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- | + | ======THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER====== | |
- | **THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER** | + | |
A Journal devoted to matters of interest to Members of the Sydney Bush Walkers, Sydney, New South Wales. | A Journal devoted to matters of interest to Members of the Sydney Bush Walkers, Sydney, New South Wales. | ||
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Misses Brenda White, (Editor), Marjorie Hill, Dorothy Lawry, Rene*Browne and Mr. Myles Dunphy. | Misses Brenda White, (Editor), Marjorie Hill, Dorothy Lawry, Rene*Browne and Mr. Myles Dunphy. | ||
+ | =====EDITORIAL===== | ||
+ | This is the first occasion on which the " | ||
+ | In fact, all the office-bearers are the same, except that Harold Chardon is Vice-President in place of Frank Duncan. We are very glad to see Harold in office again, but regret the absence of Frank from the Committee. | ||
+ | He is one of those evenly balanced people, of whom there are far too few, who can see the other fellow' | ||
+ | He has done good service in the past both as President and Vice-President, | ||
+ | =====THE ROOF OF AUSTRALIA===== | ||
+ | (Harry Savage) | ||
+ | |||
+ | To some extent my story is inspired by Miss Byles, who, in an account of Kosciusko, described it as the " | ||
- | **THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER**" | ||
- | A Journal devoted to matters of interest to Members of | ||
- | the Sydney Bush Walkers, Sydney, New South Wales. | ||
- | No. 12. April 1933, | ||
- | Publishing Committee: | ||
- | Misses Brenda White, (Editor), Marjorie Hill, Dorothy Lawry, Rene*Browne and Mr. Myles Dunphy. | ||
- | EDITORIAL | ||
- | This is the first occasion on which the " | ||
- | In fact, all the office-bearers are the same, except that Harold Chardon is Vice-President in place of Frank: | ||
- | He is one of those evenly balanced people, of whom there are far too few, who can see the other fellow' | ||
- | He has done good service in the past both as President and Vice-President, | ||
- | "THE ROOF OF AUSTRALIA" | ||
- | (Harry Savage). | ||
- | To mine extent my story is inspired by Miss Byles, Who, in an account of Kosciusko, described it as the " | ||
Being a bit of a hobo myself and as it nearly led to us going to Paradise (or along the other track), it seems we have something in common. | Being a bit of a hobo myself and as it nearly led to us going to Paradise (or along the other track), it seems we have something in common. | ||
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Jim Muir, Scoutmaster, | Jim Muir, Scoutmaster, | ||
- | Said James, "Doing anything next meek - no - good - we'll go to Kosciusko." | + | |
- | Khanooban, a small outpost of civilization on the Swampy Plain River, some eight rnUes off the Viotorian | + | Said James, "Doing anything next meek - no - good - we'll go to Kosciusko." |
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- | dawn the creek bed. A mile downstream | + | PAGE 2 MISSING |
- | We camped in the creek bed in the late afternoon, after the creek had | + | |
- | fallen some 3000 feet in about three miles, and summed up the rather precarious position. Most apparently we werenit | + | down the creek bed. A mile downstream |
- | As we dressed our many wounds before retiring to our rock-strewn couch, my mind turned back to the much abused granite of the Upper Kawmung, and I regretted that I hadn't been able to recognise a Sunday school Picnic when I saw one. One comfort alone we had. We were on the Murray Watershed, and if we were able to follow the creek long enough, we must come out in civilization somewhere - sometime - somehow. Nevertheless, | + | |
- | Rising at dawn, we set off again. The creek flattened somewhat, losing 300 feet an hour. This gave some hope. Falling at that rate made rock- hopping just possible and the constantly dropping elevation would bring us out an the Murray or Swampy Plain in the late afternoon The fates were kind and | + | We camped in the creek bed in the late afternoon, after the creek had fallen some 3000 feet in about three miles, and summed up the rather precarious position. Most apparently we weren’t |
- | paradise was not to be ours. At three o' | + | |
- | mile upstream from Geehi. In fact, We were on the Geehi Creek and had unknowingly followed it all the way down from the top. With what was left of the day, the walk over the Gee hi Wall to ac-flooban | + | As we dressed our many wounds before retiring to our rock-strewn couch, my mind turned back to the much abused granite of the Upper Kowmung, and I regretted that I hadn't been able to recognise a Sunday school Picnic when I saw one. One comfort alone we had. We were on the Murray Watershed, and if we were able to follow the creek long enough, we must come out in civilization somewhere - sometime - somehow. Nevertheless, |
- | Perhaps it is well that after the day's walk the spirit of the camp fire sendfour | + | |
- | OBITUARY | + | Rising at dawn, we set off again. The creek flattened somewhat, losing 300 feet an hour. This gave some hope. Falling at that rate made rock-hopping just possible and the constantly dropping elevation would bring us out on the Murray or Swampy Plain in the late afternoon. The fates were kind and paradise was not to be ours. At three o' |
- | JOIN ZUCCHETTI, AGED 59 YEARS. | + | |
- | took place Trailers and kindness; had silver ..miner | + | Perhaps it is well that after the day's walk the spirit of the camp fire sends our minds back to dwell on the smooth, rather than the rough spots, and as we dropped into the friendly arms of Morpheus, we dreamed, not of nerve-destroying granite gorges, but of the glories and beauty that a kindly nature has bestowed upon our mightiest mountain - KOSCIUSKO. |
- | By the untimely death of John Zucchetti of Yerranderie, | + | |
- | who, together with Mrs, Zuachetti | + | |
- | about to enter it Over the years many people have been glad to avail themselves of the guiding services of this bush-lover or to partake of his generosity and appreciate his sterling value as a man of gentle disposition and broad and tolerant views. | + | =====OBITUARY===== |
+ | JOHN ZUCCHETTI, AGED 59 YEARS | ||
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+ | By the untimely death of John Zucchetti of Yerranderie, | ||
It is only fair to the memory of a simple, kindly and altogether pleasing personality to record the fact that many regret there are not sufficient men in this world of the calibre of the late John Zucchetti. | It is only fair to the memory of a simple, kindly and altogether pleasing personality to record the fact that many regret there are not sufficient men in this world of the calibre of the late John Zucchetti. | ||
- | As a kindly | + | |
- | The walking fraternity extends its Sincere | + | As a kindly father to his children and a serviceable friend to all who needed his help in any way, he was an object lesson to all reflective minds. |
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+ | The walking fraternity extends its sincere | ||
M.J.D. | M.J.D. | ||
- | "RELAXATION" | + | |
+ | |||
+ | =====RELAXATION===== | ||
Over the mountains, into the vale, | Over the mountains, into the vale, | ||
- | Through the scrub we followed the trail: Oftentimes we blaze the way - | + | Through the scrub we followed the trail: |
- | The harder the walk, the better the day! We barge or push or haok or rip, | + | Oftentimes we blaze the way - |
+ | The harder the walk, the better the day! | ||
+ | We barge or push or hack or rip, | ||
Just so long as we do the trip! | Just so long as we do the trip! | ||
What's it matter if the going' | What's it matter if the going' | ||
- | ITIs only thus we're made so " | + | ‘Tis |
But gently does it now and then, | But gently does it now and then, | ||
- | So we slip and slide to Ne137's Glen; Or trip along to Stokees | + | So we slip and slide to Nelly's Glen; |
+ | Or trip along to Stoke’s | ||
To find that rest from a hectic week! | To find that rest from a hectic week! | ||
- | Does life seem sad as the cars flash past, And the supercilious inmates cast | + | |
- | Their looks of pity - their delicate shrugs As they muffle into warming rugs? | + | Does life seem sad as the cars flash past, |
- | No; ours is the joy of hearts that swell: Free our life - in freedom dwell: | + | And the supercilious inmates cast |
+ | Their looks of pity - their delicate shrugs | ||
+ | As they muffle into warming rugs? | ||
+ | No; ours is the joy of hearts that swell: | ||
+ | Free our life - in freedom dwell: | ||
We slake our thirst at the cooling spring | We slake our thirst at the cooling spring | ||
And go our way with laughter' | And go our way with laughter' | ||
- | W. | + | W |
- | - 0.1.1 | + | |
- | We had walked pretty hard all 6ay, stopping only for a dry lunch, and 6.1: | + | |
- | After pitching the two tents, it was noticed that an unusually heavy mass' | + | We had walked pretty hard all day, stopping only for a dry lunch, and always |
- | can still clearly feel the bright sunshine on my body and the delicious icy wetness of the long snow grasw trailing against my bare legs as clambered up the gap to take a last look at the dominating Jagungal ere the sun pet behind the mighty Dargals. We have named the place *Rainbow | + | |
+ | After pitching the two tents, it was noticed that an unusually heavy mass of storm clouds was rapidly heading our way from Jagungal. Having been caught before, we immediately put all our gear inside the tents, tied everything | ||
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+ | I can still clearly feel the bright sunshine on my body and the delicious icy wetness of the long snow grass trailing against my bare legs as I clambered up the gap to take a last look at the dominating Jagungal ere the sun set behind the mighty Dargals. We have named the place “Rainbow | ||
W.P. | W.P. | ||
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NONSENSE | NONSENSE | ||
- | No - Mahomet | + | No - Mohammed |
- | through the trees.- mingles with the gurgling of the brook. By this method (patents pending) we guarantee full reception without distortion, on the instant, and with as little leg exercise as possible. . . Of course, some method would have to be devised to eliminate the reception of mosquitoes, packs, nettles, burnt-offerings, | + | |
TX. | TX. | ||
- | "THE BUSH" | + | |
+ | |||
+ | THE BUSH | ||
Give us from dawn to dark, | Give us from dawn to dark, | ||
Blue of Australian skies, | Blue of Australian skies, | ||
Let there be none to mark | Let there be none to mark | ||
Whither our pathway lies. | Whither our pathway lies. | ||
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Give us when noontide comes | Give us when noontide comes | ||
Rest in the woodland free, | Rest in the woodland free, | ||
Line 88: | Line 106: | ||
Give us the wattles gold, | Give us the wattles gold, | ||
And the dew-laden air, | And the dew-laden air, | ||
- | And the loviiness | + | And the loveliness |
Loneliest landscapes wear. | Loneliest landscapes wear. | ||
+ | |||
These are the haunts we love, | These are the haunts we love, | ||
Glad with enchanted hours, | Glad with enchanted hours, | ||
Bright as the heavens above, | Bright as the heavens above, | ||
Fresh as the wild bush flowers. | Fresh as the wild bush flowers. | ||
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James Lister Cuthbertson. | James Lister Cuthbertson. | ||
(1851-1910). | (1851-1910). | ||
- | We camped in a hollow among Bull's Peaks, after a very hard dayts walk, and during the night everything not under cover had frozen stiff, so that even the tents crackled when we touched them, from our soft warm luxurious eiderdowns. However, we got up, had awash - after breaking the ice (really), and some breakfast, not forgetting my Roman Meal, or the damper that Brenda had misused on the previous evening with snow gum that wouldn' | + | |
- | And then four of us set out to walk over to Jagungal. It looked about one mile but it was a good four, and some climb too, even without packs, so when we finally conquered that mighty dignified mountain we were all suffering from oxygen shortage (6,755 ft.) We had a ration of chocolate | + | We camped in a hollow among Bull's Peaks, after a very hard day’s |
- | Prom it can be seen the best view known to me. To the North, | + | |
- | attempt to cross them from Tooma to andabyne. | + | And then four of us set out to walk over to Jagungal. It looked about one mile but it was a good four, and some climb too, even without packs, so when we finally conquered that mighty dignified mountain we were all suffering from oxygen shortage (6,755 ft.) We had a ration of chocolate |
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+ | From it can be seen the best view known to me. To the North, | ||
B.P. | B.P. | ||
- | HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. | + | |
- | One, who shall be nameless, intimated his intention of being present at the Swimming Carnival. He caught the train as per schedule, and then alas! memories of the 1st. S.:B.W. Swimming Carnival came back to him and lured him and four others away. As the renowned song had it then, "He arrived like the milk in the morn," but this time he got in, in time for a late tea. | + | HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF |
+ | One, who shall be nameless, intimated his intention of being present at the Swimming Carnival. He caught the train as per schedule, and then alas! memories of the 1st. S.B.W. Swimming Carnival came back to him and lured him and four others away. As the renowned song had it then, "He arrived like the milk in the morn," but this time he got in, in time for a late tea. | ||
"Bul Bul." | "Bul Bul." | ||
- | Notes written on North-West Islet (Great Barrier Reef.) | + | |
- | There are things happening in the sea that only Scientists and their followings know anything about!, I am sitting on North-West Islet scribbling a few notes about things in general. There are about 45 of us here on holiday, and quite a varied crew! The scientific interest has drawn most | + | |
- | but there are a number, like me) who have just come for a holiday and to leave behind if only for a few weeks that " | + | Notes written on North-West Islet (Great Barrier Reef.) |
- | to it, had no effeot. "See here," he exclaimed, and there nesting in the folds of the flesh were two tiny wee crabs, the smallest I've ever seen. "They are called Commensals" | + | |
- | After that, I made a wild endeavour to appear intelligent and before the next hour had elapsed I had pieced together quite a surprising amount of crab -informatian. I can never look at a tin of tinned crab now without feeling superior. We picked up several Venus Ears and every one had at least one tiny crab in it. "Of course" | + | FURTHER |
- | home comforts so alluring that he never wishes to absent himself occasionally. | + | |
- | Then we studied the anemones through the water-glasses. What teeming microscopic life lives in the seas The queer part a.-bout | + | There are things happening in the sea that only Scientists and their followings know anything about! I am sitting on North-West Islet scribbling a few notes about things in general. There are about 45 of us here on holiday, and quite a varied crew! The scientific interest has drawn most but there are a number, like me, who have just come for a holiday and to leave behind if only for a few weeks that " |
- | 9 | + | to it, had no effect. "See here," he exclaimed, and there nesting in the folds of the flesh were two tiny wee crabs, the smallest I've ever seen. "They are called Commensals" |
- | I watched the nest from day to day. It -Ras hundreds of feet up, but the great twigs could be seen from quite a distance. Haw I used to envy these birds their divine isolation! | + | |
- | on their ears fell the incessant idle chatter of the crowd. They harmed | + | After that, I made a wild endeavour to appear intelligent and before the next hour had elapsed I had pieced together quite a surprising amount of crab information. I can never look at a tin of tinned crab now without feeling superior. We picked up several Venus Ears and every one had at least one tiny crab in it. "Of course" |
- | no man but were not destined to endure, Furthermore - another | + | |
- | and see that this was not allawedI But this is not all. In a few years | + | Then we studied the anemones through the water-glasses. What teeming microscopic life lives in the seas! The queer part about the parasites is that the things or animals on which they live like them - provide for them - and in some cases, I am told, could not live without them. There are crabs living in anemones so small that they can hardly be seen. Yet the anemone is |
- | the very Reef itself will be a veritable | + | |
- | that a thing of beauty can be a joy forever? So those of us who are yet | + | PAGE 8 MISSING |
- | able, let us drink deep of the joys of these little isles of the Barrier, while yet Desecration stalking abroad, drunk with rapine and disseminating Destruction, | + | |
- | The time is not far distant when the lapping of the waves will not be | + | |
- | heard for the laughter of fools, and the birds . many of which, terror.strioken, have already sought fresh fielks | + | I watched the nest from day to day. It was hundreds of feet up, but the great twigs could be seen from quite a distance. |
- | - 10 - | + | that a thing of beauty can be a joy forever? So those of us who are yet able, let us drink deep of the joys of these little isles of the Barrier, while yet Desecration stalking abroad, drunk with rapine and disseminating Destruction, |
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+ | The time is not far distant when the lapping of the waves will not be heard for the laughter of fools, and the birds many of which, terror | ||
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Owing to the Easter rush, PADDY PALLIN has been | Owing to the Easter rush, PADDY PALLIN has been | ||
unable to prepare his usual, but of course all | unable to prepare his usual, but of course all | ||
Bushwalkers know where to go if good camping | Bushwalkers know where to go if good camping | ||
gear is wanted, or repairs or alterations are | gear is wanted, or repairs or alterations are | ||
- | neoessary. | + | necessary. |
His latest service is waterproofing tents. | His latest service is waterproofing tents. | ||
Waterproofing adds only a few ounces to a tent, | Waterproofing adds only a few ounces to a tent, | ||
- | yet it makes the tent quite proof even if touched | + | yet it makes the tent quite proof even if touched. |
- | - | + | |
Another advantage is that after rain the tent | Another advantage is that after rain the tent | ||
weighs only a little heavier and not double its | weighs only a little heavier and not double its | ||
- | normal weight, as is uaual with unproofed tents. | + | normal weight, as is usual with unproofed tents. |
- | The cost of treating a 7 x 5 tent is 57-. | + | The cost of treating a 7 x 5 tent is 5/7-. |
Other tents in proportion. | Other tents in proportion. | ||
- | MUM, | + | P. A. PALLIN |
312 George St. | 312 George St. | ||
- | (Over Hallamts | + | (Over Hallam’s |
PHONE B3101. | PHONE B3101. | ||
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SOCIAL NOTES | SOCIAL NOTES | ||
- | We have SWUM and some of us have won our races, but most of us went to the 5th. Annual | + | We have swum and some of us have won our races, but most of us went to the 5th. Annual |
The Mandelberg Cup has passed to its next holders, Jean Trimble and Bill Purnell, who are proud of their win. | The Mandelberg Cup has passed to its next holders, Jean Trimble and Bill Purnell, who are proud of their win. | ||
- | The weather was perfect for our purposes - a hot sun poured down all day and the water was the best place. Water.-melons | + | |
- | well in evidence to keep the inner man cool, so what more could a swimmer ask? | + | The weather was perfect for our purposes - a hot sun poured down all day and the water was the best place. Watermelons |
- | The Social | + | |
+ | The Social | ||
The members generally and music lovers in particular had a treat when some twenty members of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society paid us a visit in March. | The members generally and music lovers in particular had a treat when some twenty members of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society paid us a visit in March. | ||
- | The singing was delightful, and the visitors who remained to dance with us after their entertainment were voted jolly good oompany, and in short, everyone enjoyed themselves to the full. | + | The singing was delightful, and the visitors who remained to dance with us after their entertainment were voted jolly good company, and in short, everyone enjoyed themselves to the full. |
Apropos of the above, we think the singing must have gone to the heads of some of our members, for on the following day there were serious strayings from the right path, or should I say track? | Apropos of the above, we think the singing must have gone to the heads of some of our members, for on the following day there were serious strayings from the right path, or should I say track? | ||
- | The number of people, and old Bushwalkers too, who mislaid themselves | + | |
- | It was a great pleasure to have our first President, Jack Debert, with us, Indeed: I think the pleasure was mutual. There was a | + | The number of people, and old Bushwalkers too, who mislaid themselves |
- | good attendance when they all did arrive, and a very happy band we were, | + | |
+ | It was a great pleasure to have our first President, Jack Debert, with us. Indeed, I think the pleasure was mutual. There was a good attendance when they all did arrive, and a very happy band we were, | ||
Rene D. Browne, | Rene D. Browne, | ||
- | Han. Social Secretary. | + | Hon. Social Secretary. |
- | The deepest sympathy of all members is extended to Richard Croker | + | |
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+ | The deepest sympathy of all members is extended to Richard Croker | ||
Editor. | Editor. | ||
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