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+===== Flinders Range Trip - 20th-26th September, 1986. =====
+by Dot Butler.
+__Party__:  Alex Colley, Fran Colley, Gavin Talbot (Hilma Colley's nephew), Dot Butler.
+__Distance__: 1,800 km.
+The parts of interest to Bushwalkers in the Flinders Ranges are widely separated, making a vehicle essential - preferably a 4WD if you want to get off the bitumen, which we did and managed to find superb campsites every night under the huge red gums. We were told camping permits were needed for all parts of the Park, but rangers said we could camp at any established campsite - meaning any place where someone else had made a fire. The best time to visit is May to September/October; the summer months are too hot with temperatures in the 30°-40° range and creeks are dry.
+__Mount Remarkable National Park__ is the most southerly park, about 250 km from Adelaide via Port Pirie. It is closed for bush camping between November and May because of the high bushfire risk. Mt. Remarkable (alt. 956 m) forms a precipitous backdrop and is the reason for the high rainfall in the wheat country to the south. Mambray Creek, with its water and superb river red gums, attracts all the animals and birds in great number as it winds from its source to Spencer Gulf. From a base camp seven different day walks can be done taking in the river scenery, high ridge-top walking, and a climb to the summit of Mt. Remarkable.
+__The Flinders Ranges National Park__ 179 km to the north is the next section of interest to Bushwalkers. We went via Wilmington to Quorn where you can stop off for a 2¾ hour journey through the historic railway built in 1879, 33 km through the picturesque Pichi Richi Pass. You can see over a century of railway history preserved in the Railway Museum (Jim Brown please note!). We had a look at the Old Mill Restaurant which displayed a notice offering "3 Coarse Meals". Gav is in charge of the Shell Co.'s transport in South Australia, so transport matters were well on the agenda. We visited Q.M.B. Transport who run road trains taking petrol and diesolene and aviation fuel into the Moomba drilling area.
+The Flinders Ranges are composed of steeply folded shales and sandstones in a very arid climate. You can see magnificent parallel strata at various angles, often going on for miles in rolling folds. Typical is Wilpena Pound - a huge syncline the edges of which are steep cliffs coloured reds, purples and brown due to iron oxide on the surface of the rock. Days can be spent at Wilpena Pounds, but as most of us had seen it before we only stopped for a brief look at the tourist camping area, then came out and drove 4 km north of the turnoff where we stopped on a creekbed and had lunch. We then travelled north past the Great Wall of China to Blinman, then in an arc through the Glass's Gorge and swung back to Parachilna Gorge. 3.2 km up the Gorge and we camped for the night, but were kept awake for some time by great flocks of quarrions scolding in the tree tops.
+__The Gammon Ranges National Park__ (128,228 ha) is the third area for Bushwalkers. It lies about 200 km north from Wilpena. We headed to Leigh Creek South for provisions, then Copley for petrol, and had lunch on a creek half an hour out of the town. We looked up the Ranger at Balcanoona Homestead, and he gave us a map of the area, then proceeded on to Weetootla Gorge where we camped for the night.
+Up early next morning for a walk up Weetootla Gorge looking for Grindel's Hut, but as we took the northern arm of the creek by mistake we didn't find the historic hut. We saw a number of snakes, one 5 ft. brown with a yellow underbody. The flowing creek was very tempting so we had a dip in waterholes before moving on to Stoney Creek for lunch. Near a tank we saw our first flowering Sturt's Desert Pea. By now all the wildflowers were beginning to show, a lovely sight among the harsh rocks.
+Next destination was Lake Frome, 37 km from the Ranger's station. We drove through the dog fence, which keeps the South Australian and N.S.W. dingoes each on their own side (Shut The Gate!), along the Moomba/Adelaide pipe line, and the pipe lines to Stoney Point, finally to end up on the shore of this incredible salt space. Lake Frome was the most unusual and unforgetable part of our trip. It stretches white and glistening to the horizon - if one spent much time on it, glare glasses would be essential. It looked firm, but the Ranger had told us it was inadvisable to take a vehicle on it, although a few old car and bike trails were visible, also the trail of a running emu, with footprints an amazing 12 ft apart (Dot was used as a 5 ft rule).
+Here and there on the lake's expanse sparse salt bushes grew, and away on the distant sky-line we could see trees, but when the sun went down these disappeared; it was only a mirage. But the most astonishing thing to find as we walked out on it were great numbers of ant nests. What the ants found to eat out there in the salt remains a mystery. The Ranger told us of a man who walked for hours out on the lake and when he settled down for lunch was amazed to see ants taking away his crumbs. There were also the odd bright green enamelled beetles on long stilt legs, arched up to keep their bodies off the salt surface.
+Alex dug down with our camp spade and at about 2 ft water started flowing in. The surface soil just below the salt crust is chocolate red, made of the very fine silt which comes down from the very slowly flowing creeks which occasionally enter the lake. The lower layers are lighter in colour.
+We camped up as high as we could get the Range Rover on a sand dune, which gave us a great view out over the lake under a nearly full moon. But the flies!! Only in two or three places were the flies bad, but here was the worst; they were in their thousands. While Fran tried to prepare dinner on the tailgate, Dot swotted thousands and brushed them off in the sand. Overnight small lizards homed in for the unexpected feast - we saw their trails! The Ranger asked us had we been bothered at night, as they become active in the full moonlight.
+We were up before the sun next morning to foil the flies, and took the road to Grindel's Hut. This is a beautifully constructed stone hut, with a floor made of concrete coloured to match the surrounding rocks - it looked almost like veined marble. There is a water trough, filled by a windmill, which was well used for bathing. We camped here, had lunch and went for a walk, leaving Fran with the quarrions for company. Alex followed along a ridge and down a watercourse, while Gav and Dot contoured around the hills, over a Gibber Plain, to Wortupa Gorge. There were lots of goats and kangaroos among the wildflowers.
+Next morning we drove to Arkaroola, a privately owned tourist camp on the north east boundary of the Park. It is well worth visiting, if only for its Information Centre, run by a dedicated and knowledgable girl (also beautiful!). There is an excellent geological display of rocks and fossils of the region and colour photos of surrounding scenery are world-beaters, every one. Prof. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Antarctic scientist, spent much of his time here.
+Another regular visitor was Hans Heysen. There is now a trail, the Hans Heysen Trail, which extends all the way from Cape Jarvis in the south of South Australia, runs through the Mount Lofty Range near Adelaide, then enters the Gammon Ranges National Park at Crystal Brook and runs north for 80? km to Mount Hopeless. This could well be the next venture for the Club's Centralian lovers. The country traversed would equal the dramatic scenery of the now well-known MacDonnell Ranges. Relevant maps can be obtained from the State Information Centre, 25 Grenfell Street, Adelaide. Other useful reading is "Flinders Ranges Walks" produced by the Conservation Council, 120 Wakefield Street, Adelaide, and of course information on walking tracks is always available from the National Parks & Wildlife Service, Adelaide.
+[ Map: The Flinders Ranges ]
+If you feel like spending $26 you can get into one of the Arkaroola vehicles and be taken on a tour of the Scenic Rim. It is a private road so you can't take your own car. We shied away from the cost, but the Ranger told us it was well worth while.
+We now left for Belcanoona Homestead and returned a borrowed map to the Ranger, and on to Italowie Gorge for lunch. In the afternoon we walked to The Wall via Dr. Chewing's Creek, then returned to our vehicle and drove to McKinley Creek where we camped for the night.
+Away early next morning for Brachina Gorge and got our first blowout which was handled very professionally by Gav. This Gorge, which runs through the Range, is well wooded and very lovely. We followed Bunyeroo Creek through the Gorge of the same name and put up our tent at a perfect campsite by water. Gav and Dot spent the rest of the afternoon climbing the highest rocky hill for spectacular views, while Alex went for a walk through the valley.
-FLINDERS RANGES TRIP
-th-26th SEPTEMBER, 1986. by Dot Butler.
-Party:  Alex Colley, Fran Colley, Gavin Talbot (Hilma Colley's nephew),
-Dot Butler.
-Distance: 1,800 km.
-The parts of interest to Bushwalkers in the Flinders Ranges are widely separated, making a vehicle essential - preferably a 4WD if you want to get off the bitumen, which we did and managed to find superb campsites every night under the huge red gums. We were told camping permits were needed for all parts of the Park, but rangers said we could camp at any established campsite - meaning any place where someone else had made a fire. The best time to visit i May to September/October; the summer months are too hot with temperatures in the 300-40' range and creeks are dry.
-MOUNT REMARKABLE NATIONAL PARK is the most southerly park, about 250 km
-from Adelaide via Port Pine. It is closed for bush camping between November and May because of the high bushfire risk. Mt. Remarkable (alt. 956 m) forms a precipitous backdrop and is the reason for the high rainfall in the wheat country to the south. Mambray Creek, with its water and superb river red gums, attracts all the animals and birds in great number as it winds from its source to Spencer Gulf. From a base camp seven different day walks can be done taking in the river scenery, high ridge-top walking, and a climb to the summit of Mt. Remarkable.
-THE FLINDERS RANGES NATIONAL PARK 179 km to the north is the next section of interest to Bushwalkers. We went via Wilmington to Quorn where you can stop off for a 2i hour journey through the historic railway built in 1879, 33 km through the picturesque Pichi Richi Pass. You can see over a century
-of railway history preserved in the Railway Museum (Jim Brown please note!). We had a look at the Old Mill Restaurant which displayed a notice offering
-"3 COARSE MEALS". Gay is in charge of the Shell Co.'s transport in South
-Australia, so transport matters were well on the agenda. We visited
-Q.M.B. Transport who run road trains taking petrol and diesolene and aviation fuel into the Moomba drilling area.
-The Flinders Ranges are composed of steeply folded shales and sandstones in a very arid climate. You can see magnificent parallel strata at various
-angles, often going on for miles in rolling folds. Typical is Wilpena
-Pound - a huge syncline the edges of which are steep cliffs coloured reds, purples and brown due to iron oxide on the surface of the rock. Days can be spent at Wilpena Pounds, but as most of us had seen it before we only stopped for a brief look at the tourist camping area, then came out and drove 4 km north of the turnoff where we stopped on a creekbed and had lunch. We then travelled north past the Great Wall of China to Blinman, then in an arc
-through the Glass's Gorge and swung back to Parachilna Gorge. 3.2 km up the Gorge and we camped for the night, but were kept awake for some time by great flocks of quarrions scolding in the tree tops.
-THE GAMMON RANGES NATIONAL PARK (128,228 ha) is the third area for Bushwalkers. It lies about 200 km north from Wilpena. We headed to Leigh Creek South for provisions, then Copley for petrol, and had lunch on a creek half an hour out of the town. We looked up the Ranger at Balcanoona Homestead, and he gave us a map of the area, then proceeded on to Weetootla Gorge where we camped for the night.
-Up early next morning for a walk up Weetootla Gorge looking for Grindel's Hut, but as we took the northern arm of the creek by mistake we didn't find the historic hut. We saw a number of snakes, one 5 ft. brown with a yellow
-November, 1986 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 3
-underbody. The flowing creek was very tempting so we-had a dip in water- holes before moving on to Stoney Creek for lunch. Near a tank we saw our first flowering Sturt's Desert Pea. By now all the wildflowers were beginning to show, a lovely sight among the harsh rocks.
-Next destination was Lake Frome, 37 km from the Ranger's station.
-We drove through the dog fence, which keeps the South Australian and N.S.W. dingoes each on their own side (SHUT THE GATE!), along the Moomba/Adelaide pipe line, and the pipe lines to Stoney Point, finally to end up on the shore of this incredible salt space. Lake Frome was the most unusual and unforgetable part of our trip. It stretches white and glistening to the
-horizon - if one spent much time on it, glare glasses would be essential. It looked firm, but the Ranger had told us it was inadvisable to take a vehicle on it, although a few old car and bike trails were visible, also the trail of a running emu, with footprints an amazing 12 ft apart (Dot was used as a 5 ft rule).
-Here and there on the lake's expanse sparse salt bushes grew, and away on the distant sky-line we could see trees, but when the sun went down these disappeared; it was only a mirage. But the most astonishing thing to find as we walked out on it were great numbers of ant nests. What the ants
-found to eat out there in the salt remains a mystery. The Ranger told us
-of a man who walked for hours out on the lake and when he settled down for
-lunch was amazed to see ants taking away his crumbs. There were also the
-odd bright green enamelled beetles on long stilt legs, arched up to keep their bodies off the salt surface.
-Alex dug down with our camp spade and at about 2 ft water started flowing in. The surface soil just below the salt crust is chocolate red,
-made of the very fine silt which comes down from the very slowly flowing creeks which occasionally enter the lake. The lower layers are lighter in colour.
-We camped up as high as we could get the Range Rover on a sand dune, which gave us a great view out over the lake under a nearly full moon. But the flies!! Only in two or three places were the flies bad, but here was
-the worst; they were in their thousands. While Fran tried to prepare dinner on the tailgate, Dot swotted thousands and brushed them off in the sand. Overnight small lizards homed in for the unexpected feast - we saw
-their trails! The Ranger asked us had we been bothered at night, as they
-become active in the full moonlight.
-We were up before the sun next morning to foil the flies, and took the road to Grindel's Hut. This is a beautifully constructed stone hut,
-with a floor made of concrete coloured to match the surrounding rocks - it
-looked almost like veined marble. There is a water trough, filled by a windmill, which was well used for bathing. We camped liere, had lunch and
-went for a walk, leaving Fran with the quarrions for company. Alex followed along a ridge and down a watercourse, while Gam and Dot contoured
-around the hills, over a Gibber Plain, to Wortupa Gorge. There were lots
-of goats and kangaroos among the wildflowers.
-Next morning we drove to Arkaroola, a privately owned tourist camp on the north east boundary of the Park. It is well worth visiting, if only
-for its Information Centre, run by a dedicated and knowledgable girl (also
-beautiful!). There is an excellent geological display of rocks and fossils of the region and colour photos of surrounding scenery are world-beaters,
-every one. Prof. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Antarctic scientist, spent much
-of his time here.
-Another regular visitor was Hans Heysen. There is now a trail, the
-Hans Heysen Trail, which extends all the way from Cape Jarvis in the south
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-of South Australia, runs through the Mount Lofty Range near Adelaide, then enters the Gammon Ranges National Park at Crystal Brook and runs north for 80? km to Mount Hopeless. This could well be the next venture for the Club's Centralian lovers. The country traversed would equal the dramatic scenery of the now well-known MacDonnell Ranges. Relevant maps can be obtained from the State Information Centre, 25 Grenfell Street, Adelaide. Other useful reading is "Flinders Ranges Walks" produced by the Conservation Council, 120 Wakefield Street, Adelaide, and of course information on walking tracks is always available from the National Parks & Wildlife Service, Adelaide.
-If you feel like spending $26 you can get into one of the Arkaroola vehicles and be taken on a tour of the Scenic Rim It is a private road so you can't take your own car. We shied away from the cost, but the Ranger told us it was well worth while.
-We now left for Belcanoona Homestead and returned a borrowed map to
-the Ranger, and on to Italowie Gorge for lunch. In the afternoon we walked to The Wall via Dr. Chewing's Creek, then returned to our vehicle and drove to McKinley Creek where we camped for the night.
-Away early next morning for Brachina Gorge and got our first blowout which was handled very professionally by Gay. This Gorge, which runs through the Range, is well wooded and very lovely. We followed Bunyeroo Creek through the Gorge of the same name and put up our tent at a perfect  campsite by water. Gay and Dot spent the rest of the afternoon climbing the highest rocky hill for spectacular views, while Alex went for a walk through the valley.
 Next day was overcast and spitting rain. The most magnificent scenery perhaps of the whole trip was driving south through Bunyeroo Valley to Wilpena Pound. Everything green, and wildflowers everywhere.
 We drove on to Quorn, via Hawker, where we tried to buy a spare tyre but were unsuccessful. This setback, together with spitting rain, made us decide the trip was over, so we returned to Adelaide, stopping off at Clare, of course, to visit wineries, an excellent way to forget the threatening weather.
 I am sure an extended bushwalk could be worked our for the Flinders Ranges, with a little bit of organising of transport and checking on water supplies.
--*********
-ciogLit a 7,-iza4'
+----
-THE GOOD OLD DAYS - The Club Minute Book reveals:
-BLUE GUM FOREST: Mr. Turner spoke on the desirability of Blue Gum Forest in the Grose Valley as a National Reserve, and stated that the land had passed from the Crown to private ownership and there was a danger of the timber being destroyed. Monthly Meeting on Friday, 10th July, 1931.
+===== Just A Minute. =====
-BLUE GUM FOREST: Mr. Turner reported that the Blue Gum Forest had now been officially gazetted and Trustees approved by the Minister of Lands. Moved Mr. Harrison, seconded Mr. Malcolm, that this report be adopted. Carried. Monthly Meeting on Friday, 11th November, 1932.
-Page 6 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER November, 1986
+__The Good Old Days__ - The Club Minute Book reveals:
-TOTAL ENVIRONMENT CENTRE
+__Blue Gum Forest__: Mr. Turner spoke on the desirability of Blue Gum Forest in the Grose Valley as a National Reserve, and stated that the land had passed from the Crown to private ownership and there was a danger of the timber being destroyed. Monthly Meeting on Friday, 10th July, 1931.
+__Blue Gum Forest__: Mr. Turner reported that the Blue Gum Forest had now been officially gazetted and Trustees approved by the Minister of Lands. Moved Mr. Harrison, seconded Mr. Malcolm, that this report be adopted. Carried. Monthly Meeting on Friday, 11th November, 1932.
+----
+===== Total Environment Centre - Reform Of The NSW Forestry Commission. =====
 Argyre St., Sydney, N.S.W. 2000. Phone 27 4714
-REFORM OF THE NSW FORESTRY COMMISSION
-SIX GOOD REASONS FOR
+=== Six good reasons for reforming the NSW Forestry Commission. ===
-REFORMING THE NSW FORESTRY COMMISSION
- It strongly resistsenvironmental improvements in
+  * It strongly resistsenvironmental improvements in forest management, causing major controversies and legal battles.
-forest management, causing major controversies and legal battles.
+  * It opposes new forested national parks.
- It opposes new forested national parks.
+  * It still refuses formal public input into management plans.
- It still refuses formal public input into management plans.
+  * Community groups and individuals have no right to prosecute infringements of environmental safeguards.
- Community groups and individuals have no right to
+  * The Commission is mainly interested in wood production increasingly based on intensive logging practices (i.e. woodchipping of whole forests and "forest residues").
-prosecute infringements of environmental safeguards.
+  * Its environmental policies provide too much on-site discretion for the local forester to log steep slopes, buffer strips, protection corridors, etc.
- The Commission is mainly interested in wood production
-increasingly based on intensive logging practices (i.e. woodchipping of whole forests and "forest residues").
+=== A new Forests Act and Commissions. ===
- Its environmental policies provide too much on-site
-discretion for the local forester to log steep slopes, buffer strips, protection corridors, etc.
+With so much wrong with the management of our diminishing native forests, after so many major battles - Boyd Plateau pine planting, rainforests, woodchipping of the south-east - a major report on reform was commissioned by Total Environment Centre.
-A NEW FORESTS ACT AND COMMISSION
-With so much wrong with the management of our diminishing native forests, after so many major battles - Boyd Plateau pine planting, rainforests, woodchipping of the south-east -
+"The NSW Forestry Act, A Review with Suggestions for Reform" (Prineas 1985), was recently forwarded to the Minister for Forests and some of its suggestions are attached. (Available from the Total Environemnt Centre at $20.00.)
-a major report on reform was commissioned by Total Environment Centre.
-* "The NSW Forestry Act, A Review with Suggestions for Reform" (Prineas 1985), was recently forwarded to the Minister for Forests and some of its suggestions are attached.
+=== Letters from your members and your group are needed. ===
-LETTERS FROM YOUR MEMBERS AND YOUR GROUP ARE NEEDED
 No doubt the Forestry Commission will resist fundamental reform and try to convince its Minister to do likewise. It is vital that you and your members write to:
-Hon. 3. Hallam Hon. B. -Unsworth Hon. Bob Carr
-Minister for Agriculture Premier of N.S.W. Minister for
+Hon. J. Hallam\\
-and Minister for Lands Envt. & Planning
+Minister for Agriculture and Minister for Lands.
-Cl- Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 2000.
+Hon. B. Unsworth\\
+Premier of N.S.W.
+Hon. Bob Carr\\
+Minister for Envt. & Planning.
+C/- Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 2000.
 Help the forests by making the Forestry Commission environmentally responsible and accountable to the public.
 Yours faithfully,
-ff An
-..TEer 7.97
+Jeff Angel, Assistant Director, Total Environment Centre. Sept 1987.
-sistant Director, Total Environment Centre.
- available from T.E.C.at $20.00.
+__'Multiple use'__
-November, 1986 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 7
-'Multiple use'
+'The Commission ostensibly manages native forests in accordance with the principle of 'multiple use'. This principle is inadequately defined in the Commission context and appears to be applied opportunistically to specific areas of forest and with the meaning that logging will always be dominant among forest uses. Consideration should be given to properly defining the principle and providing for its application through the Forestry Act.'
-'The Commission ostensibly manages native forests in accordance with the principle of 'multiple use'. This principle is inadequately defined in the Commission context and appears to be applied opportunistically to specific areas of forest and with the meaning that logging will always be -dominant among forest uses. Consideration should be given to properly defining the principle and providing for its application through the Forestry Act.'
-Management plans
+__Management plans__
-'The 'Commission prepares and approves management plans for Crown timber lands without consulting the public. The Forestry Act gives little or no recognition to management planning, although certain clauses of the Forestry..Regulation make reference to it. There is a strong cage
-for the introduction of formal public participation procedures into the Commission's management planning.'
+'The Commission prepares and approves management plans for Crown timber lands without consulting the public. The Forestry Act gives little or no recognition to management planning, although certain clauses of the Forestry Regulation make reference to it. There is a strong case... for the introduction of formal public participation procedures into the Commission's management planning.'
-Objects of the Act
-'The objects of the Forestry Commission set out in Section 8A(I) of the Forestry Act, should be reviewed in their entirety. The objects stated were introduced into the Act in 1972. Inadequate consideration was given to general community views in their formulation, and be past ten years have seen a remarkable increase in public interest in forest management. Consideration should be given to adopting different objectives for native forests and for exotic coniferous plantations, as done in Western Australia.'
+__Objects of the Act__
-Advisory Council
+'The objects of the Forestry Commission set out in Section 8A(1) of the Forestry Act, should be reviewed in their entirety. The objects stated were introduced into the Act in 1972. Inadequate consideration was given to general community views in their formulation, and be past ten years have seen a remarkable increase in public interest in forest management. Consideration should be given to adopting different objectives for native forests and for exotic coniferous plantations, as done in Western Australia.'
+__Advisory Council__
 'Section 9 and related provisions of the Forestry Act with respect to the Administration of the Act and the Commission's relationship to the Minister, should be reviewed. Models which might help to promote a more broadminded and responsive administration should be considered, for example: balancing the Commission's advice to the Minister on management matters with advice from a broadly representative 'Forests Advisory Council'
-Public Enforcement
-'The concept of "Forest Practices" legislation has merit   containing public enforcement procedures. Such legislation should be expressed as
+__Public Enforcement__
-binding upon State and private foresty undertakings   establishing
-standards and conditions which at present either do not exist or are only based on administrative measures.'
+'The concept of "Forest Practices" legislation has merit... containing public enforcement procedures. Such legislation should be expressed as binding upon State and private foresty undertakings... establishing standards and conditions which at present either do not exist or are only based on administrative measures.'
-Clearing for pine
+__Clearing for pine__
 'Consideration should he given to amending Section 13(4) of the Forestry Act to impose further conditions on the establishment of exotic plantations and in order to prevent the clearing of indigenous forest or woodland for this purpose.'
-Competition with NPWS
+__Competition with NPWS__
 'Section 17(3) which sets out criteria for the Commission's land classification process for forest dedication should be reviewed. Consideration should be given to reformulating the criteria so as to require the Commission to take into account non-wood values and to consult and have regard to any competing claims of the National Parks and Wildlife Service for lands.'
 'Consideration should be given to making the Forestry Commission's administration and land management more responsive to non-timber production objectives such as the preservation of rare or endangered wildlife, wilderness areas, wild and scenic rivers and recreational tracks and trails, as has been required of the U.S. Forest Service. As in the U.S.A., this process may require the enactment of specific legislation.'
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-November, 1986
-THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 9
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