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Clang! clang! Clang! "Get up" I roar at my tent mate. " | Clang! clang! Clang! "Get up" I roar at my tent mate. " | ||
- | Would you like a drop or two of cold water?" | + | Would you like a drop or two of cold water?" |
- | hands pulling us aboard, and the little craft moved forward, | + | |
- | had been forgotten, but haw delicious. It was nice to lie on deck and sip his bre* from an old cracked mug - to feel the gentle roll of the little ship and deep, restful blue above with cool green below - " | + | How often the fairy tales come true! The cry " |
- | the tide is swirling free." | + | |
- | close to the surface. It varies. Some forget they are civilised in a few days | + | |
- | away from it. The cities were far beyond. It didntt | + | |
- | were off. Ohl to be a bird! There was a two-hour trip ahead! All was still, | + | |
- | he lions, having fed, were dozing. A wild idea entered my head and I turned to Kath. She was trying to mend a huge rent in the khaki shorts which happened as she cleared the top rails. " | + | |
- | made a new race?" | + | |
- | Everything is so quiet and peaceful, nothing seems to matter. My mind seems almost | + | |
- | a blank. Yet it's not a blank - for it's never been clearer. I know - we've lost | + | |
- | the weight of that pettifogging detail that clogs the mind so in the city." | + | |
- | looked at me earnestly. "Do you know I feel so well that at times during this week I've felt I've had almost too much energy." | + | |
- | food!" | + | |
- | of all that ere now. What darling little stepping stones these islands could pro- | + | |
- | vide and a splendid fish diet at the same tine." We stopped our philosophizing for there was a stir. The Island of Dreams had been sighted. We were almost on her. There she was - another little plum-pudding, | + | |
- | blue 1-1!.!geg. Kath clutched my hand. "I wonder what' | + | |
- | -19- | + | |
- | ow often the fairy tales come true! The cry " | + | |
- | ment. " | + | |
- | thing doesn' | + | |
- | a turtle trader. He met us on the beach. I have never seen a healthier specimen, | + | |
- | big and bronzed and handsome. Of course, everybody talks to everybody in places | + | |
- | like this. There is never any need for introductions. We donned bathers | + | |
- | a swim. These waters are like crystal. Our turtle man joined us, told us he was a Swede and little by little we began a very interesting conversation. We sat on the side of his little boat and dangled our legs over and he made us delicious tea. | + | |
- | rhen he sat dawn too and told us wonderful tales about the sea. He had been a | + | |
- | sailor all his life and looking at those clear blue eyes I felt I had never seen | + | |
- | anything quite like them on the land. They seemed to search out horizons. He | + | |
- | told us haw he had served at the mast round Cape Horn. We became like little children, breathless with excitement at his tales - and then We would all laugh. It | + | |
- | was all so strange and yet so naturall He appeared very amused at us. He said he | + | |
- | hadn't met any little school-ma' | + | |
- | basilisk type who wielded a cane with a very strong forearm. But all good things | + | |
- | have to come to an end and at 4 p.m., having spent the whole day chatting with our new found friend it was time to make for ' | + | |
- | as is the very salt itself. He too was loth to say " | + | |
- | time, I think, since he had exchanged schoolboy jokes and listened to such a deal of giggling! We all had had such a happy day! " | + | |
- | mad after that we always referred to him as "The Viking" | + | |
- | little ships were gliding through the foam. It was a perfect afternoon. We | + | |
stood hanging to the mast and fresh winds fanned our sunburnt cheeks as we occasionally shouted a remark to our fellow traveller. | stood hanging to the mast and fresh winds fanned our sunburnt cheeks as we occasionally shouted a remark to our fellow traveller. | ||
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But the shades of night began to fall and he shouted a last Good-bye. Of course we were going to write. We were just full of our new found sailor-hero! Before long we were forbidden to mention his name in camp, so tired were the other male members of our party at hearing our eulogies. " | But the shades of night began to fall and he shouted a last Good-bye. Of course we were going to write. We were just full of our new found sailor-hero! Before long we were forbidden to mention his name in camp, so tired were the other male members of our party at hearing our eulogies. " | ||
- | Then Home in the Shape of Sydney. Another sea-trip and a big long dirty train | + | |
- | trip and we were dropped at dusty Central Station. It was all over: Back to the | + | Then Home in the Shape of Sydney. Another sea-trip and a big long dirty train trip and we were dropped at dusty Central Station. It was all over: Back to the drab and the ordinary. "Do you know" said Rath, "if I told my people our experiences I don't think they'd believe them." |
- | drab and the ordinary. "Do you know" said Rath, "if I told my people our experiences I don't think they'd believe them." | + | |
- | It was about three months later that I got a telegram from a friend in Qlland. | + | It was about three months later that I got a telegram from a friend in Q'land. "Your Viking shot dead. Letter following." |
- | Your Viking shot dead. Letter following." | + | |
- | the night. | + | |
The Sea - dark and mysterious had added just another mystery to its toll. | The Sea - dark and mysterious had added just another mystery to its toll. | ||
- | Now Kath has a little boy to tell stories to and at night in the winter in the country, in front of the glowing embers, she tells him about a wonderful sailor man who climbed the masts around the Horn and who, tiring of this, carried turtle soup in his little boat from Nor' | + | |
- | -20-- | + | Now Kath has a little boy to tell stories to and at night in the winter in the country, in front of the glowing embers, she tells him about a wonderful sailor man who climbed the masts around the Horn and who, tiring of this, carried turtle soup in his little boat from Nor' |
- | TEE JOUNIMA PEAKS - YARRANGOBILLY. | + | |
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+ | The Jounima Peaks - Yarrangobilly ===== | ||
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As we stood an the summit of Mount Bimberi in the Federal Capital Territory, we saw the pointed tops of the Jounima Range rising clear and challengingly across the blue intervening hills and valleys L. few weeks later we had answered their challenge, and were hastening by car from Yass up the lovely vale of Tumut, up the renowned Talbingo mountains to the turn off to the Jounima State Forest, just before | As we stood an the summit of Mount Bimberi in the Federal Capital Territory, we saw the pointed tops of the Jounima Range rising clear and challengingly across the blue intervening hills and valleys L. few weeks later we had answered their challenge, and were hastening by car from Yass up the lovely vale of Tumut, up the renowned Talbingo mountains to the turn off to the Jounima State Forest, just before | ||
Yarrangobilly. The car was parked at the cottage of the officer in charge of the | Yarrangobilly. The car was parked at the cottage of the officer in charge of the |
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