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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER. | + | ====== The Sydney Bushwalker. ====== |
- | A monthly | + | |
- | No.240 | + | A monthly |
- | Co-Editors: Dot Butler, Boundary Road, | + | |
- | Wahroonga. (JW2208) | + | ---- |
- | Geof Wagg, 19 Mary Street: | + | |
- | Business Manager: Alex Colley (XAl255) | + | === No. 240. November, 1954. Price 6d. === |
- | Sales & Subs.: Jess Martin | + | |
- | Production: Alan Wilson - (FY2047). | + | |**Co-Editors**|Dot Butler, Boundary Road, Wahroonga (JW2208). Geoff Wagg, 19 Mary Street, Blacktown.| |
- | CONTENTS. | + | |**Business Manager**|Alex Colley (XA1255).| |
- | | + | |**Production**|Alan Wilson (FY2047).| |
- | The Seven Good Joys of Our Monthly Meeting 1 | + | |**Sales and Subs**|Jess Martin.| |
- | Siedlecky' | + | |**Typed by**|Jean Harvey.| |
- | , | + | |
- | Barrington Calling | + | ===== In This Issue: ===== |
- | Sanitarium Health Food Shop (Advertisement) 5 | + | |
- | Long Week-end On the S loalhaven - by Dot Butler 6 | + | | | |Page| |
- | The Sydney Bushwalkers Annual Xmas Party 7 | + | |The Seven Good Joys of Our Monthly Meeting| | 1| |
- | Scenic Motor Tours (Advertisement) 9 | + | |Barrington Calling|" |
- | Leica Photo Service (Advertisement) 11 | + | |Long Week-end On the Shoalhaven|Dot Butler| 6| |
- | Federation Notes - October | + | |The Sydney Bushwalkers Annual Xmas Party| | 7| |
- | The Admiral' | + | |Federation Notes - October|Allen A. Strom|13| |
- | - by Frank Rigby 14 | + | |The Admiral' |
- | Kosciusko Invasion - Part 1 - by Ross Laird 18 | + | |Kosciusko Invasion - Part 1|Ross Laird|18| |
- | Good News for Bushwalkers (Paddy' | + | |
- | THE SEVEN GOOD JOYS OF OUR MONTHLY MEETING. | + | ===== Advertisements: |
- | The first good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of One: New membership to Alan, Neil, and Ailsa Cameron, | + | |
- | (The lass who skirls the pipes, good folk), | + | | |Page| |
- | And happy may they be | + | |Siedlecky' |
- | With maps and packs and aching backs | + | |Sanitarium Health Food Shop| 5| |
+ | |Scenic Motor Tours| 9| | ||
+ | |Leica Photo Service|11| | ||
+ | |Good News for Bushwalkers (Paddy' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== The Seven Good Joys Of Our Monthly Meeting. ====== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The first good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of One:\\ | ||
+ | New membership to Alan, Neil, and Ailsa Cameron,\\ | ||
+ | (The lass who skirls the pipes, good folk),\\ | ||
+ | And happy may they be\\ | ||
+ | With maps and packs and aching backs\\ | ||
To all Eternity. | To all Eternity. | ||
- | The next good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of Two: Blue Mountains Shire has set aside a carp for me and you - A site at Nellie' | + | |
- | And happy may ye be | + | The next good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of Two:\\ |
- | With all amenities laid on | + | Blue Mountains Shire has set aside a camp for me and you -\\ |
+ | A site at Nellie' | ||
+ | And happy may ye be\\ | ||
+ | With all amenities laid on\\ | ||
For all Eternity. | For all Eternity. | ||
- | The next good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of Three: To thank the " | + | |
- | (And happy may they be), | + | The next good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of Three:\\ |
- | Wrote up our walk, and heard us talk | + | To thank the " |
+ | Two staff reporters came, good folk,\\ | ||
+ | (And happy may they be),\\ | ||
+ | Wrote up our walk, and heard us talk\\ | ||
To all Eternity. | To all Eternity. | ||
- | The next good joy our Meeting, had, it was the joy of Four: To Members of three kinds now add " | + | |
- | And happy may they be | + | The next good joy our Meeting, had, it was the joy of Four:\\ |
- | Through cold and heat, with blistered feet, | + | To Members of three kinds now add " |
+ | They' | ||
+ | And happy may they be\\ | ||
+ | Through cold and heat, with blistered feet,\\ | ||
To all Eternity. | To all Eternity. | ||
- | The next good joy our Meeting had showed | + | |
- | And happy may ye be | + | The next good joy our Meeting had showed |
- | Through heat and drouth, with dust-parched mouth, | + | Most folk in favour |
+ | "Against" | ||
+ | And happy may ye be\\ | ||
+ | Through heat and drouth, with dust-parched mouth,\\ | ||
For all Eternity. | For all Eternity. | ||
- | The next good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of Six: | + | |
- | For five feet round your cooking fires remove all grass and stick All things, alive or dead, good folk, | + | The next good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of Six:\\ |
- | TiEcluding | + | For five feet round your cooking fires remove all grass and sticks\\ |
- | Our time has not yet come to burn | + | __All__ |
+ | (Including | ||
+ | Our time has not yet come to burn\\ | ||
For all Eternity.) | For all Eternity.) | ||
- | The next good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of Seven: If going on a weekend walk, due notice must be given. The leaders can't read minds, good folk, | + | |
- | And happy will they be | + | The next good joy our Meeting had, it was the joy of Seven:\\ |
- | To know before just what's the score | + | If going on a weekend walk, due notice must be given.\\ |
+ | The leaders can't read minds, good folk,\\ | ||
+ | And happy will they be\\ | ||
+ | To know before just what's the score\\ | ||
Of those they' | Of those they' | ||
- | D.B. | + | |
- | SINK ME SAILOR! CAN YOU CATCH A CRAB? | + | - D.B. |
- | That amphibious operation known as the RUDOLPH CUP RACE will be held at Audle. | + | |
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Sink Me Sailor! Can You Catch A Crab? === | ||
+ | |||
+ | That amphibious operation known as the __Rudolph Cup Race__ | ||
Skulduggery for all classes. | Skulduggery for all classes. | ||
- | AMBIGUOUS CHOICE OF WORDS DEPT. | + | |
- | Yes said Alex-, "I suppose I should write up Jim Brown' | + | ---- |
- | Hazlebrook-Mt. Hay trip for the Magazine, but it was indescribable!" | + | |
- | 3. | + | === Ambiguous Choice Of Words Dept. === |
- | IMPORTANT | + | |
- | BUSHWALKERS R.EQ,UIRING TRANSPORT FROM BLACKHEATH | + | "Yes", |
- | SIEDLECKY'S TAXI AND TOURIST SERVICE | + | |
- | - 116 STATION ETREET BLACKHEATH. | + | ---- |
- | 24 HOUR SERVICE. | + | |
- | BUSHWALKERS | + | === Important Transport Notice. === |
- | 'PHONE B' | + | |
- | OR BOOK AT MARK SALON EADIO SHOP - OPP. STATION. | + | Bushwalkers requiring transport from Blackheath, any hour, ring, write or call... |
- | BARRIN :EON CALLING. | + | |
+ | Siedlecky's Taxi and Tourist Service. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 116 Station Street, Blackheath. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 24 hour service. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bushwalkers | ||
+ | |||
+ | 'Phone Blackheath | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Barrington Calling. ===== | ||
Bon-Oh. | Bon-Oh. | ||
- | The area surrounding the night hive of activity as our after 9 p m. in order to get | + | |
- | The train journey was in journey undertaken by Bushwal frivolity, very little seriou off the train at Scone in the the beginning of a trip which | + | The area surrounding the map at Central was its usual Friday |
- | We waited impatiently ft made an appearance. Rucksac with the usual bus driver ea! another 45 minutes, so as hur knocked up a cafe proprietor satisfaction in the short six tire. Perhaps the most amusir When our thrifty member, Fra: steak from his pocket, all nc embarrassment, | + | |
- | Map at Central was its usual Friday group, 14 in all, assembled there soon flale 9.50 train. | + | The train journey was in no way different from any other train journey undertaken by Bushwalkers. There was the usual amount of |
- | no way different from any other train ers. There was the usual amount of mess, and very little sleep. We tumbled very early hours of Saturday | + | |
- | r several hours till the bus at last | + | We waited impatiently for several hours till the bus at last made an appearance. Rucksacks |
- | s were piled haphazardly on the roof S. The bus wasn't due to leave for gry stomachs were crying: in anguish we and begged. him to feed us. He fed us to 3e of time that we had before our depart-- 3 thing that ocaurred | + | |
- | 4. | + | We hurried out of the cafe in time to catch the bus, and soon settled down for the long ride to Stewart' |
- | told us he was enjoying Frank' | + | |
- | We hurried out of the cafe in time to catch the settled down for the long ride to Stewart' | + | The bus trip did not last as long as was expected. The first de-bussing occurred |
- | bus, and soon Proceeding along by ascending | + | |
- | Admiral Anderson shot for my | + | The next halt was soon upon us, and we were told that the rest of the way would be by truck. This arrived an hour later, and all the parcels and rucksacks |
- | who owned different | + | |
- | The bus trip did not last as long as was expected. The first de-bussing occurred | + | A quick lunch, its peace broken by the traditional shout " |
- | The next halt was soon upon us, and we were told that the rest of the way would be by truck. This arrived an hour later, and all the parcels and rucksacks | + | |
- | A quick lunch, its peace broken by the traditional shout " | + | The rumour had got around that John Thornthwaite had a transmitter and receiver in his rucksack. John explained that the idea was to establish a radio link between Sydney and Brisbane. He continued to explain that Carey' |
- | The rumour had got around that John Thornthwaite had a transmittaand | + | |
- | Sunday morning John and myself left slightly earlier than the main party to make for Carey' | + | Sunday morning John and myself left slightly earlier than the main party to make for Carey' |
- | 5. | + | |
- | | + | We reached |
- | BUT TEE RE' IS NO NEED TO WHEN THEY CAN TA}T | + | |
- | WELL-PACKAGED, | + | By nightfall the main party showed up and told us what they had seen during the day. The chief points of interest were the Barrington River, which everyone said was very pretty and most kodachromatic. They also visited the crashed |
- | VEGETARIAN FOODS | + | |
- | HY-KING CRISP BREAD, HY VITA, KRISP-O-WHEAT AND WHEAT FLAKE | + | Monday morning was different from the usual run of Monday mornings - oh, yes, we were still in the bush and not fighting our way to work! The position was now that we had about eight miles of the " |
- | BISCUITS - KEEP FRESH ON LONG TRIPS | + | |
- | CASHEWS, ALMONDS AND RAISINS, BRAZIL NUTS, GLACE APRICOTS AND DRIED FRUIT SWEETS IN HANDY 4 AND | + | The Corker was terminated by a most beautiful pool into which water cascaded from two or three directions, churning up the sparkling surface to a white foam. The party that left Carey' |
- | 8 OZ. CELLOPHANE PACKETS. | + | |
- | NUTMEAT AND NUTOLENE (TINNED, SAFE-KEEPING MEAT SUBSTITUTES). ALSO MARMITE AND PEANUT BUTTER. | + | The walk to Barrington House from the bottom of the Corker |
- | FROM | + | |
- | THE SANITARIUM HEALTH FOOD SHOP 13 HUNTER STREET SYDNEY. | + | The ride to Maitland was exceptionally pretty as undulating country goes. Looking back we could see the Barrington Tops silhouetted against the setting sun. We arrived at Maitland to clamber |
- | We reaQhed | + | |
- | By nightfall the main party showed up and told us what they had seen during the day. The chief points of interest were the Barrington River, which everyone said was very pretty and most kodachromaticThey | + | ---- |
- | :Monday morning was different from the usual run of Monday mornings - oh, yes, we were still in the bush and not fighting our way to work! The position was now that we had about eight miles of the " | + | |
- | 6. | + | === The Sanitarium Health Food Shop. === |
- | flat walking to Barrington House where we were to catch our bus. Soma of the party left at 9 a m., whilst a few stayed to watch John say hirlast | + | |
- | The Corker was terminated by a most beautiful pool into which water cascaded from two or three directions, churning up the sparkling surface to a white foam. The party that left Carey' | + | Walkers done carry refrigerators, |
- | The walk to Barrington House from the bottom of the Corimr | + | |
- | The ride to Maitland was exceptionally pretty as undulating country goes. Looking back we could see the Barrington Tops silhouetted against the setting sun. We arrived at Maitland to clamber | + | Ry-king crisp bread, Ry Vita, Krisp-o-Wheat and Wheat Flake biscuits - keep fresh on long trips. |
- | 111.1.1MINIMOMMININI111111111M | + | |
- | LONG WEEK-END ON TIE SHOALHAVEN. | + | Cashews, almonds and raisins, brazil nuts, glace apricots and dried fruit sweets in handy 4 and 8 oz. cellophane packets. |
- | Mmiolm1 | + | |
+ | Nutmeat and Nutolene (tinned, safe-keeping meat substitutes). Also marmite and peanut butter. | ||
+ | |||
+ | From... | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Sanitarium Health Food Shop. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 13 Hunter Street, Sydney. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Long Weekend On The Shoalhaven. ===== | ||
- Dot Butler. | - Dot Butler. | ||
- | There were 17 of-us and no leader they told me although Colin and Geof seemed to stand out in darker print than the rest, and we were to hire two or three cars to take us to the Endrick River for the holiday weekend. In the Club Roam on the preceding Wednesday night there was near panic when Colin announced he could only get one car. A fraatic | + | |
- | As is usual in Colin' | + | There were 17 of us and no leader they told me, although Colin and Geof seemed to stand out in darker print than the rest, and we were to hire two or three cars to take us to the Endrick River for the holiday weekend. In the Club Roam on the preceding Wednesday night there was near panic when Colin announced he could only get one car. A frantic |
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- | The Social Secretary, The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476, G.P.O., | + | |
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- | Full Postal Address | + | |
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- | successful deal, and they stopped at all the pubs to celebrate and insisted on shouting Pat and Ian on every occasion. Later they picker: | + | |
The next couple we sped past with much shouting and tooting and waving goodbye were Garth and Snow standing under a street light and thumbing valiantly. | The next couple we sped past with much shouting and tooting and waving goodbye were Garth and Snow standing under a street light and thumbing valiantly. | ||
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Now a familiar vehicle looms ahead like a circus tent on wheels. How right you are! It's the Caloola Club's bus packed to capacity. A hearty exchange of conversation as we passed and repassed several times, then we lost them as they headed towards Canberra. | Now a familiar vehicle looms ahead like a circus tent on wheels. How right you are! It's the Caloola Club's bus packed to capacity. A hearty exchange of conversation as we passed and repassed several times, then we lost them as they headed towards Canberra. | ||
- | Our vocal efforts were by this time in full swing and we sped along making as much din as the town brass band, and quite as musical We went through everyone' | + | |
- | We reached Marulan to find Ken Angel and Dawn already there. After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing on the dark unfamiliar roads by the limestone quarries we piled out at a likely camp spot and back went the car to pick up the hitchers. Two trips netted six bods, but of the other four there was no sign so we gave them up till morning. We had lit a fire to direct Colin back to our camp spot. This gave Dave the idea - an his arrival about 2 a m. - that he would boil a billy and make some tea, but as there was no water the idea fell flat. "Just quietly, I'm hungry", | + | Our vocal efforts were by this time in full swing and we sped along making as much din as the town brass band, and quite as musical. We went through everyone' |
- | Daylight revealed the fact that we were bedded down among a miscellany of rusty tins with red-backed spiders webbing in their dim recesses. "If there' | + | |
- | 9. | + | We reached Marulan to find Ken Angel and Dawn already there. After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing on the dark unfamiliar roads by the limestone quarries we piled out at a likely camp spot and back went the car to pick up the hitchers. Two trips netted six bods, but of the other four there was no sign so we gave them up till morning. We had lit a fire to direct Colin back to our camp spot. This gave Dave the idea - on his arrival about 2 a.m. - that he would boil a billy and make some tea, but as there was no water the idea fell flat. "Just quietly, I'm hungry", |
- | We locked the car and left her standing and all headed off for the ridge leading to Cedar Flat. On our second wrong ridge Snow was informed he had left his climbing rope back at the car. While he wen' | + | |
- | a swim! What a bon-0 pool! What an utterly magnificent set-up to | + | Daylight revealed the fact that we were bedded down among a miscellany of rusty tins with red-backed spiders webbing in their dim recesses. "If there' |
- | sabotage the proposed hot dry walk! Needless to say we got no further. On with the makeshift swim costumes and ah for a wonderful morning swimming and sunbaking on the sand. | + | |
+ | We locked the car and left her standing and all headed off for the ridge leading to Cedar Flat. On our second wrong ridge Snow was informed he had left his climbing rope back at the car. While he went to retrieve it we selected a third ridge which proved to be IT. Snow rejoined us and we didn't take more than half an hour to scoot down to the river, and then breakfast. By 10 a.m. we were ready to go places. Was it to be the Block-up, 6 miles each way, i.e. 12 miles? Or was it to be Bungonia Gorge, 4 or 5 miles return? The vote was cast in favour of the Block-up so off we set without packs - never mind about lunch, we've just had breakfast! We walked a hundred, maybe two hundred, yards to the bank of the river. What a mighty place for a swim! What a bon-O pool! What an utterly magnificent set-up to sabotage the proposed hot dry walk! Needless to say we got no further. On with the makeshift swim costumes and ah for a wonderful morning swimming and sunbaking on the sand. | ||
Garth wanted a raft. The three engineers discussed the project but in the absence of a crosscut or axe his hopes looked like being blighted. However Garth had begun to feel that a raft was essential. While the rest of us sunbaked on a high rock he could be seen on the far bank pushing over and dragging a couple of dead trees into the river. Things began to look promising so in goes Putt, splash! to give assistance. They rowed them up river and worked off quite a lot of surplus energy. | Garth wanted a raft. The three engineers discussed the project but in the absence of a crosscut or axe his hopes looked like being blighted. However Garth had begun to feel that a raft was essential. While the rest of us sunbaked on a high rock he could be seen on the far bank pushing over and dragging a couple of dead trees into the river. Things began to look promising so in goes Putt, splash! to give assistance. They rowed them up river and worked off quite a lot of surplus energy. | ||
- | After lunch, feeling that the S.B.W. is primarily a walking club, we all set out to Bungonia Gorge. We had much fun boulder hopping and scrambling over the huge chunks of limestone, and a | + | |
- | IF YOU ARE GOING PLACES CONTACT | + | After lunch, feeling that the S.B.W. is primarily a walking club, we all set out to Bungonia Gorge. We had much fun boulder hopping and scrambling over the huge chunks of limestone, and a tentative climb up part of the side walls. There was a small hole about 15 feet up a sheer wall which could have been an entrance to a cave, so employing the same tactics as the Tigers used on the first ascent of Carlon' |
- | SCENIC MOTOR TOURS, | + | |
- | --NriTur7-77=- | + | After tea we all foregathered around a beautiful campfire. Pat and Ian were the last to arrive, bearing a large billy of fruit punch concocted by master hands and liberally laced with rum, also a huge fruit cake. Amazed at such liberality at a S.B.W. camp, we were about to put it down to just another delightful trait of these charming New Zealanders, when Ian said, "Oh, by the way, Pat and I have become engaged and this is to celebrate the announcement". Did we celebrate with enthusiasm! There followed an evening of song and Maori haka, hesitant performers being urged to jog their memories by taking a swig from the rum bottle. This worked every time. |
- | KATOOMBA. | + | |
- | DAILY TOURS BY PARLOR COACH TO THE WORLD FAMOUS JENOLAN CAVES AND ALL BLUE MOUNTAIN SIGHTS. | + | It was a glorious starry night, and despite pitched tents nearly everyone slept out under the sky. Not Dave though. He had knocked over the rum bottle in the tent and spilt half the contents on the ground. He retired to his rum-soaked couch and slept solidly in an atmosphere of alcohol fumes, regaling us in the morning with some talk about being an Antarctic petrel which vomits at anyone who approaches too close. |
- | TRANSPORT BY COACHES FOR PARTIES OF BUSH- WALKERS TO KANANGRA WALLS, GINKIN OR OTHER MUTABLE POINTS BY ARRANGENENT, | + | |
- | FOR ALL INFORMATION | + | While preparing breakfast we were initiated into a prime New Zealand lurk for halting the rot in meat. You take your meat, which is beginning to suffer from B.O., and dip it in boiling water for a few minutes, and then rush it down and cool it rapidly in the river. Repeat every couple of days; this way it will keep for months. (All |
- | WRITE TO P.O. BOX 60; KATOOMBA. TETRPHONE 60, KATOOMBA. | + | |
- | 1 O. | + | |
- | tentative climb up part of the side walls. There was a small hole about 15 feet up a sheer wall which could have been an entrance to a cave, so employing the sane tactics as the Tigers used on the first | + | |
- | ascent of Carlon' | + | |
- | After tea we all foregathered around a beautiful campfire. Pat and Ian were the last to arrive, bearing a large billy of fruit punch concocted by master hands and liberally laced with rum, also a huge fruit cake. Amazed at such liberality at a S.B.W. camp, we were aboui, | + | |
- | to put it down to just another delightful trait of these charming New Zealanders, when Ian said, Oh, by the way, Pat and I have become engaged and this is to celebrate the announcement'. Did we celebrate with enthusiasm! There followed an evening of song and Maori haka, hesitant performers being urged to jog their memories by taking a swic from the rum bottle. This worked every time. | + | |
- | It was a glorious starry night, and despite pitched tents nearly everyone slept out under the sky. Not Dave though. He had knocked | + | |
- | over the rum bottle in the tent and spilt half the contents on the | + | |
- | ground. He retired to his rum-soaked couch and slept solidly in an atmosphere of alcohol fumes, regaling us in the morning with some | + | |
- | talk about being an Antarctic petrel which vomits at anyone who approaches too close. | + | |
- | While preparing breakfast we were initiated into a prime New | + | |
- | Zealand lurk for halting the rot in meat. You take your meat, which is beginning to suffer from B.O., and dip it in boiling water for a few minutes, and then rush it down and cool it rapidly in the river. Repeat every couple of days; this way it will keep for months. (All | + | |
right! All right! Don't believe me; try it yourself!) | right! All right! Don't believe me; try it yourself!) | ||
- | Tcday was to be spent caveing. Taking lunch, torches and-rope we rock-hopped up the Gorge once again, then via a side creek to the Loo-z a out. In the semi-civilized | + | |
- | smelt a dirty sardine tin Which has been putrefying on a beach in th.-; hot summer sun? Have you ever smelt cattle at the slaughter yard, drooling at the mouth and rolling their eyes upward to where death | + | Today was to be spent caveing. Taking lunch, torches and rope we rock-hopped up the Gorge once again, then via a side creek to the Lookout. In the semi-civilized |
- | 11. | + | |
- | You press the button, we'll do the rest t | + | We will now, health, danger, public ordinances and other circumstances notwithstanding, |
- | lurks, just between the horns? Have Tou ever smelt - well, never mind - Hoffo said it was the carbide. To ne it smelt like fear. | + | |
- | We will now, health, danger, public ordinances and other circumstances notwithstanding, | + | Colin had told us of testers at I.C.I. |
- | 0 of leaf on leaf and the scent of eucalyptus drifted tantalisingly on the hot dry air as we crammed our ten troglodyte | + | |
- | do you think it'll go?" Tense minutes pass. From about two galleries down the cultured voice of Ian floats up, "I say Grace old girl, don't cone down yet_ - I'm in a devil of an awkward position just here!" One. last look at the sunlight and at Don and Tine who have no pride and are not coming in, then I wriggle after Snow's disappearing rear, rather wishing I had a torch. | + | About a hundred feet down in the pitch darkness we encountered (guess what?) blowflies!!! These polyphiloprogenitives, |
- | 12. | + | |
- | Colin had told us of testers at chemical works Who crawl into the boilers through a narrow squeeze hole so that they may bang on the inside with an iron hammer and listen to the WHANG. Sometimes panic sets in and they are unable to get out. The technique then is to urge them to divest themselves of their clothes, | + | After several hours, when we had used up all the 250 ft. of rope and wriggled through a narrow sewer for some 50 ft., it seemed to be time to retrace our footsteps. Half the party has disappeared on its way back and I would like to be with them, but Dave has found a string leading off into the void. Should one try to catch up with the others, or should one follow Dave? Dave has the torch, I'll stick with him. Grace and some other unidentified person is also with us. We wriggle for 30 ft. across a low-roofed cavern which eventually offers a neat black hole in the floor. Down this I prepare to go and get half way down a well without much in the way of foot or handholds. Suddenly the light swings away - Dave has gone to see what the others are up to. Dense pitch blackness washes |
- | you play a jet of cold water on them from a hose telling them it will shrink them sufficiently to enable them to squeeze out again. When they are sufficiently uncomfortable they come to accept as'truth this asinine piece of reasoning and squeeze out again. But haw, I ask you is one to carry out such a procedure in a cave? The only thing is | + | |
- | not to be behind a big bloke who is likely to get stuck. But if you're in front of him going, you're behind him on the return, so Where does it get you? Oh well .. Press on, regardless! | + | In the remaining daylight we dropped |
- | About a hundred feet down in the pitch darkness we encountered (guess what?) blowflies!!! These polyphiloprogenitives, | + | |
- | After several hours, when we had used up all the 250 ft. of rope and wriggled through a narrow sewer for some 50 ft., it seemed to be time to retrace our footsteps. Half the party has disappeared on its way back and I would like to be with them, but Dave has found a string leading off into the void. Should one try to catch up with the others, or should one follow Dave? Dave has the torch, I'll stick with him. Grace and some other unidentified person is also with us. We wriggle for 30 ft. across a low-roofed cavern which eventually offers a neat black hole in the floor. Down this I prepare to go and get half way down a well without much in the way of foot or handholds | + | A swim, did someone say? That' |
- | Suddenly the light swings away - Dave has gone to see what the otherare | + | |
- | the darkness "Snow, where' | + | When hunger called we returned for lunch, then packed up and departed up the ridge carrying a couple of full water-buckets for the car. Colin drove the hitchers out to the road while the others walked on, then picked up the final load and so back along Route 31 in a steady stream of traffic. Later this thinned out so we could speed along singing, lights gleaming along the road, dark trees etched against the sky flitting past, and our thoughts dwelling |
- | In the remaining daylight we dropted | + | |
- | 13. | + | ---- |
- | A swim, did someone say? Thatte | + | |
- | When hunger called we returned for lunch, then packed up and departed up the ridge carrying a couple of full water-buckets for the car. Colin drove the hitchers out to the road while the others walked on, then picked up the final load and so back along Route 31 in a steady stream of traffic. Later this thinned out so we ' | + | === The Sydney Bushwalkers Annual Christmas Party. === |
- | etched against the sky flitting past, and our thoughts dwelling | + | |
- | .em | + | Friday 10 December. R.S.L. Hall, Elizabeth St., Sydney. |
- | FEDERATION NOTES _- OCTOBER. | + | |
+ | Dancing 8 - 12 midnight. Dress optional. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Tickets 15/-. All liquid refreshments available right prices. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ... Detach and Mail ... | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Social Secretary, The Sydney Bush Walkers, Box 4476, G.P.O., Sydney. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Please send me ... tickets for the Annual Christmas Party. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Name ... | ||
+ | |||
+ | Full Postal Address ... | ||
+ | |||
+ | Amount Enclosed £ : : d. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Scenic Motor Tours. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | If you are going places, contact Scenic Motor Tours, Railway Steps, Katoomba. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Daily tours by parlor coach to the world famous Jenolan Caves and all Blue Mountain sights. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Transport by coaches for parties of bushwalkers to Kanangra Walls, Ginkin or other suitable points by arrangement. | ||
+ | |||
+ | For all information, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Photography!? | ||
+ | |||
+ | You press the button, we'll do the rest! | ||
+ | |||
+ | Finegrain Developing. Sparkling Prints. Perfect Enlargements. Your Rollfilms or Leica films deserve the best service. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Leica Photo Service. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 31 Macquarie Place, Sydney, N.S.W. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Federation Notes - October. ===== | ||
- Allen A. Strom. | - Allen A. Strom. | ||
- | BUSHFIRE | + | |
- | thirty five names fo77717777177-777717esident | + | === Bushfire Fighting Squad for National Park: === |
- | discussed arrangements with Mr. M.E. Messer, | + | |
- | DO YOU WANT A FEDERATION BALL T There is no Convener for the Social Committee. If you are interested in a Ball you may care to undertalTe | + | Five Clubs submitted thirty five names for this Squad. The President |
- | FEDERATION REEMION: This will continue to take place on the Second | + | discussed arrangements with Mr. M.E. Messer, |
- | Weekend-7727ZETter. club Secretaries will be informed that the Federation requests no liquor to be consumed at the Reunion and that | + | |
- | 14. | + | === Do You want a Federation Ball? === |
- | offenders may be asked to leave the campsite. | + | |
- | SEARCH AND RESCUE SECTION SECRETARY: Mr. Peter Cameron of the 7777-77-7777d | + | There is no Convener for the Social Committee. If you are interested in a Ball you may care to undertake |
- | FRAZER PARK. The Lands Department will advise the Trustees (Wyong | + | |
+ | === Federation Reunion: === | ||
+ | |||
+ | This will continue to take place on the Second Weekend | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Search and Rescue Secretary: === | ||
+ | |||
+ | Mr. Peter Cameron of the C.M.W. was elected | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Frazer Park. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Lands Department will advise the Trustees (Wyong | ||
The October Meeting of the Fauna Protection Panel agreed to recommend to the Minister that 30,000 acres of Crown Land in the Nadgee Area should be dedicated a Faunal Reserve. | The October Meeting of the Fauna Protection Panel agreed to recommend to the Minister that 30,000 acres of Crown Land in the Nadgee Area should be dedicated a Faunal Reserve. | ||
- | PROTECTION | + | |
- | BUNGONIA GORGE: A recent visit to the area has shown that mining | + | === Protection and Preservation of Aboriginal Relics: === |
- | BARRINGTON: An interim report concerning a National Park in the area 777-7717Feceived | + | |
- | wonmmerses.....Matarogyiwirompass.. | + | There has recently |
- | THE ADMIRALtS MADCAP MARATHON | + | |
+ | === Bungonia Gorge: === | ||
+ | |||
+ | A recent visit to the area has shown that mining | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Barrington: === | ||
+ | |||
+ | An interim report concerning a National Park in the area has been received | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== The Admiral' | ||
- Frank Rigby. | - Frank Rigby. | ||
- | You've probably been on one of the Admiral' | + | |
- | Picture the post office scene at Blackheath at 11 p m. on that dark, chilly Friday night. Two undaunted stalwarts are on the blower5 0 trying desperately to interest the reluctant taxi fraternity of Katoathba | + | You've probably been on one of the Admiral' |
- | 15. | + | |
- | clown until 2 a m., are hauled out again at 5, aid haven' | + | Picture the post office scene at Blackheath at 11 p.m. on that dark, chilly Friday night. Two undaunted stalwarts are on the blower, |
- | The pre-dawn gloom, the feeble brain impulses inseparable from this absurd hour of the day, and the incombustible Kanangra wood all combine to make breakfast something of a struggle. However, the sun rose up into a cloudless, breathless sky, and with it the Promise | + | |
- | glorious day-to come. This spurred our languid efforts to some extent, and so, despite all, the eight sleepless frames mooched out on to the Kanangra Tops in rather bedraggled fashion at something after seven. Our slow-revving, | + | The pre-dawn gloom, the feeble brain impulses inseparable from this absurd hour of the day, and the incombustible Kanangra wood all combine to make breakfast something of a struggle. However, the sun rose up into a cloudless, breathless sky, and with it the promise |
- | After a bit of jiggery-pokery in which the Admiral had us all | + | |
- | at sea, we hit upon the cleft running from the Tops down to our ridge an then stepped it out along to Craft' | + | After a bit of jiggery-pokery in which the Admiral had us all at sea, we hit upon the cleft running from the Tops down to our ridge and then stepped it out along to Craft' |
- | ever7 side. The view back along the massive Kanangra Deep was partice | + | |
- | uly impressive. Ahead and above reared the Claudmaker | + | The afternoon passed away pleasantly with the stroll across Tiwilla Plateau and down the Tiwilla Buttress to the Kowmung. I can thoroughly recommend the Buttress with its gently-sloping, |
- | olie Iv one we stormed and won its lesser bastions of Rip, Rack, Roar | + | |
- | 0 and Rumble, until at last the summit itself was ours just as the nponda7 hgur approached. I must admit that the summit of Cloudmaker | + | What happens when a party, nearing its evening campsite, splits into two equal factions and the " |
- | somewItt | + | |
- | a giant Ls it does from all horizons, to have traversed the mighty | + | Impromptu food-partying with Colin Putt can be fun. Odd and sundry ingredients from the tucker bags of several bods are combined in an unpremeditated fashion in Colin' |
- | Cloudmaker is to have become a bushwalker tried and true - or so the tourists would have it, anyway. And so down to the Tiwilla Pass for | + | |
- | lunch. Oh, what dastardly curses and ungentlemanly oaths flowed out into that pure mountain air when it was discovered that the staple | + | From the moment Brian slowly and sorely raised his long frame from the good earth, I knew that the 6.30 start would prove to be a fallacy. After all, you can't light a fire with green logs in five minutes, can you Brian? No, it takes fully thirty. If you hadn't been the Leader I'd have accused you of deliberate White Anting with so much dry tinder around for the taking. Then, of course, Jim Hooper and Peter Stitt had somehow yet to have their eyelids raised, no easy task without a plug of gelignite. |
- | lunch item, the so-and-so biscuits, had been completely omitted from the Admiral' | + | |
- | 16. | + | After a series of false alarms, Anderson style, we finally hit the trail at 7.45. Sixteen miles behind us and twenty-seven ahead. Did I say twenty-seven? |
- | The afternoon passed away pleasantly with the stroll across Tiwilla Plateau and down the Tiwilla Buttress to the Kowmung. I can thoroughly recommend the Buttress with its gently-sloping, | + | |
- | What happens when a party, nearing its evening campsite, splits into two equal factions and the " | + | Onwards, ever onwards! Up the steep end of the White Dog spur we plodded, with physical staminas slowly but surely on the wane. At Kelpie Hill, Brian, Peter and Betty decided to advance more leisurely, while the rest of us, with visions of the last train chortling off without us, started the long burn into Katoomba, a sweat-and-tears trek that I shall never forget. I was quite happy as far as Clear Hill, but with the level going and those high-powered steam engines Hooper, Jonsson and Putt alternately taking over the pacing, it was a constant struggle for little " |
- | Impromptu food-partying with Colin Putt can be fun. Odd and sundry ingredients from the tucker bags of several bods are combined in an unpremeditated fashion in Colin' | + | |
- | roaring fire. Despite all the laws of science, the result is invariably a feast of both quality and qlantity, especially the latter. After just such an orgy of eating, on top of some forty virtually sleepless hours, no threats were required to make us hit the hay like obedient five-year-olds. Even the Leader' | + | The hour had come when we must try desperately to somehow drive our tortured bodies to the station; and there followed such a circus |
- | From the moment Brian slowly and sorely raised his long frame from the good earth, I knew that the 6.30 start would prove to be a 'fallacy. After all, you can't light a fire with green logs in five minutes, can you Brian? No it tahes fully thirty. If you hadn't been the Leader I'd have accused you of deliberate White Anting with so much dry tinder around for the taking. Then, of course, Jim Hooper and Peter Stitt had somehow yet to have their eyelids raised, no easy task without a plug of gelignite. | + | |
- | nothing else save the Admiral' | + | Having fallen in a heap on the platform, the burning question then was whether |
- | . | + | |
- | After a series of false alarms, Anderson style, we finally hit' | + | Nor was the position much improved at Central Station. As we lurched our several |
- | 17. was unbelievably pleasant and exhilarating and we swung along in | + | |
- | great style down the Kowmung to the Cox Junction, where an early lunch was started at something like 1100 hours. After supplying the no-biscuits | + | ---- |
- | Onwards, ever onwards! Up the steep end of the White Dog spur we plodded, with physical staminas slowly but surely on the wane. At Kelpie Hill, Brian, Peter and Betty decided to advance more leisurely, while the rest of us, with visions of the last train chortling off without us, started the long burn into Katoamba, a sweat-and-tears trek that I shall never forget. I was quite happy as far as Clear Hill, but with the level going and those high-powered steam engines Hooper, Jonsson and Putt alternately taking over the pacing, it was a constant struggle for little " | + | |
- | The hour had come When we must try desperately to somehow drive our tortured bodies to the station; and there followed such a cireus | + | === Credit where it is due: === |
- | Having fallen in a heap on the platform, the burning question then was whetter | + | |
- | Nor was the position much improved at Central Station. As we | + | Before too many people start congratulating the Editor |
- | 0 | + | |
- | lurched our several | + | ---- |
- | CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE Before too many people start congratuTaing thetor | + | |
- | 18. | + | ===== Kosciusko Invasion - Part 1. ===== |
- | KOSCIUSKO INVASION. | + | |
- | - Ross Laird. | + | - Ross Laird. |
" | " | ||
- | "Wily, who's going, and when, and where?" | + | |
+ | "Why, who's going, and when, and where?" | ||
"Bert Whillier' | "Bert Whillier' | ||
+ | |||
"Gee, wouldn' | "Gee, wouldn' | ||
+ | |||
"Well, Dot Butler just told me about it. She's getting the crowd together as Bert doesn' | "Well, Dot Butler just told me about it. She's getting the crowd together as Bert doesn' | ||
- | Dot made a list in the first few weeks of all those hoping to go, and as time marched on so the list grew to alarming proportions. First nine, then twelve, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, then back to eighteen as some dropped out, and there it stayed till three weeks before it was time to leave When Ross Laird got last minute holidays and brought the number to nineteen. The altering numbers didn't worry Dot in her calculations of the huge quantity of food the crowd would need on this mammoth expedition as she merely increased or decreased as the case may be, but she soon did realise that the original idea of carving | + | |
- | All arrangements were made. Bert was taking the truck with his boy Richard, Dot, Rona and Wendy Butler, and Robbie and Jimmy Brewster (Dot's nephews), together with all the food, mattresses for when we camped out-whih Dot had hired from the Christian Union Temperance Society, and all the privately owned skis and stocks, not to mention the extra goods and chattels | + | Dot made a list in the first few weeks of all those hoping to go, and as time marched on so the list grew to alarming proportions. First nine, then twelve, seventeen, eighteen, twenty, then back to eighteen as some dropped out, and there it stayed till three weeks before it was time to leave when Ross Laird got last minute holidays and brought the number to nineteen. The altering numbers didn't worry Dot in her calculations of the huge quantity of food the crowd would need on this mammoth expedition as she merely increased or decreased as the case may be, but she soon did realise that the original idea of camping |
- | 19. | + | |
- | N.S.W. at Central with Mr. and Mrs. Laird, Yvonne Renwick, Melva Stocks, Jean and Grace Aird and Allen Wilson to farewell them - who was to know whether it might not be the last time they were to see | + | All arrangements were made. Bert was taking the truck with his boy Richard, Dot, Rona and Wendy Butler, and Robbie and Jimmy Brewster (Dot's nephews), together with all the food, mattresses for when we camped out which Dot had hired from the Christian Union Temperance Society, and all the privately owned skis and stocks, not to mention the extra goods and chattels |
- | them in one piece! It was at this stage that David told the crowd | + | |
- | he had lost his train ticket! After a quick but vain trip to the Station Master' | + | Central Station that night was literally besieged with skiers - they were everywhere! In every direction one could see the tips of skis extending over the heads of the milling crowds like a forest of tall Sally scrub. Whilst waiting to board the train we met David King and Bob Chapman who were off for a week in the Alpine Hut with a crowd from the University. |
- | Central Station that night was literally besieged with skiers - | + | |
- | they were everywhere! In every direction one could see the tips cf | + | Everyone is familiar with the procedure of boarding a train on which one has one's seat booked. Your ticket undergoes a close inspection by the guard at the door of your particular carriage, it is then clipped and you pass through to search for your seat. Bob' |
- | et | + | |
- | tall Sally scrub. Whilst waiting to board the train we met David King und Bob Chapman who were off for a week in the Alpine Hut with a Growl from the University. | + | The four boys sank back into their seats to discover that their travelling companions consisted of two female school-teachers |
- | Everyone is familiar with the procedure of boarding a train on which one has one's seat booked. Your ticket undergoes a close inspection by the guard at the door of your particular carriage, it is then clipped and you pass through to search for your seat. Bob' | + | |
- | The four boys sank back into their seats to discover that their travelling companions consisted of two female school-teacher s from Y.H.A. off for a week's skiing at the Y.H.A. hostel, Kiandra, and a very stiff-faced gentleman who would have nothing whatever to do with the younger crowd in any way but sat and read his never-ending pile of periodicals well into the morning till one of the boys braved the consequences and turned off the lights. After a normal cramped, slow, all-night trip the train arrived at Cooma about ten minutes late with nothing more astounding happening than the Y.H.A. girls using the boy's washroom in rebellion against the long queue outside the girl's room, Whilst | + | Dot had given the boys instructions not to stop at Cooma for breakfast but to leave by their previously booked taxi as soon as possible and so beat the bus crowd to the ski room at the Hotel Kosciusko. If she found an opportunity to collect their skis on the previous |
- | Dot had given the boys instructions not to stop at Cooma for breakfast but to leave by their previously booked taxi as soon as possible and so beat the bus crowd to the ski room at the Hotel Kosciusko. If she found an opportunity to collect their skis an the Previous | + | |
- | Y.H.A. | + | (To be continued...) |
- | (TO BE CONTINUED | + | |
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- | 107.;`,T | + | |
- | 7,4 | + | ===== Paddy Made. ===== |
- | tie | + | |
- | GOOD NEWS FCR BUSNWALKERS. | + | === Good news for bushwalkers. === |
- | Paddynews is always good news but this month we have something special. Those very necessary articles of camp gear - Sleeping Bags - are down. No in intended. They' | + | |
- | ...A 5' | + | Paddynews is always good news but this month we have something special. Those very necessary articles of camp gear - Sleeping Bags - are down. No pun intended. They' |
- | If you want the very best it costs 8.17. 6d. for a Superdown | + | |
+ | A 5' | ||
+ | |||
+ | If you want the very best it costs £8.17. 6d. for a Superdown | ||
Hooded and Zippered bags are of course also available. | Hooded and Zippered bags are of course also available. | ||
- | Price lists of Paddy/s gear are always available. Call for one or ring up and we'll send one by post - no charge of course. | ||
- | PADDY PAWN | ||
- | Lightweight Camp Gear | ||
- | 201 CASTLEREAGH St SYDNEY | ||
- | M2678 | ||
- | 41. | ||
+ | Price lists of Paddy' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Paddy Pallin. Lightweight Camp Gear. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 201 Castlereagh St., Sydney. M2678. | ||
+ | |||
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