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- | "RHYMES OF THE TIMES" | + | ===== "Rhymes Of The Times" |
by Jim Brown. | by Jim Brown. | ||
+ | |||
For the 1986 Reunion Campfire a sketch called " | For the 1986 Reunion Campfire a sketch called " | ||
- | We are probably jealous of our name, because when the Club decided to call itself "The Sydney Bush Walkers" | + | |
+ | We are probably jealous of our name, because when the Club decided to call itself "The Sydney Bush Walkers" | ||
One of the songs in the Reunion sketch (rather more serious than the rest) was called "Name of the Game", and used the traditional English melody " | One of the songs in the Reunion sketch (rather more serious than the rest) was called "Name of the Game", and used the traditional English melody " | ||
- | No. 1 - "NAME OF THE GAME". | + | |
- | The term "Bush Walking"' | + | === No. 1 - "Name of the Game" |
+ | |||
+ | The term "Bush Walking"' | ||
+ | And __we__ | ||
+ | Whether we perish or go down to fame\\ | ||
That is the name no other should claim. | That is the name no other should claim. | ||
- | Walkers, Walkers, Sydney Bush Walkers Our'S is the name - the NAME OF THE GAME. While ever we last - now, future or past That is a name no other should claim. | + | |
- | The seeds by our founders were carefully sown And other bush walkers have come to be known, The ranks of the walkers have grown and grown | + | Walkers, Walkers, Sydney Bush Walkers\\ |
- | But the NAME OF THE GAME is our own.... is our own. | + | Our's is the name - the Name of the Game.\\ |
- | Walkers, Walkers, Sydney Bush Walkers | + | While ever we last - now, future or past\\ |
- | No. 2 - "INCORPORATION" | + | That is a name no other should claim. |
+ | |||
+ | The seeds by our founders were carefully sown\\ | ||
+ | And other bush walkers have come to be known,\\ | ||
+ | The ranks of the walkers have grown and grown\\ | ||
+ | But the Name of the Game is our own.... is our own. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Walkers, Walkers, Sydney Bush Walkers.... etc. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === No. 2 - "Incorporation" | ||
(John Styx' song from Offenbach' | (John Styx' song from Offenbach' | ||
- | Will we be incorporated? | + | |
- | Will we become a Company? | + | Will we be incorporated? |
- | On the Stock Exchange be rated? - We will have to wait and see. | + | Will we become a Company?\\ |
- | If we go Incorporated | + | On the Stock Exchange be rated? -\\ |
- | Will it drive us round the Bend? If our profits get inflated Will we pay a dividend? | + | We will have to wait and see. |
- | Will we be Incorporated? | + | |
+ | If we go Incorporated\\ | ||
+ | Will it drive us round the Bend?\\ | ||
+ | If our profits get inflated\\ | ||
+ | Will we pay a dividend? | ||
+ | |||
+ | Will we be Incorporated? | ||
+ | Will we become a Company?\\ | ||
+ | Can it be anticipated\\ | ||
No one sues just me and thee? | No one sues just me and thee? | ||
- | In the circumstance | + | |
+ | In the circumstance | ||
+ | Once we're really integrated\\ | ||
+ | Will our risk be dissipated?\\ | ||
We will just have to wait and see. | We will just have to wait and see. | ||
- | Page 6 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1986. | + | |
- | NOW WHAT? | + | ---- |
- | FIRST AID. | + | |
+ | ===== Now What? First Aid. ===== | ||
by Ainslie Morris. | by Ainslie Morris. | ||
- | Last in the series on FIRST AID to test your knowledge of what to do in a bush emergency. | + | |
- | SITUATION | + | Last in the series on First Aid to test your knowledge of what to do in a bush emergency. |
+ | |||
+ | === Situation | ||
A member of the party slips on a rock and a loose rock rolls on to the foot and ankle. | A member of the party slips on a rock and a loose rock rolls on to the foot and ankle. | ||
- | PLACE: A creek in open level country about 1 km from a long steep fire trail. | + | |
- | SIGNS: Tenderness in ankle, swelling, bruising. | + | __Place__: A creek in open level country about 1 km from a long steep fire trail. |
- | SYMPTOMS: Pain, pallor, difficulty in walking. | + | |
- | TEST: What is your - | + | __Signs__: Tenderness in ankle, swelling, bruising. |
- | (1) IMMEDIATE ACTION? | + | |
- | (2) ASSESSMENT | + | __Symptoms__: Pain, pallor, difficulty in walking. |
- | (3) TREATMENT | + | |
- | (4) FURTHER ACTION | + | __Test__: What is your - |
- | KANANGRA BOYD | + | |
- | UPPER BLUE MOUNTAINS | + | - Immediate action? |
- | SIX FOOT TRACK | + | - Assessment |
- | PICK UP ANYWHERE FOR START OR FINISH OF YOUR WALK - BY PRIOR ARRANGEMENT | + | - TreatmentT |
- | Share the Fare Competitive Rates | + | - Further action |
- | BELVEDERE TAXIS BLACKHEATH | + | |
- | 10 SEATER MINI BUS TAXI | + | For possible answers |
- | 047-87 8366 | + | |
- | March, 1986. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 7 | + | ---- |
- | NOTES FOR YOUR GUIDANCE | + | |
+ | === Belvedere Taxis Blackheath. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | 10 seater mini bus taxi. 041-87 8366. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Kanagra Boyd. Upper Blue Mountains. Six Foot Track. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Pick up anywhere for start or finish of your walk - by prior arrangement. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Share the fare - competitive rates. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Notes For Your Guidance - Potato Point To Bithry Inlet. ===== | ||
by Helen Gray. | by Helen Gray. | ||
- | "If it was such a good trip, why don't you write it up for the magazine?" | ||
- | (For two reasons. Firstly, the typist wants it yesterday and, secondly, the cast was so many and varied - in both | ||
- | numbers and types - I can't do justice to them as personalities and friends.) | ||
- | We started our walk at Potato Point, a small coastal holiday-type settlement | ||
- | due east of Bodalla, and finished at Picnic Point near Bithry Inlet (or Lake Wapengo). The walking distance was about 85 km, | ||
- | spread over 5i days. The party varied from 19 to 12 persons throughout the trip. | ||
- | Country towns - Avoid them or use them? | ||
- | Cm or two of the regular coastChristmas-trip-walkers declined to come this time because of the amount of " | ||
- | advantage for some; those who would have been excluded from most trips because they couldn' | ||
- | towns and times. This meant, of course, | ||
- | that the trip had to be well-timed, and certainly car swapping needed some extra thought, but it did mean the pleasure of the company of friends I would otherwise not have walked with. By having one food- | ||
- | party I was able to put food parcels in various cars, so that for the first two days we had light packs, and when at Narooma we met Barbara Evans we collected her plus the next two days food. When | ||
- | Jo van Sommers and three others left us on Sunday we were able to collect from that car three days food for the remaining 12 people for the last few days. (For those questioning my arithmetic, there | ||
- | were many other comings and goings that I've not mentiond.) | ||
- | Lake Wo/losc, | ||
- | Bermo3u; | ||
- | Barasoof Lake | ||
- | Cu.th2 La.ke | ||
- | ge4- | ||
- | 11+0+0 | ||
- | Lake. Phumwwla. | ||
- | Norooma | ||
- | Norsgudgo Lake | ||
- | Nargal Lk. | ||
- | Cape Drotneciar3 | ||
- | Tdba Tilbct Lake | ||
- | --d' | ||
- | -The towns also enabled us to buy fresh bread and meat when needed. As for the towns themselves, they are of the fishing/ holiday home type, usually on estuaries, surrounded by dairying country, and even at this peak holiday time, relatively un- | ||
- | crowded. We found that most, if not all, Arrovnnu people swam at the beach nearest the town and we had only to walk to the next beach to be by ourselves again. We always lunched and camped in complete seclusion. | ||
- | Bahry Inlet | ||
- | Picric Pt. | ||
- | Scale | ||
- | 4 miles = 1" | ||
- | /1w-roll Lake | ||
- | Goolen Head | ||
- | oclirinosa Rcmks Ben3unni.4 | ||
- | Page 8 March, 1986. | ||
- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | ||
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- | 1.6 | + | "If it was such a good trip, why don't you write it up for the magazine?" |
- | ----,-111511 | + | |
- | ,:..., | + | We started our walk at Potato Point, a small coastal holiday-type settlement due east of Bodalla, and finished at Picnic Point near Bithry Inlet (or Lake Wapengo). The walking distance was about 85 km, spread over 5½ days. The party varied from 19 to 12 persons throughout the trip. |
- | t' | + | |
- | en Run nt, ... nirn. oso R or-4s Alai; 11: | + | === Country towns - Avoid them or use them? === |
- | Lakes and Estuaries. | + | |
- | This stretch of coast abounds in fresh water lakes, many with deep | + | Pme or two of the regular coast-Christmas-trip-walkers declined to come this time because of the amount of " |
- | outlets to the sea. Three outlets are " | + | |
- | Lake Wallaga, and Bermagui River. Map information can be misleading. Two | + | [ Map - Potato Point to Bithry Inlet. ] |
- | lakes shown as closed to the sea proved to be deep crossings. Our trip | + | |
- | coincided | + | The towns also enabled us to buy fresh bread and meat when needed. As for the towns themselves, they are of the fishing / holiday home type, usually on estuaries, surrounded by dairying country, and even at this peak holiday time, relatively uncrowded. We found that most, if not all, people swam at the beach nearest the town and we had only to walk to the next beach to be by ourselves again. We always lunched and camped in complete seclusion. |
- | at the lowest tides. Although most were only waist deep then, they were very fast-flowing and the sandy bottoms soft and uneven. Crossing right at the ocean' | + | |
- | shallowest. Even so, I was glad to be in a big party, able to cross in | + | [ Drawing |
- | groups holding on to one another. | + | |
- | Fresh Water. | + | === Lakes and Estuaries. |
- | While the guide books and the locals all declare a lack of water, we didn't find it any problem. Certainly running water is in short supply, | + | |
- | but many beaches have small lakes and swamps behind the dunes. And one of | + | This stretch of coast abounds in fresh water lakes, many with deep outlets to the sea. Three outlets are " |
- | these, showing no signs of anyone camping there before, was positively | + | |
- | idyllic. " | + | === Fresh Water. |
- | showers too. He also kept his distance - I guess we stank!) | + | |
- | Transport. | + | While the guide books and the locals all declare a lack of water, we didn't find it any problem. Certainly running water is in short supply, but many beaches have small lakes and swamps behind the dunes. And one of these, showing no signs of anyone camping there before, was positively idyllic. " |
- | Our trip, with its coming and goings, involved quite complicated car- swap arrangements. | + | |
- | extra half day for getting cars to the other end and one car returning with | + | === Transport. |
- | the drivers. The road distance must be almost double the walking distance | + | |
- | of 85 km along the beaches, as a glance at a map will show, so the returning | + | Our trip, with its coming and goings, involved quite complicated car- swap arrangements. |
- | car (in our case, George' | + | |
- | of our party used the bus service, which has a lot to recommend it. Buses | + | === Highlights. |
- | tie in with the trains which terminate at Bomaderry, near Nowra. | + | |
- | Highlights. | + | This is a beautiful stretch of coast, so comparisons are between good, better or best! The section near Tilba Tilba was quite beautiful. We walked along a farm road on the cliff top, with views of the sea to our left, to our right a lake, and beyond the grassed hills of dairy farms with the backdrop of Mount Dromedary. |
- | This is a beautiful stretch of coast, so comparisons are between good, better or best! The section near Tilba Tilba was quite beautiful. We | + | |
- | walked along a farm road on the cliff top, with views of the sea to our left, to our right a lake, and beyond the grassed hills of dairy farms with the backdrop of Mount Dromedary. | + | My favourite area was south from Murrah Lake, particularly Goalen Head, a wide grassy headland from which there are views up and down the coast. Just beyond the headland are some of the most beautiful secluded beaches you could ever hope to find. The rolling farmlands now give way to the natural vegetation and more rugged coastline of Mimosa Rocks National Park. Here we were forced to climb inland over a low range before dropping to the next beach, Aragunnu, where we camped. A couple of hours in the bush made a nice change after days of sand, rocks and grasslands, but the heat soon made us long for a sea breeze again. |
- | My favourite area was south from Murrah Lake, particularly Goalen | + | |
- | Head, a wide grassy headland from which there are views up and down the coast. Just beyond the headland are some of the most beautiful secluded beaches you could ever hope to find. The rolling farmlands now give way to the natural | + | From here to Bithry Inlet is completely trackless. Above the small beaches the land rises steeply. When it is necessary to leave the beaches one finds oneself in very scratchy scrub, but if one goes in further and higher the vegetation changes to trees with grass underneath. Apart from a few campers at Aragunnu and again at Picnic Point (where we had left a car) we saw no sign of anyone, not even a footprint in the sand. Being our last day I didn't look for a campsite, but for a party of our size it may have been a problem, unless we had slept on the sand. Small streams or soaks can be found at most beaches. The sands are really white, so the sea appeared an intense turquoise. Glorious! |
- | vegetation and more rugged coastline of Mimosa Rocks National Park. Here | + | |
- | March, 1986. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 9 | + | |
- | we were forced to climb inland over a low range before dropping to the next beach, Aragunnu, where we camped. A couple of hours in the bush made a nice change after days of sand, rocks and grasslands, but the heat soon made us long for a sea breeze again. | + | |
- | From here to Bithry Inlet is completely trackless. Above the small beaches the land rises steeply. When it is necessary to leave the beaches one finds oneself in very scratchy scrub, but if one goes in further and higher the vegetation changes to trees with grass underneath. Apart from a few campers at Aragunnu and again at Picnic Point (where we had left a car) we saw no sign of anyone, not even a footprint in the sand. Being our last day I didn't look for a campsite, but for a party of our size it may have been a problem, unless we had slept on the sand. Small streams or soaks can be found at most beaches. The sands are really white, so the sea | + | |
- | appeared an intense turquoise. Glorious! | + | |
And the final ingredient for a great trip was there; a compatible group. We were a mixture of oldies and youngies, males and females, extroverts and quiet ones, with different occupations, | And the final ingredient for a great trip was there; a compatible group. We were a mixture of oldies and youngies, males and females, extroverts and quiet ones, with different occupations, | ||
- | * * * * * * * * * | + | |
- | FROM THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY. | + | ---- |
- | 1. RAINFOREST. | + | |
- | Dial 015 to send a telegram or send a telex in office hours to the Prime MInister, R. Hawke (number is 61616 Canberra) to " | + | ===== From The Wilderness Society. ===== |
- | 2. KAKADU. | + | |
+ | === 1. Rainforest. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dial 015 to send a telegram or send a telex in office hours to the Prime MInister, R. Hawke (number is 61616 Canberra) to " | ||
+ | |||
+ | === 2. Kakadu. === | ||
Stage 3 has been promised as National Park but there are 60 or so mining leases in it. Write short leters asking for Stage 3 to go ahead immediately, | Stage 3 has been promised as National Park but there are 60 or so mining leases in it. Write short leters asking for Stage 3 to go ahead immediately, | ||
- | TO: The Prime Minister, | + | |
- | Mr. R. Hawke, | + | __To__: The Prime Minister,\\ |
- | Parliament | + | Mr. R. Hawke,\\ |
- | CANBERRA. A.C.T. | + | Parliament |
- | ********* | + | Canberra. A.C.T. |
- | REPORT OF COMMITTEE MEETING OF 5/ | + | |
+ | Mr. Barry Cohen,\\ | ||
+ | Minister the for Environment. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Senator Gareth Evans,\\ | ||
+ | Minister for Resources and Energy. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Report Of Committee Meeting Of 5/ | ||
Coolana' | Coolana' | ||
+ | |||
The printing equipment will probably be moved in April. | The printing equipment will probably be moved in April. | ||
+ | |||
The Constitutional Amendments were further discussed with a view to presenting a new draft Constitution at a future Extraordinary Meeting. | The Constitutional Amendments were further discussed with a view to presenting a new draft Constitution at a future Extraordinary Meeting. | ||
- | * * * * * * * * * * | + | |
- | NEW MEMBERS. Please add the following names to your List of Members. | + | ---- |
- | COOKSLEY, Gayle, Box 1359 G.P.O., Sydney, 2001 Phone 92 6977 | + | |
- | GRACE, Geoff, 23A Alexandra Street, Hunters HIll, 2110 817 2807 | + | ===== New Members. ===== |
- | MATTHEWS, David, 15 Womerah Street, Turramurra, 2074 449 4037 | + | |
- | ICAMPING EQUIPMENT | + | Please add the following names to your List of Members. |
- | DISTRIBUTORS OF: | + | |
- | Paddymade | + | Cooksley, Gayle, Box 1359 G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. Phone 92 6977.\\ |
- | BUSHWALKERS | + | Grace, Geoff, 23A Alexandra Street, Hunters HIll, 2110. 817 2807.\\ |
- | ILightweight Tents Sleeping Bags Rucksacks | + | Matthews, David, 15 Womerah Street, Turramurra, 2074. 449 4037. |
- | Proprietors: | + | |
- | Rowe Street | + | ---- |
- | EASTWOOD CANVAS GOODS & CAMPING SUPPLIES | + | |
- | March, 1986 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 11 | + | === Eastwood Camping Centre. === |
+ | |||
+ | __Bushwalkers__. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Lightweight Tents - Sleeping Bags - Rucksacks - Climbing & Caving Gear - Maps - Clothing - Boots - Food. | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Camping equipment__. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Large Tents - Stoves | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Distributors of__: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Paddymade | ||
+ | |||
+ | Proprietors: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Eastwood Canvas Good & Camping Supplies. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 3 Trelawney | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
A BREAK IN TIME. | A BREAK IN TIME. | ||
South Coast, Xmas 1985. by Joan Rigby. | South Coast, Xmas 1985. by Joan Rigby. |
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