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=====The Sydney Bushwalker===== | =====The Sydney Bushwalker===== | ||
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bushwalker, | + | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bushwalker, The N.S.W. Nurses' |
- | The N.S.W. Nurses' | + | |
=====January 1963===== | =====January 1963===== | ||
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|Federation Report - November 1963| |10| | |Federation Report - November 1963| |10| | ||
|Carlon' | |Carlon' | ||
- | |Some helpful hints and Recipes for New Members | + | |Some Helpful Hints and Recipes for New Members |
|Good Walking Country - Extracts| |16| | |Good Walking Country - Extracts| |16| | ||
|The Tin Canoe Trip - Stage 1|A. Kenway|17| | |The Tin Canoe Trip - Stage 1|A. Kenway|17| | ||
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The Nooroo Buttress is a 3,200 feet descent and overlooks Whalania Deep, the greatest declivity in the Blue Nhuntains. The buttress is extremely rocky. Some of the rocks are in the form of bluffs, others are loose and treacherous underfoot particularly when descending, while there is one spot a few hundred feet from the top where it is advisable to traverse to the left s(i.e. coming down) around the bluff. The buttress in places narrows into a jagged arete which overhangs Jenolan Creek, and to avoid sprained ankles or worse we veritably | The Nooroo Buttress is a 3,200 feet descent and overlooks Whalania Deep, the greatest declivity in the Blue Nhuntains. The buttress is extremely rocky. Some of the rocks are in the form of bluffs, others are loose and treacherous underfoot particularly when descending, while there is one spot a few hundred feet from the top where it is advisable to traverse to the left s(i.e. coming down) around the bluff. The buttress in places narrows into a jagged arete which overhangs Jenolan Creek, and to avoid sprained ankles or worse we veritably | ||
- | felt our way down this awesome ridge. The sun was behind us, the views were tremendous, and cameras clicked furiously. As we got further down | + | felt our way down this awesome ridge. The sun was behind us, the views were tremendous, and cameras clicked furiously. As we got further down we could look back and upwards at the grey monster we had climbed down. There were also wonderful views of the Falls in Davies Canyon on Sally Camp Creek and of an un-named waterfall in Jenolan Creek. The buttress widens towards the bottom and becomes an open forest of oaks and gums with verdant Dilwinnia growing abundantly under the trees. |
- | we could look back and upwards at the grey monster we had climbed down. There were also wonderful views of the Falls in Davies Canyon on Sally Camp Creek and of an un-named waterfall in Jenolan Creek. The buttress widens towards the bottom and becomes an open forest of oaks and gums with verdant Dilwinnia growing abundantly under the trees. | + | |
we reached the idyllic little clearing at the junction of Jenolan Creek and the Kanangra River at 1535. After resting and refreshing ourselves for 20 minutes we set out for Konangaroo, where we arrived at 1745 just on dusk and just when Peter was thinking we wouldn' | we reached the idyllic little clearing at the junction of Jenolan Creek and the Kanangra River at 1535. After resting and refreshing ourselves for 20 minutes we set out for Konangaroo, where we arrived at 1745 just on dusk and just when Peter was thinking we wouldn' | ||
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Be sure that all your food is packed in water-proof containers but remember that plastic bags puncture easily, so if you put sugar in a plastic bag put the lot inside a cloth bag. Although it may be a bit more trouble, it's no extra weight and it's safer. Also food such-as sugar, flour, porridge etc. carried in bags are easier to pack into small corners than rigid containers. If you carry honey, take extra precautions. I carried honey once in an aluminium container with a good screw on lid and was unfortunate enough to have the container squeezed when negotiating a chimney and the good screw on lid popped off with disastrous results. | Be sure that all your food is packed in water-proof containers but remember that plastic bags puncture easily, so if you put sugar in a plastic bag put the lot inside a cloth bag. Although it may be a bit more trouble, it's no extra weight and it's safer. Also food such-as sugar, flour, porridge etc. carried in bags are easier to pack into small corners than rigid containers. If you carry honey, take extra precautions. I carried honey once in an aluminium container with a good screw on lid and was unfortunate enough to have the container squeezed when negotiating a chimney and the good screw on lid popped off with disastrous results. | ||
- | I have always found breakfast menus the hardest to think up.- There' | + | I have always found breakfast menus the hardest to think up. There' |
- | sooner | + | |
- | January. 196, The Sydney Bushwalker 15 | + | So mach for breakfasts, here are two evening meal recipes which are favourites of mine. |
- | ' | + | |
- | Rice.Currr ad | + | ====Curry and Rice==== |
- | 1-x 12 oz tin Swifts luncheon beef (more meat less additives). | + | |
- | a couple of dried apple rings cut up. | + | * 1 x 12 oz tin Swifts luncheon beef (more meat less additives). |
- | a few statrinas | + | |
- | curry powder and sugar to taste | + | |
- | vegemite (if you carry it) | + | |
- | water. | + | |
- | Cook the apple in a little water till quite soft,. Add soup,-which has been mixed with a little water, | + | |
- | 11.1 | + | |
- | Salmon and Macaroni. | + | |
- | Allow 1 az-macaroni per person 1 tin salmon | + | Cook the apple in a little water till quite soft. Add soup, which has been mixed with a little water, |
- | I egg' | + | |
- | small onion (optional) | + | ====Salmon and Macaroni==== |
- | Cook macaroni in boiling salted water, to whieh the onion maybe aadeds | + | |
- | THAT AGE-OLD PROBLEM. | + | * Allow 1 oz macaroni per person |
- | 3h-6-sits beside | + | * 1 tin salmon |
- | At hoMe, and he's unharried. | + | * 1 egg |
- | They must be an idyllic pair, | + | |
+ | |||
+ | Cook macaroni in boiling salted water, to which the onion maybe added, | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====That Age-Old Problem===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | She sits beside | ||
+ | Through rush hour traffic' | ||
+ | Yet never screams (like many wives)\\ | ||
+ | In fact, she lauds his quickness.\\ | ||
+ | She lolls, as in an easy-chair\\ | ||
+ | At home, and he's unharried.\\ | ||
+ | They must be an idyllic pair,\\ | ||
Or, likelier, unmarried. | Or, likelier, unmarried. | ||
- | ,..... | + | |
- | The Sydney Bushwalker. January 1963 | + | =====Good Walking Country===== |
- | GOOD VELKING COUNTRY | + | |
- | Taken frOdm an article on "GOod Malang | + | Taken from an article on "Good Walking |
- | the noted c6mmentator | + | |
- | nihy walk? Max Beerbohm said that wglking | + | " |
"I have," he once wrote, "two doctors, my right leg and my left." | "I have," he once wrote, "two doctors, my right leg and my left." | ||
- | Only by-walking will you discover | + | |
- | Walking is a fine art: It does n:cit come naturally. The child has to learn how to walk, and so does the grown-up wayfarer. | + | Only by walking will you discover |
- | First y6du have to learn to loiter. To enjoy walking you thus leavd your watCh a home and walk by the -Sun. There must be no schedule, | + | |
- | Myer walk with the-people who caril their iiicome | + | Walking is a fine art: It does not come naturally. The child has to learn how to walk, and so does the grown-up wayfarer. |
- | - To enjq' | + | |
- | .... Imw | + | First you have to learn to loiter. To enjoy walking you thus leave your watch at home and walk by the sun. There must be no schedule, |
- | At beauty I am nest a star, | + | |
- | There are many more handsome by far. But my face, I don't mind it, | + | Never walk with the people who carry their income |
- | I am-behind | + | |
+ | To enjoy walking, there mast be silence to enable you to hear not only the songs of the larks overhead, | ||
+ | |||
+ | At beauty I am not a star,\\ | ||
+ | There are many more handsome by far.\\ | ||
+ | But my face, I don't mind it,\\ | ||
+ | I am behind | ||
The ones in front get the jar. | The ones in front get the jar. | ||
- | December 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 17 | ||
- | THE TIN CANOE TRIP | ||
- | fluc rey Kenwny. | ||
- | - It all started as-an idea dreaMed up on the long weekr-end in 06to6er, when several of us went along the Turnn River from Capertee to Sofala-and Hill End. The River wag just at the' | ||
- | S." | ||
- | After a lot of paper work:and research a plan of a Canoe-was produced. The idea of tin was rather g shock to the cane | ||
- | they added their advice anyway, and ti7tro of them even agreed to come on the-trip. They tactfully said they would bring their own standai' | ||
- | it tin /4nund it It t-,nk all 6f us to-hold it while-an electric diifl was brciught out throUgh the front nf-the-houge dnd the holes drilled for the - | ||
- | first rivets and screws, Then Roy got to work with the solder; Juld the-b at began to take -Shape, The ends caused some troub16, as it is tint east to | ||
- | dhape these parts without causing kinks in thu iron. After s.)rting out thee pr5blems things vent along Cjuicklyi r1-1d by the second-week-end two canoes, one with a tin shell and one at the first stage, were in.-the backyard. - The gins were basy painting and hci' | ||
- | pluMBers' | ||
- | we found two men could lift the finished boat on top of a car, so the estimated weight was about right. | ||
- | The-Parramatta River coilies in fairly close -to where the boats were being | ||
- | built; so we carried the canoe damn to the mangrove flats, and 'frnd the tide half out. Luaily there is a stoi'm water canal running in Illerg the vatgr was deeper, so we slid the boat do.5n the bank and saved 6 long tramp across the fflud, with the possibility of losing several members of the party. With six of us ein board the canoe floated just right, and was steadier than we had even hoped. | ||
- | The Sydney Bishwalker January 1963 | ||
- | - | ||
- | Liter worki_ng nut the weiLtt nf-the average persnn ane.-the-w-eight of the gear it was decided that six of us equalled a fiarty with packs, so all appears well. Keith Renwick had worked out food and-gear lists to the ounce. 39,y-next week, | ||
- | SCIE10EI NLTtJPLLlLY | ||
- | The Pebble Game. | ||
- | - If ever you are really stuck f6r something to do, talk someone intn-: | ||
- | or three. pebbles as he Or she chooses. | ||
- | , . . . | ||
- | .The players continue this nerve-wracking process the | ||
- | pebblps have been picked up. | ||
- | The winner | ||
- | contr51 (do the lolly and throw one of your rocks at your-oppnnent:' | ||
- | Menura novae-hollandiae. | ||
- | `1- Historians, strangely, neglect some iillportant events, being perhaps too deeply interegted in humari beings to consider the claims of wild - | ||
- | ngture. Read almnst any history of Australia, and you are unlikely to find | ||
- | more than a passing reference - if it be mentioned at all --t? the lyre-bird. | ||
- | - Among dis6Overies in the early days of settlement at Port Jackson, | ||
- | . nne is more notable than that mgde by an akploring pdrtyin' | ||
- | known specimen of Menura novae-hollondiae, | ||
- | at the infant settledaent, | ||
+ | =====The Tin Canoe Trip===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Audrey Kenway==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | It all started as an idea dreamed up on the long week-end in October, when several of us went along the Turon River from Capertee to Sofala and Hill End. The River was just at the right height, the damping looked perfect all the way along, and we found some specks of gold to add interest. Bob said it would be nice to do the whole River by boat. We could carry it across the shallow spots. Bob then suggested we could build a tin canoe in no time for very little cost, and the whole party got carried away with the idea. | ||
+ | |||
+ | After a lot of paper work and research a plan of a canoe was produced. The idea of tin was rather a shock to the canoe people, but they added their advice anyway, and two of them even agreed to come on the trip. They tactfully said they would bring their own standard canoes. The next thing we saw was the skeleton of the first canoe which Bob had put together after hours at work, and then brought home on top of Roy Cragg' | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Parramatta River comes in fairly close to where the boats were being built, so we carried the canoe down to the mangrove flats, and found the tide half out. Luckily there is a storm water canal running in where the water was deeper, so we slid the boat down the bank and saved a long tramp across the mud, with the possibility of losing several members of the party. With six of us on board the canoe floated just right, and was steadier than we had even hoped. | ||
+ | |||
+ | After working out the weight of the average person and the weight of the gear it was decided that six of us equalled a party of four with packs, so all appears well. Keith Renwick had worked out food and gear lists to the ounce. By next week-end there will be three canoes in the yard with seven people rushing round trying to finish them in time to put on the train in time for the Christmas trip. We don't know which train as yet, as rivers are a little doubtful in this dry weather. We hope it will be one of the north coast rivers. Read the February magazine and find out! | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Science, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====The Pebble Game.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | If ever you are really stuck for something to do, talk someone into playing the pebble game with you. Two players stand facing each other and place on the ground between them an odd number of pebbles (say 17). Now, in turn, they are each allowed to pick up one, two or three pebbles as he or she chooses. | ||
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+ | The players continue this nerve-wracking process until all the pebbles have been picked up. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The winner | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Menura novae-hollandiae.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Historians, strangely, neglect some important events, being perhaps too deeply interested in human beings to consider the claims of wild nature. Read almost any history of Australia, and you are unlikely to find more than a passing reference - if it be mentioned at all - to the lyre-bird. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Among discoveries in the early days of settlement at Port Jackson, none is more notable than that made by an exploring party in January, 1798. Convicts were members of the minor expedition which collected the first known specimen of Menura novae-hollondiae, |
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