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 - David Ingram.
-NOVEMBER 27 Waterfall - bus to Governor Game Lookout - Era Beach - Gene - bus to Waterfall. 3 miles. 8.20 train from Central Electric Station to SUTHERLAND. Change for rail motor to Waterfall.: 9.20 a m, bus from Waterfall - Govinor Game Lookout.'
+**November 27** Waterfall- bus to Governor Game Lookout - Era Beach - Garie - bus to Waterfall. 3 miles. 8.20 train from Central Electric Station to SUTHERLAND. Change for rail motor to Waterfall.: 9.20 a m, bus from Waterfall - Govinor Game Lookout.'
  Tickets - Waterfall Return at aboUt 6/-, plus 4/6d. return bus fares.
-Thiswalk is designed to link up With Dick Child's midday Saturday walk to Era Beach. Surfing if the weather is suitable.
+This walk is designed to link up With Dick Child's midday Saturday walk to Era Beach. Surfing if the weather is suitable.
-pEcHumi KIDDIES' CHRISTMAS PARTY will be held at the same spot as last Tear, on the clearing about a mile from Waterfall Station just off the Lady Carrington Drive and just before reaching the first
- waterfall.
+**December 5** KIDDIES' CHRISTMAS PARTY will be held at the same spot as last year, on the clearing about a mile from Waterfall Station just off the Lady Carrington Drive and just before reaching the first
+waterfall.
 A good road right to the spot if travelling, by car.
 .20 a m. train)
 Central Electric Station to Sutherland
 .20 a m. train)
-where change for rail motor to Waterfall. These trains usually
+where change for rail motor to Waterfall. These trains usually connect with the Garie Beach bus which passes the site. A good opportunity for the kids and parents to get together. For further details ring Clem Hallstrom at LB6495.
-conma2t with the Gazie Beach bus which passes the site.
-A good opportunity-for the kids and parents to get together. For further details ring Clem Hallstrom at LB6495.
+**December 11** THE RUDOLPH CUP. The Nepean River at Wallacia will be the spot this year. The handsome trophy will be competed for in rowing boats. As the programme says, the type of walk will be met - take your swimming costume. See David ("Snow") Brown about transport arrangements.
-DECEMBER 11 THE RUDOLPH CUP. The Nepean River at Wallacia will be the spot this year. The handsome trophy will be competed for in rowing
-boats. As the programme says, the type of walk will be met -
+=====Walking?=====
-take your swimming costume. See David ("Snow") Brown about transport arrangements.
-WALKII.G?
 - Eric Adcock.
 I feel that there is some need for a Nord Of warning to members of the Club Who may feel that they are knowledgable in the ways of the Bush, but not up with the most modern of walking 'trends.. It should be stated here that the comments I am about to make are tardly. in anyway related to my latest trip in the Blue Mbuntains:
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 The end of the trip can come quietly and pleasantly, but if you have just skipped some umpteen miles and your car still resides on the top of a 1500 foot climb, that is unlikely. People with pogo sticks for legs ar ancestors that lived on the rocky crags of the mountains can rise above these things, but if you have been lax and not kept up with your daily skipping practice you have had it.
-SOLITARY
+**Solitary**
 - Irene Pridham.
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 However, in spite of the huge caravan of goods and chattels we made very good time to the top, went down to the swamp for a drink, then decided to walk through the swamp to save us a ridge. The usually dry swamp was filled with beautiful red goo that came up to knees at times. At any rate out came twenty- two redmen who went down to the Chinaman's Cave for lunch  The lunch time was sweet and short as we were going down the Knife Edge and there were a great number of bods who hadn't done any rock scrambling, therefore the extra time was needed.
-Reg Meakins took some of the Visitors to see the view from the Ruined Castle and they were so tired they missed the last train up the Scenic Railway and had to come up the Golden Stairs. Eventually we all met at the AB Cafe where ale and steaks banished all signs of tiredness. As I was paying my bill some bloke put into my pack a bottle that had been opened, and as the most hurried part of the trip was from the Cafe to the station I found myself running along with someone else's hand in my pack to keep the contents in, but all got for my trouble was a piece of cheese that tasted like Sunlight soap.
+Reg Meakins took some of the Visitors to see the view from the Ruined Castle and they were so tired they missed the last train up the Scenic Railway and had to come up the Golden Stairs. Eventually we all met at the AB Cafe where ale and steaks banished all signs of tiredness. As I was paying my bill some bloke put into my pack a bottle that had been opened, and as the most hurried part of the trip was from the Cafe to the station I found myself running along with someone else's hand in my pack to keep the contents in, but all I got for my trouble was a piece of cheese that tasted like Sunlight soap.
-Cliefden Caves (October 7-8-9).
+**Cliefden Caves (October 7-8-9)**
 Helen Barrett led 10 members to this cave system West of Blayney. Good camping beneath red river gums; exploration of an extensive system of caves.
-Molly Rodgers (October 14-15-16) had three members and two prospectives on the Nattai River trip. Leaders are warned to watch out for a certain prospective of Mature years who eats leader's breakfasts. Sorry we don't know the name. Ask Molly.
+**Molly Rodgers (October 14-15-16)** had three members and two prospectives on the Nattai River trip. Leaders are warned to watch out for a certain prospective of mature years who eats leader's breakfasts. Sorry we don't know the name. Ask Molly.
 The party found Starlight's trail and were able to catch the train by doing the latter part of the walk at a brisk run.
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 Spring arrived at last in England, and as April started the sap rising in the trees so it started peoples' feet itching to be moving around again. May saw a party of Commonwealth wanderers touring southern England in the Devon Cornwell area in changeable weather - one day rejoicing at the Spring sunshine and bursting growth, the next cursing the misty cold rain which wasn't heavy enough to be really worrying but just damp enough to make things unpleasant.
-Returning to London where a series of farewell parties andgoodbyes took place, then off to Harwich en route for the Hook of Holland. The Dutch country-
+Returning to London where a series of farewell parties and goodbyes took place, then off to Harwich en route for the Hook of Holland. The Dutch country-side was a mass of colour as the tulips were out in all their glory. Unlike Australia, Holland has an excess of water and the fields have small drainage canals, some 25 yards apart, cut through them and as the seasonal rain had preceded me, walking became a series of slushy Tasmanian type strides and a broadjump -
-side was a mass of colour as the tulips were out in all their glory. Unlike
-Australia, Holland has an excess of water and the fields have small drainage canals, some 25 yards apart, cut through them and as the seasonal rain had preceded me, walking became a series of slushy Tasmanian type strides and a broadjump -
 slushy- TTS and a BJ etc. etc. etc. - the accepted way of travelling.
-Leaving Holland and Belgium behind I eventually reached Paris at 11 p m. and
+Leaving Holland and Belgium behind I eventually reached Paris at 11 pm and
-spent the evening walking, not from bar-to-bar as you'd expect (although there were a few visited) but around Paris where the streetsseem to be alive all night long. Ah, Springtime on the Seine, The gy-eful Tower and The Champs EllsysayS -
+spent the evening walking, not from bar-to-bar as you'd expect (although there were a few visited) but around Paris where the streets seem to be alive all night long. Ah, Springtime on the Seine, The Eifel Tower and The Champs Ellsysays-
 I must admit this city certainly has something. (Boy, does some unprintable
-material come to mind here!) Seven days were spent wandering about the city, from the wonderful Art Galleries and Churches to the lowdives and markets, then, as arranged in London, met up with a mob of mild Aussies under the Arc de Triumph, then off to sunny Spain - San Sebastian - Madrid with its gory bullfights - Latin lover types and staring people mho, I believe, even outstare we Australians - Italian and French Riviera - Monaco - to Milano in Northern Italy where I bid
+material come to mind here!) Seven days were spent wandering about the city, from the wonderful Art Galleries and Churches to the lowdives and markets, then, as arranged in London, met up with a mob of mild Aussies under the Arc de Triumph, then off to sunny Spain - San Sebastian - Madrid with its gory bullfights - Latin lover types and staring people who, I believe, even outstare we Australians - Italian and French Riviera - Monaco - to Milano in Northern Italy where I bid
-farewell to the party who were heading south to Rome and Naples while I was heading north. After almost three weeks with non-bushwalker types who mart to see "everything" (this seems to be dance floors, palaces, art museums, churches etc.) to sleep While travelling through the picturesque countryside and -wander about for an hour or so then write dozens of letters home telling friends -where they've been. Sill - it's really amazing that young -women who in Australia are respectable (i e. riot bushwalkers) and comfort loving, travel around the other side of the world - rough it and press on with their plans despite sickness, discmfort, inadequate gear and non-cooperative males with a determination that mould rival a marathon runner.
+farewell to the party who were heading south to Rome and Naples while I was heading north. After almost three weeks with non-bushwalker types who want to see "everything" (this seems to be dance floors, palaces, art museums, churches etc.) to sleep while travelling through the picturesque countryside and wander about for an hour or so then write dozens of letters home telling friends where they've been. Sill it's really amazing that young women who in Australia are respectable (i e. riot bushwalkers) and comfort loving, travel around the other side of the world, rough it and press on with their plans despite sickness, discomfort, inadequate gear and non-cooperative males with a determination that mould rival a marathon runner.
-Hired a car in Frieburg in the Black Forest area of Germany and did a much too quick ten day, never to be forgotten, circular tour through Bavaria - Austrian and Italian Alps - Switzerland, returning to Heidleburg. A memorable incident occurred in the Alps while spending a couple of days with a mixture of raggedlooking English and N.Z. students doing some very amateurish climbs. Returning to the road dcwn a not so sheer snow drift which would probably have been nothing to anyone ccrrectly equipped and experienced we stumbled, cursed and slid as a great big American car glided to a stop and a chap dived out with his movie camera at his eye and filmed some thousands of feet of us ploughing down the drift. As we reached the road we were amused to hear him say to his rugged up wife: "Say, honey. I've gct some great shots of these Tyrolean guys to show the folks back home".
+Hired a car in Frieburg in the Black Forest area of Germany and did a much too quick ten day, never to be forgotten, circular tour through Bavaria - Austrian and Italian Alps - Switzerland, returning to Heidleburg. A memorable incident occurred in the Alps while spending a couple of days with a mixture of ragged looking English and N.Z. students doing some very amateurish climbs. Returning to the road down a not so sheer snow drift which would probably have been nothing to anyone correctly equipped and experienced we stumbled, cursed and slid as a great big American car glided to a stop and a chap dived out with his movie camera at his eye and filmed some thousands of feet of us ploughing down the drift. As we reached the road we were amused to hear him say to his rugged up wife: "Say, honey. I've got some great shots of these Tyrolean guys to show the folks back home".
 (To be continued next month).
 **Don't forget the Christmas Party held at North Sydney Council Chambers**