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 ====== Is There a Doctor in the House? ======
- by Jim Brown. (From "The Sydney Bushwalker" - November, 1953.)
+by Jim Brown. (From "The Sydney Bushwalker" - November, 1953.)
-Morning papers on October 21st reported an operation carried out by expert gynaecologists on a lioness at Taronga Park. The surgery was performed with all mod. cons. including anaesthetics, and no doubt a stiff fee (including danger money) was paid to the sawbones.... However.... On the previous weekend Dave Brown's party from the Mini Mini Range operated on an eagle at the junction of Gibraltar Creek with the Cox, free, gratis, and without publicity. It happened like this.
+Morning papers on October 21st reported an operation carried out by expert gynaecologists on a lioness at Taronga Park. The surgery was performed with all mod cons. including anaesthetics, and no doubt a stiff fee (including danger money) was paid to the sawbones.... However.... On the previous weekend Dave Brown's party from the Mini Mini Range operated on an eagle at the junction of Gibraltar Creek with the Cox, free, gratis, and without publicity. It happened like this.
 The party found the wedge-tail squatting forlornly on rocks along the edge of the Cox, with the talons of one foot caught in a rabbit trap. Evidently it had happened some days previously, for the bird was too weak to fly. This posed a problem: plainly death by starvation was only a matter of time, yet no one was very happy about approaching those razor claws, or the curved beak, or the bent wings.
-However Dr. Frank Barr took photographs (for medicinal reasons only, of course): and Dr. Richard Hoffman administered the anaesthetic (with a six-foot pole of driftwood). Thereupon Drs. David Brown and Kenneth Meadows, with nurses Sheila Binns, Beryl Christiansen and Kath Brown hovering in the background, removed the foreign body from the patient.
+However Dr. Frank Barr took photographs (for medicinal reasons only, of course) and Dr. Richard Hoffman administered the anaesthetic (with a six-foot pole of driftwood). Thereupon Drs. David Brown and Kenneth Meadows, with nurses Sheila Binns, Beryl Christiansen and Kath Brown hovering in the background, removed the foreign body from the patient.
-For a time post-operative complications were feared, and at one stage it was thought that the anaesthetist had been over-enthusiastic. However the patient rallied after a time, and after a convalescent period of about two hours, took off, flying slowly at a low level down the river.
+For a time post-operative complications were feared, and at one stage it was thought that the anaesthetist had been over-enthusiastic. However the patient rallied after a time, and after a convalescent period of about two hours, took off flying slowly at a low level down the river.
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-A SEMINAR ON THE THINGS WE SHOULD
+**A SEMINAR ON THE THINGS WE SHOULD KEEP**
-"Local Government and the National Estate" on at Wesley College, University of Sydney.
+"Local Government and the National Estate" on August 20-22, 1986  at Wesley College, University of Sydney.
 If you require a brochure and application form, Total Environment Centre, 27 4714 or 27 2523.
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+====== Watery Wadbilliga ======
 Bob Younger
-Out walking party in mid October was small - Reg Alder, Tim Coffey, Bill Hall, Charles Hill from Canberra and myself. We intended to walk for two days around the headwaters of the Tuross River and then for a day in Big Badja area (Deua N.P.) and finally visit the Big Hole near the Shoal, haven. Luckily we used two camper vans for transport. The vans crossed the Tuross River easily on Monday afternoon. As we headed east to our base campsite where the Razorback firetrail crosses Black River it started to rain. It rained all night and we were happy to cook in the camper vans.
+Out walking party in mid October was small - Reg Alder, Tim Coffey, Bill Hall, Charles Hill from Canberra and myself. We intended to walk for two days around the headwaters of the Tuross River and then for a day in Big Badja area (Deua N.P.) and finally visit the Big Hole near the Shoalhaven. Luckily we used two camper vans for transport. The vans crossed the Tuross River easily on Monday afternoon. As we headed east to our base campsite where the Razorback firetrail crosses Black River it started to rain.
+It rained all night and we were happy to cook in the camper vans. Next morning dawned wet and dismal with a changed weather forecast to match. We set off early to see what the ridge was like. After several kilometres we found out - driving heavier rain, cloud down and casuarina heath very wet. We continued on the fire trail for a few kilometres to see if we could get under and out of the weather but to no avail.
+We therefore returned to camp and the pleasure of a cuppa and yarn in Reg's van which could comfortably seat us all. We should have departed at that stage. Down came the rain even heavier and Black River started to rise. By evening it was roaring. Next morning heavy rain still and high over all the rocks, the River ran sullen, fast and ominously quiet.
+In the afternoon the weather improved and we tried walking on the Kydra fire trail. Several flooded creeks were crossed and then we came to the Tuross several kilometres upstream.from our original crossing. It was dangerously high as expected and we turned back. The following morning we returned in the vans along Razorback fire trail, crossing several flooded creeks rather gingerly. We approached the original Tuross crossing with keen interest. It had dropped from its peak of about 100 metres wide, but was still almost one metre deep and flowing very fast with breakers and troughs.
+A small white house not far away looked occupied and we walked/waded there and obtained permission to camp on some high ground alongside the fire trail. I counted six separate thunderstorms circling us that afternoon and some of them were depressingly thorough with light hail, heavy rain and wind.
-Next morning dawned wet and dismal with a changed weather forecast to match. We set off early to see what the ridge was like. After several kilometres we found out - driving heavier rain, cloud down and casuarina heath very wet. We continued on the fire trail for a few kilometres to see if we could get under and out of the weather but to no avail.
-We therefore returned to camp and the pleasure of a cuppa and yarn in Reg's van which could comfortably seat us all. We should have departed at that stage. Down came the rain even heavier and Black River started to
-rise. By evening it was roaring. Next morning heavy rain still, and
-high over all the rocks, the River ran sullen, fast and ominously quiet.
-In the afternoon the weather improved and we tried walking on the Kydra fire trail. Several flooded creeks were crossed and then we came to the
-Tuross several kilometres upstream.from our original crossing. It was
-dangerously high as expected and we turned back. The following morning we returned in the vans along Razorback fire trail, crossing several flooded creeks rather gingerly. We approached the original Tuross crossing with
-keen interest. It had dropped from its peak of about 100 metres wide, but
-was still almost one metre deep and flowing very fast with breakers and troughs.
-A small white house not far away looked occupied and we walked/waded there and obtained permission to camp on some high ground alongside the fire trail. I counted six separate thunderstorms circling us that afternoon
-and some of them were depressingly thorough with light hail, heavy rain and wind.
 We were there from Thursday morning until 11 am Sunday. We were reminded of the risque song about the old ladies locked in the lavatory except that in our case the water was definitely, if slowly, getting lower and lower!
-Our hostess on the farm is a kind-hearted animal lover. She and her husband had bought the block when she had retired. He was working in Cooma/ Sydney. Her companions in the house were eight dogs and two birds, all of which had some disability (blind, deaf, three-legged, etc.) and had been poorly treated or not wanted. She had worked for a vet and Animal Welfare in Sydney and would sometimes accept the challenge of caring for an unfort-
-unate animal which appealed. You can imagine the uproarious welcome we got
+Our hostess on the farm is a kind-hearted animal lover. She and her husband had bought the block when she had retired. He was working in Cooma/ Sydney. Her companions in the house were eight dogs and two birds, all of which had some disability (blind, deaf, three-legged, etc.) and had been poorly treated or not wanted. She had worked for a vet and Animal Welfare in Sydney and would sometimes accept the challenge of caring for an unfortunate animal which appealed. You can imagine the uproarious welcome we got from this team whenever we visited!
-from this team whenever we visited!
-As the river dropped we could see several 'drifts' of soft sand deposited across the crossing. It was also possible that the rocky bottom
+As the river dropped we could see several 'drifts' of soft sand deposited across the crossing. It was also possible that the rocky bottom in the fastest current had been gouged out. So we borrowed shovels from
-in the fastest current had been gouged out. So we borrowed shovels from
+the farm and set about making the crossing negotiable again. This was cold and uncomfortable work; it was not possible for the first couple of days to stand in the main current without some prop.
-the farm and set about making the crossing negotiable again. This was cold and uncomfortable work; it was not possible for th first couple of days to stand in the main current without some prop.
-Luckily we had some additional food in the vans and also had medicants like muscat, fruit cake, nuts and sweet biscuits. However, as the fall
+Luckily we had some additional food in the vans and also had medicants like muscat, fruit cake, nuts and sweet biscuits. However, as the fall rate of the river slowed we rationed ourselves. Our farm friend had little extra stock and like us had to cross the river to replenish. After working our way to the far bank on Saturday, we attempted to find a farm house and purchase some eggs from the civilised side. Not far from the river we saw a car approaching and welcomed it as an indicator of food. It stopped, a man got out, opened a satchel and offered Reg, the nearest, a copy of The Watchtower. It was refused more emphatically than politely. He enquired about the crossing and again received an emphatic answer. After a quick look at the rest of us, disguised as wet, partly clad ruffians, he quickly re-entered the car which retraced its rough and muddy way.
-rate of the river slowed we rationed ourselves. Our farm friend had little
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-extra stock and like us had to cross the river to replenish. After working our way to the far bank on Saturday, we attempted to find a farm house and purchase some eggs from the civilised side. Not far from the river we saw a car approaching and welcomed it as an indicator of food. It stopped, a man got out, opened a satchel and offered Reg, the nearest, a copy of The Watchtower. It was refused more emphatically than politely. He enquired about the crossing and again received an emphatic answer. After a quick look at the rest of us, disguised as wet,partly clad ruffians, he quickly re-entered the car which retraced its rough and muddy way.
 We did not find an occupied farmhouse and with a keen wind and dropping temperature, eventually returned to camp. Prospects of getting the vans through the river the next day looked good. Morale was further lifted by a slap-up meal that night as our hostess let us buy some eggs and tinned ham.
-There was not much scope for walking while we waited, as in every direction there were flooded creeks and rivers and every fold in the undulations produced a wading problem. We passed the time monitorying the river height and rate of fall, grooming the crossing and rambling here and there.
-/
+There was not much scope for walking while we waited, as in every direction there were flooded creeks and rivers and every fold in the undulations produced a wading problem. We passed the time monitoring the river height and rate of fall, grooming the crossing and rambling here and there. We passed the time monitoring the River height.
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-'We passed the time monitoriig the River height..
 One morning we worked on the farm, mainly cutting away a large tree which had fallen on a fence and repairing the damage. We had regular cuppas and yarned at length about walking over the years and every other subject under the sun.
-We carefully calculated the highest safe water level for the vans. On Sunday morning it was obvious that the river would not fall that far for another day or two. We cut a stick to the actual highest level of the water and used it to survey our vans for possible dangers. Reg's van had a front
-cross me ber well placed to throw water on to the fan. Charles' van's fan was reasonably enclosed except for water coming through the radiator. Although some flotation force would be exerted by the partially empty water and petrol tanks, the water should do no more than splash the underneath of
-the high floors. The current was still quite fast and the water would be above the doors' bottoms but there would be no real danger, we judged, of
-being pushed sideways. Reg took off his fan belt. Charles had some heavy
---dastic and jammed it over the lower part of his radiator with a green branchlet whittled to size. Reg fashioned a cavitation inducer out of a food tin and fixed it to his exhaust. Ropes were attached to the front of
-the vehicles and coiled out of the way to avoid having to. do this under water if our precautions failed. Down to the river again to chart the optimum route across.
+We carefully calculated the highest safe water level for the vans. On Sunday morning it was obvious that the river would not fall that far for another day or two. We cut a stick to the actual highest level of the water and used it to survey our vans for possible dangers. Reg's van had a front cross member well placed to throw water on to the fan. Charles' van's fan was reasonably enclosed except for water coming through the radiator. Although some flotation force would be exerted by the partially empty water and petrol tanks, the water should do no more than splash the underneath of the high floors. The current was still quite fast and the water would be above the doors' bottoms but there would be no real danger, we judged, of being pushed sideways. Reg took off his fan belt. Charles had some heavy plastic and jammed it over the lower part of his radiator with a green branchlet whittled to size. Reg fashioned a cavitation inducer out of a food tin and fixed it to his exhaust. Ropes were attached to the front of the vehicles and coiled out of the way to avoid having to do this under water if our precautions failed. Down to the river again to chart the optimum route across.
-There were a few minutes of anticlimax as we started the motors and attempted to move off. The brake linings, saturated from creek crossings on Thursday had frozen to the drums in the very low temperature overnight.
-However we were able to free them after several jerks. We drove back to the top of the low ridge to thoroughly warm the engines (Reg's nearly boiled
-without a fan belt). Then we said goodbye to our farm hostess who had come to see us off and crossed without incident to the cheers of the passengers who had waded across.
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+There were a few minutes of anticlimax as we started the motors and attempted to move off. The brake linings, saturated from creek crossings on Thursday had frozen to the drums in the very low temperature overnight. However we were able to free them after several jerks. We drove back to the top of the low ridge to thoroughly warm the engines (Reg's nearly boiled without a fan belt). Then we said goodbye to our farm hostess who had come to see us off and crossed without incident to the cheers of the passengers who had waded across.
 ====== "We'll Be Marooned" ======
+by Kenn Clacher
+The walkers all at Quilty's Clearing Met for Ettrema to see.\\
-by Kenn Clacher.
+The walk was led by Bill Capon, A canny leader he.\\
-The walkers all at Quilty's Clearing Met for Ettrema to see.
+The first stretch was through Myall Creek Then Bill did show his class,\\
-The walk was led by Bill Capon, A canny leader he.
+"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon "If we don't find Naked Pass".\\
-The first stretch was through Myall Creek Then Bill did show his class,
+The pass was found the second try, Then into Ettrema Creek,\\
-"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon "If we don't find Naked Pass".
+And up Jones' Creek the party walked, 'Twas no place for the meek.\\
-The pass was found the second try, Then into Ettrema Creek,
+Plain Creek was followed next, downstream, But something Worried Bill.\\
-And up Jones' Creek the party walked, 'Twas no place for the meek.
+"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "'Cos this creek flows uphill."\\
-Plain Creek was followed next, downstream, But something Worried Bill.
+At last the rogue creek flowed downhill To Moore Creek as it should.\\
-"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "'Cos this creek flows uphill."
+The walkers followed the rough creek bed Rock hopping best they could.\\
-At last the rogue creek flowed downhill To Moore Creek as it should.
+Now another obstacle blocked their path, So Bill Capon he calls:\\
-The walkers followed the rough creek bed Rock hopping best they could.
+"We'll be marooned, 'less we can find A way round Williams Falls."\\
-Now another obstacle blocked their path, So Bill Capon he calls:
+A way was found, not as Bill feared Up umpteen feet of cliff,\\
-"We'll be marooned, 'less we can find A way round Williams Falls."
+To Bundundah Creek, along and out, Up Pass Point in a jiff.\\
-A way was found, not as Bill feared Up umpteen feet of cliff,
+Down Paul's Pass now the program said But rain made things too wet.\\
-To Bundundah Creek, along and out, Up Pass Point in a jiff.
+"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "It hasn't eased up yet."\\
-Down Paul's Pass now the program said But rain made things too wet.
+So Puckett Pass was utilised To get them down again.\\
-"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "It hasn't eased up yet."
-So Puckett Pass was utilised To get them down again.
 Just Tullyangela Creek remained, A piece of wild terrain.
-But new maps showed cliff lines along The whole length of the creek.
+But new maps showed cliff lines along The whole length of the creek.\\
-"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "It could take us a week."
+"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "It could take us a week."\\
-So Bill said Transportation Spur Would see us home instead.
+So Bill said Transportation Spur Would see us home instead.\\
-There was one problem that remained, When would it be ahead?
+There was one problem that remained, When would it be ahead?\\
-We chose a spur to climb on out By democratic vote.
+We chose a spur to climb on out By democratic vote.\\
-"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "If despotism's smote."
+"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "If despotism's smote."\\
-But Transportation Spur it was, And as we hurried on,
+But Transportation Spur it was, And as we hurried on,\\
-All members of the party then Were happy they weren't wrong.
+All members of the party then Were happy they weren't wrong.\\
-We made it finally to the cars, Just after one last shout,
+We made it finally to the cars, Just after one last shout,\\
 "We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "Before this walk is out."
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