + | |
We found our way up the other side (above the canyon) without much difficulty and then commenced a ridge walk in pouring rain. We could, however, see some fascinating formations around us. Many of the tributary streamlets here flow in an almost straight line north and south, while the main streams, flowing, as it were, across the grain of the country, flow west-east. They are deeply entrenched, indicating rapid uplift in fairly recent geological times. | We found our way up the other side (above the canyon) without much difficulty and then commenced a ridge walk in pouring rain. We could, however, see some fascinating formations around us. Many of the tributary streamlets here flow in an almost straight line north and south, while the main streams, flowing, as it were, across the grain of the country, flow west-east. They are deeply entrenched, indicating rapid uplift in fairly recent geological times. | ||
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By Saturday evening we had negotiated the doubtful country and camped in the driest spot we could, in a saddle in the ridge. We had time next morning to go back to look for the " | By Saturday evening we had negotiated the doubtful country and camped in the driest spot we could, in a saddle in the ridge. We had time next morning to go back to look for the " | ||
- | Much of it is open and appears like a grassy sward in the distance though in fact it is mostly low bushes and reedy growth. | + | Much of it is open and appears like a grassy sward in the distance though in fact it is mostly low bushes and reedy growth. The weather, which was clear and warm with a cool breeze, made our day an easy one. The waratahs continued with us all the way to the roads around Newnes Junctions where, of course, they were no longer seen. |
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- | The weather, which was clear and warm with a cool breeze, made our day an easy one. The waratahs continued with us all the way to the roads around Newnes Junctions where, of course, they were no longer seen. | + | |
We arrived at that forgotten railway station, Newnes Junction in good time for our train, and felt like pioneers as we walked along the undisturbed gravel of the weedy platform. Why any train should ever stop there, within a mile of another station, to serve the ten or fifteen locals, is one of the mysteries of the NSWGR, but the timetable said the train mould stop there and it did. It was one of the new aluminium trains which bore us swiftly homewards to our native smog. | We arrived at that forgotten railway station, Newnes Junction in good time for our train, and felt like pioneers as we walked along the undisturbed gravel of the weedy platform. Why any train should ever stop there, within a mile of another station, to serve the ten or fifteen locals, is one of the mysteries of the NSWGR, but the timetable said the train mould stop there and it did. It was one of the new aluminium trains which bore us swiftly homewards to our native smog. | ||
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Dorothy Lawry | Dorothy Lawry | ||
- | Foreword | + | **Foreword** |
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+ | Our Editor recently pointed out that unless he receives articles, etc. he cannot produce a magazine. As an ex-editor I sympathise with him. From my bushwalking memories I recall an incident that resulted from a series of slight errors in judgment by two experienced members of the Club. There is a story here and I believe the two members would be willing it should be told, as knowledge of those errors and their results could be of great value to new members. I am asking the Editor to refer the story to these two members before publication so, if you read of our adventures, you will know that it is with their consent. | ||
- | Our Editor recently pointed out that unless he receives articles, etc. he cannot produce a magazine. As an ex-editor I sympathise with him. From my bushwalking memories I recall an incident that resulted from a series of slight errors in judgment by two experienced members of the Club. There is a story here and I believe the two members would be milling it Should be told, as knowledge of those errors and their results could be of great value to new members. I am asking the Editor to refer the story to these two members before publication so, if you read of our adventures, you will know that it is with their consent. | ||
Soon after, 7 a m. on a Monday in the middle of February, 1944, the telephone rang. It was the Leader of the Club's weekend walk reporting to me as President that he had committed a terrible crime. He had left a member of his party out in The Labyrinth! | Soon after, 7 a m. on a Monday in the middle of February, 1944, the telephone rang. It was the Leader of the Club's weekend walk reporting to me as President that he had committed a terrible crime. He had left a member of his party out in The Labyrinth! | ||
- | Who was a? What had happened? | ||
- | It was the only Woman Member on the trip, which was a'test walk. As it happened | + | Who was it? What had happened? |
- | The Leader was now in a difficult position. The prospectives were all on war -work and could not get out very often. They were all anKious | + | It was the only Woman Member on the trip, which was a test walk. As it happened he had never before been on a trip with her, but he knew, she had been a member of the S.B.W for some years, and of another club for years before joining us. She had told him she had not been out for some months but he, knowing she was an experienced walker, had thought it would be all right far her to come although he knew there were four or five active young prospectives going for the test. Saturday was hot and she dragged so much all day that he could not include any side trips to add to the difficulty for the lads but had to stick to the track to make their Camp at St. Helena. |
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+ | The Leader was now in a difficult position. The prospectives were all on war work and could not get out very often. They were all anxious | ||
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+ | As he told it, early in the afternoon they realised the ridge they were on would not take them to the creek that would lead them into Western Creek; it looked like running right out to Glenbrook Creek. The map showed where they had gone wrong, but the saddle they should have taken was a deep one and the gully between the two ridges even deeper. They decided to continue along the ridge to Glenbrook Greek, which they reached so far upstream that it was just after 5 p m. when they arrived at the foot of the Martin' | ||
- | As he told it, early in the afternoon they realised the ridge they were on would not take them to the creek that mould lead them into Western Creek; it looked like running right out to Glenbrook Creek. The map showed where they had gone wrong, but the saddle they should have taken mas a deep one - and the gully between the two: ridges even deeper. They decided to continue along the ridge to Glenbrook Greek, which they reached so far upstream that it was just after 5 p m. when they arrived at the' foot of the Martin' | ||
Walking fast, the party reached the station with only a few minutes to spare before piling into the last train. During those few minutes they had, of course, enquired if their Woman Member had been noticed catching one of the earlier trains. NO, she had not, but there were a lot of travellers and she could have been among them. | Walking fast, the party reached the station with only a few minutes to spare before piling into the last train. During those few minutes they had, of course, enquired if their Woman Member had been noticed catching one of the earlier trains. NO, she had not, but there were a lot of travellers and she could have been among them. | ||
- | When be arrived | + | When be arrived |
"Who is going with you?" I asked. | "Who is going with you?" I asked. | ||
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- | . "You can't go. alone" I said. "111 try to get one or two experienced members to get away on the Caves Express with you. If they can't go, I'll arrange to join you myself, and we' | + | |
+ | "You can't go. alone" I said. "I' | ||
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No one else could make it at such short notice so only the Leader and I caught the Express, after calling at Paddy' | No one else could make it at such short notice so only the Leader and I caught the Express, after calling at Paddy' | ||
- | It was about mid-day when we reached Springwood and dutifully reported the matter to the local policeman. Although we told him we, and the Club behind us, were handling the search ourselves and did not want any help from him, the policeman | + | |
- | was most annoyed at the news that there was " | + | It was about mid-day when we reached Springwood and dutifully reported the matter to the local policeman. Although we told him we and the Club behind us, were handling the search ourselves and did not want any help from him, the policeman was most annoyed at the news that there was " |
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We certainly would not attempt to move the body and, when we found our friend, if we found she was ill or injured I would stay with her and the Leader would hurry back for help. "What size is this woman?" | We certainly would not attempt to move the body and, when we found our friend, if we found she was ill or injured I would stay with her and the Leader would hurry back for help. "What size is this woman?" | ||
- | Turning to the Leader, the Policeman ordered him to be back by 4 o' | ||
- | - team of experienced searchers could be gathered before they left work at 5 p m. These men, we were told, "know every inch: of the country from here to Camden" | ||
- | Having wasted enough time with the policeman, we set off (having bought an ice- cream cone each) and were lucky enough to pick up a taxi which drove us to the end of the road near Martin' | ||
- | About 2 p m. we stopped for a breather, some food and a drink of Western Creek water. Still not a footprint or any other sign, and the Leader confessed he had not been on Western Creek before and it was rougher than he had expected. Had he | ||
+ | Turning to the Leader, the Policeman ordered him to be back by 4 o' | ||
+ | Having wasted enough time with the policeman, we set off (having bought an ice- cream cone each) and were lucky enough to pick up a taxi which drove us to the end of the road near Martin' | ||
- | realised what it was like he would not have suggested that she go down it alone. Not that it was really rough, of course, but one could sprain an ankle or have some such slight accident. On again quickly in case she is injured and suffering. | + | About 2 p m. we stopped for a breather, some food and a drink of Western Creek water. Still not a footprint or any other sign, and the Leader confessed he had not been on Western Creek before and it was rougher than he had expected. Had he realised what it was like he would not have suggested that she go down it alone. Not that it was really rough, of course, but one could sprain an ankle or have some such slight accident. On again quickly in case she is injured and suffering. |
- | A little while later - joy - we came to a pool with sand all round it which was covered in footprints and showed that The Body had had a bathe and clean-up here. But where is she now? She was all right when she got here, and she did nob go downstream from this point.... Then. we looked across the pool up a steep little gully which mould be a creek in wet weather.... Yes, the signs were there; she had gone up that gully:: | + | A little while later - joy - we came to a pool with sand all round it which was covered in footprints and showed that The Body had had a bathe and clean-up here. But where is she now? She was all right when she got here, and she did not go downstream from this point.... Then. we looked across the pool up a steep little gully which mould be a creek in wet weather.... Yes, the signs were there; she had gone up that gully. |
- | We each half-filled our waterbags and set off up that gully to trail The Body in the Blue Labyrinth. This task might now take us days and days. It was now | + | |
- | too late for the Leader to have gob back to Spring-wood | + | We each half-filled our waterbags and set off up that gully to trail The Body in the Blue Labyrinth. This task might now take us days and days. It was now too late for the Leader to have go back to Springwood |
- | It must have been after 5 p m. when our tracking brought us to the trail one takes to get to St. Helena from either Blaxland or Woodford. The Leader told me to make a fire and boil the billy while he scouted round to see if he could see -which way she had gone. I was just making the tea when he came back, wreathed | + | |
+ | It must have been after 5 p m. when our tracking brought us to the trail one takes to get to St. Helena from either Blaxland or Woodford. The Leader told me to make a fire and boil the billy while he scouted round to see if he could see which way she had gone. I was just making the tea when he came back, wreathed | ||
in smiles, and reported that "Her footprints are quite clear on the track, heading for Blaxland, thanks be". | in smiles, and reported that "Her footprints are quite clear on the track, heading for Blaxland, thanks be". | ||
- | Happily we relaxed as we drank our tea and ate a snack. Then with renewed energy we started along the track towards Blaxland. After about a -ilt-rni3e, though, I asked The Leader - "Did you come as far as this? Are these your hobnailed tracks, or hers, heading back?" They were hers. Carefully we traced them back for a few hundred yards, then they turned into the bush, off the ridge, probably looking for water, but on the opposite side of the ridge from St. Helena. We consoled ourselves that at least we mould not have to follow The Body to Wbodford. | ||
- | Still coo-ee-ing: on we went down the valley through the open bushland. We - turned and coo-ee-ed up a valley coming in from the right; no tracks in sight, and no reply so on again. The next valley was on the left and ab we looked up it eyes and ears were both bearers of good tidings. There was a little tent pitched, with The Body standing beside it and answering oar calls with delight and surprise. She had not expected any search to start until Tuesday and this was only Monday at about 7.15 p m! | ||
- | The explanation was that a blinding migraine headache had started about mid-day on the Saturday. Had She told the Leader then, he could have got her out to civilisation and still carried out the test walk, but in her pain she did not think of this and only felt she must struggle on so as not to spoil the -walk for the party. Neither had she told the Leader on the Sunday morning that she was so ill with the headache that she could hardly see the map he gave her and only got a confused idea that she was to go downstream a good way and then turn right. During Sunday and Monday The Body had had some brief lucid periods but had mainly been roaming or resting in a semi-conscious state. In one of these periods early on Monday afternoon she had found a good little pool of water in this valley so had pitched her tent and prepared to wait there until found. Good budhmanship, | ||
+ | Happily we relaxed as we drank our tea and ate a snack. Then with renewed energy we started along the track towards Blaxland. After about a quarter of a mile, though, I asked The Leader - "Did you come as far as this? Are these your hobnailed tracks, or hers, heading back?" They were hers. Carefully we traced them back for a few hundred yards, then they turned into the bush, off the ridge, probably looking for water, but on the opposite side of the ridge from St. Helena. We consoled ourselves that at least we would not have to follow The Body to Woodford. | ||
- | about 9 p m 4 we had to stop because we had almost i eached | + | Still coo-ee-ing, on we went down the valley through |
- | On the Tuesday morning we were up with the dawn, had some food and a cuppa and then made our way down to Glenbrook Creek. Here the Leader had a quick wash, then left us to have a good bath while he dashed on up the other hill and along to the station to let everyone lelow as quickly as possdble that we had our missing Woman Member all safe and sound. He tried to stop any search parties from starting out, but the experts from Springwood had already set out. Paddy and his party of Club members were caught at Glenbrook Station just as they were about to leave for the Labyrinth and St. Helena from there, and the Leader managed to catch the 10 a m. train to town, picid ng some of them up a-b Glenbrook. | + | |
- | The Body and I climbed more slowly up to Blaxland and missed the train but were given a good morning tea by a local resident. At Bla xland Station I was told there would not be another train to town until 5 p m. and some of our friends were walking on up the Highway from Glenbrook to join us so we were to wait for them. When they arrived Paddy and John decided to go down to Glen-brook Creek for a swim but the girls of the party stayed | + | |
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- | When the two men came up far the train they were much amused and told us that. as Paddy had expected, a party of the policeman' | + | |
+ | The explanation was that a blinding migraine headache had started about mid-day on the Saturday. Had she told the Leader then he could have got her out to civilisation and still carried out the test walk, but in her pain she did not think of this and only felt she must struggle on so as not to spoil the walk for the party. Neither had she told the Leader on the Sunday morning that she was so ill with the headache that she could hardly see the map he gave her and only got a confused idea that she was to go downstream a good way and then turn right. During Sunday and Monday The Body had had some brief lucid periods but had mainly been roaming or resting in a semi-conscious state. In one of these periods early on Monday afternoon she had found a good little pool of water in this valley so had pitched her tent and prepared to wait there until found. Good bushmanship, | ||
- | A FLYING HOLIDAY. | + | On the Tuesday morning we were up with the dawn, had some food and a cuppa and then made our way down to Glenbrook Creek. Here the Leader had a quick wash, then left us to have a good bath while he dashed on up the other hill and along to the station to let everyone know as quickly as possible that we had our missing Woman Member all safe and sound. He tried to stop any search parties from starting out, but the experts from Springwood had already set out. Paddy and his party of Club members were caught at Glenbrook Station just as they were about to leave for the Labyrinth and St. Helena from there, and the Leader managed to catch the 10 a m. train to town, picking some of them up at Glenbrook. |
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+ | The Body and I climbed more slowly up to Blaxland and missed the train but were given a good morning tea by a local resident. At Blaxland Station I was told there would not be another train to town until 5 p m. and some of our friends were walking on up the Highway from Glenbrook to join us so we were to wait for them. When they arrived Paddy and John decided to go down to Glenbrook Creek for a swim but the girls of the party stayed with us in the shade of the trees in a little park. Here we rested and talked through the heat of that day until it was time to catch the train back to Sydney. | ||
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+ | When the two men came up far the train they were much amused and told us that as Paddy had expected, a party of the policeman' | ||
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+ | A Flying Holiday ===== | ||
Jack Giblett. (Extracts from letters sent home). | Jack Giblett. (Extracts from letters sent home). | ||
- | 7th November. Arrived in Darwin around 2 a m, after a smooth trip, except for an | + | 7th November. Arrived in Darwin around 2 a m, after a smooth trip, except for an electrical storm which subsequently delayed our takeoff for nearly half a day. This however was a stroke of luck because the QANTAS depot was surrounded by a beautiful garden of frangipanni and wheel trees which provided me with some first class pictures. The long flight to Manila was interesting because we crossed over West New Guinea, the Kai Islands and Philippines, |
- | electrical storm which subsequently delayed our takeoff for nearly half a day. | + | |
- | This however was a stroke of luck because the QANTAS depot was surrounded by a beautiful garden of frangipanni and wheel trees which provided me with some first class pictures. The long flight to Manila was interesting because we crossed over West New Guinea, the Kai Islands and Philippines, | + | 8th November. Today' |
- | ing. Because of a religious festival, the streets were crowded with people and | + | |
- | cars, Which ranged from the latest American models to highly decorated jeeps left over from World War II. A notice in my hotel room warned me to avoid many parts of the city after dark - but I walked around without incident, fascinated by the | + | 15th November. Only a few hours ago came in to Hong Kong - a fabulous city - streets crowded with Shoppers though it's Sunday - prices compare so favourably I'm thinking of coming over here to live. |
- | noisy scene. | + | |
- | 8th November. Today' | + | 19th November. Visited Macau yesterday - the ship sailed at night and on my return |
- | 15th November. Only a few hours ago came in to Hong Kong - a fabulous city - streets crowded with Shoppers though it's Sunday - prices compare so favourably I'm thinking of coming over hereto | + | |
- | 19th November. Visited Macau yesterday - the ship sailed at night and on my returned | + | 23rd November. Installed at the Plaza (Bangkok) after a bit of fun with Customs Officer who asked to see the contents of my overnight bag mostly filled with sleeping bag, which he thought might be some secret weapon camouflaged. Have found several temples with good colouring and hope to make a train trip tomorrow, though my knowledge of Thai is so scant it wasn't possible to travel on a sampan. |
- | 23rd Novendber. Installed at the Plaza (Bangkok) after a bit of fun with Customs Officer who asked to see the contents of my overnight bag - mostly filled with sleeping bag, which he thought might be some secret weapon camouflaged. Have | + | |
- | found several temples with good colouring: and hope to make a train trip tomorrow, though my knowledge of Thai is so scant it wasn't possible to travel on a sampan. | + | 27th November. In Rangoon Customs officials have been trained to be tough. |
- | 27th November. In Rangoon | + | |
- | 10th December. Moved on to Calcutta, have been here a few days - did a trip of | + | 10th December. Moved on to Calcutta, have been here a few days - did a trip of 430 miles to Darjeeling, including a boat trip across the Ganges and a toy train for the last 50 miles rising 8,000 ft. into the Himalayan foothills over a series of loops and zigzags which are remarkable - it runs in two divisions and at times one train is almost directly above the other. Next morning I was able to see the glistening ice-covered slopes of Kanjenjunga, |
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- | 430 miles to Darjeeling, including a boat trip across the Ganges and a toy train for the last 50 miles - rising 8,000 ft. into the Himalayan foothills over a series of loops and zigzags which are remarkable - it runs in two divisions and at times one train is almost directly above the other. Next morning I was able to see the glistening ice-covered slopes of Kanjenjunga, | + | |
Tomorrow I hope to fly to Banaras, then to Agra and the Taj Mahal - then on to Delhi where I may share the air with President Eisenhower. | Tomorrow I hope to fly to Banaras, then to Agra and the Taj Mahal - then on to Delhi where I may share the air with President Eisenhower. | ||
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+ | To The Editor ===== | ||
- | TO THE EDITOR. | ||
Dear Sir, | Dear Sir, | ||
- | Those select and determined readers who got to the end of my article " | + | Those select and determined readers who got to the end of my article " |
- | Though it is my wont to have a rough guess at some of the geological features of the country I pass through, on this occasion I was able to notice them and describe them with what I believe is some accuracy. This was entirely due to having read Professor Griffith Taylor' | + | Though it is my wont to have a rough guess at some of the geological features of the country I pass through, on this occasion I was able to notice them and describe them with what I believe is some accuracy. This was entirely due to having read Professor Griffith Taylor' |
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+ | Very few people except bushwalkers have a detailed knowledge of most of the country he describes. But even if the reader had only a cursory knowledge of the country the clear, logical presentation of the material, the building up of the story from the evidence of past ages, and the clever use of the available clues claim one's interest, or mine at any rate, better than a good detective yarn. I read it slowly, about an hour per evening, and soon found myself looking forward to the next instalment. | ||
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+ | I suspect Professor Griffith Taylor is partial to bushwalkers and it mightn' | ||
- | Very few people except bushwalkers have a detailed knowledge of most of the country he describes. But even if the reader had only a cursory knowledge of the country the clear, logical presentation of the material, the building up of the story from the evidence of past ages, and the clever use of the available clues claim one's interest, or mine at any rate, better than a good detective yarn. I read it slowly, about an hour per evening, and soon found myself looking forward to the naxt instalment. | ||
- | I suspect Professor Griffith Taylor is partial to bushwalkers, | ||
Yours sincerely, | Yours sincerely, | ||
Alex. Colley. | Alex. Colley. | ||
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- | WELCOME HOME to - Keith Renick, Whose articles on Northern Europe | ||
- | have aroused interest in recent months. Bob O' | ||
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- | SURVIVAL. | + | |
+ | WELCOME HOME to - Keith Renick, Whose articles on Northern Europe have aroused interest in recent months. Bob O' | ||
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+ | ===== Survival ===== | ||
Clarice Morris. | Clarice Morris. | ||
- | I have always been interested in the survival eating habits of our earliest | ||
- | explorers - those who blazed trails, often under a broiling sun, without benefit of a military map. | ||
- | Take Sturt for instance, on his journey towards Central Australia in 1845-6. When I was at Depot Glen Station up in the far NAT. of N.S.W. about 18 months ago I saw a cairn dedicated to Sturt' | ||
- | northern trek into unexplored country. He left the Darling in Southern | ||
- | Australia with 200 sheep, most of which walked the distance remarkably well. He was forced to can at Depot Glen for six months because of drought. During that time, accompanied by one of his officers, sometimes alone, he explored the closer countryside. In addition to the sheep, salted bacon had been taken on the food list. On these walkabouts from the main camp, the officers always ate the salted | ||
- | meat, the men back at the camp lived on slaughtered sheep which must have found green feed. It was the officers that showed most signs of scurvy, one died from | ||
- | it, but the men apparently obtained enough vitamin C from the flesh of the sheep which had eaten green feed. Their health was surprisingly good. | ||
- | Burke and Wills on their epic journey to the Gulf of Carpentaria and during | ||
- | their return, had food problems which contributed to their death. When they set out in 1860 they had one of the best-equipped expeditions that ever set out for the interior. On the return journey one of the men died, the other three leaders pushed on but they lost their way when trying to rejoin the main party. They | ||
- | managed to survive for some time on a small water plant they found in the swamps until Burke and Wills eventually perished. Ring, the third of the leaders, found | ||
- | refuge with a native tribe, and survived. | ||
- | The natives give the name " | ||
- | The native tribes around Lake Eyre spend a lot of effort grinding up these | ||
- | Nardoo spores sacs which are found near the base of the frond stalk. Though they | ||
- | produce a form of starch, in their efforts they gain very little nourishment. No | ||
- | wonder Burke and Wills eventually died of thirst tortured by hunger. Nardoo was the only food they could find, In time of draught when the water holes dry up, the clover fern dies too, but the spore sac persists. When the rains come again, the spares germinate and the plant springs into new life. | ||
- | If you were lost in coastal bracken country, you might find something to appease your hunger in the starch of the underground stems of this fern, but you mould spend an awful lot of time chewing! In northern countries the young fronds sometimes find | ||
- | their way into a salad. If lost in N.Z. you might imitate the habit of the Maori before the coming of the white man. He made " | ||
- | Still, there' | ||
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- | TRIPPING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC | + | I have always been interested in the survival eating habits of our earliest explorers - those who blazed trails, often under a broiling sun, without benefit of a military map. |
- | " | + | |
+ | Take Sturt for instance, on his journey towards Central Australia in 1845-6. When I was at Depot Glen Station up in the far N.W. of N.S.W. about 18 months ago I saw a cairn dedicated to Sturt' | ||
+ | |||
+ | I looked into the catering habits of Sturt on this northern trek into unexplored country. He left the Darling in Southern Australia with 200 sheep, most of which walked the distance remarkably well. He was forced to camp at Depot Glen for six months because of drought. During that time, accompanied by one of his officers, sometimes alone, he explored the closer countryside. In addition to the sheep, salted bacon had been taken on the food list. On these walkabouts from the main camp, the officers always ate the salted meat, the men back at the camp lived on slaughtered sheep which must have found green feed. It was the officers that showed most signs of scurvy, one died from it, but the men apparently obtained enough vitamin C from the flesh of the sheep which had eaten green feed. Their health was surprisingly good. | ||
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+ | Burke and Wills on their epic journey to the Gulf of Carpentaria and during their return, had food problems which contributed to their death. When they set out in 1860 they had one of the best-equipped expeditions that ever set out for the interior. On the return journey one of the men died, the other three leaders pushed on but they lost their way when trying to rejoin the main party. They managed to survive for some time on a small water plant they found in the swamps until Burke and Wills eventually perished. King, the third of the leaders, found refuge with a native tribe, and survived. | ||
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+ | The natives give the name " | ||
+ | |||
+ | The native tribes around Lake Eyre spend a lot of effort grinding up these Nardoo spores sacs which are found near the base of the frond stalk. Though they produce a form of starch, in their efforts they gain very little nourishment. No wonder Burke and Wills eventually died of thirst tortured by hunger. Nardoo was the only food they could find, In time of drought when the water holes dry up, the clover fern dies too, but the spore sac persists. When the rains come again, the spares germinate and the plant springs into new life. | ||
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+ | If you were lost in coastal bracken country, you might find something to appease your hunger in the starch of the underground stems of this fern, but you mould spend an awful lot of time chewing! In northern countries the young fronds sometimes find their way into a salad. If lost in N.Z. you might imitate the habit of the Maori before the coming of the white man. He made " | ||
+ | Still, there' | ||
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+ | ===== Tripping The Light Fantastic ===== | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | Put 80 S.B.Ws together on a dance floor and what else would you expect: | ||
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+ | We commend the Organisers for their choice of North Sydney Council Chambers - well appointed, handy to transport, plenty of parking space, views over the Harbour - and may we book it again far the 1960 party. | ||
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+ | There was the usual sprinkling of gentlemen clad in shorts, neat and cool looking and envied by most of the males who wished they'd done likewise, knobbly knees or not. Across the room was a striking tall redhead with short hair, orange coloured sarong and a Tahitian shirt. Look again: That's no lady, that Eike Peryman, and they tell me it won't matter if that skirt thing does fall off, he got shorts on underneath. There' | ||
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+ | During the evening, the Dalai changed first from longs to shorts (having first established that he wasn't the only one) and ended up with a white tablecloth (borrowed from Evelyn) wrapped around his lissom form in the Lamour style. | ||
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+ | As the party warmed up, three well dressed young ladies disappeared and returned as South Sea maidens in sarongs and with red flowers in their hair. You'd have thought this precarious garb rather restricting, | ||
- | or anyone- else Who happened to be in,the way at the Christmas Party. | ||
- | Put 80 S.B.TIT' | ||
- | We commend the Organisers fartheir choice of North Sydney Council Chambers - well appointed, handy to transport, plenty of parking space, views over the Harbour - and may we book it again far the 1960 party. | ||
- | There was the usual sprinkling of gentlemen clad in shorts, neat and cool looking and envied by most of the males who wished they 'd done likauise, knobbly knees or not. 4cross the room was a striking tall redhead with short hair, orange coloured sarong and a Tahitian shirt. Look again: That's no lady, that Eike Peryman, and they tell me it won't matter if that skirt thing does fall off, he got shorts on underneath. There' | ||
- | During the evening, the Dalai changed first from longs to shorts (having first established that he wasn't the only one) and ended up with a white tablecloth (borrowed from Evelyn) mrapped around his lissom form in the Lamour style. | ||
- | As the party warmed up, three well dressed young ladies disappeared and returned as South Sea maidens in sarongs and with red flowers in their hair. You'd have thought this precarious garb rather restricting, | ||
Snow Brown and Neil Monteith wore kilts but for left their bagpipes, if any, at home. After winning a prize far something or other, Snow had to do a highland fling. He protested that he'd never done one before. Whether he has yet, we are not sure, but it was an enthusiastic try, anyway. | Snow Brown and Neil Monteith wore kilts but for left their bagpipes, if any, at home. After winning a prize far something or other, Snow had to do a highland fling. He protested that he'd never done one before. Whether he has yet, we are not sure, but it was an enthusiastic try, anyway. | ||
- | Things went with a swing to the music of an excellent 3-piece band (who adjusted themselves admirably to this rather odd turn out) and reached a climax | + | |
+ | Things went with a swing to the music of an excellent 3-piece band (who adjusted themselves admirably to this rather odd turn out) and reached a climax with an exhausting "Strip the Willow" | ||
In September we published a skittish article by Jim Brown on the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" | In September we published a skittish article by Jim Brown on the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" | ||
- | A kookaburra in a Fum tree | + | |
+ | A kookaburra in a gum tree | ||
2 bandicoots | 2 bandicoots | ||
- | 3 'wombats | + | 3 wombats |
4 Koala bears | 4 Koala bears | ||
5 Ring-Tailed Possums | 5 Ring-Tailed Possums | ||
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9 Brolgas dancing | 9 Brolgas dancing | ||
10 Kangaroos leaping | 10 Kangaroos leaping | ||
- | 11 magpies piping 12 cicadas drumming. Grace explains that "when I originally sent it in to the A.B.C. Children' | + | 11 magpies piping |
- | Session they changed the position of 5 Ring-tailed possums for 5 kangaroos - probably easier to sing but I think the first is easier to remember" | + | 12 cicadas drumming. |
- | INI-MICED.D. WIDE. | + | |
- | NOTE:- The Anniversary Holiday weekend will be on | + | Grace explains that "when I originally sent it in to the A.B.C. Children' |
- | FEBRUARY 1960 | + | |
- | NOT | + | |
- | on the week before, as shown on the Walks Programme. | + | ===== Walking Guide ===== |
- | Jean Harvey' | + | |
+ | |||
+ | NOTE:- The Anniversary Holiday weekend will be on FEBRUARY 1960 NOT on the week before, as shown on the Walks Programme. | ||
+ | Jean Harvey' | ||
Also note alteration to Frank Rigby' | Also note alteration to Frank Rigby' | ||
- | JANUARY 24-25 | + | |
- | JANUARY 30-31.- FEBRUARY 1 | + | **JANUARY 24-25** |
- | FEBRUARY 5-6-7 | + | |
- | FEBRUARY 7 | + | |
Leumeah - Freer is Crossing - Bush-walker' | Leumeah - Freer is Crossing - Bush-walker' | ||
- | Map: "Campbellt min Military" | + | Map: "Campbelltown |
Leader: Jack Perry. | Leader: Jack Perry. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **JANUARY 30-31- FEBRUARY 1** | ||
Anniversary Weekend - Instructional. | Anniversary Weekend - Instructional. | ||
Camp at Burning Palms, above Ranger' | Camp at Burning Palms, above Ranger' | ||
- | Check details with Edna Stretton or Jean HrIrvey. | + | Check details with Edna Stretton or Jean Harvey. |
- | EatoOmba | + | |
+ | **FEBRUARY 5-6-7** | ||
+ | Katoomba | ||
Climbing, abseiling, swimming. A trip for the Intrepid. Previous rope work essential. | Climbing, abseiling, swimming. A trip for the Intrepid. Previous rope work essential. | ||
Tickets to Blackheath. Train 6.25 p m. ex-Central. Leader: Frank Rigby. | Tickets to Blackheath. Train 6.25 p m. ex-Central. Leader: Frank Rigby. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **FEBRUARY 7** | ||
Waterfall - bus to Era - Figure 8 pool - ridge to Governor Game Lookout - Bus to Waterfall. | Waterfall - bus to Era - Figure 8 pool - ridge to Governor Game Lookout - Bus to Waterfall. | ||
Easy walking, coastal views, swimming. | Easy walking, coastal views, swimming. | ||
Map "Port Hacking Tourist" | Map "Port Hacking Tourist" | ||
Leader: Jack Perry | Leader: Jack Perry | ||
- | FEBRUARY 13-14 Swimming Carnival - Lake Eckersley. See details on page 2. | + | ** |
- | FEBRUARY 20-21 Search and Rescue Demonstration on Colo River. | + | FEBRUARY 13-14** Swimming Carnival - Lake Eckersley. See details on page 2. |
- | Watch Notice Board for details or contact Jim Hooper Heather Joyce. | + | |
- | FEBRUARY 21 Heathcote | + | **FEBRUARY 20-21** Search and Rescue Demonstration on Colo River. Watch Notice Board for details or contact Jim Hooper Heather Joyce. |
- | Leader: Audrey Kenney | + | |
- | The RUDOLPH CUP was eventually held (after some dithering about location) on the Nepean near Wallacia. 25 entrants manned 5 (collapsible punt type) boats of | + | **FEBRUARY 21** |
- | various sizes and condition. The team of Miriam Steenbohm Bill Ketas and Hermann | + | Heathcote |
- | NIGHT HAVE BEANS. | + | |
+ | The RUDOLPH CUP was eventually held (after some dithering about location) on the Nepean near Wallacia. 25 entrants manned 5 (collapsible punt type) boats of various sizes and condition. The team of Miriam Steenbohm, Bill Ketas and Hermann | ||
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+ | ===== | ||
+ | MIGHT HAVE BEANS ===== | ||
" | " | ||
- | " | + | |
- | "War, I said " | + | " |
- | He took it well - just a kindly chuckle in reply: "I used to eat soya beans but they never softened, no matter how long I cooked | + | |
- | I could afford to smile a little loftily. "If you soak them they' | + | "Well, I said " |
- | With the thought that soya beans are good for you anyway, I persisted with them for the rest of the trip. (I like crundhy | + | |
- | - This seems a bit over the odds: | + | He took it well - just a kindly chuckle in reply: "I used to eat soya beans but they never softened, no matter how long I cooked |
- | Can soya beans really be softened by cooking? If so, mould the fuel consumed pay for a piece of rump steak? | + | |
- | .PAinr lrffir.,, | + | I could afford to smile a little loftily. "If you soak them they' |
+ | |||
+ | With the thought that soya beans are good for you anyway, I persisted with them for the rest of the trip. (I like crunchy | ||
+ | |||
+ | This seems a bit over the odds: Can soya beans really be softened by cooking? If so, would the fuel consumed pay for a piece of rump steak? | ||
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Snow Brown' | Snow Brown' | ||
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The Leyden-Colley party (also 7) were nine days out on their Cox River - Kanangra River - Kowmung River walk, which included a trip up Davies Canyon. They saw quite a lot of wild life (by which we mean indigenous fauna). | The Leyden-Colley party (also 7) were nine days out on their Cox River - Kanangra River - Kowmung River walk, which included a trip up Davies Canyon. They saw quite a lot of wild life (by which we mean indigenous fauna). | ||
- | Both parties enjoyed mainly fine hat weather. | + | |
+ | Both parties enjoyed mainly fine hot weather. | ||
Era South Gully was popular over the holidays with about 30 campers enjoying the swimming, surfing and fishing. NO mossies, some leeches, flies tolerable. | Era South Gully was popular over the holidays with about 30 campers enjoying the swimming, surfing and fishing. NO mossies, some leeches, flies tolerable. | ||
- | IIIIMEnmdmm | + | |
Other parties (motorised) were on the Wollondilly, | Other parties (motorised) were on the Wollondilly, | ||
17. | 17. | ||
- | Tongariro National Park Mangatopopo | + | |
- | Do# Mob, 20th December, | + | ===== |
- | Nine days since we left Sydney, and were seen off at the wharf by a mildly-waving Helen and Elizabeth and Hooper and various relatives of the party. You would like to know what has happened since then? | + | Tongariro National Park, Mangatopopo |
- | Everyone was seasick, the first day, except Rona and Col Ferguson. Duncan wasn't actually sick - his was just a controlled ejection of surplus foodstuff! We all recovered pretty rapidly except that Dot threw herself so violently backwards on the deck in an uncontrolled spasm that She knocked herself unconscious and hasn't yet got rid of the bump she acquired. The Dali assured her it was an impacted fracture of the skull and She had better go into hospital immediately on landing, but the ship's Doctor said prosaically that it was nothing - just rub a bit of dirt into it and forget it. | + | |
- | Ne didn't patronise our bunks at all - we spent the nights in our fleabags on the hatch-cover of the aft hold. A poor chained-up dog down in the nethermost depths of hell howled dismally day and night in hopeless despair thinking his captivity would never come to an end, but we got that way eventually that we could ignore him. | + | 20th December, |
- | Down at the table for meals the waiter said to John Loganberry at every meal "A double-helping I presume? Don't be shy!" Yarmak would eat up big for one meal, going right through the menu, and would pay for it by having to skip the next meals | + | |
- | We had pictures every night and a dance on the last night. Duncan says that Dorothy mould have been all right as a dancer only she forgot to put her lead belt on - it was bard to keep in touch with reality with the partner floating up towards the ceiling with each roll of the boat. After the dance we hied us up to the top deck with Yarmak' | + | Nine days since we left Sydney and were seen off at the wharf by a wildly-waving Helen and Elizabeth and Hooper and various relatives of the party. You would like to know what has happened since then? |
- | At Auckland we landed early in the morning and were greeted by a photographer and a-couple of newspaper reporters who took down our details for their respective papers. We looked a pretty C-3 crowd when we appeared in the the next | + | |
- | day, and were somewhat misquoted in the : they reported that Dot said there were no mountains worth climbing in the Southern Hemisphere outside of N.Z.!, and she with her ears laid back:to climb in South America and the Antarctic! | + | Everyone was seasick the first day, except Rona and Col Ferguson. Duncan wasn't actually sick - his was just a controlled ejection of surplus foodstuff! We all recovered pretty rapidly except that Dot threw herself so violently backwards on the deck in an uncontrolled spasm that she knocked herself unconscious and hasn't yet got rid of the bump she acquired. The Dali assured her it was an impacted fracture of the skull and she had better go into hospital immediately on landing, but the ship's Doctor said prosaically that it was nothing - just rub a bit of dirt into it and forget it. |
- | We were through the CustomS | + | |
- | 18. | + | We didn't patronise our bunks at all - we spent the nights in our fleabags on the hatch-cover of the aft hold. A poor chained-up dog down in the nethermost depths of hell howled dismally day and night in hopeless despair thinking his captivity would never come to an end, but we got that way eventually that we could ignore him. |
- | another car and their respective wives and took us on a conducted tour of Auckland. We vent to the top of Mt. Eden and saw a cyclorama of the whole city and all its | + | |
- | lights spread out below. The summit is the rim of an extinct volcano and we had much fun running down its steep grasSy | + | Down at the table for meals the waiter said to John Loganberry at every meal "A double-helping I presume? Don't be shy!" Yarmak would eat up big for one meal, going right through the menu, and would pay for it by having to skip the next meal. |
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+ | We had pictures every night and a dance on the last night. Duncan says that Dorothy mould have been all right as a dancer only she forgot to put her lead belt on - it was hard to keep in touch with reality with the partner floating up towards the ceiling with each roll of the boat. After the dance we hied us up to the top deck with Yarmak' | ||
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+ | At Auckland we landed early in the morning and were greeted by a photographer and a couple of newspaper reporters who took down our details for their respective papers. We looked a pretty C-3 crowd when we appeared in the the next day, and were somewhat misquoted in the : they reported that Dot said there were no mountains worth climbing in the Southern Hemisphere outside of N.Z.!, and she with her ears laid back to climb in South America and the Antarctic! | ||
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+ | We were through the Customs | ||
Spent next morning swimming in the Bay of Islands and caught the bus to Waitomo at midday, arriving about 5 p m. Put up tents in the camping ground. Over here they call milk-bars " | Spent next morning swimming in the Bay of Islands and caught the bus to Waitomo at midday, arriving about 5 p m. Put up tents in the camping ground. Over here they call milk-bars " | ||
- | We had a caves inspection at 7.30. Keith Renwick is over here. We met him boarding the bus at Auckland. He had an appointment with a spelio he knew and so | + | |
- | got into the cave for nix. We others had to pay the exorbitant sum of 7/6d., but | + | We had a caves inspection at 7.30. Keith Renwick is over here. We met him boarding the bus at Auckland. He had an appointment with a spelio he knew and so got into the cave for nix. We others had to pay the exorbitant sum of 7/6d, but the glow-worms were certainly most spectacular. We were lucky to be able to get the schoolmaster to take us on to Rotorua in a Volkswagen mini-bus for L10 the party, thereby saving 4 in fares and being able to drop off and inspect Fairy Springs trout hatchery. We were all given a few chunks of bread to feed to the tame trout. The trout looked like small sharks and they were leaping up out of the water and as we crossed the bridge we had to be careful we didn't have our bare beetle-crushers hanging over the edge or goodbye to a couple of toes. |
- | the glow-warms were certainly most spectacular. We were lucky to be able to get the schoolmaster to take us on to Rotorua in a Volkswagen mini-bus for E.10 the party, thereby saving 4 in fares and being able to drop off and inspect Fairy Springs trout hatchery. We were all given a few chunks of bread to feed to the tame trout. The trout looked like small sharks and they were leaping up out of | + | |
- | the water and as we crossed the bridge we had to be careful we didn't have our bare beetle-crushers hanging over the edge or goodbye to a couple of toes: | + | We were dropped off at a beaut abandoned camping-ground about half a mile from the Maori village of Whaka, where all the thermal activities are. THERMAL ACTIVITIES ARE HOT GOINGS-ON. We had lunch and then went down to the town and spent much time in the beaut hot baths. Terrific! They are conducive to better swimming, says Yarmak, who had to be forcibly dragged |
- | We were dropped off at a beaut abandoned camping-ground about half a mile from the Maori village of Whaka, where all the thermal activities are. THERMAL ACTIVITIES ARE HOT GOINGS-ON. We had lunch and then went down to the town and spent much time in the beaut hot baths. Terrific! They are conducive to better swimming, says Yarmak, who had to be forcibly dragged | + | |
- | the sulphur flats and here Dot won herself a beaut cook,-book, from a rubbish tip. | + | Dot had seen the sulphur |
- | Dot had seen the sulphur | + | Bank to the camp ground for tea. We pulled a derelict building to bits to get a piece of iron to cook our 14 chops on. But good old Jack discovered a bicycle wheel, so we started them on it - one chop to every spoke and a hole in the hub for the smoke to come up through. |
- | of all the classy fodder till Yarmak was positively drooling at the mouth - fricasseed yak's feet in vinegar sauce! | + | |
- | Bank to the camp ground for tea. We pulled a derelict building to bits to get | + | Slept in tents under the pine trees. Down to Whaka for an early inspection of the mud pools and a gawk at the geysers and steam vents and Maori village. Had to catch the bus for Tongariro National Park at 12.30. Worked out a food list for 4 days while we looked at Whaka. We had a hasty purchasing spree and packed all into packs and sacks and boarded the bus with not much time to spare. |
- | a piece of iron to cook our 14 chops on. But good old Jack discovered a bicycle wheel, so we started them on it - one chop to every spoke and a hole in the hub for the smoke to come up through. | + | |
- | Slept in tents under the pine trees. Down to Whaka for an early inspection of the mud pools and a gawk at the geysers and steam vents and Maori village. | + | A 4 or 5 hour journey brought us to Tongariro National Park and we got off at the Mangatopopo Hut turn off and set out on the 4imile |
- | Had to catch the bus for Tongariro National Park at 12.30. Worked out a food list for 4 days while we looked at Maka. We had a hasty-purchasing spree and packed all into packs and sacks and boarded the bus with not much time to spare. | + | creature deserving of the title of homo sapiens mould have any difficulty in finding the hut, especially as a motor road leads right to the front door. However, that did not prevent us from aiming for a low hill in the mistaken belief that this was the volcano aforesaid (Ngauruhoe). This involved us in a long grinding climb up one side and down the other and all quite unnecessary, |
- | A 4 or 5 hour journey brought us to Tongariro National Park and we got off at the Mangatopopo Hut turn off and set out on the 4i mile walk to the hut. The hut is at the base of a 7,000 foot smoking volcano which dominates the skyline for a | + | |
- | distance of 50 leagues in every directions One would hardly imagine that any | + | At 2 a m. were wakened by a head being poked in the door - Whaka Newmarch |
- | creature deserving of the title of homo sapiens mould have any difficulty in finding the hut, especially as a motor road leads right to the front door. However, | + | |
- | 19. | + | We skirted round the base of Tongariro in an obliterating mist, heading for Keteheahi |
- | that did not prevent us from aiming for a low hill in the mistaken belief that thi was the volcano aforesaid (Ngauruhoe). This involved us in a long grinding climb up one side and down the other. - and all quite unnecessary, | + | Following a line of rods, poles or perches we climbed right up through the centre of all this activity, up over the rim and into the main crater of Tongariro We looked at a high-hanging blue lake and two low-slung emerald green lakes on the shores |
- | At 2 a m. were wakened by a head being poked in the door - Whaka Newmarch | + | enormous vent all red and black like an enlarged version of the cauldron from which they pour the molten iron at Port Kembla. Then we climbed to the highest part of the rim of Mt. Tongariro, viewed the view and descended via a long ridge to the hut. It has been estimated by geologists that Tongariro was once three times its present |
- | sleep, then got us all up for breakfast by 5, and away by 6. | + | |
- | We skirted round the base of Tongariro in an obliterating mist, heading for Kete7beahi | + | Today, being a day of rest, we were allowed by Whaka to sleep in till 6 o'clock. |
- | yet afar off. Unerringly he led us to a great gash in the mountain side in which | + | |
- | great white steaming vents of concentrated hydrogen sulphide spurted and hissed. | + | |
- | We had to hop rapidly from rock to rock surrounded on all sides by boiling mud | + | |
- | pools, yellow sulphurous fumeroles panting and giving forth noxious fumes. This certainly much more intense and exciting than Rotorua. | + | |
- | Following a line of rods, poles or perches we climbed right up through the centre of all this activity, up over the rim and into the main crater of Tongariro We looked at a high-hanging blue lake and two low-slung emerald green lakes on the | + | |
- | Shores | + | |
- | enormous vent all red and black like an enlarged version of the cauldron from whic] they pour the molten iron at Port Kembla. Then we climbed to the highest part of the rim of Mt. Tongariro, viewed the view and descended via a long ridge to the hul It has been estimated by geologists that Tongariro was once three times its presen | + | |
- | Today, being a day of rest, we were allowed by Whaka to sleep in till 6 o'cloc] | + | |
- | Then up slaves: and off to climb Mt. Puke-Kai-Kiore, | + | |
- | Mountains Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu, but a bit overcast for colour films. | + | |
Descended by a new route down a beaut scree-filled couloir, leaping in a manner appropriate to kangaroos. | Descended by a new route down a beaut scree-filled couloir, leaping in a manner appropriate to kangaroos. | ||
All the side of the mountain is scoured out by a couple of great lava flows, black and ominous, like huge chunks of coke as sharp as razor-blades at the edges. | All the side of the mountain is scoured out by a couple of great lava flows, black and ominous, like huge chunks of coke as sharp as razor-blades at the edges. | ||
- | Back at the hut now we have just celebrated the Sabbath Day by a ceremonial boiling of the boys' underpants in the porridge billy. (We're a rough crew:) | + | |
- | !Do you always treat your underpants like that?" queried Jack Perry. " | + | Back at the hut now we have just celebrated the Sabbath Day by a ceremonial boiling of the boys' underpants in the porridge billy. (We're a rough crew!) |
- | We took a two mile walk down th6 road with Whaka to his parked car and saw him off on his 360 mile trip back:to Whangarei. A great scout is Whaka: We have had a beaut and hilarious weekend with him. He is the only man in New Zealand who can tie a bowline-on-the--bite by inserting the end of the rope in his navel and suitably contorting his abdominal muscles. However it must rot be thought that all his skills are mere parlour games; he is a man of considerable talent and among other things he can stand balanced on 4 beer bottles and proceed backwards | + | |
- | 20. | + | Do you always treat your underpants like that?" queried Jack Perry. " |
- | forwards; balance up to 56 matches on the top of a bottle and remove the top joint | + | |
- | of his thumb for inspection. He's gone hone now and we are left to our own resources | + | We took a two mile walk down the road with Whaka to his parked car and saw him off on his 360 mile trip back to Whangarei. A great scout is Whaka: We have had a beaut and hilarious weekend with him. He is the only man in New Zealand who can tie a bowline-on-the--bite by inserting the end of the rope in his navel and suitably contorting his abdominal muscles. However it must not be thought that all his skills are mere parlour games; he is a man of considerable talent and among other things he can stand balanced on 4 beer bottles and proceed backwards forwards; balance up to 56 matches on the top of a bottle and remove the top joint of his thumb for inspection. He's gone hone now and we are left to our own resources for entertainment. |
- | for entertainment. | + | |
- | Duncan has increased his standing long-jump distance to ten standard BBC's (bare | + | Duncan has increased his standing long-jump distance to ten standard BBC's (bare beetle crushers). (STOP PRESS: This has now been increased to 10i). Duncan has also discovered why old man wear long woollen. underparts. It is hard to describe - it's a bit too technical, - but roughly it is this :- It removes all sensation from the upper legs, and makes one conscious of the cuffs of the trousers tickling the ankles - an unbelievable and indescribably thrilling sensation. Long woollen underpants Should be more generally worn; it would make walking a pleasure, probably even eliminating tea-breaks and would increase the average daily mileage by a factor of 150%. (Duncan goes for another walk to see if its better going up hill or down hill, or along the flat!) |
- | beetle crushers). (STOP PRESS: This has now been increased to 10i). Duncan has also discovered why old man wear long woollen. underparts. It is hard to describe - | + | |
- | it's a bit too technical, - but roughly it is this :- It removes all sensation from the upper legs, and makes one conscious of the cuffs of the trousers tickling the ankles - an unbelievable and indescribably thrilling sensation. Long woollen underpants Should be more generally worn; it would make walking a pleasure, probably even eliminating tea-breaks and mould increase the average daily mileage by a factor of 150%. (Duncan goes for another walk:to see if its better going up hill or down | + | |
- | hill, or along the flat!) | + | |
See your later | See your later | ||
- | ++.1.... | + | Dot, Rona, Duncan, etc. etc. etc. |
- | Dot Rona, Duncan, | + | |
- | etc. etc. etc. | + | |
- | MAGAZINE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. | + | ====Magazine Annual Subscriptions ==== |
- | Annual subscribers to the Magazine are reminded that their subscriptions expire with this magazine. In common with _other | + | |
- | Copies held in reserve in the Club will continue to be 10/- per annum, whilst individual copies to non-subscribers remain at 1/- each. A saving of 2/- will be effected by taking out an annual subscription. Members and others becoming Subscribers during the year will be charged on a pro rata basis. If present Subscribers do not -wish to continue, please advise the Business Manager or Sub- | + | |
- | scription | + | Annual subscribers to the Magazine are reminded that their subscriptions expire with this magazine. In common with other periodicals, |
- | EXPLANATORY NOTE. The Railways Department has asked us to point oat to readers | + | |
- | that in connection with their advertisement inside the back cover of this Magazine, | + | Copies held in reserve in the Club will continue to be 10/- per annum, whilst individual copies to non-subscribers remain at 1/- each. A saving of 2/- will be effected by taking out an annual subscription. Members and others becoming Subscribers during the year will be charged on a pro rata basis. If present Subscribers do not wish to continue, please advise the Business Manager or Subscription |
- | that the extension of the electrification to Gosford will come into effect on 23rd January. | + | |
- | 4111111.101.01, | + | |
- | FOR ARMCHAIR EXPLORERS: | + | ===Explanatory Note === |
- | You've read the adventures of the Butler-Putt party' | + | |
- | we hope to publish in February the next episode concerning the serious business of climbing in the South Island. | + | |
+ | The Railways Department has asked us to point out to readers that in connection with their advertisement inside the back cover of this Magazine, that the extension of the electrification to Gosford will come into effect on 23rd January. | ||
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+ | |||
+ | ===For Armchair Explorers === | ||
+ | |||
+ | You've read the adventures of the Butler-Putt party' | ||
Those who would like to know more about N.Z. should read Tararua (Annual Journal of the Tararua Tramping Club, Wellington), | Those who would like to know more about N.Z. should read Tararua (Annual Journal of the Tararua Tramping Club, Wellington), |
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