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-Established June 1931
+====== The Sydney Bushwalker. ======
-A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.45 pm at the Cahill Community Centre (Upper Hall), 34 Falcon Street, Crow's Nest.
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+Established June 1931.
-EDITOR: Ainslie Morris, 45 Austin Street, Lane Cove 2066. Telephone 428 3178.
-BUSINESS MANAGER: Bill Burke, 3 Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford 2118. Telephone 871 1207.
+A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.45 pm at the Cahill Community Centre (Upper Hall), 34 Falcon Street, Crow's Nest.
-PRODUCTION MANAGER: Helen Gray. TYPIST: Kath Brown.
-PRINTERS: Fran Longfoot & Barry Wallace.
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-MAY 1986.
+|**Editor**|Ainslie Morris, 45 Austin Street, Lane Cove, 2066. Telephone 428 3178.|
-Northern Budawangs Walk - Easter 1986 Away From it All
+|**Business Manager**|Bill Burke, 3 Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, 2118. Telephone 871 1207.|
-Bodytalk
+|**Production Manager**|Helen Gray.|
-Advertisement - Fiji Adventure Eastwood Camping Centre Tantangara to Brindabella
+|**Typist**|Kath Brown.|
-Ben Esgate - A Living Epitaph
+|**Printers**|Fran Longfoot & Barry Wallace.|
-Advertisement - Canoe & Camping, Gladesville Anyone Interested in a Trip to Paradise? New Members
-Conservation Corner - Letter to the Editor Has Conservation Gone Off Course? Notes of Committee Meeting 7.5.86 Just a Minute - Fifty-five years ago The April General Meeting
+=== May, 1986 ===
-Advertisement - Blackheath Taxi Social Notes - June
-ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION - Form to send in
+===== In This Issue: =====
-Page by Elwyn Morris 2
+| | |Page|
-Ainslie Morris 4
+|Northern Budawangs Walk - Easter 1986|Elwyn Morris| 2|
+|Away From it All| | 3|
+|Bodytalk|Ainslie Morris| 4|
-Janet Waterhouse 7
+|Tantangara to Brindabella|Janet Waterhouse| 7|
-Charlie Brown 11
+|Ben Esgate - A Living Epitaph|Charlie Brown|11|
- Marion Lloyd 13
+|Anyone Interested in a Trip to Paradise?|Marion Lloyd|13|
+|New Members| |13|
-Alex Colley 14
+|Conservation Corner - Letter to the Editor|Alex Colley|14|
-Mark Weatherley 15
+|Has Conservation Gone Off Course?|Mark Weatherley|15|
+|Notes of Committee Meeting 7.5.86| |17|
-Barry Wallace 18
+|Just a Minute - Fifty-five years ago| |17|
+|The April General Meeting|Barry Wallace|18|
-Narelle Lovell 1,20
+|Social Notes - June|Narelle Lovell|20|
+|Annual Subscription - Form to send in| |20|
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-Page 2 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER  May, 1986.
+===== Advertisements: =====
-NORTHERN BUDAWANGS WALK - EASTER, 1986.
-LED BY MAURIE BLOOM.
+| |Page|
+|Fiji Adventure| 5|
+|Eastwood Camping Centre| 6|
+|Canoe & Camping, Gladesville|12|
+|Blackheath Taxi|18|
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+===== Northern Budawangs - Easter, 1986. =====
+=== Led by Maurie Bloom. ===
 by Elwyn Morris.
-After a bad road from Nowra so deep in dust that I put my headlights on in daylight, we met the rest of the party of 19 at 9 am on Good Friday at the Nerriga pub, very much closed after a singalong the night before.
-managed to navigate my way across the paddocks to an alternative toilet however. The Ladies, in the middle of nowhere, was big and new and had a
+After a bad road from Nowra so deep in dust that I put my headlights on in daylight, we met the rest of the party of 19 at 9 am on Good Friday at the Nerriga pub, very much closed after a singalong the night before. I managed to navigate my way across the paddocks to an alternative toilet however. The Ladies, in the middle of nowhere, was big and new and had a sign nearby announcing that funding came from the Department of Leisure, Sport and Tourism (???).
-sign nearby announcing that funding came from the Department of Leisure, Sport and Tourism (???).
-As a tourist mecca, Nerriga consists of half-a-dozen slab huts; from one chimney the smoke curled up from the fuel stove lit for breakfast.
+As a tourist mecca, Nerriga consists of half-a-dozen slab huts; from one chimney the smoke curled up from the fuel stove lit for breakfast. According to the fascinating little museum in the old schoolhouse, where Maurie led us first, Nerriga had been a lively stopover on the old bullock dray route from the inland to the coast.
-According to the fascinating little museum in the old schoolhouse, where Maurie led us first, Nerriga had been a lively stopover on the old bullock dray route from the inland to the coast.
-We left the cars at a farm which took no responsibility if the horses took a dislike to them and kicked them (they didn't). Four-wheel drives
+We left the cars at a farm which took no responsibility if the horses took a dislike to them and kicked them (they didn't). Four-wheel drives could have been more resentful of bushwalkers; we met two park rangers who said a 4WD tried to knock down a new gate the night before. When we saw the gate at lunchtime on the Endrick it had one post torn out and was semicircular, looking as if a very angry and very stupid bull had charged it because it barred the way to __his__ territory.
-could have been more resentful of hushwalkers; we met two park rangers who said a 4WD tried to knock down a new gate the night before. When we saw the gate at lunchtime on the Endrick it had one post torn out and was semicircular, looking as if a very angry and very stupid bull had charged it because it barred the way to HIS territory.
 At this point we lost Frank Taeker to his magic mushrooms for the weekend (he photographs fungi), while the rest of us plunged into leechland. We even camped in it near Whitecat Sawmill on picturesque green sward among tree ferns, in a fine drizzle which failed to dampen spirits.
 Among the four superfit prospectives was Gordon whose accent was originally English but overlaid with 16 years of Ohio and Texas. Full of enthusiasm for Australia, his new country, he was unfazed by leeches but startled by a loud cricket - "There's an alarm clock in that bush!" he told me, in genuine bewilderment.
 I wasn't too happy about sleeping under a fly in rain with leeches around, so I covered my face and top of my sleeping bag with my trusty Aerogard and used it as a sort of mousse in my hair. But only one person was bitten that night, on the neck.
-Lost in the Mist.
-Next day Maurie led us to several lookouts with magnificent views, he reckoned, if only we could see them. After a bleak, wet lunch on a mountaintop (I think), our subdued, bedraggled party headed for the ominously named Folly Point. We got lost, retraced our steps, and then followed a series of cairns with sticks pointing the way, built by some kind group who must have got sick of being called out for S. & R. After slithering down a dramatic gorge of grey layered rocks, Watson's Pass, we welcomed a huge, dry camping cave with plenty of firewood, water and even
+=== Lost in the Mist. ===
-a shower (i.e. small waterfall) nearby, and room for everyone, even snorers.
-In front of a roaring fire after dinner Bob Younger practised his
+Next day Maurie led us to several lookouts with magnificent views, he reckoned, if only we could see them. After a bleak, wet lunch on a mountaintop (I think), our subdued, bedraggled party headed for the ominously named Folly Point. We got lost, retraced our steps, and then followed a series of cairns with sticks pointing the way, built by some kind group who must have got sick of being called out for S. & R. After slithering down a dramatic gorge of grey layered rocks, Watson's Pass, we welcomed a huge, dry camping cave with plenty of firewood, water and even a shower (i.e. small waterfall) nearby, and room for everyone, even snorers.
-newly learnt remedial foot massage on the ladies' aching backs. I shrieked
-with agony while Barbara Bruce squealed with pleasure. "How did you get
+In front of a roaring fire after dinner Bob Younger practised his newly learnt remedial foot massage on the ladies' aching backs. I shrieked with agony while Barbara Bruce squealed with pleasure. "How did you get such strong toes?" she asked. "My wife puts me out at night to sit on a perch with the chooks," Bob explained.
-such strong toes?" she asked. "My wife puts me out at night to sit on a
-perch with the chocks," Bob explained.
+The stars came out and as we'd prayed, Easter Sunday was sunny. After criss-crossing Holland's Creek through beautiful rainforest, Maurie took the record with 30 leeches at one deleeching stop. I got two, only because the river washed off my Aerogard at the ankles, and David Underwood got none, because he inspected his shoes every five minutes.
-The stars came out and as we'd prayed, Easter Sunday was sunny. After criss-crossing Holland's Creek through beautiful rainforest, Maurie took the record with 30 leeches at one deleeching stop. I got two, only because
-the river washed off my Aerogard at the ankles, and David Underwood got none, because he inspected his shoes every five minutes.
+[ Illustration by Morag Ryder, "Clyde Gorge from Folly Point lookout" ]
-May, 1986. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 3
-Illustration by Morag Ryder
 Then an enormous climb of about 2,500 feet, gruelling for me and Judy if no one else, with mountain views making up for the unseen ones the day before, to our campsite on the top of Mount Tarn. There we ran into Carol Bruce, Bill Capon and Matthew Walton, doing their own thing.
-Jo Van Sommers, whose idea it was to camp on Mount Tarn, had promised us a sunrise - and in spite of heavy mist overnight there was a cloudless, golden one next morning. It was greeted excitedly by our mob of sun worshippers, assembled on a high knoll with mountains rolling away in the
-distance below. Hans Stichter crowed like a rooster as the sun rose, we'd have felt even more uplifted if we'd known Sydney was getting two days of
+Jo Van Sommers, whose idea it was to camp on Mount Tarn, had promised us a sunrise - and in spite of heavy mist overnight there was a cloudless, golden one next morning. It was greeted excitedly by our mob of sun worshippers, assembled on a high knoll with mountains rolling away in the distance below. Hans Stichter crowed like a rooster as the sun rose; we'd have felt even more uplifted if we'd known Sydney was getting two days of rain. It's usually the other way round with the Budawangs.
-rain. It's usually the other way round with the Budawangs.
 Down from Mount Tarn, across tussocky plains and along firetrails where the only hazards were ants - Denise: "Maurie, the ants are getting into the food!" Maurie, in command of the situation as usual: "I'll speak to them, Denise."
-A final swim in a big pool meant we arrived at the cars in an unusually fresh, clean state, ready for two and a half hours of dirt road to Marulan, to avoid the coastal traffic. After a Chinese meal at Mittagong, where the key to success is to ask for "No extra salt", we had another straight run to Sydney with heavy but fast traffic - a total 4i hours. This is a longer but probably faster route from the Budawangs on holiday weekends.
+A final swim in a big pool meant we arrived at the cars in an unusually fresh, clean state, ready for two and a half hours of dirt road to Marulan, to avoid the coastal traffic. After a Chinese meal at Mittagong, where the key to success is to ask for "No extra salt", we had another straight run to Sydney with heavy but fast traffic - a total 4½ hours. This is a longer but probably faster route from the Budawangs on holiday weekends.
 Thank you, Maurie, for a memorable Easter!
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-AWAY FROM IT ALL.
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-Like to get away from it all for three months? Queanbeyan photographer-writer EDWARD STOKES is looking for a co-driver to join him in re-tracing McDouall Stuart's transcontinental expeditions later this year, for a book. Ed knows the outback well. After years roaming around Broken Hill he spent three months in 1984 retracing Sturt's expedition from the Darling River to the Simpson De.sert, also for a book. In 1985 he retraced Lasseter's journeys for Dick Smith's Australian Geographic. From late July until October this year he's travelling Stuart's routes, from
-Adelaide to Darwin. Interested co-drivers write with personal details
+===== Away From It All. =====
-to Ed at:- Edward Stokes, Box 1104, Queanbeyan, N.S.W., 2620.
-Page 4 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER May, 1986.
+Like to get away from it all for three months? Queanbeyan photographer-writer Edward Stokes is looking for a co-driver to join him in re-tracing McDouall Stuart's transcontinental expeditions later this year, for a book. Ed knows the outback well. After years roaming around Broken Hill he spent three months in 1984 retracing Sturt's expedition from the Darling River to the Simpson Desert, also for a book. In 1985 he retraced Lasseter's journeys for Dick Smith's Australian Geographic. From late July until October this year he's travelling Stuart's routes, from Adelaide to Darwin. Interested co-drivers write with personal details to Ed at:- Edward Stokes, Box 1104, Queanbeyan, N.S.W., 2620.
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 -1111016 by Ainslie Morris.