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 ===Thursday, 29 December 1988===
-Dave got up early this morning AND STARTED THE FIRE! We had a 9.30 am start - straight
+Dave got up early this morning and started the fire! We had a 9.30 am start - straight 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" for a while. At the end of the day he decided that his wool jumper was just as good.
-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"
-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? We paddled on and on, making fair speed. Lots of small fast rapids kept our pace up and kept all but Edith on their lilos throughout - poor Edith capsized on every rapid. It was a long day as we couldn't find any campsites from about 3.00 pm on. Lots of flat areas were all totally freckled with bottom-sized rocks; could be an uncomfy night.
-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? We paddled on and on, making fair speed.. Lots of small fast rapids kept our pace up and kept all but Edith on their lilos throughout - poor Edith capsized on every rapid. It was a long day as we couldn't find any campsites from
-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 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.
-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
+===Friday, 30 September 1988===
-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.
+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.
-Friday139.1pecember 1988
-Once again the day was cloudy. Edith started the fire an0 brought a hot cuppa to my
+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's 4WDs at the bottom of a rough fire trail, we 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.
-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's 4WDs at the bottom of a rough fire trail, we
+Hugging rocks became a wonderful occupation on this trip. Me soggy and cold, they warm to hot and dry - even when it was cloudy all day. At every stop Dave would start a fire and out would come Dave and Janet's five-cup billy and their tea - excellent!
-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.
-Hugging rocks became a wonderful occupabion on this trip. Me soggy and cold, they warm to hot and dry - even when it was cloudy all day. At every stop Dave Nould start a
+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, OF COURSE), I walked the last half hour into camp. What a struggle - stinging nettles, slippery river stones and rock climbing. I was unimpressed, and the worst was that all could have been avoided. Edith, who was getting cold from several dips, also joined me after the worst of the walking, soon followed by David and Janet, also both cold, and Janet with a head cold too.
-fire and out would come Dave and Janet's five-cup billy and their tea - excellent!
-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
+We wandered up to a wonderful grassy cow paddock, but couldn't catch Bob's attention. He was meandering swiftly downstream with the waterflow, looking most content! Eventually we stopped him and returned to a wonderful flat grassy spot for the evening. I had to dry my lilo and Janet's lilo also had several slow leaks. It was spitting rain, so we had trouble drying them before we could effect repairs - eventually successfully. My new lilo now had __four patches__. A totally dry night, could have slept under the stars, not a speck of rain after the afternoon splatter.
-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, OF COURSE), I walked the
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+===Saturday, 31 December 1988===
-last half hour into camp. What a struggle - stinging nettles, slippery river stones and rock climbing. I was unimpressed, and the worst was that all could have been avoided. Edith, who was getting cold from several dips, also joined me after the worst of the walking, soon followed by David and Janet, also both cold, and Janet with a head cold too.
-We wandered up to a wonderful grassy cow paddock, but couldn't catch Bob's attention.
+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, I 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.
-He was meandering swiftly downstream with the waterflow, looking most content! Eventually
-we stopped him and returned to a wonderful flat grassy spot for the evening. I had to dry
-my lilo and Janet's lilo also had several slow leaks. It was spitting rain, so we had trouble drying them before we could effect repairs - eventually successfully. My new lilo now had four patches. A totally dry night, could have slept under the stars, not a speck of rain after the afternoon splatter.
-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
- soak up sun for a
- : while. , At 9.30 am, - wondering what was -
- 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.
 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's toes. They unfortunately came to grief while attempting a rapid in this fashion. Dave at the front facing backwards didn't see the stick which they both hit and which managed to tear both lilos and land them in the water. They walked for the rest of the day.
 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/Macleay River junction. We made it at 5.45 pm, but then spent a fair time looking for a good campsite to seeT in the New Year. Bob found a big flat paddock, covered with green grass, where a bushfire had been through about ten months before. To celebrate New Year's Eve, Dave and janet emptied their humungus packs to reveal a feast. Vitawheats withj)hilly cheese and glace fruit, lollies and all sorts of other goodies.
-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'  should
-auld acquaintance be forgot.... zzzzzz.
-TO BE CONTINUED'
+Today our aim for camp was the Chandler/Macleay River junction. We made it at 5.45 pm, but then spent a fair time looking for a good campsite to see in the New Year. Bob found a big flat paddock, covered with green grass, where a bushfire had been through about ten months before. To celebrate New Year's Eve, Dave and Tanet emptied their humungus packs to reveal a feast. Vitawheats with Philly cheese and glace fruit, lollies and all sorts of other goodies. The rest of us managed to add a few things too. Halva, 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'...  should auld acquaintance be forgot.... zzzzzz.
+To be continued...
+=====The January General Meeting.=====
-THEJANUARY GENERAL  MEETING
 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.
-We began with Bill explaining the facilities and promising that we would soon have fans to cool our Collective beaded brows. There were apologies from Jim Brown and Maurie Bloom. New members Frith Hamilton and Stephen Bieger were welcomed into membership.
+We began with Bill explaining the facilities and promising that we would soon have fans to cool our collective beaded brows. There were apologies from Jim Brown and Maurie Bloom. New members Erith Hamilton and Stephen Bieger were welcomed into membership.
 The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and received with no matters arising.
 There was no Treasurer's Report. Tony was still out there wrestling with our end of year accounts.
 There was a Social Report.
-The Walks Report began at the weekend of 14,15,16 December with the news that Les Powell's weekend walk on the Nattai did not go. It seems Les was laid low by an exotic bug he picked up in some foreign parts. No Virginia not those foreign parts. Of the day walks Ralph Penglis's Sydney Harbour Walk 'went, but there was no report. Brenda Cameronle Waterfall to Heathcote trip went with 20 starters and there were no details of Peter Christian's planned Fortress Creek Canyon trip. The following weekend Goff McIntosh led a flotilla of 4 li-los and a blow-up plastic boat on his Du Faurs Creek canyon li-b trip.
-Ian Rannard's extended walk on Bogong High Plains (Dec 26 to Jan 1) had a party of 16
+The Walks Report began at the weekend of 14,15,16 December with the news that Les Powell's weekend walk on the Nattai did not go. It seems Les was laid low by an exotic bug he picked up in some foreign parts. No Virginia not those foreign parts. Of the day walks Ralph Penglis's Sydney Harbour Walk went, but there was no report. Brenda Cameron's Waterfall to Heathcote trip went with 20 starters and there were no details of Peter Christian's planned Fortress Creek Canyon trip. The following weekend Geoff McIntosh led a flotilla of 4 li-los and a blow-up plastic boat on his Du Faurs Creek canyon li-lo trip.
-and went to program. Geoff Dowsett's Ben Boyd National Park walk (Jan 2 to Jan 6) had a party of 8 Ion a beautiful day walk - somewhere.
-The weekend of Jan 5,6 sgui Morag Ryder cancel her Bluegum area walk due to the presence
+Ian Rannard's extended walk on Bogong High Plains (Dec 26 to Jan 1) had a party of 16 and went to program. Geoff Dowsett's Ben Boyd National Park walk (Jan 2 to Jan 6) had a party of 8 on a beautiful day walk - somewhere.
-of bushfiresi while Ralph Penglisis Bundeena to Otford day trip wasled by Keith Docherty with' a party of 10.
-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 very hot. Ian Debert's Northern Beaches ramble/ barbecue attracted 9 on the ramble and another 9 at the barbecue. Judy Mehaffey reported 12 enjoying a pleasant walk on her Waterfall to Heathcote day trip.
+The weekend of Jan 5,6 saw Morag Ryder cancel her Bluegum area walk due to the presence of bushfires, while Ralph Penglis's Bundeena to Otford day trip was led by Keith Docherty with a party of 10.
-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 ti-eCanberra bUshwalkers look set to part ways with Confederation over the matter of annual fees, and that the Confederation will meet at Ashfield R.S.L. throughout 1991 at some new frequency of meeting yet to be determined. A new track is to be established from Kanangra Tops saddle to the Coal Seam cave. Work is scheduled for
+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's Northern Beaches ramble/barbecue attracted 9 on the ramble and another 9 at the barbecue. Judy Mehaffey reported 12 enjoying a pleasant walk on her Waterfall to Heathcote day trip.
-,14 April. If you are available to help please contact Garry PHilpott on 745-3634 (H).
-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 that Canberra bushwalkers look set to part ways with Confederation over the matter of annual fees, and that the Confederation will meet at Ashfield R.S.L. throughout 1991 at some new frequency of meeting yet to be determined. A new track is to be established from Kanangra Tops saddle to the Coal Seam cave. Work is scheduled for 13,14 April. If you are available to help please contact Garry Philpott on 745-3634 (H).
-attention were thoroughly confused except for two ladies who had managed to !allow the tortuous
-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 the tortuous strands of Bill's logic well enough to point out that they were not logically sound. The next Reunion will definitely be held somewhere at some time, I think. Watch that space.
-next Reunion will definitely be held somewhere at some time, I think. Watch that space.
 The meeting closed at 2148.
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