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- | A monthly bulletin of natters | + | A monthly bulletin of matters |
|**Editor**|Patrick James, P.O. Box 170, Kogarah, 2217. Telephone 588 2614.| | |**Editor**|Patrick James, P.O. Box 170, Kogarah, 2217. Telephone 588 2614.| | ||
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- | During all this, Jdhn Redfern and Spiro Hajinaketas were keeping the cooking fire going and laying the table with cakes made by Spiro and Christine Austin and other contributors. The smells reminded us that it was nearly supper time and therefore time to wind up the official entertainment with a welcome to our new President. Barry Murdoch was hauled out of the shadows and seven past-Presidents handed him the symbols of office, wished him luck, and applauded his short speech. | + | During all this, John Redfern and Spiro Hajinaketas were keeping the cooking fire going and laying the table with cakes made by Spiro and Christine Austin and other contributors. The smells reminded us that it was nearly supper time and therefore time to wind up the official entertainment with a welcome to our new President. Barry Murdoch was hauled out of the shadows and seven past-Presidents handed him the symbols of office, wished him luck, and applauded his short speech. |
Supper over and small children off in their tents, the after-hours singers settled down to some fine performances, | Supper over and small children off in their tents, the after-hours singers settled down to some fine performances, | ||
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+ | =====The Heaphy Track - 77km Of Magnificent New Zealand Scenery.===== | ||
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+ | ===February 1987.=== | ||
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+ | by Dot Butler. | ||
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+ | I fronted up to the Departure counter at Mascot, en route to Christchurch, | ||
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+ | At the Christchurch disembarkation centre there appeared to be several hundred people all waiting to get through Customs, and I was about last on the queue. In two hours time my bus was to depart for the 5-hour journey north to Blenheim - plenty of time, thought I. However the minutes crept by as the seemingly endless queue of people in front of me crept up to the Customs counter. 5 o' | ||
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+ | I got a taxi out to Newman' | ||
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+ | A night at the Blenheim motor camp, then off early next day in beautiful sunshine, through farming country to Pelorus Bridge for another night' | ||
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+ | Cape Farewell is the northernmost point of the South Island. A spit of sand extends in an arc for 35 km across the entrance to Golden Bay. The Spit is 800 m wide and is made up of shifting sand dunes, quicksands, patches of low scrub, marram grass and sand and mud flats. It is one of New Zealand' | ||
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+ | There is a lighthouse at Cape Farewell, erected in 1870 after numerous ships had been wrecked on the sand spit, invisible when covered at high tide. The first keeper, Mr. Harwood, brought back two saddle-bags of soil on each of his trips out for supplies, and in this he planted two macrocarpa pines which are very conspicuous seaward and almost as valuable as the light itself. | ||
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+ | We camped on the grass by the seashore, lulled to sleep by the constantly moving water. In the morning a weka, or Maori hen, came pecking around the tent, and we heard the raucous cries of gulls seeking pickings from our breakfast. Then off to Collingwood and the beginning of the Heaphy Track. Charles Heaphy gave his name to the track. He was a draughtsman artist and early explorer of the region, but it was J. B. Saxon of the Collingwood County Council who surveyed and graded the track in 1888, to make it suitable for pack horses. The track now lies within the N.W. Nelson State Forest Park and since 1930 has been used only as a walking track. The foresters have built eight huts along the route for the use of trampers. | ||
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+ | At 11 am we left the car at Brown Hut at the start of the track, 122 m above sea level, and set out on the 16 km walk to the Perry Saddle Hut at 868 m. Although we had been having hot sunny days, now the typical weather of that area set in (5080 mm or about 15 feet annual rainfall), so we put on our parkas and entered into the magic of the beech forest. | ||
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+ | There is a wide range of scenery, dense native forest, home of innumerable birds from the big black and white pigeons down to the smallest of New Zealand forest denisons, the tiny rifle bird. Calls of bellbirds and tuis came from inside the forest, and as we got higher up kea calls in the air awoke nostalgia for past mountaineering days. A dense cover of fallen beech leaves made a soft track, up past waterfalls cascading down ferny mossy gullies, groves of Nikau Palms and secluded river valleys. There are lovely arched wooden bridges over the streams, which can rise a matter of two metres suddenly after heavy rain, and fall just as quickly. | ||
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+ | The dense blue black rainclouds had disappeared as quickly as they had come, and in bright sunshine we stopped for lunch, then on again to Perry Saddle Hut. But first a side track to a lookout which gave a panorama of all the surrounding mountains, and a view of the hut on a sheltered grassed plateau below. We reached the hut at 4 o' | ||
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+ | The hut had all the comforts that N.Z. trampers hope for in their bad weather trips - a slow-combustion stove and firewood provided, gas cookers and billies, benches and sinks and running water, table and seats, and bunks - 25 of them fitted with mattresses! So all we carried was sleeping bag, parka and food. I found a small day pack adequate. | ||
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+ | We had dinner, then tied our bag of food up to the rafters, much to the astonishment of the American girl who apparently was not educated in respect to bush rats. The hut had its avian humorist, the kea, who tramped around on the tin roof and rattled on its claws down the corrugations and squawked for food scraps. | ||
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+ | A night of deep sleep, then off early next morning with just our lunch, as the idea was to walk 8 km to the Gouland Downs Hut and then on 5 km to the next hut (Saxon) where we would have lunch, then return the way we had come in order to get back to the car. Walkers wishing to do the whole track can arrange for an Air Taxi to pick them up at the far end of the track and return them to their starting point, but this costs money. | ||
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+ | The track led over grassy downs rather like the button grass plains of Tasmania and in places just as muddy. Two swing walkways span Sheep Creek and Cave Stream and would provide a bit of excitement to a heavily laden walker - a couple of wire cables with slats and a nice muddy fall if you missed your footing. | ||
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+ | We met up with other trampers who had come in from the opposite end to ours, all heading for Perry Saddle Hut, so that when we got back there after our 26 km round trip it was to find about 20 people in occupation. There were Germans and Swiss, Americans and Poles, a couple of Australians as well as New Zealanders, and a pleasant young Norwegian boy, a civil engineering student, heading for our Snowy Mountains to have a look at our marvellous hydro-electric and irrigation scheme. Many of his countrymen had helped build it. It becomes as good as a world trip when they are all swopping experiences. | ||
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+ | Next morning we left early for the 16 km return to Brown Hut. The scenery naturally looked different seeing it in reverse, so we were not sad that we had to return the way we had come. One of the Polish men sang a Hymn of Praise at the top of his voice and when we met up he told me of his experiences as a little boy in a German Internment Camp during World War II. There was a great number of Polish orphans, many of whom died. Those who survived lived by stealing food and anything else they could sell. This went on for years. When he was 8 years old the British were able to ship out many of the young Polish children to New Zealand, where he has lived for the past 42 years, and wouldn' | ||
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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER April, 1987 | ||
- | THE HEAPHY TRACK | ||
- | 77 km of MAGNIFICENT NEW ZEALAND SCENERY. | ||
- | February, 1987. by Dot Butler. | ||
- | I fronted up to the Departure counter at Mascot, en route to Christchurch, | ||
- | At the Christchurch disembarkation centre there appeared to be several hundred people all | ||
- | waiting to get through Customs, and I was about last on the queue. In two hours time my bus | ||
- | was to depart for the 5-hour journey north to BLenheim - plenty of time, thought I. However | ||
- | the minutes crept by as the seemingly endless queue of people in front of me crept up to the | ||
- | Customs counter. 5 o' | ||
- | reached the Customs first line of defence, the kindly man said, "Just get your luggage and go | ||
- | straight through the Green Gate". This is the gate reserved for those who book harmless anc, | ||
- | beyond reproach - like me - they don't have to open up their baggage for inspection. | ||
- | I got a taxi out to Newman' | ||
- | A night at the Blenheim motor camp, then off early next day in beautiful shunshine, through farming country to Pelorus Bridge for another night' | ||
- | appeared to be a secluded spit of land planted out with pines reminiscent of the. Sierras of California. Great swimming and sunbaking - plenty of sunburnt bottoms, nice looking young | ||
- | people, lobster-like older gents, but all enjoying the' | ||
- | Cape Farewell is the northernmost point of the South Island. A spit of sand extends in an arc for 35 km across the entrance to Golden Bay. The Spit is 800 m wide and is made up of | ||
- | shifting sand dunes, quicksands, patches of low scrub, marram grass and sand and mud flats. It is one of New Zealand' | ||
- | recorded. Towards the end of March great flocks begin their long journey to their northern | ||
- | summer breeding grounds in the Arctic tundra of Siberia and Alaska. The Spit is a Nature | ||
- | Reserve and has been designated a Wetland of International Importance. | ||
- | There is a lighthouse at Cape Farewell, erected in 1870 after numerous ships had been wrecked on the sand spit, invisible when covered at high tide. The first keeper, Mr. Harwood, | ||
- | brought back two saddle-bags of soil on each of his trips out for supplies, and in this he planted two macrocarpa pines which are very conspicuous seaward and almost as valuable as the light itself. | ||
- | We camped on the grass by the seashore, lulled to sleep byAl% tantly moving water. In | ||
- | the morning a weka, or Maori hen, came pecking arouho tne tent, anderaucous cries of gulls | ||
- | seeking pickings from our breakfast. Then off to Collingwood and the beginning of the Heaphy | ||
- | Track. Charles Heaphy gave his name to the track. He was a draughtsman artist and early | ||
- | explorer of the region, but it was J. B. Saxon of the Collingwood County Council who surveyed | ||
- | and graded the track in 1888, to make it suitable for pack horses. The track now lies within | ||
- | the N.W. Nelson State Forest Park and since 1930 has been used only as a walking track. The | ||
- | foresters have built eight huts along the route for the use of trampers. | ||
- | AT 11 am we left the car at Brown Hut at the start of the track, 122 m above sea level, and set out on the 16 km walk to the Perry Saddle Hut at 868 m. Although we had been having hot | ||
- | sunny days, now the typical weather of that area set in (5080 mm or about 15 feet annual rainfall), so we put on our parkas and entered into the magic of the beech forest. | ||
- | There is a wide range of scenery, dense native forest, home of innumerable birds from the big black and white pigeons down to the smallest of New Zealand forest denisons, the tiny rifle | ||
- | April, 1987 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 5 | ||
- | bird. Calls of bellbirds and tuis came from inside the forest, and as we got | ||
- | higher up kea calls in the air awoke nostalgia for past mountaineering days. A dense cover | ||
- | of fallen beech leaves made a soft track, up past waterfalls cascading down ferny mossy gullies, groves of Nikau Palms and secluded river valleys. There are lovely arched wooden bridges over | ||
- | the streams, which can rise a matter of two metres suddenly after heavy rain, and fall just as quickly. | ||
- | The dense blue black rainclouds had disappeared as quickly as they had come, and in bright sunshine we stopped for lunch, then on again to Perry Saddle Hut. But first a side track to a lookout which gave a panorama of all the surrounding mountains, and a view of the hut on a | ||
- | sheltered grassed plateau below. We reached the hut at 4 o' | ||
- | occupants, one of them an Americal girl with the typical American pack about a metre and a half | ||
- | high. She was heading for Australia, so I warned her that that pack would not do for our type | ||
- | of bushwalking. She was a great walker, though. | ||
- | The hut had all the comforts that N.Z. trampers hope for in their bad weather trips - a slow-combustion stove and firewood provided, gas cookers and billies, benches and sinks and running water, table and seats, and bunks - 25 of them fitted with mattresses! So all we | ||
- | carried was sleeping bag, parka and food. I found a small day pack adequate. | ||
- | We had dinner, then tied our bag of food up to the rafters, much to the astonishment of the Americal girl who apparently was not educated in respect to bush rats. The hut had its avian | ||
- | humorist, the kea, who tramped around on the tin roof and rattled on its claws down the corrugations and squawked for food scraps. | ||
- | A night of deep sleep, then off early next morning with just our lunch, as the idea was to walk 8 km to the Gouland Downs Hut and then on 5 km to the next hut (Saxon) where we would have lunch, then return the way we had come in order to get back to the car. Walkers wishing to do the whole track can arrange for an Air Taxi to pick them up at the far end of the track and | ||
- | return them to their starting point, but this costs money. | ||
- | The track led over grassy downs rather like the button grass plains of Tasmania and in places just as muddy. Two swing walkways span Sheep Creek and Cave Stream and would provide a bit of | ||
- | excitement to a heavily laden walker - a couple of wire cables with slats and a nice muddy fall if you missed your footing. | ||
- | We met up with other trampers who had come in from the opposite end to ours, all heading for Perry Saddle Hut, so that when we got back there after our 26 km round trip it was to find about 20 people in occupation. There were Germans and Swiss, Americans and Poles, a couple of Australians as well as New Zealanders, and a pleasant young Norwegian boy, a civil engineering student, heading for our Snmowy Mountains to have a look at our marvellous hydro-electric and | ||
- | irrigation scheme. Many of his countrymen had helped build it. It becomes as good as a world | ||
- | trip when they are all swopping experiences. | ||
- | Next morning we left early for the 16 km return to Brown Hut. The scenery naturally | ||
- | looked different seeing it in reverse, so we were not sad that we had to return the way we had | ||
- | come. One of the Polish men sang a Hymn of Praise at the top of his voice and when we met up | ||
- | he told me of his experiences as a little boy in a German Internment Camp during World War II. | ||
- | There was a great number of Palish orphans, many of whom died. Those who survived lived by | ||
- | stealing food and anything else they could sell. This went on for years. When he was 8 years | ||
- | old the British were able to ship out many of the young Piplish children to New Zealand, where he has lived for the past 42 years, and wouldn' | ||
It sometimes takes overseas visitors and immigrants to bring home to us in Australia and New Zealand that we are living in the best countries in the world. | It sometimes takes overseas visitors and immigrants to bring home to us in Australia and New Zealand that we are living in the best countries in the world. | ||
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- | April, 1987 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 7 | + | |
- | THE WONDABYNE SANDSTONES. | + | |
- | . by Jim Brown. | + | |
Why fly to London to see the Elgin Marbles (which probably ought to be in Greece anyway) when you can see the Wondabyne Sandstones for a song? | Why fly to London to see the Elgin Marbles (which probably ought to be in Greece anyway) when you can see the Wondabyne Sandstones for a song? | ||
- | Early in January this year there was a surprise article in the Sydney Morning Herald headed "The World' | + | |
- | at Wondabyne, 67 km from Sydney on the Northern Railway, half-way between Hawkesbury River | + | Early in January this year there was a surprise article in the Sydney Morning Herald headed "The World' |
- | (sometimes called Brooklyn) and Way Woy. There a group of rather eminent sculptors assembled | + | |
- | from all over the world, including France, Nepal, Papua and Bulgaria, were carving images out of a batch of large sandstone blocks donated by the adjacent quarry. | + | Curious about it, I went to have a look-see in mid-January. And there it was, about 200 metres north of the little " |
- | Curious about it, I went to have a look-see in mid-January. And there it was, about | + | |
- | 200 metres north of the little " | + | |
- | recognisable shapes, whilst the sculptors in shady hats, old slacks or shorts or shapeless dresses hammered away in the sultry mid-morning heat. | + | |
The Rail Authority is co-operating by building a kind of walk-way from the platform. Since you have no chance of going there by car, but must travel either by rail or private boat, no doubt it hopes to build up the very slender patronage to Wondabyne, which is presently limited to a few quarry workers, fishermen and the horde of day-walkers who descend on the place in the wildflower season. | The Rail Authority is co-operating by building a kind of walk-way from the platform. Since you have no chance of going there by car, but must travel either by rail or private boat, no doubt it hopes to build up the very slender patronage to Wondabyne, which is presently limited to a few quarry workers, fishermen and the horde of day-walkers who descend on the place in the wildflower season. | ||
- | Should it prove a popular attraction | + | |
- | the existing rail platform, which is barely 25 metres long - about one carriage length. In fact, | + | Should it prove a popular attraction... who knows?... they may even have to extend the existing rail platform, which is barely 25 metres long - about one carriage length. In fact, if you do go there, make sure to travel in the last coach on the train, and let the guard know you're proposing to alight at Wondabyne. |
- | if you do go there, make sure to travel in the last coach on the train, and let the guard know you're proposing to alight at Wondabyne. | + | |
- | I must go back and have another look when the carvings are more advanced. Wondabyne Re-visited (12th March). | + | I must go back and have another look when the carvings are more advanced. |
- | It proved to be a good time to return. The work has been finished, and the artists were | + | |
- | departing. At the top of the hill behind the quarry and station I saw a large truck with a small | + | ===Wondabyne Re-visited (12th March).=== |
- | jib crane mounted behind its cab removing the last of two or three marquee tents which evidently | + | |
- | had provided shelter for the workers. And let me here admit I had thought that, with a camp for a fair-sized colony for several months, there may be some despoliation of the surrounding bushland. | + | It proved to be a good time to return. The work has been finished, and the artists were departing. At the top of the hill behind the quarry and station I saw a large truck with a small jib crane mounted behind its cab removing the last of two or three marquee tents which evidently had provided shelter for the workers. And let me here admit I had thought that, with a camp for a fair-sized colony for several months, there may be some despoliation of the surrounding bushland. |
- | Well, be of good heart. There are evidences of the big camp-site, but if anything it is | + | |
- | somewhat cleaner than it has been in the past when sundry untidy campers have made large fires on | + | Well, be of good heart. There are evidences of the big camp-site, but if anything it is somewhat cleaner than it has been in the past when sundry untidy campers have made large fires on the hill-top and managed to leave more than their share of tins and bottles and plastic. Clearly the sculptors have "done the right thing" |
- | the hill-top and managed to leave more than their share of tins and bottles and plastic. Clearly | + | |
- | the sculptors have "done the right thing" | + | Someone has taken a mattock to the old track that walkers used to climb the hill, and cut out some steps in places where the slope is steep and used to be slippery after rain. There is also one place where a length of wire rope has been installed as a sort of hand-rail, but be careful if you use it - there are bits of broken wire protruding. |
- | and with a locked gate at the rifle range, has not undergone much in the way of up-grading to supply the sculptors' | + | |
- | Someone has taken a mattock to the old track that walkers used to climb the hill, and cut out some steps in places where the slope is steep and used to be slippery after rain. There is | + | As to the sculptures themselves - they are mostly " |
- | also one place where a length of wire rope has been installed as a sort of hand-rail, but be careful if you use it - there are bits of broken wire protuding. | + | |
- | As to the sculptures themselves - they are mostly " | + | On the way down the hill I passed two of the toilers, a young Australian women and a middle-aged Bulgarian, and had a brief conversation. They appeared to be pleasant folk and quite enthusiastic about what they had wrought, and in the course of our discussion I remarked, with a question in my voice, "Why, this may put Wondabyne on the map?" The girl replied, "I think it has already" |
- | grasses and shrubs grow back on the much-trampled headland jutting into Mullet Creek, I feel | + | |
- | that the overall effect will be agreeable. There are nine or ten blocks of carved sandstone, | + | ===Club Day Walks to Wondabyne:=== |
- | standing from about 1.5 metres to 2.5 metres tall, and appearing pale against the backdrop of | + | |
- | quiet waters and wooded hills. At least the notion of a little park with some artistic items sitting in a narrow strip between the busy Northern railway and part of the Hawkesbury estuary is a novel one. | + | 22nd March, 12th April, 24th May. |
- | On the way down the hill I passed two of the toilers, a young Australian women and a middle-aged Bulgarian, and had a brief conversation. They appeared to be pleasant folk and | + | |
- | quite enthusiastic about what they had wrought, and in the course of our discussion I remarked, | + | ---- |
- | with a question in my voice, "Why, this may put Wondabyne on the map?" The girl replied, "I | + | |
- | think it has already" | + | =====Emmagen Creek, North Queensland, December |
- | CLUB DAY WALKS to Wondabyne | + | |
- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | |
- | Page 8 April, 1987, | + | by Col Gibson. |
- | EMMAGEN CREEK, NORTH QUEENSLAND, DECEMBER | + | |
- | by Cal Gibson. Walkers: Col Gibson & Paul Bentley. | + | Walkers: Col Gibson & Paul Bentley. (Neither walkers are members of S.B.W.) |
- | (Neither walkers are members of S.B.W.) | + | |
- | We set off from The Blockade (Greater Daintree Action Centre)at'Cape Tribulation at 11.00 am after some hesitation over the weather, but the morning had cleared and this was likely to be one of the few chances left to do the Mt. Sorrow Knife-Edge before the onset of "the wet" | + | We set off from The Blockade (Greater Daintree Action Centre)at Cape Tribulation at 11.00 am after some hesitation over the weather, but the morning had cleared and this was likely to be one of the few chances left to do the Mt. Sorrow Knife-Edge before the onset of "the wet". |
- | A couple of hundred yards down the road we turned into Rykers Creek which is a very pretty | + | |
- | tropical rill. We crossed over and made our way up the northern flank of the Knife-Edge ridge. | + | A couple of hundred yards down the road we turned into Rykers Creek which is a very pretty tropical rill. We crossed over and made our way up the northern flank of the Knife-Edge ridge. Gradually the going steepened and not before long we hit a dense belt of lawyer cane. We tried in several places to break through, having always to retreat when the spiny canes and their " |
- | Gradually the going steepened and not before long we hit a dense belt of lawyer cane. We tried | + | |
- | in several places to break through, having always to retreat when the spiny canes and their | + | From then on we quickly gained the height of the ridge and picked up a small pad marked with occasional red tape placed there a couple of years ago by a botanical survey team to Mt. Pieter Botte. The next hour or so was a push to the top of Vicki' |
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- | a gravity feed pipeline and followed it horizontally before making a final successful break through. | + | Before us now lay the Knife-Edge - a kilometre long causeway between Vicki' |
- | From then on we quickly gained the height of the ridge and picked up a small pad marked | + | |
- | with occasional red tape placed there a couple of years ago by a botanical survey team to Mt.Pieter Botte. The next hour or so was a push to the top of Vicki' | + | Mt. Sorrow, another one hundred metres above us, was continually swamped by a roll of cloud flowing off the Pieter |
- | by a scrub turkey nest. | + | |
- | Before us now lay the Knife-Edge - a kilometre long causeway between Vicki' | + | By the time we had traversed to the western extremity of the Knife-Edge we had reached the very edge of the Pieter Botte Massif and we stopped at two closely grown trees and could only look at where the track led on and say to ourselves - "That way the Wilderness, next time, perhaps?" |
- | of three hours on the Knife-Edge traversing it and admiring the view from a granite tor which was | + | |
- | uplifted above the wind-pruned vegetation. Here we drank the three litres of water we had | + | We moved quickly down a moist slope covered in Helmholtzia bushes and soon came to a saddle that we did not recognise. We could not consult map or compass as we had neither, but we concluded that we had reached the head of Rykers Amphitheatre. We turned left and down, paralleling a steep side gully. |
- | carried up. | + | |
- | Mt:Sorrow, another one hundred metres above us, was continually swamped by a roll of cloud flowing off the Pieter | + | |
- | could distinguish the crowns of very big trees in the deep waterfall gully below us and we surveyed more direct routes onto Mt. Sorrow. | + | |
- | By the time we had traversed to the western extremity of the Knife-Edge we had reached the very edge of the Pieter Botte Massif and we stopped at two closely grown trees and could only look at.where the track led on and v to ourselves - "That way the Wilderness, next time, perhaps?" | + | |
- | returning to The Blockade Site via Rykers Creek. | + | |
- | We moved quickly down a moist slope covered in Helmholtzia bushes and soon came to a saddle that we did not recognise. We could not consult map or compass as we had neither, but we | + | |
- | concluded that we had reached the head of Rykers Amphitheatre. We turned left and down, paralleling a steep side gully. | + | |
The going was steep all the way and sometimes we were in the gully and sometimes beside it wending our way through thickening vines and tall timber. Here and there the ground was covered in loose stones and we came upon one level bench which contained the tallest and straightest trees we had seen in the area. There were a couple of trees with enormous plank buttresses. | The going was steep all the way and sometimes we were in the gully and sometimes beside it wending our way through thickening vines and tall timber. Here and there the ground was covered in loose stones and we came upon one level bench which contained the tallest and straightest trees we had seen in the area. There were a couple of trees with enormous plank buttresses. | ||
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We were both very impressed with this side of the valley, and were expecting soon to arrive at Rykers Creek itself. However, the valley was proving to be much deeper than we had expected. We eventually reached the creek at a most enchantingly beautiful locality where the water flowed over a granite intrusion to cut white water cascades and smooth natural baths; the valley sides steep, the watercourse itself canopied by the forest and draped with vines that overhung crystal clear pools teeming with jungle perch. | We were both very impressed with this side of the valley, and were expecting soon to arrive at Rykers Creek itself. However, the valley was proving to be much deeper than we had expected. We eventually reached the creek at a most enchantingly beautiful locality where the water flowed over a granite intrusion to cut white water cascades and smooth natural baths; the valley sides steep, the watercourse itself canopied by the forest and draped with vines that overhung crystal clear pools teeming with jungle perch. | ||
- | This was something of a surprise to find as a local authority had assured me there was no granite to be found in any creek north of Masads Creek. The walking here was so easy we took | + | |
- | off our shoes and walked barefoot along the granite pathway. After a distance the granite | + | This was something of a surprise to find as a local authority had assured me there was no granite to be found in any creek north of Masads Creek. The walking here was so easy we took off our shoes and walked barefoot along the granite pathway. After a distance the granite petered out but the creek was such a delight in its every aspect we agreed that it was the best creek that either of us had been in, in the area. |
- | petered out but the creek was such a delight in its every aspect we agreed that it was the best creek that either of us had been in, in the area. | + | |
- | Soon the sun had set but the night was one of full moon and we were able to use the long | + | Soon the sun had set but the night was one of full moon and we were able to use the long twilight to negotiate the creek. We continued rock-hopping or walking through tall forest on creekside flats, getting snagged occasionally by unseen wait-a-whiles. We passed broad flats so ravaged by wet season flood levels and the forest so damaged that they were inextricably smothered with the lawyer cane. |
- | twilight to negotiate the creek. We continued rock-hopping or walking through tall forest on | + | |
- | creekside flats, getting snagged occasionally by unseen wait-a-whiles. We passed broad flats | + | It was proving to be a surprisingly long creek, the darkness deepening, our stomachs empty and Paul's feet rather blistered. Rykers was more of a rill than a creek. We persevered; now staggering over stones and getting caught on the blind sides of deep pools wherever directional changes |
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- | so ravaged by wet season flood levels and the forest so damaged that they were inextricably smothered with the lawyer cane. | + | By mid-evening we came to the road - but not the road we were expecting to meet. We stood there realising the fact that we had just followed Emmagen Creek from near its highest source down to the infamous Cape Tribulation to Bloomfield Road. We still had 4 kms of the road to walk back to The Blockade Site. |
- | It was proving to be a surprisingly long creek, the darkness deepening, our stomachs empty and Paul's feet rather blistered. Rykers was more of a rill than a creek. We persevered; now staggering over stones and getting caught on the blind sides of deep pools wherever directional changes | + | |
- | 3y mid-evening we came to the rbad - but not the road we were expecting to meet. We stood there realising the fact that we had just followed Emmagen Creek from near its highest | + | We were dumbfounded to think that this creek had been proposed as a road base quarry by the controversial Douglas Shire Council. (The gazettal was actually approved mid-December, |
- | source down to the infamous Cape Tribulation to Bloomfield Road. We still had 4 kms of the | + | |
- | road to walk back to The Blockade Site. | + | As we trudged back along the new road in the moonlight the horrific nature of the damage to this rare coastal rainforest wilderness became apparent. Above the road is a succession of tremendous red earth washaways, huge slipping boulders, uprooted tree stumps and precariously |
- | We were dumbfounded to think that this creek had been proposed as a road base quarry by the controversial Douglas Shire Council. (The gazettal was actually approved mid-December, | + | |
- | 1986}. Our experience with Emmagen had left us with a feelino | + | |
- | way as had the old Cape Trib-Bloomfield walking track. The purity of the Daintree is being | + | |
- | steadily and carelessly eroded. | + | |
- | As we trudged back along the new road in the moonlight the horrific nature of the damage to this rare coastal rainforest wilderness became apparent. Above the road is a succession | + | |
- | of tremendous red earth washaways, huge slipping boulders, uprooted tree stumps and precariously | + | |
- | peltata, rows of wind-damaged and dead standing trees, splits in the canopy down to the beach | + | |
- | and fifty-foot deep screes of red mullock. There are dumped car bodies that have been pushed over the side and the roadside is strewn with beer bottles and the usual complex of consumer | + | |
This used to be a walking track in total harmony with its surroundings! | This used to be a walking track in total harmony with its surroundings! | ||
- | (NOTE. This report does demonstrate the wisdom of " | + | |
- | on all walks" | + | (Note. This report does demonstrate the wisdom of " |
- | ########## | + | |
- | BELVEDERE TAXIS BLACKHEATH | + | ---- |
- | 10 SEATER MINI BUS TAXI | + | |
- | 047-87 8366 | + | =====The Incident At Howling Dingo camp.===== |
- | KANANGRA BOYD | + | |
- | . UPPER BLUE MOUNTAINS | + | by Clio. |
- | SIX FOOT TRACK | + | |
- | PICK UP ANYWHERE FOR START OR FINISH OF YOUR WALK | + | When Myles Dunphy started bushwalking there were no hiking tents, only the big heavy cottage tents that one would have seen in timber camps or that the army might use. So Myles decided to design his own. |
- | BY PRIOR ARRANGEMENT | + | |
- | Share the Fare Competitive Rates | + | Basically he chose the pattern of today' |
- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | |
- | 265 VICTORIA ROAD GLADESVILLE, | + | |
- | THURS. 9-8 | + | |
- | SAT. 94 | + | |
- | (PARKING AT REAR OFF PITTWATER ROAD) | + | |
- | A LARGE RANGE OF LIGHTWEIGHT, | + | |
- | | + | |
- | COLD WEATHER PROTECTION CLOTHING AND RAINGEAR | + | |
- | MAPS, BOOKS AND LEAFLETS | + | |
- | | + | |
- | | + | |
- | WE STOCK THE LARGEST RANGE OF CANOEING GEAR IN N.S.W. | + | |
- | QUALITY TOURING CRAFT OF ALL TYPES HIGH QUALITY, PERFORMANCE COMPETITION CRAFT | + | |
- | A HUGE RANGE OF PADDLES FOR ALL TYPES OF CANOEING | + | |
- | ALL TYPES OF SPRAY COVERS | + | |
- | | + | |
- | April, 1987 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 11 | + | |
- | THE INCIDENT AT HOWLING DINGO CAMP. by CLIO. | + | |
- | When Myles Dunphy started bushwalking there were no hiking tents, only the big heavy cottage tents that one would have seen in timber camps or that the army might use. So Myles | + | |
- | decided to design his own. | + | |
- | Basically he chose the pattern of today' | + | |
- | to tie onto trees or poles. Thus suspended the corner guys were pegged out - all pegs being | + | |
- | cut on the site. Instead of the 2' | + | |
- | turned in along the ground and weighed down with stones, logs or bedding material. This was | + | |
- | to stop the invasion of insects and spiders. A doorway was located at one end only and over- | + | |
- | lapped 18" to 24" and could be tied together with two sets (inner and outer) of tapes. | + | |
His first tent was of fair quality calico which admitted the rain as a fine mist. A discussion with a salesman led to the suggestion that " | His first tent was of fair quality calico which admitted the rain as a fine mist. A discussion with a salesman led to the suggestion that " | ||
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In October 1914 Myles set off with Bert Gallop for a long walk in the upper Kowmung Region. The rugged terrain slowed progress which was helped by continual bad weather. From Trailers Mountain they descended to the Kowmung, then attempted to reach the Boyd Range. Heavy mist and rain saw the mates wandering round the aptly named Lost Rock beside the Uni Rover Trail. | In October 1914 Myles set off with Bert Gallop for a long walk in the upper Kowmung Region. The rugged terrain slowed progress which was helped by continual bad weather. From Trailers Mountain they descended to the Kowmung, then attempted to reach the Boyd Range. Heavy mist and rain saw the mates wandering round the aptly named Lost Rock beside the Uni Rover Trail. | ||
- | They eventually returned to the Kowmung River and made camp at the foot of Misery Ridge. Sorely tired after their wet exertions they had a meal and then fell into a heavy sleep. Myles awoke in the middle of the night with a start and an uneasy feeling. Suddenly "a banshee- like howling, now loud and strong, now quavering and lowering to an eerie moaning as of some sepulchral, wild lost spirit,nowblending | + | |
- | the wind and tumult of the Dante-like wet hell". A dingo was prowling round their campsite. | + | They eventually returned to the Kowmung River and made camp at the foot of Misery Ridge. Sorely tired after their wet exertions they had a meal and then fell into a heavy sleep. Myles awoke in the middle of the night with a start and an uneasy feeling. Suddenly "a banshee-like howling, now loud and strong, now quavering and lowering to an eerie moaning as of some sepulchral, wild lost spirit, |
- | But Myles also realised "he was choking and that his heart was racing" | + | |
- | awareness he realised that there was an oxygen deficiency - the balloon silk tent had become | + | But Myles also realised "he was choking and that his heart was racing" |
- | hermetically sealed. The flapping of the wind and the moisture had adhered the doors together, and the air vents had drawn together depriving the inhabitants of sufficent | + | |
- | Discussing the brush with death next morning with Bert, whom Myles could not awaken during the night' | + | Discussing the brush with death next morning with Bert, whom Myles could not awaken during the night' |
- | bushwalking craft or mountain trailing as they knew it, were worked out by two who unwittingly pioneered a new kind of natre-loving recreation, in their search for wild scenery of unspoiled places" | + | |
- | 60TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER. | + | ---- |
- | Tickets for admission to the Club's 60th Anniversary Dinner at Holiday Inn MENZIES, 14 Carrington Street on Friday, 23rd October are now available. | + | |
- | They may be obtained in the Club Room from Ian Debert at $30 per person. In addition | + | ====60th Anniversary Diner.==== |
- | a limited supply will be available from each Club Committee Officer if you live near one of them. | + | |
- | Tickets may be obtained by post if a cheque/ | + | Tickets for admission to the Club's 60th Anniversary Dinner at Holiday Inn Menzies, 14 Carrington Street on Friday, 23rd October are now available. |
- | 2001. | + | |
- | The Menzies | + | They may be obtained in the Club Room from Ian Debert at $30 per person. In addition a limited supply will be available from each Club Committee Officer if you live near one of them. |
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+ | Tickets may be obtained by post if a cheque/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Menzies | ||
60th Anniversary T-shirts, with the Club name and badge, will be available after Easter at the Club Room at a cost of approx. $8 each. | 60th Anniversary T-shirts, with the Club name and badge, will be available after Easter at the Club Room at a cost of approx. $8 each. | ||
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- | THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. | + | ---- |
+ | |||
+ | =====The Annual General Meeting.===== | ||
by Barry Wallace. | by Barry Wallace. | ||
- | 'It was all reminiscent of a gathering of the clans, with more than 80 members present and the President in the chair when the meeting began at around 1950 hours. | + | |
+ | It was all reminiscent of a gathering of the clans, with more than 80 members present and the President in the chair when the meeting began at around 1950 hours. | ||
New members Christina Douglass, Elaine Walton, Michele Miller, Ruth Hesselyn, Peter Grove and Christine Floyd were called for welcome into membership and most of them were present too. | New members Christina Douglass, Elaine Walton, Michele Miller, Ruth Hesselyn, Peter Grove and Christine Floyd were called for welcome into membership and most of them were present too. | ||
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There were apologies from Beverley Foulds, Denise Shaw and Elaine Walton and the Minutes of the previous meeting were read and received with no matters arising. | There were apologies from Beverley Foulds, Denise Shaw and Elaine Walton and the Minutes of the previous meeting were read and received with no matters arising. | ||
- | Correspondence brought letters from Doreen Berry, regarding Maurie Berry' | + | |
- | so we passed to the election of officers with the traditional suspension of such of the standing orders as was necessary to permit the election of officers to be conducted concurrently with the other business of the meeting. We also resolved that in the case of a single position the voting should be first past the post and for multiple positions the voting should be preferential. | + | Correspondence brought letters from Doreen Berry, regarding Maurie Berry' |
- | The results of the election have appeared in the March issue of the magazine. The good | + | |
- | news is that subs remain the same as last year. | + | The results of the election have appeared in the March issue of the magazine. The good news is that subs remain the same as last year. |
- | Th ' | + | |
+ | The Annual | ||
There was no Treasurer' | There was no Treasurer' | ||
- | Over the weekend 13,14,15 February | + | |
- | The following weekend 20,21,22 Feb saw 8 under-35-at-heart starters on Carol Bruce' | + | Over the weekend 13,14,15 February |
- | Wollongambe lilo trip. They were troubled by marsupial mice and Don Finch managed to break a | + | |
- | rib. Bill Holland' | + | The following weekend 20,21,22 Feb saw 8 under-35-at-heart starters on Carol Bruce' |
- | at the leader' | + | |
- | Flat day trip was conducted over two days with a party of 10. | + | On Wednesday 25th Feb Bill Hall had a party of 6 enjoying mild, dry conditions on his Waterfall to Loftus walk. |
- | On Wednesday 25th Feb BIll Hall had a party of 6 enjoying mild, dry conditions on his Waterfall to Loftus walk. | + | |
- | Of the two walks scheduled for the weekend of 28-29? Feb both were cancelled with Gordon Lee reporting no starters and Alan Dohertypleading | + | Of the two walks scheduled for the weekend of 28-29 Feb both were cancelled with Gordon Lee reporting no starters and Alan Doherty pleading |
- | The weekend of 6,7,8 March saw Bill Holland with 22 people on his Yalwal trip, and Bill Capon reported 4 starters on his Shoalhaven River, Rotten Creek exploratory trip. Oliver | + | |
- | Crawford' | + | The weekend of 6,7,8 March saw Bill Holland with 22 people on his Yalwal trip, and Bill Capon reported 4 starters on his Shoalhaven River, Rotten Creek exploratory trip. Oliver Crawford' |
- | instructional. Greta Davis reported 8 people on a perfect day for her Grand Canyon walk to | + | |
- | bring the Walks Report to a close. | + | |
The constitutional amendment was carried. | The constitutional amendment was carried. | ||
- | General Business saw some debate on a proposal to construct a national horse trail from Cooktown to Melbourne. Peter Stitt will seek to obtain more information from the organisation | + | |
- | which appears to have access to bicentenary funds for the purpose. | + | General Business saw some debate on a proposal to construct a national horse trail from Cooktown to Melbourne. Peter Stitt will seek to obtain more information from the organisation which appears to have access to bicentenary funds for the purpose. |
- | Federation Report brought advice that F.B.W. will enquire further from the N.S.W. Minister for Police regarding a floated proposal to charge rescued parties the cost of rescue. A | + | |
- | press release from Ms. Crozier seems to indicate that fishing and car tours will be permitted in some areas of theWarragamba | + | Federation Report brought advice that F.B.W. will enquire further from the N.S.W. Minister for Police regarding a floated proposal to charge rescued parties the cost of rescue. A press release from Ms. Crozier seems to indicate that fishing and car tours will be permitted in some areas of the Warragamba |
- | to provide insurance schemes for incorporated clubs. The N.P.W.S. has advised that it will | + | |
- | repair the road to the Glow Worms Tunnel. N.P.W.S. says that access along the Narrow Necks | + | In matters arising, we resolved to instruct our F.B.W. delegates that we do not object to fishing in M.W.S.& D. Board catchments as long as equal facilities are extended to bushwalkers. |
- | fire trail is limited to emergency use. There is a Bush Dance scheduled for 1st May. | + | |
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- | In matters arising, we resolved to instruct our F.B..W. delegates that we do not object to fishing in M.W.S.& D. Board catchments as long as equal facilities are extended to bushwalkers. | + | |
Then there were various votes of thanks to retiring office bearers and workers. The meeting also agreed that the new committee should consider installing a gate at the road entrance to Coolana. | Then there were various votes of thanks to retiring office bearers and workers. The meeting also agreed that the new committee should consider installing a gate at the road entrance to Coolana. | ||
- | Tickets are now available for the 60th Anniversary dinner to be held Friday, 23rd October, and the T-shirts are on the way so don't give up hope. | + | |
+ | Tickets are now available for the 60th Anniversary dinner to be held Friday, 23rd October, and the T-shirts are on the way... so don't give up hope. | ||
The meeting closed at 2154 with the President' | The meeting closed at 2154 with the President' | ||
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- | WHAT AIN'T WE GOT? | + | ---- |
- | According to the musical | + | |
- | S.B.W. | + | ====What Ain't We Got?==== |
+ | |||
+ | According to the musical | ||
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+ | S.B.W. | ||
Probably we won't have much trouble in collecting these documents for the period 1980 - to date. Earlier records are rare as hens' teeth. | Probably we won't have much trouble in collecting these documents for the period 1980 - to date. Earlier records are rare as hens' teeth. | ||
- | PLEASE, oh please, let us know if you have any old Annual Reports/ | + | |
- | JIM BROWN - Phone 81 2675 AINSLIE MORRIS | + | Please, oh please, let us know if you have any old Annual Reports/ |
- | *********** | + | |
- | SOCIAL NOTES FOR MAY. | + | Jim Brown - Phone 81 2675. Ainslie Morris |
- | by Wendy Aliarb. | + | |
- | After the great successs | + | ---- |
- | Budawangs slides, old ones are of as much interest as recent trips. If you haven' | + | |
- | to the Budawangs come and see what you have been missing. | + | ====Social Notes For May.==== |
- | The other May Club nights need little comment. Please don't call me if you want to | + | |
- | eat out, though, as my phone is often far too busy on Mon.-Tues. with walks calls. Just | + | by Wendy Aliano. |
- | come and eat if you want to. | + | |
+ | After the great success | ||
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+ | The other May Club nights need little comment. Please don't call me if you want to eat out, though, as my phone is often far too busy on Mon.-Tues. with walks calls. Just come and eat if you want to. | ||
The new clubrooms are great, so all of you out there who haven' | The new clubrooms are great, so all of you out there who haven' | ||
- | ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS | + | |
- | For application form see | + | ---- |
- | Reverse | + | |
- | Page 14 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER April, 1987 | + | ===Annual Subscriptions |
- | THEATRE PARTY DATES. | + | |
- | 'THE GINGERBREAD LADY' by Neil Simon. Ensemble Theatre. | + | For application form see reverse |
- | Tuesday, May 3rd. $14.30 | + | |
- | 'AWAY' by Michael Gow. Drama Theatre, Opera House. | + | ---- |
- | Tuesday, June 2nd. $20.30. | + | |
- | 'BILOXI | + | =====Theatre Party Dates.===== |
- | Tuesday, 16th June. $24.30. | + | |
- | 'EMERALD CITY' by David Williamson. | + | |
- | Tuesday, 1st December. $22.30. Stu/Pen. $17. | + | __'The Gingerbread Lady'__ by Neil Simon. Ensemble Theatre. Tuesday, May 3rd. $14.30. |
- | These prices represent a saving of up to $5 on each ticket through group booking. Student/ | + | |
- | at present. | + | __'Away'__ by Michael Gow. Drama Theatre, Opera House. Tuesday, June 2nd. $20.30. |
- | FAZELEY READ - Phone 909 3671 | + | |
- | ############ | + | __'Biloxi blues'__ by Neil Simon. Drama Theatre, Opera House. Tuesday, 16th June. $24.30. |
- | FEDERATION OF BUSHWALKING CLUBS. | + | |
- | BUSH DANCE. | + | __'Emerald City'__ by David Williamson. Tuesday, 1st December. $22.30. Stu/Pen. $17. |
+ | |||
+ | These prices represent a saving of up to $5 on each ticket through group booking. Student/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Fazeley Read - Phone 909 3671 | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Federation Of Bushwalking Clubs - Bush Dance.==== | ||
Friday, 1st May. Lane Cove Town Hall. 7.30 pm. $8 per person. | Friday, 1st May. Lane Cove Town Hall. 7.30 pm. $8 per person. | ||
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Free Selectors Band. Lucky door Prizes, also a Raffle. B.Y.O.Food & drink. | Free Selectors Band. Lucky door Prizes, also a Raffle. B.Y.O.Food & drink. | ||
- | Proceeds in aid of Search & REscue. | + | |
+ | Proceeds in aid of Search & Rescue. | ||
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Cut out: | Cut out: | ||
- | THE SYDNEY: | + | |
+ | **The Sydney Bushwalkers | ||
Please send this notice with your cheque/ | Please send this notice with your cheque/ | ||
- | The Hon. Treasurer, The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. NAME/S: (For ALL membners in household) | ||
- | ADDRESS' | ||
- | TYPE: Single - Household - Non-active with magazine - Non-active - | ||
- | (Cross out those Active over 70 years of age - | ||
- | not applicable) | ||
- | AMOUNT ENCLOSED: $ | ||
- | [Single $20 - Household $20 plus $10 for each extra person, $30 for two, $40 for three, $50 for four - Non-active with magazine $10 - Non-active $5 Active over 70 years of age $10 - Prospective (6 months only)$15 - Magazine subscription only $10.] | ||
+ | The Hon. Treasurer, The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476 G.P.O., Sydney, 2001. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Name/s: (For ALL members in household) ......... | ||
+ | | ||
+ | Address: ......... | ||
+ | |||
+ | If a receipt is required please send a stamped addressed envelope. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Type: Single - Household - Non-active with magazine - Non-active - Active over 70 years of age. | ||
+ | |||
+ | (Cross out those not applicable) | ||
+ | |||
+ | Amount enclosed: $..... | ||
+ | |||
+ | [Single $20 - Household $20 plus $10 for each extra person, $30 for two, $40 for three, $50 for four - Non-active with magazine $10 - Non-active $5 - Active over 70 years of age $10 - Prospective (6 months only)$15 - Magazine subscription only $10.] | ||
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