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Last November Jim and Kath Brown wrote to Committee suggesting that Helen Gray, George Gray and Spiro Hajinakitas be added to our list of Honorary Active Members. At the December Committee Meeting the motion was unanimously passed to cries of "What a good idea!", | Last November Jim and Kath Brown wrote to Committee suggesting that Helen Gray, George Gray and Spiro Hajinakitas be added to our list of Honorary Active Members. At the December Committee Meeting the motion was unanimously passed to cries of "What a good idea!", | ||
- | Such laurels are not easily won, but are given by the Club in sincere | + | Such laurels are not easily won, but are given by the Club in sincere |
====Helen Gray==== | ====Helen Gray==== | ||
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Up down, up down, hotter and hotter. This was just not the day to be doing Boiler. Our throats were parched and the water we were carrying was rapidly running out. A quick lunch at noon before a dash along the flatter parts of the ridge to a large rock platform overlooking the ridge to the west which breaks up into a myriad of tors, spires and rocky outcrops. | Up down, up down, hotter and hotter. This was just not the day to be doing Boiler. Our throats were parched and the water we were carrying was rapidly running out. A quick lunch at noon before a dash along the flatter parts of the ridge to a large rock platform overlooking the ridge to the west which breaks up into a myriad of tors, spires and rocky outcrops. | ||
- | From here the alternative plan of crossing Bungleboori directly back to Brakeevan | + | From here the alternative plan of crossing Bungleboori directly back to Brakevan |
It was five o' | It was five o' | ||
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Erith Hamilton and Stephen Bieger. | Erith Hamilton and Stephen Bieger. | ||
- | MAILBAG | + | =====Mailbag.===== |
- | Seems.I'm not the only one who dislikes the smell of cow manure. Brenda Cameron found it | + | |
- | "sufficiently disgusting to write to' | + | (Seems I'm not the only one who dislikes the smell of cow manure. Brenda Cameron found it sufficiently disgusting to write to the Victorian Premier herself! |
Dear Mrs Kirner, | Dear Mrs Kirner, | ||
- | I recently visited the high mountain country of Victoria, and being quite keen on walking spent what would have been a glorious day walking in the Alpine National Park. I qualify my enthusiasm for this area becuase | + | |
- | only too obvious results of the cattle grazing which is still allowed in this National Park - cattle excrement, resultant over-population of flies and the virtual denudation of the wild flowers which during the summer | + | I recently visited the high mountain country of Victoria, and being quite keen on walking spent what would have been a glorious day walking in the Alpine National Park. I qualify my enthusiasm for this area because |
- | I have often visited the New South Wales Kosciusko National Park during the summermonths, particularly the area between the Thredbo Chairlift and Mount Kosciusko, and this area never ceases to please and delight me - despite its ease of access, popularity and hence large numbers of people walking around this area, the fact that the cattle were banished from here some time ago has enabled the Park to return to its original splendour, the mess, and abnormal quantities of flies being long gone and wild flowers once again flourish on the mountain sides and plains. | + | |
- | These alpine regions particularly of South-East Australia are not only splendid places but they are also absolutely treasures of the nation. In a vast country such as ours, with so much space, it seems hard to justify use of our fine National | + | I have often visited the New South Wales Kosciusko National Park during the summer months, particularly the area between the Thredbo Chairlift and Mount Kosciusko, and this area never ceases to please and delight me - despite its ease of access, popularity and hence large numbers of people walking around this area, the fact that the cattle were banished from here some time ago has enabled the Park to return to its original splendour, the mess and abnormal quantities of flies being long gone and wild flowers once again flourish on the mountain sides and plains. |
- | I would be interested in hearing of your government' | + | |
- | COO.KINGWJTH SPICES IN THE B SH | + | These alpine regions particularly of South-East Australia are not only splendid places but they are also absolutely treasures of the nation. In a vast country such as ours, with so much space, it seems hard to justify use of our fine National |
- | BY: Jan Mohandas | + | |
- | BORED with your usual bush tucker? | + | I would be interested in hearing of your government' |
- | For your next base camp or bludge walk try something that will make your fellow walkers drool with envyl | + | |
- | PILAU (SPICY RICE WITH GREEN PEAS) | + | Brenda Cameron. |
- | I RED! R PE 0 1/2 Cup long grain rice | + | |
- | 1 Tablespoon oil | + | =====Cooking In The Bush With Spices.===== |
- | 1 Small stick of cinnamon | + | |
- | 2 Cardamon pods, bruised | + | By Jan Mohandas. |
- | 1/4 Teaspoon cumin seeds | + | |
- | 1/8 Teaspoon turmeric, 1 or 2 Cloves 1.5 Cup water | + | Bored with your usual bush tucker? For your next base camp or bludge walk try something that will make your fellow walkers drool with envy! |
- | Cashew nuts (about 20), Sultanas (1 tablespoon 1 Small onion, cut into strips | + | |
- | Method: | + | ====Pilau |
- | 1. Heat oil, fry cashews until brown, remove the cashews | + | |
- | 2. Fry sultanas for a min and remove | + | ===Ingredients: |
- | 3. Fry onions until brown and remove | + | |
- | 4. Fry the spices for 1 min (oil should not be too hot) | + | * 1/2 Cup long grain rice |
- | 5. Mix turmeric and rice for 1 min away from the heat | + | |
- | 6. Add peas and water and bring to boil | + | |
- | 7. Cover and simmer gently until dry (don't burn) | + | |
- | 8. Remove Spices with spoon | + | |
- | 9. Spread cashews, sultanas and onions on top of the rice | + | |
- | Page 10 The Sydney Bushwalker February. 1991 | + | * 1.5 Cup water |
- | PART TWO......THE CHANDLER RIVER | + | |
- | Thursday, 29 December 1988 | + | * 1 Small onion, cut into strips |
- | Dave got up early this morning | + | |
- | into the water - EEEK! Cloudy with a rainy look to the morning again. At 10.30 am we stopped for morning tea, a fire and rock hugging. Even though the days were cloudy, the rocks were always VERY warm. David, meanwhile, repaired the foot-long tear in his lilo. We were all still VERY, VERY cold when it was time to get going again; Dave was the only one without thermals, so he borrowed my thermal jumper to test "this newfangled invention" | + | ===Method:=== |
- | for a while. At the end of the day he decided that his wool jumper was just as good. | + | |
- | Dave had to walk awhile before the patch had dried on his lilo, and just as he started Janet said to look out for snakes. He stumbled - he had almost trodden on a red-bellied black about five feet long - coincidence? | + | - Heat oil, fry cashews until brown, remove the cashews |
- | about 3.00 pm on. Lots of flat areas were all totally freckled with, bottom-sized rocks; could be an uncomfy night. | + | |
- | At 5.40 pm' | + | |
- | once and cowered around it, except for Janet and David who disappeared a long way up the slope | + | |
- | behind us in search of ... sun. They stayed for hours after the. sun had disappeared. | + | |
- | The rest of us had dinner cooked and eaten by the time they returned. | + | |
- | Friday139.1pecember | + | |
- | Once again the day was cloudy. Edith started the fire an0 brought a hot cuppa to my | + | |
- | door, mmmm! Janet and Dave started the day by cooking a breakfast of the remains of their previous evening - Indian curry. An early start saw us hit the water at 10 am - we meandered through lots of shallow, continuous rapids. Morning tea at 11.30 am, at the junction of the Styx and Chandler Rivers - a windy spot. | + | |
- | The Chandler River was to be our path for the next few days and was a small, warm, sluggish trickle of water; obviously the Styx is the main contributor to the flow. We spent 14 hours around a fire here, then we were off down the Chandler - still no sun showing through. After passing a mob of fishermen' | + | |
- | settled on a lunch spot of many pebbles and THE SUN CAME OUT. Lunch from 1 pm to 2.20 pm and a warm, cozy, luxurious one it was too. | + | =====A Tale Of Three Rivers - A Christmas Lilo Adventure===== |
- | Hugging rocks became a wonderful | + | |
- | fire and out would come Dave and Janet' | + | By Michele Morgan. |
- | On again - when going down a rapid half an hour later into a really wide, very deep, sluggish pool, my lilo sent U a bubble...a spa...a quick sag - a puncture - no, several.... panic! Seems a buckle on my pad< had done a sewing machine act and punctured several holes | + | |
- | through both sides of my lilo. So after desperately trying to reach shore without sinking and getting cold and wet up to my neck (the sun had disappeared, | + | ====Part Two - The Chandler River.==== |
- | February 1991 The Sydney Bushwalker | + | |
- | last half hour into camp. What a struggle - stinging nettles, slippery river stones and rock climbing. I was unimpressed, | + | ===Thursday, 29 December 1988=== |
- | We wandered up to a wonderful grassy cow paddock, but couldn' | + | |
- | He was meandering swiftly downstream with the waterflow, looking most content! Eventually | + | Dave got up early this morning |
- | we stopped him and returned to a wonderful flat grassy spot for the evening. I had to dry | + | |
- | my lilo and Janet' | + | Dave had to walk awhile before the patch had dried on his lilo, and just as he started Janet said to look out for snakes. He stumbled - he had almost trodden on a red-bellied black about five feet long - coincidence? |
- | Saturday, 31 December 1988 | + | |
- | Janet and Dave sprang into an exceedingly early start. Fire lit, billy boiled, tea | + | At 5.40 pm we eventually found a site amongst some she-oaks. We got-a fire going at once and cowered around it, except for Janet and David who disappeared a long way up the slope behind us in search of ... sun. They stayed for hours after the sun had disappeared. The rest of us had dinner cooked and eaten by the time they returned. |
- | ready and waiting for all - and A SUNNY DAY. I started out in thermals but soon changed | + | |
- | into my bright new fluro orange and black sunning attire ,and set off to the river | + | ===Friday, 30 September |
- | | + | |
- | : | + | Once again the day was cloudy. Edith started the fire and brought a hot cuppa to my door, mmmm! Janet and Dave started the day by cooking a breakfast of the remains of their previous evening - Indian curry. An early start saw us hit the water at 10 am - we meandered through lots of shallow, continuous rapids. Morning tea at 11.30 am, at the junction of the Styx and Chandler Rivers - a windy spot. |
- | keeping the others, yelled out "9.30 and we're all late!" People came running from all directions, thinking that something was wrong. I apologised and we set off. | + | |
+ | The Chandler River was to be our path for the next few days and was a small, warm, sluggish trickle of water; obviously the Styx is the main contributor to the flow. We spent 1 1/4 hours around a fire here, then we were off down the Chandler - still no sun showing through. After passing a mob of fishermen' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Hugging rocks became a wonderful | ||
+ | |||
+ | On again - when going down a rapid half an hour later into a really wide, very deep, sluggish pool, my lilo sent up a bubble... a spa... a quick sag - a puncture - no, several.... panic! Seems a buckle on my pad had done a sewing machine act and punctured several holes through both sides of my lilo. So after desperately trying to reach shore without sinking and getting cold and wet up to my neck (the sun had disappeared, | ||
+ | |||
+ | We wandered up to a wonderful grassy cow paddock, but couldn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Saturday, 31 December 1988=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Janet and Dave sprang into an exceedingly early start. Fire lit, billy boiled, tea ready and waiting for all - and A SUNNY DAY. I started out in thermals but soon changed into my bright new fluro orange and black sunning attire ,and set off to the river to soak up sun for a while. At 9.30 am, wondering what was keeping the others, | ||
A fast, easy day with lots of sun, gentle, shallow, rapids and big, deep, pools just teeming with fish. Dave and Janet adopted an unusual form of travel today. Janet going down the river forwards, Dave going along backwards with his toes entwined with Janet' | A fast, easy day with lots of sun, gentle, shallow, rapids and big, deep, pools just teeming with fish. Dave and Janet adopted an unusual form of travel today. Janet going down the river forwards, Dave going along backwards with his toes entwined with Janet' | ||
+ | |||
At lunch I got out my fishing line, as the river was filled to overflowing with monster trout. All I managed was a massive tangle in the line, and that was before I even got it in the water. Edith attempted to untangle it and was partly successful. | At lunch I got out my fishing line, as the river was filled to overflowing with monster trout. All I managed was a massive tangle in the line, and that was before I even got it in the water. Edith attempted to untangle it and was partly successful. | ||
- | Today our aim for camp was the Chandler/ | ||
- | The rest of us managed to add a few things too. Halve, chocky, cashews, hot rum and lemon | ||
- | barley drinks, Violet Crumbles and two litres of port. We were all too full for dinner and at 10 pm Janet, Edith and myself crashed. The guys stayed up "To have a'wee bit more port", | ||
- | and I believe Janet woke up close to midnight to again join the 'wild party' | ||
- | auld acquaintance be forgot.... zzzzzz. | ||
- | TO BE CONTINUED' | ||
+ | Today our aim for camp was the Chandler/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | To be continued... | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====The January General Meeting.===== | ||
- | THEJANUARY GENERAL | ||
by Barry Wallace | by Barry Wallace | ||
So, these are the new premises; leafy, bucolic, two storey sandstone building with top floor verandahs front and rear, ex-gracious abode of the rich, famous, or both. The evening is clammy and warm, and the milling hordes, limited room sizes, interrogation style track lights and lack of ceiling fans aren't helping. At last the committee is done and at 2033 the President, with a surfeit of gonging, calls the meeting of some 35 (in the room that is, there were around 70 present in all) to order. | So, these are the new premises; leafy, bucolic, two storey sandstone building with top floor verandahs front and rear, ex-gracious abode of the rich, famous, or both. The evening is clammy and warm, and the milling hordes, limited room sizes, interrogation style track lights and lack of ceiling fans aren't helping. At last the committee is done and at 2033 the President, with a surfeit of gonging, calls the meeting of some 35 (in the room that is, there were around 70 present in all) to order. | ||
- | We began with Bill explaining the facilities and promising that we would soon have fans to cool our Collective | + | |
+ | We began with Bill explaining the facilities and promising that we would soon have fans to cool our collective | ||
The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and received with no matters arising. | The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and received with no matters arising. | ||
+ | |||
There was no Treasurer' | There was no Treasurer' | ||
+ | |||
There was a Social Report. | There was a Social Report. | ||
- | The Walks Report began at the weekend of 14,15,16 December with the news that Les Powell' | + | |
- | Ian Rannard' | + | The Walks Report began at the weekend of 14,15,16 December with the news that Les Powell' |
- | and went to program. Geoff Dowsett' | + | |
- | The weekend of Jan 5,6 sgui Morag Ryder cancel her Bluegum area walk due to the presence | + | Ian Rannard' |
- | of bushfiresi | + | |
- | January 12,13 saw Wayne Steele leading a party of 4 on his CoX River area walk. There were 4 in the party, it went to programOs | + | The weekend of Jan 5,6 saw Morag Ryder cancel her Bluegum area walk due to the presence of bushfires, |
- | The Conservation Report covered that season when men's hearts are full of goodwill and politicians and developers slip the odd one past while everyone is looking the other way. It seems the Feds. gave the woodchip industry rights to another 4 million tons of wood chips and, at the local level, the bulldozers moved in on the Koala 'colony at Wedderburn. | + | |
- | The Confederation Report indicated | + | January 12,13 saw Wayne Steele leading a party of 4 on his Cox River area walk. There were 4 in the party, it went to program and was very hot. Ian Debert' |
- | 13,14 April. If you are available to help please contact Garry PHilpott | + | |
- | Then came General Business, oh lardy! The Reunion, its timing and location were the | + | The Conservation Report covered that season when men's hearts are full of goodwill and politicians and developers slip the odd one past while everyone is looking the other way. It seems the Feds. gave the woodchip industry rights to another 4 million tons of wood chips and, at the local level, the bulldozers moved in on the Koala colony at Wedderburn. |
- | subject to reason about. Bill led us into a maze of polling for opinions using multiple | + | |
- | choice and split decision voting in the ball-park at a grass roots level. Those who paid | + | The Confederation Report indicated |
- | attention were thoroughly confused except for two ladies who had managed to !allow | + | |
- | strands of Bill's logic well enough to point out that they were not logically sound. The | + | Then came General Business, oh lardy! The Reunion, its timing and location were the subject to reason about. Bill led us into a maze of polling for opinions using multiple choice and split decision voting in the ball-park at a grass roots level. Those who paid attention were thoroughly confused except for two ladies who had managed to follow |
- | next Reunion will definitely be held somewhere at some time, I think. Watch that space. | + | |
The meeting closed at 2148. | The meeting closed at 2148. | ||
- | February | + | |
- | IMPRESSIONS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA | + | =====Impressions of Czechoslovakia - Winter 1990/1991.===== |
- | WINTER 1992L1991 | + | |
by Helen Gray | by Helen Gray | ||
- | Gabrielle and I met in Frankfurt and left in the evening for Czechoslovakia. In our | + | |
- | sleeping compartment was a Czech woman who told us how wonderful it was for her to now be able to cross freely in and out of her country. " | + | Gabrielle and I met in Frankfurt and left in the evening for Czechoslovakia. In our sleeping compartment was a Czech woman who told us how wonderful it was for her to now be able to cross freely in and out of her country. " |
- | reluctantly satisfied with our answers, passing on. The train didn't move off for another | + | |
- | hour or so. | + | I'll jump ahead of myself to tell you about buying a railway ticket out of the country a few days later. We had plenty of Czech currency to buy the tickets, only to find that foreign currency (i.e. " |
- | I'll jump ahead of myself to tell you about buying a railway ticket out of the country a few days later. We had plenty of Czech currency to buy the tickets, only to find that foreign currency (i.e. " | + | |
- | like dirt. Endless form filling, then to another counter (i.e. another queue) to pay for the tickts, then given a receipt and told to come back in 3 hours for the ticket and - yes, another queue. Over half a day to buy a railway ticket! | + | be lived like kings in Prague on the $30 a day we were required to change (and can neither take out of the country nor exchange). The most expensive restaurant meal costs about $4. But for the Czech life is very hard. Restaurants are empty except for the odd tourist. Every food shop had a long queue stretching down the street. The shortest queue I saw was three; that shop had, as total stock, broken onions, apples and one cabbage. The only women we saw were in shopping queues. The streets are full of wandering men. It was so frustrating not to be able to read or speak the language, and "where are all the women" was just one of a hundred questions we wanted answered. We spent two nights in the home of a family who were probably quite affluent by Czech standards |
- | be lived like kings in Prague on the $30 a day we were required to change (and can | + | |
- | neither take out of the country nor exchange). The most expensive restaurant meal costs about $4. But for the Czech life is very hard. Restaurants are empty except for the odd tourist. Every food shop had a long queue stretching down the street. The shortest queue I saw was three; that shop had, as total stock, broken onions, apples and one callbage. The only women | + | Czechoslovakia intends/ |
- | we saw were in shopping queues. The streets are full of wandering men. It was so frustrating not to be able to read or speak the language, and "where are all the women" was just one of a hundred questions we wanted answered. We spent two nights in the home of a family who were probably quite affluent by Czech.standaids | + | |
- | Czechoslovakia intends/ | + | The people are quiet. If I got separated from the others in a busy street, I could often hear them talking to one another even 25-35 yards away. It is probably the Slavic in them that gives most people broad faces and wide-set eyes, which result in a pleasant, open-faced look that is most appealing. People are courteous (even car drivers!) and warm and for me that meant a lot when communication was nil. I always felt very safe, even in the darkest alleys on the way " |
- | how the E.E.C. will work. Next door is Germany with about zero inflation, yet Czechoslovakia | + | |
- | was expecting a 500% devaluation | + | Prague is grubby and grimy because |
- | The people are quiet, If I got separated from the others in a busy street, I could often | + | |
- | hear them talking to one another even 25-35 yards away. It is probably the Slavic in them that gives most people broad faces and wide-set eyes, which result in a pleasant, open-faced look that is most appealing. People are courteous (even car drivers!) and warm and for me that meant a lot when communication was nil. I always felt very safe, even in the darkest | + | =====Aftermath.===== |
- | alleys on the way " | + | |
- | Prague is grubby and grimy becausd | + | Smoke still gives a bitter taste\\ |
- | New Orleans-style jazz is a feature of Prague, and that was wonderful. | + | to the rain-washed air\\ |
- | * * * *. * * * * | + | stumps below the earth\\ |
- | Page 14 The Sydney Bushwalker ' | + | |
- | AFTERMATH | + | |
- | Smoke still gives a bitter taste | + | |
- | to the rain-washed air | + | |
- | stumps below the earth | + | |
still smoulder thin white plumes. | still smoulder thin white plumes. | ||
- | Soaked ashes are warmly damp | + | |
- | and full of cruffibling | + | Soaked ashes are warmly damp\\ |
- | lizards, birds and possums which roasted in the blast. | + | and full of crumbling |
- | Skeleton trees and blackened rock | + | lizards, birds and possums\\ |
- | make nightmare landscape | + | which roasted in the blast. |
- | the ashen smell of death still rising after days of tardy rain , | + | |
- | | + | Skeleton trees and blackened rock\\ |
+ | make nightmare landscape\\ | ||
+ | the ashen smell of death still rising\\ | ||
+ | after days of tardy rain | ||
+ | |||
+ | Procrastinating while the February Dragon\\ | ||
+ | roamed at will and seared the land\\ | ||
+ | devouring two centuries of growth\\ | ||
in one greedy hour. | in one greedy hour. | ||
+ | |||
Morag Ryder | Morag Ryder | ||
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