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-CONTENTS
+======The Sydney Bushwalker======
-At Our Monthly 1.looting	2.
-A Matter of Trains  Kath McKay	5.
-Bushios in Barrington  Margpiet Tybern	7.
-Paddy's M.	11.
-A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to -tho Sydney Bush7alkers, Yorthcete Buildings, Reiby Place, Circular quay,  Sydney. Postal Address; Box 4476, G.P.O. Sydney.
-EDITOR 2 Ross 'yborn, 1/73 Harris Street, Ha2ris Park.
-BUSIN7SS YLLEACIR ; Bill Burke, Coral Tree Drive, C'ford, 2118. TYPIST : Heather 7illiams9 2 Sussex Street, 7-oping, 2121.
-SALTS AND SUBS Ramon U'Brien, 61 Nickson St., Surry Hills, 2010.
-.	Ti-r_Tri SIT:7Y BUSH7TATIC:11R	Pebxua-ry, 1969.
+===February 1969.===
-'TT' OUR -.;...0.172."-1.7TITc
-Januczy 15
-- 44 ,V	.
- The meetit',-;',/v.fm-r?',6.	the	'e41-aent	Ale
-and apologies from the President Pranl: Rigby, who i olida-ring 1 1r1ca.
-Five new riembers 770:2e, welcomed; :.'.argaret irg5 .11.nne ileredith Lynch,	'Tbarli and Ral-zai Nalco
-...nutes of the last General 1:oeting (11 Dec.) :ere read and received. In "BusinesS,';_rising" the Treaiurer rose to ::.is feet sked for elucidation on the loss made on missing-ticl:ets at the :Pad. ellation Lan. The ansV1070 7ras that Federation has n.'t yetliacl a meeting since our clue:7 arose lastmonth, hence no reply will "De forthcoming until after. the meeting next t_L'uesday.
-In the matterof new club rooms; 0-.7enIZarks and 11a7mon i..T'Brion ;.,..re looting into the :latter but as yet have nothing to rort.
-In "Inwards Correspondence", a letter . :as read frol,z Brian Harvey suggesting that the young marrieds are a lost ..:.:zoup in the ,Sydney Bush,;,.rallmr.s ad that the Club should cater for them with an occasional short day -7Eolz on the pro:rIme. It was moved that the Secretary ac1mo771ed.cse Brian's letter and say that it will be the subjectof discussion at the next meotine: of the Coi.:..7ittec.,.. Joan -.Rigby (_:P,ZW3 it as hor considered opinion that the 7ounjf	crganised their own joint outings s:Aisfactorily and ::ould not be particularly f.nterested in a Club function. Dave Inmm aid, that nevertheless, .7s a trial, 5 or 6 mile trips for
-family groups and 'oldi7.:s,	appear on to	Prorzamme 2 S chcclule,c3. for the second Sunday in each month; commencing .::rom next
-Marcaret Childs (	1-)layrounc.-Is representative) 9 sent
-cutting from a St. r..., eor.,7.c. j.; Sutherlqnd local paper, on the subject
-of the bush on tlle 7..x3rizlet..2.1.. of the 'loyal 17,?,t o	bed,rE Q,t.-.4 -410 Cl.
-by the Council for recrettf.otaal space - oif courses, recz.eationa-4.- aro.s1 tc. The matter was passodover to the Cortva-zation to bring up at thenext meeting of the:cc-iteration.
-Bulletins and Bi--monthly 1.oports we:. e a,cimo flek.ex1 from the 3.Tational riaust	the 1Tational Conservation Counoil.
-In :...ns-er to r. letter from the Commonwealth 13a:k re Conversion
-of Bonds	the 1Torth31-.6._ Trust Funds - the rI:reasIt00-2
-reported_ that the .1 ,GO invested in Bonds maturincs. on I January 1969, has now 'peen transfe=ed to the next s:ries (Series 11), maturing in '! years time.
-A
-as receiv::0,_ addressed to the Clu7p7 astin.7 that 'e forrprd it to the Gould LcaEuc.,- of 71ird "Lovers. It P.-9 7)0 CZ?	tiS
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-nbruary  1969.  	The. :ydne7r Bushr:7,1ker
-licazu.o is now d::func' 2 027 rathorhas chanced its rlan10 to Thc Junior
+=====Contents.=====
-Tree .0?	r23.?guoimillpNioraire400._	et-70(9.
-:.nd duly s	cl on its wa-r.
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-- report '7'7
-rer.surt.;r s	t	This ".	the s c	rc:c. or t for
-closin-; balanca -t 1 Dc	js1;334	rill' C-.`
-		'  		r.t: 	, 11.	6	J. .0
-ed.	0117G cascusson.
--iffhe 	Secretary gave 7.7.is usual int; elelpirc run-through
-of the north's activities:"
-Pat Harrison's walk in the Yaouk.-17.t. Loran-; t. Limberri area 3nticea out 6 hardy mb=s all with the riLht i.41:Da about mountaineering	thoy arose at 4.30 a.. each :ornik..; found ;-..)1c.-.)nt of
-MOW' L-Lbout, and clinip')d two 67000 peaks.
-contrastl' Yer	s -a,11: in the Ht..	a-rea	12 s' artors rias very hot, and they only leo they saw was- icc
-n1.4^	2
-on	away earning	no	%eztoDe as
-s si s taint te, a 047,10,-.;i:.-, durirf.s;	ITniv ers	cet1on j 9 Don Finc:3.
-led Mc walk down Davios Canyon. There :as plenty of abseilinG and boralDing of pools from .-72,-:atheicjhts. In a narrow part of :Javics Carron
-the party had aia::o..tly chivcn a roc:	lab -	e it onto a
-rock led e., 71--,e little creature panic1,-_d and lcct into space, injuriij it lo E as it 1:-,ndecl on the :2oci..:s below. :t 's 70o-yo: =',.ature has holed its wound b-,-,- now.
-ThenriSt127,Ei Car.*se'. rm:-"e
-from 7:ra 9 and a chat with Tony Canon.
--Lt
-on Finch 17401'7. his Instructional to .7.4.:?-9,..ur's P1L,.t. He reports	-G.:',... ..iatl	_	-n	out.	_1'.11 c:_scet-s ..- - very .Le7 ,..tad
-Jot s of Ica,,. ,,cattl e .	Thr:::. e  -.--,' el' c 4 r'irin as ()1_1 tkt i s .-t3r.t.p.	7:1-.. :17 iT .Z':.,S11do,-,.-rn
-..,..,
-b.,-,,y.l. lc,?;/e to ask a ou.cstion7 - - ould ils c called a 1 cc.).707,,' of finches?
-i!o ons had the E...,,ns7.rar.
-ara.-73 alacc and. Pacey captained a
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-InstrLietional at Yierz7aol 'nd	a little bit of spea",--fishiit and a lot of surroaki.117.
+|At Our Monthly Meeting| | 2|
-	Ted van dDr	Caving. rip to 'co jas:-2= enticed out 6
+|A Matter of Trains|Kath McKay| 5|
-nqy ]ad 51 hours of caving in C clays. The dzly- t:-.cy surfaced and. -ont for an over i.:,11. ti i n to Tumut Ponds Dam	Kiandra hapcnod
+|Bushies in Barrington|Margariet Wyborn| 7|
-to -!)e one of tile ';ret da7s.
-	Ltarl:s ;;save the "zijhlights of one..of-1.-ilie. trips '	;,,,gls
+=====Advertisements.=====
-b'f'ou,slat	'AL, two dozen e ie s.	hen he oond. his pack 9
-ioizors	six of them -era broken. He r)1F.,cc,d the intact eighteen under
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+|Paddy's Ad.|11|
-.	The Sydney.7.,)u.sirrall,m)r .	7,ebruary 15'69
-r.n.e Social Secretary opo:otz:di on tlie collected cc)nctos fi	he	of .T.arry,Zi746,040011A-7.-,1,, :i44#80#
+A monthly bulletin,of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, Northcote Buildings, Reiby Place, Circular Quay, Sydney. Postal Address: Box 4476, G.P.O., Sydney.
-.,,,Abrir	0,Elowor.	.
--bh s 	rOOrnb3 C. dal	befou. e Chris tmas 9 CA foreshe,dovred a futurc; .:_uscia.feat on 2January 9 .:..sponsored. by Ken
+|**Editor**|Ross Wyborn, 1/73 Harris Street, Harris Park, 2150|
-On 29 January Spiro	as trill i:re a tall.: about. 1.,.aS
+|**Business Manager**|Bill Burke, Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, 2118|
-an a its people, and a	Su-riTior	be pr.ovi..":orl. If it s on a par
+|**Typist**|Heather Williams, 2 Sussex Street, Epping, 2121|
-with the last,	t..ere, because it as
+|**Sales and Subs**|Ramon U'Brien, 61 Nickson Street, Surry Hills, 2010|
-On '3'ruary-	the Club's COLOUR	be
-hold, 77i th IThriTy Gole,	There 11 be tour oacories s-
+----
-.	Landscape
-. 0-verc.;oas anriscarle
+=====At Our Monthly Meeting - January 15.=====
-.	rr-1.1.1:z
-. Ccan cis
+The meeting opened with	the	Vice President in the chair and apologies from the President Frank Rigby, who is holidaying in Africa.
-F edrati on	Thee has been no 7:_e et Zr 7 17 ence no report.
-Annual :leunior.12 15-16 liarch Bob Youz'or will tal:e char;:e of the organisinc. AU those rillir to hell', Bob, please cr)ntact DC. E.,-e-,ecially to te. ,up the transo-...t arrEl;enients.
+Five new members were welcomed: Margaret King, Anne Ireland, Meredith Lynch, Peter berli and Ralph Malcolm.
-In Genera.	. ?ere ezhortc.,,c1 to o,:r.erciL-.,e a-ztrems care in ,arlyens. 'Over the past -eolf.end. there as an acci.fLent
-Hay	CF.,n.-ycn inrtich C11nfOr injurocThis shoulder. Although the
+Minutes of the last General Meeting (11 Dec.) were read and received. In "Business Arising" the Treasurer rose to his feet and asked for elucidation on the loss made on missing tickets at the Federation Ball. The answer was that Federation hasn not yet had a meeting since our query arose last month, hence no reply will be forthcoming until after the meeting next Tuesday.
-accinthp..oned on.:2,--_ttirda-.7, the injur C. "coy -T-as not brought ou till
-the fo1lo7rirr: Tuesday.	he could -.72,11: without '..aelD2 otherwise this
+In the matter of new club rooms; Owen Marks and Ramon U'Brien are looking into the matter but as yet have nothing to report.
-haveturn,:_dinto Quito an tur.-.,leasant incident..
-'0 *1*
+In "Inwards Correspondence", a letter was read from Brian Harvey suggesting that the young marrieds are a lost group in the Sydney Bushwalkers and that the Club should cater for them with an occasional short day walk on the programme. It was moved that the Secretary acknowldege Brian's letter and say that it will be the subject of discussion at the next meeting of the Committee. Joan Rigby gave it as her considered opinion that the young organised their own joint outingss satisfactorily and would not be particularly interested in a Club function. Dave Ingram said that nevertheless, as a trial, 5 or 6 mile trips for family groups and 'oldies' will appear on the Walks Programme, scheduled for the second Sunday in each month, commencing from next April.
-Da",' 0 Inreri 1-.1entic-Ined the Sc...uaro Dar.cinc-; cl,-.,sses that vrill IDC held in the 7..setern Suburbs 9 probe-,bly at Bet:di Junction, andprobabl;.,,r clasi:os -Till commence a-bout the ;,:1a02 of Marc- . T1.1.1p-,A1-1.441;413.,
--744>
+Margaret Childs (Parks & Playgrounds representative), sent a cutting from a St. George & Sutherland local paper, on the subject of the bush on the perimeter of the Royal Natonal Park being resumed by the Council for recreational space - golf courses, recreational areas, etc. The matter was passed over to the Conservation delegate to bring up at the next meeting of the Federation.
-VOLUFT:r; 3 70	T. 7.:C2 -.MTG7R - reciu-1-.'ed the coricl 1D,fozo the
-Reunion to pro-:?are	firewood, rriv.7,-te trans-,ort.
+Bulletins and Bi-monthly reports were acknowledged from the National Trust and the National Conservation Council.
-At the I'Leunion to provide trans7...,ort from 7-.Zicimond Station to 7oods
-and return- to ,--,ssist irpation of supper to assist in entertainment at campfire. Deb is -:.-miting on, 53-11504
+In answer to a letter from the Commonwealth Bank re Conversion of Bonds	- representing the North Era Trust Funds - the Treasurer reported that the $1,060 invested in Bonds maturing on 1 January 1969, has now been transferred to the next series (Series R), maturing in 1 years time.
-COI	?
-:Jan	s.7-bs- out on 6 Lizzoh to find out the truth. TC)
+A letter was received addressed to the Club, asking that we forward it to the Gould League of Bird Lovers. It appears that this	League is now defunct, or rather has changed its name to the Junior Tree [illegible] Department. [Illegible and duly speeded on its way.
-is going to do the -Tal	circuit:
-bruary 1969.	The Sydney Bush7alker
+Treasurer's Report: This was the second-last report for the Financial Year. The closing balance at 31 December was $384. The report was accepted without discussion.
-R OF TRAITS	elee,
-Katli 1,16:ay
+The Walks Secretary gave his usual intersting run-through of the month's activities.
-Last year Jim .Brown gave us a very inerestinL talk all about trains, Past an Dresent, so I make no apology for writing of the now, even if locomotion, in 1).7.sh7alking Parlance, means foottravel.
-hen I caele to Testern Australia, no one told eie about the trains. "Oh, Perth is Thvely!" they said, -en 46:,ey heard I was cooing here. "You nover saw such wildflowers!"
+Pat Harrison's walk in the Yaouk - Mt. Morgan - Mt. Bimberri area enticed out 6 hardy members all with the right idea about mountaineering; they arose at 4.30 a.m. each morning, found plenty of snow about, and climbed two 6,000' peaks.
-ildflo7ers yes, but no mention of trains.
-I have no to r3st in a peaceful suburb whore the Perth plain meets the c'entlo fcct-_-ills of the Darling Ilance. Farms and vineyards and,o-eanze orrhards are all around us, and to ;et to the villa;ewe blithely take a short cut across the railvTay Ines, six sets of them. In t'e sprin the earth beside the track is a broad expanse of verdure and a kind of teazle.,;raes almost the colour of -,;ink clover, but in the heat of S1-:.=.,2 this herbafe is burnt off, being a fire hazard, and the steel rails go shiemering nakedly into the far distance.
+With contrast, Ken Ellis's walk in the Mt. Wilson area with 12 starters was very hot, and the only ice they saw was ice creams.
-Giant gums and pines and c-dar trees ',order the etation, and as -!e emerLe from their shade e find a space between -,arked trains oblignEly left on the	pedestrie,ns use. ::others	prams, cyclists,
-matrons ei bed dovn	marketing, we all take the s:eo-t cut, but I
+With Doone Wyborn away earning big money (we hope) as Assistant to a Geologist during a University Vacation job, Don Finch led his walk down Davies Canyon. There was plenty of abseiling and bombing of pools from great heights. In a narrow part of Davies Canyon the party had apparently driven a rock wallaby before it onto a rock ledge. The little creature panicked and leapt into space, injuriing its leg as it landed on the rocks below. Let's hope Nature has healed its wound by now.
-still have a feelin; of guilt, and gaze a-.e.)rehensively	and left
-down the vacant permanent ray.
+The Christmas Camp was Wollondilly / Tomat Creek area as a change from Era, and a chat with Tony Carlon.
-Stfatl,lioan_trains ere diesel burning, tend ,:,en em'ly s'.eort affairs, two or three carriaces, vofik7 coclforuable, nattily painted in red, white and green6 though the na7er cars are a gleaoing sliver, airconditioned, and beautifully upholstered. A conauctor is aboard, as in a bus,
-ready to supply you with a ticket if -rou have not ad time to buy one at the station 'here you entrain,d5 in fact same platform: dispense with ticketselling altogether r:nd you buy one aboard. Also, they are points of no return only sin:le suburban tickets are iesued.
+Don Finch took his Instructional to McArthur's Flat. He reports	[illegible] the National burnt out. All creeks are vey low, and lots of dead cattle. There were 4 Finches on this trip. Frank Ashdown begged leave to as a question: "Would this be called a 'covey' of finches?" No on had the answer.
-Country t-af.ns are of course loner, and flainted in th-_ sme gay colours. :::cellent they are too, raced with names like Ausralind and The Shopper, subtitled Kovea, which conveys pass:ners from Buribury, a hundeed miles -r so to the south, to Perth and back, just for the day. But it is the loco2otivos that are the crowning glory.
-In most places engines go by numbers, not by names even Kiplingis famouE locomotive is .007 (	.007, not to to confused with
+The Barrys Wallace and Pacey captained a skin-diving Instructional at Merry Beach and Pretty Beach. There was a little bit of spear-fishing and a lot of sunbaking.
-James Demi): and in Pee-th the City Fathers or whoever is responsible for naming streets, show a re, rettable lack of imagination and resort to numbers ( I myse'f live in rift' Road). But it is not so with engines.
-I was so iffriL,usd with their names that I wrote to the "estern
+Ted van der Hale's Caving trip to Wee Jasper enticed out 6 starters. They had 51 hours of caving in 8 days. The day they surfaced and went for an overland trip to Tumut Ponds Dam and Kandra happended to be one of the wet days.
-.	The Sydney Bush-Talker	February 1969
-Australian Gov 7nment acj_lways, and thy sent me a dazzling list. T--ro classes of locomotives; 32 in all, arc named after estern Australian Aboriginal tribes, and fascinating names	Bibbulmun, Ka.rda:Jur, Arawodi, Yala gonga (he 'as Chief of the Oor-Dal-7all trne, 77herever they may be located) flash past, boldly emblazoned in brass on the dark g:een engines. In this district I have seen on'y Ballardoz:. 9 :angali, Kardagur, C:-uroro (a 7.ovely name for a locomotive!) and Libbulmun, but am always hoping I shall meet --rith K.ri ra, Jargurdi, -,=rangoo cnd all the rest of the colourful tribes.
+Owen Marks gave the highlights of one of the trips he was on. Enzo brought with him two dozen eggs. When he opened his pack, Horrors! Six of them were broken. He placed the intact eighteen under a tree and what happended? Some snuffling beast [illegible] during the night!
-Another class, ten, of them, are named after mountains in 'estern Australia T':211ce (reputed to be the highest, height unknown), Hallowell, Dale, ::4srton; and eighteen more are called after "estern Australian rivers, Hi74rdiaison, Gascoyne, Kalgem, and so on and so on.
-The possibilities are :,-ndless, and one only wonders -Why other states in Australia do not show similar imaginF,tion. 'ildflorTers for instance, 'why could Ne.:: South -ales locomotives 17,e-T names like
+Social Report: The Social Secretary reported on teh collected concertos from teh musical library of Bareny [illegible] those who are in teh Club Room the Wednesday before Christmas, and foreshadowed a future musical treat on 22 January, sponsored by Ken Willis. On 29 January Spiro Ketas will give a talk about his homeland, Greece, and its people, and a Greek Supper will be provided. If it's on par with the last, be there, because it was MIGHTY!
-aratah, Doronia, Dillw7nia? Surely they are worth publicisinE. Or bird names, aosella, :ookaburra, B17olga, (but not Galah); or explorers, Sturt, ::yre, Giles? 2ut no, prosaic non-committal numbers are the order of the day.
--lere I live, the trains are pleasantly audible, and the suburban services run so :Legularly that when I hear an apologetic "TootT1 I say to myself "A, there goes tI,e 10,30" and glance at the clock to see if it agrees.
+On Fegruary the Club's Colour Slide Competition will be held, with Henry Gold as Judge. There will be four categories:
-Now, in tho ;ide moonlit niht, I 7-ear a country train choofing round the foothills - who knows but that it is nuroro, wending his -,ay south? ndsod, cistern Australia has many thins to recommend it, and not the least of them are its trains.
-The latest information we have about Roger Lockwood is that he is temperature con-broiler of an ice-rink in 7rankfurt, Germany. Possibly he uses his toes. 7e also hear that he has been sampling German grog.
+  - Australian landscape
-F.eqbiva,ry 1 96 9	The Sydney Bushvralker
+  - Overseas landscape
-BUSIII-3	BA3RIrCITON
+  - Close-ups
-Mar:-.riet -yborn
+  - Candid
+Fedration Report: There has been no Meeting, hence no report.
+Annual Reunion: 15-16 March. Bob Younger will take charge of the organising. All those willing to help Bob, please contact him. Helpers required especially to tee-up the transport arrangements.
+In General Business, Club members were exhorted to exercise extreme care in canyons. Over the past weekend there was an accident in Hay	Creek Canyon in which a climber injured his shoulder. Although the accident happened on Saturday, teh injur boy was not brought out till the fo1lowing Tuesday. Luckily he could walk without help, otherwise this could have turned into quite an unpleasant incident.
+Dave Ingram mentioned the Square Dancing classes that will be held in the Easetern Suburbs, probably at Bondi Junction, and probably classes will commence about the middle of March. It's all in the Magazine.
+----
+====Volunteers To Assist Bob Younger.====
+Required to prepare compsite, firewood, private transport. __At the Reunion__ to provide transport from Richmond Station to Woods Creek and return; to assist in preparation of supper; to assist in entertainment at campfire. __Bob is waiting on 57-1158__.
+----
+===Was Columbus Right?===
+Alan Pike sets out to find out the truth. He is going to do the World circuit.
+----
+=====A Matter Of Trains.=====
+Kath McKay
+Last year Jim Brown gave us a very ineresting talk all about trains, past and present, so I make no apology for writing of them now, even if locomotion, in bushwalking parlance, means foot-travel.
+When I came to Western Australia, no one told me about the trains. "Oh, Perth is lovely!" they said, when they heard I was coming here. "You never saw such wildflowers!"
+Wildflowers yes, but no mention of trains.
+I have come to rest in a peaceful suburb where the Perth plain meets the gentle foothills of the Darling Ranges. Farms and vineyards and orange orchards are all around us, and to get to the village we blithely take a short cut across the railway lines, six sets of them. In the spring the earth beside the track is a broad expanse of verdure and a kind of teazle grass almost the colour of pink clover, but in the heat of summer this herbage is burnt off, being a fire hazard, and the steel rails go shimmering nakedly into the far distance.
+Giant gums and pines and cedar trees border the station, and as we emerge from their shade we find a space between parked trains obligingly left on the path pedestrians use. Mothers with prams, cyclists, matrons weighed down with marketing, we all take the short cut, but I still have a feeling of guilt, and gaze apprehensively right and left down the vacant permanent way.
+Suburban trains are diesel burning, and generally short affairs, two or three carriaces, very comfortable, nattily painted in red, white and green, though the newer cars are a gleaming sliver, air-conditioned, and beautifully upholstered. A conductor is aboard, as in a bus, ready to supply you with a ticket if you have not had time to buy one at the station where you entrained; in fact some platforms dispense with ticket-selling altogether and you buy one aboard. Also, they are points of no return: only single suburban tickets are issued.
+Country trains are of course longer, and painted in the same gay colours. Excellent they are too, graced with names like Australind and The Shopper, subtitled Kovea, which conveys passengers from Bunbury, a hundeed miles or so to the south, to Perth and back, just for the day. But it is the locomotives that are the crowning glory.
+In most places engines go by numbers, not by names; even Kipling's famous locomotive is .007 (- .007, not to to confused with James Bond): and in Perth the City Fathers or whoever is responsible for naming streets, show a regrettable lack of imagination and resort to numbers (I myself live in Fifty Road). But it is not so with engines.
+I was so intrigued with their names that I wrote to the Western Australian Government Railways, and they sent me a dazzling list. Two classes of locomotives, 32 in all, are named after estern Australian Aboriginal tribes, and fascinating names like Bibbulmun, Kardagur, Arawodi, Yala gonga (he was Chief of the Oor-Dal-Kall tribe, wherever they may be located) flash past, boldly emblazoned in brass on the dark green engines. In this district I have seen only Ballardon, Mangala, Kardagur, Churoro (a lovely name for a locomotive!) and Bibbulmun, but am always hoping I shall meet with Kuriara, Jargurdi, Warangoo cnd all the rest of the colourful tribes.
+Another class, ten of them, are named after mountains in Western Australia: Bruce (reputed to be the highest, height unknown),Hallowell, Dale, Egerton; and eighteen more are called after Western Australian rivers, Murchison, Gascoyne, Kalgan, and so on and so on.
+The possibilities are endless, and one only wonders why other states in Australia do not show similar imagination. Wildflowers for instance, why could New South Wales locomotives bear names like Waratah, Boronia, Dillwynia? Surely they are worth publicising. Or bird names, Rosella, Kookaburra, Brolga, (but not Galah); or explorers, Sturt, Eyre, Giles? But no, prosaic non-committal numbers are the order of the day.
+Where I live, the trains are pleasantly audible, and the suburban services run so regularly that when I hear an apologetic "Toot!" I say to myself: "Ah, there goes the 10.30" and glance at the clock to see if it agrees.
+Now, in the wide moonlit night, I hear a country train choofing round the foothills - who knows but that it is Churoro, wending his way south? Indeed, Western Australia has many things to recommend it, and not the least of them are its trains.
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+===News from Germany.===
+The latest information we have about Roger Lockwood is that he is temperature controller of an ice-rink in Frankfurt, Germany. Possibly he uses his toes. We also hear that he has been sampling German grog.
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+=====Bushies In Barrington.=====
+Margriet Wyborn
+Who has been down Barrington River before? What a new and exciting trip for a long weekend! On our way home, walking to the car along the road, a farmer picked us up and told us of 2 young chaps who had been down the river 20 years previosuly. He knew of no one since.
+The river falls 3,600 ft. in 7 miles. There must be some waterfalls around. At the last minute abseiling ropes were not taken. There were only 5 on our trip - Dot Butler, Gerry Sinzig, Norman Butler, Ross Wyborn, and myself. We picked a beaut camp spot very early on Saturday morning. It was next to a babbling creek and under some scribbly gums on some private property, as we later found out. Early next morning we were rudely awakened by an irate farmer, except for myself who only saw him disappearing into the gathering light, who remondtrated with us for putting a car in front of a gate which was next to a grid. We apologised as we did not realise that it was a gate at 2.00 a.m.
+Breakfast was, munched 10 miles further along the road on Kerripit River where our trip was due to start. It looked like very wealthy grazing country there, even in the drought, but gum trees were scarce.
+The actual trip started off by a most refreshing swim in an eel-infestod pool in Kerripit River - a good beginning. For a mile we walked through grazing paddocks in the hot midday sun until they merged into dense rain forest vegetation which one would find along all creeks and rivers in this area. We plodded after Dot who was following a cow pad through thick vegetation which sidled high above the river.
+Ross: "This is silly! We should be on the creek, not 500 ft. above it."
+"Maybe the cows know where they are going", someone assisted.
+We came down into the creek (cutting off a bend) and immediately came upon a 4 ft. deep pool. We dropped our packs and jumped in. The water was surprisingly warm.
+Here the Kerripit River is like the lower Kanangra River, but overhung with vines, mosses and orchids hanging from trees. As we rock-hopped onwards tho river began to steepen slightly with cascades on every bend. The swimming was tremendous. Ross had another try at dam building at one of the cascades but he was quite unsuccessful in coercing a small slippery dip with water.
+Single clouds started drifting overhead, making us wonder what we were going to do without a tent. "Be prepared" is the Boy Scouts' motto - groundsheets can easily be erected into a shelter and overhanging rocks (or bivvy rocks) can also be camped under.
+For lunch we stopped above a 15 ft. drop in the river below which was a swimming pool. Norm, our tree-climber, rushed up to the scrubby tree tops traversing from one tree top to another, using thick vines as ropes. Ross also felt energetic. He followed Norm onto the first tree. CRASH! It was too much. The second tree also gave way.
+Clouds changed from milky white to grey. Mist appeared and slowly but surely it stated drizzling. Waterfalls 20-40 ft. loomed ahead making way for an interesting scramble.
+We couldn't get much wetter as our swimming togss were still wet from the last swim. It was pleasant to feel the rain splashing in our faces after the hot weeks in the city. Rocks - slippery and wet, slowed our progress considerably. We clambered up and around 3 or 4 waterfalls about 30 ft. high and camped where the creek leveled out. At 3600 ft. it as rather cold for a summer's afternoon. A huge fire was lit, a feed cooked, and off to our flea bags.
+Ross built a shelter under some trees using long dead branches criss-crossing each other and covering the structure with a plastic ground sheet. It was a good substitute for a sutffy old tent.
+The next clay was clear and we walked up the river until it was feasible to climb a ridge to reach the fire trail leading to Carey's Peak. Small trees and lawyer vines made way to a tall forest of eucalypts at least 100 ft. high and up to 8 ft. in diameter. Scratchings of lyrebirds or brush turkeys were seen. This area should be in the proposed Barrington National Park. Lawyer vines may have tripped us up, but it was little noticed as we felt so small among such giants.
+The change in vegetation was interesting, from tall eucalypt forest the tress gradually became smaller as we climbed until at about. 4500 ft. stunted blue gums and "snow grass" remained.
+After 5 miles of road bashing and lots of sweat we stopped for a snack in the middle of the fire trail at a junction. Five minutes later a Landrover nearly ran over us, carrying campers who had driven up from Barrington House. Some minutes later we met two other jeeps full of housewifely tourists - a real highway! We trotted off to Carey's Peak (5 minutes from the road) and were rewarded with a hazy view of creeks and ridges from the top. Other creeks from Carey's Peak looked most interesting and jungley and the ridges looked reasonable going. Meeting another handful of tourists, we immediatey left for the peace and quiet of Barrington River.
+Encircling a large swamp after walking along another fire trail for a mile, we started scrub bashing down a tiny creek. Prickly undergrowth and lawyer vines were abundant until we reached the Barrington River which was quite large even high in its headwaters. On our way we saved a trout (8" long) from certain dehydration in a tiny pool. Half an hour after a hot lunch we reached a swiming pool - the ideal lunch spot. What mismanagement!
+Strangers in the camp - 2 trout fishermen were sighted. They had caught 3 but they were only 8" long. We couldn't quite make out how they reached the rivor apparently only walking a short distance. Before we reached a third fisherman, Gerry, Norm, and I bombed another two pools from 40 ft and 20 ft. up. I hope we scared the trout as they looked a bit undersized to me.
+We camped a couple of miles downstream where the river seemed to disappear into a gorge between gigantic boulders. It was very misty that night. Luckily Dot discovered some overhanging roots quite big enough for 5 but some may have got wet if it rained too hard. A second overhanging rock was found.
+After our monstrous meals we took leave of the hot fire and cold rain for our warm sleeping bags. The roar from an 80 ft. waterfall 50 yards away drowsed us off into deep slee. Dot told us next morning that Gerry had suddenly sat up in his flea bag during the night and shoutede "Who's that?" looking at lights across the river - no reply. Dot tried to look out of her sleepy eyes and saw only gloworms between the rocks.
+"Look at that!" Gerry exclaimed, "What is it?"
+Dot explained to us that the whole river valley was mistily lit up by the moon trying to pierce through a bank of clouds. It looked quite eerie.
+The next morning the two corners of my sleeping bag were soaked but none the worse for it. After breaky, we clambered around the side of a tree covered cliff-face to get down and around the waterfall. In actual fact it was a a long slippery dip, 60 ft. long, 60°	angle and a boulder at the bottom to stop you, just in case you went too fast. For the next 2 miles the going as slow. Large boulders (house type) and small waterfalls which had to be scrambled around. Very similar to Bungonia block-up except that it was very slippery in the drizzling rain - logs were just not to be trusted.	"Will I slip, or won't I?" "Is tht green slippery growth on the rock or is that a green-coloured rock?" Three of the partv took off their sandshoes and claimed a better grip on the rocks.
-Mc has b7;3n do7n Barrinton River before? 7hat a new and excitin trip for a 1011f weekend! On OUT way home, --rallrlinE: to the car along the road, el farmr 7)j:eked us u7) and toldus of 2 young chaps 17--o had been down-the rivor 20 Years'previosuly _Fe ne7 of no one. since.
-The river falls 3,600 ft. in 7 miles. T:-ere :..lust be some waterfalls around. At t:le last minute .abseilinc ropes -.'ere not . taken. There were only 5 on our trip - Dot fut 1 er Gerry Sinzi:. 9 Norman, Butler, Ross "yborn 9 and vs el f. -e =21 cke a a beaut comp spot v,--ry e rly . on rs4u.ta.	s 2t to- 'a7-loat'ff:rj..).Te r6j".,c,	arY1	or -'s'el."ealy
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-Breakfast, -T.as, munched 10	furth(?,r along the road on nrripit River ,',1aere our trip as due to start. It looked like very wealthy grazing country there, even in the drouEht, but gum trees were scarce.
-The actual =;rip started off by a most rsfres' suim in an eeel-infestod pool in 7:.-=ipit River - a good beginning,. For a mile we walked thLough azing paddocks in the hot mic',.day sun until te merged into dense rain ..[.ore.:,t vostation which one would find along all crooks and rivers in this area	e ,lodded after Dot viJ.o as following a cow
-pad.through thick vegetation which sidled ] i,7,12 above the river.
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-immediately came upon,a 4 ft. deep Tool. 7e dropped our -. a,c!.:s and junDed in. The water as sur7,-)risinly 7%rm.
-Here the Kerripit River is like the lo--,-.r 7.anan ra River, but overhung with. vino, mosses and orchids hanging frcx: tr.es. ), s -Te ro&L-lippy,ed onwards tho river began to ste'Ten sli:,htly rith cascades on every bend._ Th9 szli,4:2:ing ,,,Tra.,,,s -b;,:.err,:ndaus,.. _ -.ZDS S 42f, another t.f2y. a. dam: buliaing-,t one of	,9 cascarie 1.)12:.ti- ile es quite 1-ms uc a s s Ai I in	1 '
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-s.	The S-dney Bushwalker	Ireebruary 1969
-hanging rocks (or bivv7 20017.S) cm also	oaffiped under.
-OT lunch efe stopped above a 15 ft. drop in the river below which 77r,S a swileming .00l. Form, our tree-climbr, rushed up to	scrubby tree tops travers:nc from one tree top to another, using thic vines as ropes. Ross also fel energetic. Fe followed Norm onto the first tree. CRASH: It was too much. The ,2econd tree also L.;ave
-Clouds changed from milky white to grey.. it a:Tea ed and slowly but surely it stated drizzling. Waterfalls 20-40 ft. loomed ahead malein way for an interesting scramble.
-e ceuldn't iet uch -letter as our swimming to,s's were still wet from the last swim. It 'as .eleasant to feel the rain slashing in our faces after the hot weeks in the city. flocks sli 'eery and wet,
-slowed our -rogrnss censiderebly. 'Te clambered up and around 3 or 4 waterfalls about 30 ft. high and camped 'The e the c-4eel'-. leveled out.
-Lt 3600 ft. it as rat:',er cold for a summer's afternoon. A :'-uffe fire
-was lit, a feed cooked, and off to OUT fl a bags.
-"iioss built a shelter under some trees using long dead branches criss-crossiree .ach other and coverin the structure witl) a plastic Ground sh et. It as a good substitute for a sutff7 old tent.
-The next clay was clear and we walked up the river until it
-was feasible to cliba lidge to reach the fire trail leading to Carey's Peak. Small tree:s and lawyer vines made 7a7 to a tall forest ef eucalypts at least 100 ft. high and up to 8 ft. 'la diameter. Scrate-ings of 1Trebirds. or brush turkeys were seen. This ez:.ea should be in the :proposed - Barrington National ?alt. Lawyer vines may have tri7-)od us ve.?, but it was little noticed as 70 felt so small among suc:A
-The change in vegetation was intc.irestinc:, from tall eucalypt forest the tress Gradu,elly became smaller as we climbed until at about. 4500 ft. stunted blue Ezums and "snow* grass" remained.
-Afte'5 5 uiles of road bashing and lots of swee,t we stopped for a snack in the middle of t'7,e fire trail at a junction. Five minutes later a Landrover nearly ran over us, carryinE camrors w7-o 7.ad driven up
-from Barrington House. S me minutes later we met two otber jeeps full of housewifely tourists - a real hieh-ay! -e trotted off to Carey's Peak
-(5 minutes from the road) and were rewarded with a hazy view of creeks
-and rid s from the ton. Other creeks from Cae'ey's Yeak looked most
-interesting and jeeegley and .ne, rid,e:es looked reasonab'e oing. :Meting
-anot:,er handful of tourists, :e immediatey left for to 7eace and
-Pobraury 1969.	The Sydney BushrTalker
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-quiet of Barrington
-:ncirclin:: a large s .amp after walking along anoth9r fire trail for a mile, -e started scrub bashing down a tiny creel:. 7riecly underErow-E2 and lawyer vines 7a e abund:mt until %:e reached the Barrington Riv,-,r which -as. qui e large even high in its head7;aters. On our -ay we saved a trout (8" lon,:,) from c-rtain d. .hydration in a tiny roo:. Half an hour aft ,r a hot lunch .e reached a swiming po-1  the ideal lunch spot. .70c.,t mismana-ementl
-Strangers in Tno; camp  2 trout fishermen Tere sighted. They had cauht 3 but they were only 8" long.	e couldn't qui'e make out how they :.:ached the rivor a-f-oarently only alking a short distance. Before tre reached a third fishe=an, Gerry, Norm, and I bombed another two pools from 40 Zt and 20 ft. up. I hope we scared ti:e trout as they Looked a bit undersized to Els.
-e campEA a courleof riJ.es dolmstroam -there the river seemed to diappear into a gorze between gigantic boulders. It was very misty that night. Luckily Dot discovered some Tverhanging TO01.-3 quite big on-ugh for 5 but soje	have got e.JG if it re,ined too hard.	second
-overhanEing rocl: was found.
-After our monstrous me.ls -e took leave of the hot fire ana cold rain for our warm sleepinc, bags. The roar from an 80 ft. T-Taterfall 50 yards away drowsed us off into deep slee. Dot told us next morning that Gerry had suddenly sat up in his flea bag during the night and soutede ''ho's that?" looking ot lights across the	 no reply.
-Dot tricd to look out of her sleepy eyes and saw only El-oworms between the rocks.
-"Look at -Vat!"	exclaimed, That is it?"
-Dot explained to us that the 717ole river valley as mistily lit up by the moon trying to tiieroe through a bahk of clouds. It looked quite eerie.
-The next morning the two corners of my sl=eping bag were soaked but none the worse for it. A.-ter beaky, we clambered around the side of a tree covered cliffface to get down and around the 8 waterfall. In actual fact i-, as a a long slip-c,ery	60 ft.	600	and a boulder at the bottom to stop you, just in case you -ent too fast. For the next 2 miles the going as slow. 'Izge boulders (house type) and small waterfalls which had to be scrambled around. Very similar to Bungonia block--up except that it as very slipl)er7 in the drizzling rain
-lodgs we_e just not to be trusted.	"'ill I slip, or won't I?" "Is tht green slippery growth on the reel: or is -that a ireencolourcd rock?" Three of the -oartv tool: of thir sandshoes and claiza_d a better grip on the ricks.
 .	The Sydney Bush7alker	February 1969
 At least you	you're slipiDinc", Gerry mentionde