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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | ====== The Sydney Bushwalker, March 1941, No. 75 ====== |
- | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney. | + | |
- | No.75 MARCH, 1941 Price 3d. | + | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney. Price 3d. |
- | Editor: Dorothy Lawry Subscriptions: | + | |
- | Business Manager: Brian Harvey "On Service" | + | |Editor:|Dorothy Lawry| |
- | CONTENTS | + | |Business Manager:|Brian Harvey| |
- | A Night of Nights | + | |Subscriptions: |
- | New Books in Library Greetings to the Bushwalkers | + | |"On Service" |
- | New Zealand Snows | + | |Special Reporter: |
- | Club Photographic Album 0. " | + | |Production:|Mary Stoddart| |
- | Page 1 | + | |
- | ...by Dot English " 3 | + | |Contents|Author|Page| |
- | 00 ,000 " | + | |A Night of Nights| |1| |
- | 6 | + | |New Books in Library|John Manson|2| |
- | 01/8 ...by John Manson " 2 | + | |Greetings to the Bushwalkers |
- | from the | + | |Club Photographic Album| |6| |
- | Paddy' | + | |" |
- | Fun and Frolics on the Endrick | + | |Paddy' |
- | Letters from the Lads No.1 ...by Bill Burke " | + | |Fun and Frolics on the Endrick|Alex Colley|8| |
- | At Our Own Meeting | + | |Letters from the Lads No.1 |Bill Burke|11| |
- | Federation Notes ** OVID 41,041 541 " | + | |At Our Own Meeting| |12| |
- | The Middle of the Mountain | + | |Federation Notes| |12| |
- | An Appeal | + | |The Middle of the Mountain|Stoddy Junior|13| |
- | From Here, There and Everywhere | + | |An Appeal|" |
- | Club Gossip | + | |From Here, There and Everywhere| |16| |
- | am 66. | + | |Club Gossip| |16| |
- | A NIGHT OF NIGHTS | + | |
- | Friday, 14th March, 1941, will be a great night for members of for then the Club will hold its thirteenth Annual Meeting, but the nights will be Saturday, March 15th. Allthe | + | ===== A Night of Nights ===== |
- | the S.B.L night of oth past | + | |
- | of re-union rejoicing | + | Friday, 14th March, 1941, will be a great night for members of for then the Club will hold its thirteenth Annual Meeting, but the night of nights will be Saturday, March 15th. All the Sydney Bush Walkers, |
- | All members of the human racel whether white, black, brown or brindle, | + | |
+ | All members of the human race, whether white, black, brown or brindle, love a certain amount of ceremony and ritual and, whether or not this is a primitive urge, it has become a tradition with the Club to light the re-union campfire ceremoniously, | ||
Choruses, solos, recitations, | Choruses, solos, recitations, | ||
- | Next day we can swim, laze, and yarn and meet again some whom we have not | + | |
- | met, perhaps, since last re-union. | + | Next day we can swim, laze, and yarn and meet again some whom we have not met, perhaps, since last re-union. |
- | Our enjoyment will be tinged with regret at the absence of those of our members who are on war service. They will be missed by us and they will no doubt regret missing the re-union, but we are confident that their sacrifices will help | + | |
- | to bring happier days when we can be all together again and re-une in the care- | + | Our enjoyment will be tinged with regret at the absence of those of our members who are on war service. They will be missed by us and they will no doubt regret missing the re-union, but we are confident that their sacrifices will help to bring happier days when we can be all together again and re-une in the care-free, happy spirit of bushwalkers. |
- | free, happy spirit of bushwalkers. | + | |
- | Though those days are npt here yet2 the spirit of re-union will be in possession of Acacia Camp, Leona, Nepean River, via Emu Plains, on March 15th,when there will be a full muster of the S.B.W. as all members will be present in the t, spirit if they cannot get along in the flesh. | + | Though those days are not here yet, the spirit of re-union will be in possession of Acacia Camp, Leona, Nepean River, via Emu Plains, on March 15th, when there will be a full muster of the S.B.W. as all members will be present in the spirit if they cannot get along in the flesh. |
- | . NEW BOOKS IN LIBRARY. | + | |
- | " | + | ===== New Books in Library ===== |
- | " | + | * " |
- | weather instruments. Good pictures of cloud forms. | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | "How to Use the Microscope" | + | |
- | "Back of Beyond" | + | |
- | and explorations in British East Africa. Fact and fiction. Good reading. | + | |
- | S,E.Whitels | + | |
- | "Ralph in the Woods." | + | -- John Manson. |
- | -- John Manson. | + | |
- | Our librarian says that John Manson donated all the above books2 | + | |
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- | GREETINGS TO THE BUSHWALKERS FROM THE NEW ZEALAND SNOWS. | + | |
- | This is being written on the first day of rest we have had during the past fortnight. For two whole weeks the weather had been perfect, which suited us down to the ground. We came over the Copeland Pass and arrived in at the Hooker Hut with the first of the bad weather, The next day it rained and blew hard enough | + | Our librarian says that John Manson donated all the above books, |
- | , to shift the hut down the moraina..rocks to the glarier | + | |
- | c things didn't look too bright. Once it starts raining in these parts it can go on for weeks. Still, as one of the guides continually remarks: "These things happen", | + | ===== Greetings to the Bushwalkers from the New Zealand Snows ===== |
- | The next day the weather cleared | + | |
- | We esconsed | + | Dot English. |
- | we went to sleep early, with a watch on the table and a torch close by so we could refer to it at intervals throughout the night, having no alarm clock, and hoped that the storm would abate before midnight - which sure enough it did. At 2.30 we arose on a beautiful calm starry night, heated up our rice and apricots, had breakfast while we ptshed | + | |
- | _ | + | This is being written on the first day of rest we have had during the past fortnight. For two whole weeks the weather had been perfect, which suited us down to the ground. We came over the Copeland Pass and arrived in at the Hooker Hut with the first of the bad weather. The next day it rained and blew hard enough to shift the hut down the moraine |
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+ | The next day the weather cleared | ||
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+ | We ensconced | ||
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+ | We went to sleep early, with a watch on the table and a torch close by so we could refer to it at intervals throughout the night, having no alarm clock, and hoped that the storm would abate before midnight - which sure enough it did. At 2.30 we arose on a beautiful calm starry night, heated up our rice and apricots, had breakfast while we pushed | ||
The view from the top was magnificent, | The view from the top was magnificent, | ||
- | We had had hopes of doing a traverse of the three peaks of Cook and coming down on the other side in the Tasman | + | |
- | Accordingly we set off on the descent, quite confident of being off the rock face by dark and so down the snow slopes and glacier by moonlightlarriving | + | We had had hopes of doing a traverse of the three peaks of Cook and coming down on the other side in the Tasman |
- | Goodnight folks." | + | |
+ | Accordingly we set off on the descent, quite confident of being off the rock face by dark and so down the snow slopes and glacier by moonlight, arriving | ||
"Eh, Wait on" cried we in some alarm, clinging on the rock face by one clinker and a couple of fingernails. | "Eh, Wait on" cried we in some alarm, clinging on the rock face by one clinker and a couple of fingernails. | ||
- | " | + | |
- | "So ho", thought " | + | " |
- | At length we reached a ledge a few degrees nearer the horizo# | + | |
- | to escape the wind, while we held on and ate a handful of sultanas | + | "So ho", thought |
- | " | + | |
+ | At length we reached a ledge a few degrees nearer the horizontal | ||
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+ | " | ||
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"Cold as blazes", | "Cold as blazes", | ||
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There was a bit of delay while we deliberated as to which of two rather similar glaciers was our one, and thanks to our guardian angels exerting a little more than their customary solicitude on our behalf we managed to choose the right one; otherwise we might still have been coming down. | There was a bit of delay while we deliberated as to which of two rather similar glaciers was our one, and thanks to our guardian angels exerting a little more than their customary solicitude on our behalf we managed to choose the right one; otherwise we might still have been coming down. | ||
- | An hour or so of cramponing down remarkably steep snowlopes | + | |
- | . the badly ea' | + | An hour or so of cramponing down remarkably steep snow slopes |
- | "0 well", we thought, "We got on all right without the sun; now we'll get | + | |
- | - 5 - | + | "O well", we thought, "We got on all right without the sun; now we'll get on all right without the moon" - and that was just how it was. |
- | on all right without the moon" - and that was just how it was. | + | |
- | Dream-walki-Og | + | Dream-walking |
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Yet, it's the dawn right enough. | Yet, it's the dawn right enough. | ||
- | "I don't think that's funny", | + | |
- | sunlight-moonlight-no-light-sunlight sequence played strange tricks with one's sanity. | + | "I don't think that's funny", |
- | night and days | + | |
- | "Are those rocks our rocks?" | + | "Are those rocks **our** rocks?" |
With difficulty I forced my heavy eyes open another fraction of an inch and surveyed the dim rugged outline of rock outcrop. | With difficulty I forced my heavy eyes open another fraction of an inch and surveyed the dim rugged outline of rock outcrop. | ||
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" | " | ||
- | We kicked our camiaons | + | |
+ | We kicked our crampons | ||
" | " | ||
- | re on the wrong rocks", | + | |
- | So we climbed down off our lookout again, and took a few steps out on to the snawfield | + | " |
- | And now we really were on our own rock -- and now we were inside | + | |
- | A drowsy | + | So we climbed down off our lookout again, and took a few steps out on to the snowfield |
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+ | And now we really were on our own rock -- and now we were inside | ||
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+ | A drowsy | ||
And then deep oblivion for six hours. | And then deep oblivion for six hours. | ||
- | 6-. | + | |
- | CLUB PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM | + | ===== Club Photographic Album ===== |
The new club album is now ready and photographers are urged to roll along with their prints to members of the Photographic Committee (Ira Butler, Bill Cosgrove, George Dibley, Reg. Alder or Maurie Berry). | The new club album is now ready and photographers are urged to roll along with their prints to members of the Photographic Committee (Ira Butler, Bill Cosgrove, George Dibley, Reg. Alder or Maurie Berry). | ||
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Prints of any size may be submitted for consideration, | Prints of any size may be submitted for consideration, | ||
- | It is impossible for us to build up our album unless we get prints - | + | |
- | so bring them along by the dozens or ones or twos if you haven' | + | It is impossible for us to build up our album unless we get prints - so bring them along by the dozens or ones or twos if you haven' |
- | "BUSHWALKERS1 | + | |
- | This is the name adopted by the newly appointed committee which is to act a..3 a link between the boys of the federated bushwalking clubs 'who are with the | + | ===== "Bushwalkers' 'Services' |
- | Defence Forces and their respective clubs. | + | |
- | The S.B.W. decided to forward to the lads club magazines, periodicals, | + | This is the name adopted by the newly appointed committee which is to act as a link between the boys of the federated bushwalking clubs who are with the Defence Forces and their respective clubs. |
- | photos of bushwalking interest, letters, and various little odds and ends dear | + | |
- | to bushwalking hearts. Other clubs of the Federation were invited to send representatives to this committee and to submit names and addresses of their members who are out of touch with their Clubs through being on service. The scheme is well in hand now, plans are laid, and the committee hopes to commence fortnightly postings very soon. | + | The S.B.W. decided to forward to the lads club magazines, periodicals, |
- | Now YOU can do quite a lot to help this committee -- firstly, let Win Duncotbe | + | |
- | When you write to your bushwalking friend ask him if there is any particular subject or hobby he is interested in, then let the committee know and, perhap3, | + | Now **you** |
- | they will be able to let him have some interesting scraps concerning that | + | |
- | interest. Also ask him if there are any little extras he specially favours, such astoffee, or perhaps popcorns, etc. In short, give the committee all the information you can regarding your bushwalker pal who is away from his club -- | + | When you write to your bushwalking friend ask him if there is any particular subject or hobby he is interested in, then let the committee know and, perhaps, they will be able to let him have some interesting scraps concerning that interest. Also ask him if there are any little extras he specially favours, such as toffee, or perhaps popcorns, etc. In short, give the committee all the information you can regarding your bushwalker pal who is away from his club - help them to send him the things he likes. |
- | help them to send him the things he likes. | + | |
- | Now, about those " | + | Now, about those " |
- | welcome items for despatch - also short stories which may be cut from weeklies and, ,enclosed in a letter. | + | |
- | And you Photographers' | + | And you Photographers -- Will you run off an extra print or two next time you are on the job in the darkroom? About quarter-plate |
- | you are on the job in the darkroom? About quarter-plate | + | |
Joan Savage or Maurie Berry will be very pleased to receive suggestions as well as the above mentioned items and information, | Joan Savage or Maurie Berry will be very pleased to receive suggestions as well as the above mentioned items and information, | ||
- | FAMOUS WALKERS PHANTACIES. | + | |
- | (Jot down your idea and -send it into the editor) | + | ===== Famous Walkers Phantacies ===== |
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+ | (Jot down your idea and send it into the editor) | ||
Paddy Pallin | Paddy Pallin | ||
Camp Gear for Walkers 327 George Street, | Camp Gear for Walkers 327 George Street, | ||
- | s mv-cd n e 77 | + | This is Mary Stoddart' |
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- | This is Mary Stoddart' | + | |
STOP PRESS: Jadk Debert has been moved from Brisbane. On Saturday 27th he passed through Sydney and during that day he managed to re-une with 30 or 40 of his S.B.W. friends. No, he did not have his Wife with him, as he did not know whether his move really was to Melbourne or elsewhere. | STOP PRESS: Jadk Debert has been moved from Brisbane. On Saturday 27th he passed through Sydney and during that day he managed to re-une with 30 or 40 of his S.B.W. friends. No, he did not have his Wife with him, as he did not know whether his move really was to Melbourne or elsewhere. | ||
- | Shall we, or shall we not, sack our Special Reporter? She turned in this month' | + | |
- | -8- | + | Shall we, or shall we not, sack our Special Reporter? She turned in this month' |
- | FUN AND FROLICS ON THE ODRICK. | + | |
- | by Alex.Colley. | + | ===== Fun and Frolics on the Endrick ===== |
- | For two and a half hours our car seemed to have been going at over 20 miles an hour, in which case we had gone nearly 60 miles from Bomaderry, and this was odd, because the Endrick was only 40 miles away, We were sure the river valley must be y: | + | |
- | Next wrning | + | by Alex Colley |
- | After that the going was fair, There were no banks to walk on, but we could usually get along on the large boulders in the river bed, The mountains on either side were very steep, and there was a rock face on the outer side of every bend. The rock strata were twisted in every direction, as in the Shoalhaven valley, | + | |
- | Sometimes | + | For two and a half hours our car seemed to have been going at over 20 miles an hour, in which case we had gone nearly 60 miles from Bomaderry, and this was odd, because the Endrick was only 40 miles away, We were sure the river valley must be round the next bends and eventually it was., The last two miles into the valley |
- | slightest bit steeper a lot of them would have slid down (There in a geological | + | |
- | term for this - it t called the angle of equilibrium, | + | Next morning |
- | These p,he7emeea c: | + | |
- | Such was the nature of the cocaltry | + | After that the going was fair, There were no banks to walk on, but we could usually get along on the large boulders in the river bed. The mountains on either side were very steep, and there was a rock face on the outer side of every bend. The rock strata were twisted in every direction, as in the Shoalhaven valley. Sometimes |
- | a thunder storm which had been gathering broke upon us arl. we hastily pitched tent and eat in it for nearly an hour, | + | |
- | At tea time it started to rain again and kept it up all night. But by next | + | These phenomena caused |
- | morning the stream was still a clear trickle. We prepared our breakfast in light | + | |
- | rain. As we *ere eating we heard the river change its note and looked up to see a long angry tongue of yellow mud shooting into the middle of our placid greenish- | + | Such was the nature of the country |
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- | blue pool. We watched the waters intermingling and rising steadily, | + | At tea time it started to rain again and kept it up all night. But by next morning the stream was still a clear trickle. We prepared our breakfast in light rain. As we were eating we heard the river change its note and looked up to see a long angry tongue of yellow mud shooting into the middle of our placid greenish-blue pool. We watched the waters intermingling and rising steadily, wondering when it would stop. Inch by inch the rocks around the pool were covered, but after about an hour it did stop. By this time the river was flowing swiftly and covering the whole of its bed, so that when we set out again we had to keep to the steep slopes or crawl slowly over the large boulders and jagged rocks piled at the bottom of the mountain side. Every quarter mile we would strike a rock face and have to decide whether to wrap our packs in our ground sheets and swim, or to struggle over the shallower parts holding our packs over our heads, or to walk up the slope round the top of the rock face and down again on the other side. We tried all three, the slope climbing being the most dangerous, specially as the rain softened the shale and clay. And all day as we dived in and out of the muddy stream or clawed our way round the muddy slopes it rained and rained and rained. Inevitably we knocked |
- | over our heads, or to walk up the slope round the top of the rock face and down again on the other side. We tried all three, the slope climbing being the most dangerous, specially as the rain softened the shale and clay. And all day as | + | |
- | we dived in and out of the muddy stream or clawed our way round the muddy | + | All day long, in the whole three miles, we saw not a single camp spot, but luck was with us again, as, late in the afternoon, we happened to notice a bank about 30 ft. above the river and found it extended over 2 or 3 acres of excellent flat camping ground. It was a work of art getting the fire going, but we succeeded eventually and soon a delicious pot of unpolished rice was boiling appetisingly. We ate and went to sleep in the rain. Everything was damp or wet by this time, as our groundsheets were none too waterproof and some of the swims had been fairly long. We kept the fire burning all night. About three in the morning |
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- | slopes it rained and rained and rained. Inevitably we _knocked | + | Now had come the hour of decision. We looked at the swollen river, at the rocky canyon ahead into which it rushed. We pictured the flooded Shoalhaven. The elements, we decided, had won on points. We started back to the road. Slowly we climbed up the greasy slopes in the rain, leaving the swirling yellow torrent of the Endrick far below. On top we stretched our legs once more - what a marvellous feeling it is sometimes just to walk! |
- | here and there and the busy flies buzzed (Ah Doreen, Ah Grace, Ah me). | + | |
- | All day long, in the whole three miles, we saw not a single camp spot, but luck was with us again, as, late in the afternoon, we happened to notice a bank about 30 ft. above the river and found it extended over 2 or 3 acres of excellent flat camping ground. It was a work of art getting the fire going, but we succeeded eventually and soon a delicious pot of unpolished rice was boiling appetisingly. We ate and went to sleep in the rain. Everything was damp or wet by this time, as our groundsheets were none too waterproof and some of the swims had been fairly long. We kept the fire burning all night. About three in the doming | + | |
- | Now had come the hour of decision. We looked at the swollen, river, at the rocky canyon ahead into which it rushed. We pictured the flooded Shoalhaven. The elements, we decidedlhad | + | |
We had lunch half way up a cliff in a cave importing wood and making a fire on the outside of a ledge and making tea from the brown water which dripped over the moss-covered rocks. From our snug cave, warmed by the fire, we looked through driving mist and rain over the trees to the dim valley below. Soon after lunch we struck the road again - at the very spot where we had left it. The bridge was now just above the water level. The water was almost clear, except for the deep brown peaty colouring. We wondered how it became muddy and yellow a few miles below. | We had lunch half way up a cliff in a cave importing wood and making a fire on the outside of a ledge and making tea from the brown water which dripped over the moss-covered rocks. From our snug cave, warmed by the fire, we looked through driving mist and rain over the trees to the dim valley below. Soon after lunch we struck the road again - at the very spot where we had left it. The bridge was now just above the water level. The water was almost clear, except for the deep brown peaty colouring. We wondered how it became muddy and yellow a few miles below. | ||
- | On the road we met the service car driver and arranged to go back with him to Nowra the next day. He told us where there was a cave a couple of miles further | + | |
- | 0 on. We spent some time looking for this cave, but as we didn't find it we set out along the road looking for a camp spot. Grace soon saw a nice grassy spot near the road, but it would have been too easy to stay there so we went on. Then we came into a " | + | On the road we met the service car driver and arranged to go back with him to Nowra the next day. He told us where there was a cave a couple of miles further on. We spent some time looking for this cave, but as we didn't find it we set out along the road looking for a camp spot. Grace soon saw a nice grassy spot near the road, but it would have been too easy to stay there so we went on. Then we came into a " |
- | than run over the surface, and we decided to stop, Everything was soaked. There were no stringy barks or dry leaves | + | |
- | it rained heavily. Several times we felt sure the water must have s*arted | + | In the morning, despite the rain we were able to get a fire going. We found that we had chosen the last resting place of a wombat for our night' |
- | In the morning, despite the rain we Were able to get a fire going. We Nund that we had chosen the last resting place of -a wombat for our nightfs | + | |
- | Before breakfast it stopped raining for the second | + | Before breakfast it stopped raining for the second |
- | After breakfast we had onit gone- a ShOrt diSfande-when,we caMe-to'open, country | + | |
- | When the service car overtook us it already had three passengers Grace Edge combe, Bev Druce and Geoff Higson. They had-spent the night before last in the pub at Braidwood, then started- down'the End' | + | After breakfast we had only gone a short distance |
- | From there we three wenton throUgh-Bomaderry along'an avenue | + | |
- | - | + | When the service car overtook us it already had three passengers |
- | . .,.., | + | |
- | between fertile dairy pastures in which:grazed'vell tred-Illawarra-Milking-Short, | + | From there we three went on through |
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- | hornsr | + | We camped in a swarm of mosquitos on the slopes of Mount Coolangatta |
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- | We camped in a swarm of mosquitos on the slope& Of Mount COolangatta | + | Next day we went on to a village called Jerry Bailey. This was the mouth of the Shoalhaven |
- | Next day we went on to a -village called Jerry 'Bailey. This was the mouth of the Shoalh' | + | |
- | _ | + | And so, in the words of the great diarist, to bed. Some of us were there for some time - with poisoned legs. |
- | reach Gerringong that evening. | + | |
- | And so, in the words of the. great diarist, to bed. Some of us were there for some time with poisoned legs. | + | ===== Letters from the Lads ===== |
- | - 11 - LETTERS FROM THE LADS | + | |
Way back in December Bill Burke wrote to a couple of the girls, who have allowed us to pass the latter on to you. Here it is. | Way back in December Bill Burke wrote to a couple of the girls, who have allowed us to pass the latter on to you. Here it is. | ||
- | "The trip over was marvellous and I enjoyed every bit of it, more so, I suppose because I had never been outside the Heads even before. I didnit | + | |
- | I-arrived in Palestine early in November and my camp is quite all right,a1- though | + | "The trip over was marvellous and I enjoyed every bit of it, more so, I suppose because I had never been outside the Heads even before. I didn' |
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+ | I arrived in Palestine early in November and my camp is quite all right, | ||
Winter and the rainy season are just commencing now and the camp is like one big duck pond with us for the ducks. As I write it is blowing a gale outside and most of the tents are leaking. Several of the tents have been flooded out so far but we are gradually installing a drainage system which is saving the situation. Fortunately my camping experience stuck to me and my tent is one of the few on high ground. | Winter and the rainy season are just commencing now and the camp is like one big duck pond with us for the ducks. As I write it is blowing a gale outside and most of the tents are leaking. Several of the tents have been flooded out so far but we are gradually installing a drainage system which is saving the situation. Fortunately my camping experience stuck to me and my tent is one of the few on high ground. | ||
- | I've had leave to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem already and am looking forward to going again. The residential quarters of Tel Aviv are ultra-modern, | + | |
- | Club members that came over here for walking would be very disappointed as the only swenery | + | I've had leave to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem already and am looking forward to going again. The residential quarters of Tel Aviv are ultra-modern, |
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+ | Club members that came over here for walking would be very disappointed as the only scenery | ||
I hope you've been keeping up the walking since I left and that the Club is still going as strong as ever. Remember me to the club members and tell them that I'm still interested to hear what's doing. Let Arthur, Jeff and Bev know that I often think of the good times we had and that they are about the only thing I miss over here." | I hope you've been keeping up the walking since I left and that the Club is still going as strong as ever. Remember me to the club members and tell them that I'm still interested to hear what's doing. Let Arthur, Jeff and Bev know that I often think of the good times we had and that they are about the only thing I miss over here." | ||
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If you want to write to Bill, his address is:- | If you want to write to Bill, his address is:- | ||
- | . MC 31070, Private Burke, W.H., | + | |
- | 2/1 Ordnance Stores Co., A.I.F.ABROAD. | + | NX 31070, Private Burke, W.H.,\\ |
- | -12- | + | 2/1 Ordnance Stores Co., A.I.F. ABROAD. |
- | AT OUR OWN MEETING | + | |
- | This is not a section of "Club Gossip" | + | ===== At our own meeting ===== |
- | Two new members were welcomed - Betty Isaacs (sister to Elsa) and Russell Roxburgh - and also two old ones on a fleeting visit - Jeanne and Gordon Mannell, | + | |
- | We had word of some other members whom we shall not see for some time. John Harvey is now working at Casino. Gwen Clarke is teaching at Kandos this year. | + | This is not a section of "Club Gossip" |
- | We were sorry to hear that Geoff. Parker of Richmond has resigned from the Club. | + | |
- | This month we have three Room Stewards because we had three volunteers - Edna Garrad, | + | Two new members were welcomed - Betty Isaacs (sister to Elsa) and Russell Roxburgh - and also two old ones on a fleeting visit - Jeanne and Gordon Mannell. |
- | FEDERATION NEWS | + | |
- | Next time you go to Kanangra Walls you will rejoice to find half a petrol drum sunk under the drip at the Platform Cave to provide a supply of drinking water, This good job of work was done by a party from the Warrigal Club at Christmas time. | + | We had word of some other members whom we shall not see for some time. John Harvey is now working at Casino. Gwen Clarke is teaching at Kandos this year. We were sorry to hear that Geoff. Parker of Richmond has resigned from the Club. |
- | When the drought broke last December, Govett' | + | |
- | Rae Else Mitchell of the Warrigals has been appointed Editor of "The Bushwalker" | + | This month we have three Room Stewards because we had three volunteers - Edna Garrad, |
+ | |||
+ | ===== Federation News ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Next time you go to Kanangra Walls you will rejoice to find half a petrol drum sunk under the drip at the Platform Cave to provide a supply of drinking water. This good job of work was done by a party from the Warrigal Club at Christmas time. | ||
+ | |||
+ | When the drought broke last December, Govett' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Rae Else Mitchell of the Warrigals has been appointed Editor of "The Bushwalker" | ||
Marie Byles has been elected to fill a vacancy on the Conservation Bureau. | Marie Byles has been elected to fill a vacancy on the Conservation Bureau. | ||
- | The Federation as lodged its application for a special lease of 130 acres at St.Helena in the Blue Labyrinth for a camping reserve. _ | ||
- | AoRo.. | + | The Federation has lodged its application for a special lease of 130 acres at St.Helena in the Blue Labyrinth for a camping reserve. |
- | Before leaving camp always EXTINGUISH your fire and leave the casuiteelsea, | + | |
- | 13 - | + | ---- |
- | THE MIDDLE OF _THE MOUNTAIN | + | |
+ | Before leaving camp always EXTINGUISH your fire and **leave the campsite clean**. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== The Middle of the Mountain ===== | ||
By Stoddy, Junior. | By Stoddy, Junior. | ||
- | This is a story with a moral in it - heaps of morals | + | |
- | It all began with Reg finding an entrahce | + | This is a story with a moral in it - heaps of morals! Won' |
- | 0 lovely, colourful, tricksome, fanciful, treacherous candle ! | + | |
- | On the whole, to mei the formations were disappointing, | + | It all began with Reg finding an entrance |
+ | |||
+ | O lovely, colourful, tricksome, fanciful, | ||
+ | |||
+ | On the whole, to me, the formations were disappointing, | ||
So after half an hour's uneventful wandering I squeezed through a hole leaving my green billy bag, containing matches and more candle, behind, and held my lighted candle, now about two inches long, in the midst of a set of exquisite crystal stalactites. | So after half an hour's uneventful wandering I squeezed through a hole leaving my green billy bag, containing matches and more candle, behind, and held my lighted candle, now about two inches long, in the midst of a set of exquisite crystal stalactites. | ||
- | Doris, with her head through the hole, duly admired them, but prudently declined to come anyfurther. | + | |
+ | Doris, with her head through the hole, duly admired them, but prudently declined to come any further. | ||
Everyone was beginning to wonder how they were going to get back through the maze of passages, and, after a few fainthearted protests from the others I scooted off round the bend of my own little passage saying I would be back in a minute. | Everyone was beginning to wonder how they were going to get back through the maze of passages, and, after a few fainthearted protests from the others I scooted off round the bend of my own little passage saying I would be back in a minute. | ||
- | Cursing my insatiable curiosity, the others sat down to wait, and when their torches got dimmer and dimmer and three-quarters of an hour had elapsed without a reply to their yells, they struggled out ,nearly losing their way once or twice, to blessed sunshine. | ||
- | Sunshine: What wouldn' | ||
- | "Pityr I said aloud "But I'd better get back to the others now." | ||
- | Looking along the branch off to the right I noticed the floor had sunk about three inches showift fresh looking cracks along each side wall. | ||
- | Turning hurriedly back to the passage I had come from I began to think this | ||
+ | Cursing my insatiable curiosity, the others sat down to wait, and when their torches got dimmer and dimmer and three-quarters of an hour had elapsed without a reply to their yells, they struggled out, nearly losing their way once or twice, to blessed sunshine. | ||
- | pheAQmanon | + | Sunshine! What wouldn' |
- | utely no diatiltotion | + | |
- | blankness on all sides, rough damp walls and floors, ceilings stretching away out of reach and hitting one on the head within a few inches. I took three steps forward and realized I had no sense of direction. | + | " |
- | Then I yelled. The walls reverberated and it seemed to me the mountain shook | + | |
- | with the unearthly din. | + | Looking along the branch off to the right I noticed the floor had sunk about three inches showing fresh looking cracks along each side wall. |
- | Skipping the first unanswered half hour, one o' | + | |
- | on my straw hat and doing some systematic thinking. | + | Turning hurriedly back to the passage I had come from I began to think this phenomenon |
- | That green string couldn' | + | |
- | dangerous - subsiding floors, and whatnot! Supposing I crawled forward on my tummy feeling for cracks? I thought over the topography of the passage I had come | + | Then I yelled. The walls reverberated and it seemed to me the mountain shook with the unearthly din. |
- | along - sudden drops, slippery bits just shipped | + | |
- | floor - surely they would never think I'd gone past that? | + | Skipping the first unanswered half hour, one o' |
- | Here I discovered I could see the luminous dial of my watch - how I blessed that dim green circle, of reality in a universe of inky blackness: | + | |
- | Sounds - the only ones to break the blanketted silence were bats flying over or | + | That green string couldn' |
- | loose earth falling-down-the slope in front-of-me,- and 'the -comforting- tick of my | + | |
- | watch when I put it against my ear.- | + | Here I discovered I could see the luminous dial of my watch - how I blessed that dim green circle, of reality in a universe of inky blackness! |
- | With conscious effort I made myself relax as much as possible | + | |
- | Yerranderla 84 to 10 miles away. Suppose they got out o the eaves by | + | Sounds - the only ones to break the blanketted silence were bats flying over or loose earth falling down the slope in front of me, and the comforting tick of my watch when I put it against my ear. |
- | 1.30 p m. have lunch then. Tong-legs sheers off to Y.,gets there about 4 to 4.305._ | + | |
- | (I mtst. here -record that it took him 1 hour-50.) | + | With conscious effort I made myself relax as much as possible and began filling in eternity with mental arithmetic. |
- | so forth and comes hot foot back again gets to caves:about I.should be found. | + | |
- | As a result of 'all that intensive brainwork I decided to worry at 10 o' | + | Yerranderie 8 < |
- | When t woke I felt 'like an icicle and wanted to scream my head off. I let off steam in one mighty cooee arid. wondered, | + | |
+ | As a result of all that intensive brainwork I decided to worry at 10 o' | ||
+ | |||
+ | When I woke I felt like an icicle and wanted to scream my head off. I let off steam in one mighty cooee and wondered | ||
+ | |||
+ | Standing up I bumped my head, chafed my cold arms and legs and sat down again. I couldn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Being warm, though, I dozed again - you'll think this is endless. So did I and promptly at 9:50pm I looked at my watch and heard rumbles in the passage ahead - Then a flicker of warm, reddish-orange light and an angelic trumpet call of Deliverance. | ||
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+ | Just for a moment I didn't believe it all though it seemed just as natural as a pre-arranged rendezvous. I stumbled hilariously forward and shock hands --- | ||
+ | |||
+ | So ended my eight and a half hours vigil in solitude - more terrible and more unbelievably wonderful than any other event in my life. | ||
+ | |||
+ | I am, I hope, the wiser in many ways, and the sadder for the anxiety I must have caused everyone. | ||
+ | |||
+ | But I am very glad my Mother was not in " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== An Appeal ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Quite suddenly I have become a collector of antiques. This irrepressible craving came upon me unexpectedly, | ||
+ | |||
+ | The only way to satiate the demon and free myself from its power, is to gather unto myself every piece of cast off camping gear that exists. This is where you can help me, comrades. I appeal to your generosity. Would you see this evil thing sapping at my strength when you might lift a hand to prevent it? Think of the miserable canker clutching at my vitals and say to yourselves "Thy need is | ||
+ | greater than mine," Thrust all your antiques upon my head ---- I can took it -- Anything, and everything in the way of gear. Extra dilly bags, odd billy lids, tent pegs, billy hooks or plates. No matter whether you think they are useless or priceless. Please sacrifice them to save a poor girl's soul from torment. | ||
- | Standing up I bumped my head, chafed my cold arms and legs and sat down again, | ||
- | I couldn' | ||
- | been sitting on, no warmth or familiarity of shape. This steadiet me condiderably. Mc) Trandering for you", 1 told myself and stareit wide-ayett into. the blackness | ||
- | - 15 - | ||
- | as for the first time, the enormity of my plight dawned on me. | ||
- | " | ||
- | gor red-hot nearly and. burned. a blister on the palm of my hanil but, of course, it didn't ignite. | ||
- | Being warm, though, I dozed again - you'll think this is endless. So did I And promptly at 9,5 p m. I looked at my watch and heard rumbles in the passage | ||
- | J ahead - Then a flicker of warm, reddish-orange light and an angelic trumpet call | ||
- | of Deliverance. | ||
- | 'Just for a moment I didn't believe it all though it seemed just:as natural as a' | ||
- | So ended my eight and a half hours vigil in solitude - more terrible and more unbelievably wonderful than any other event in my life, | ||
- | I am, I hope, the wiser is many ways, and the sadder for the anxiety I must have caused everyone, | ||
- | But I am very glad my, Mother was not in " | ||
- | precious firelight in the creek bed like the incarnation of a guardian angel yet with all the warmly comforting and calming tangibility of human kindness. | ||
- | AN APPEAL | ||
- | Quite suddenly' | ||
- | sunlight of my young life. The sight of an old spoon, or a fork, or a dilapi- | ||
- | dated knife, arouses a terrible Yearning in me and I long to acquire same for my hoard. | ||
- | The only way to satiate the demon and free yself from its power, is to gather | ||
- | unto myself every piece of cast off camping gear that exists. This is where you can help me, comrades. I appeal to your generosity. Would you see this evil | ||
- | thing sapping at my strength when you might lift a hand to prevent it? Think of the miserable canker clutching at my vitals and say to yourselves "Thy need is | ||
- | greater than mine," Thrust all yqur antiques upon my head ---- I can took it -- Anything, and everything in the way of gear. Extra dilly bags, odd billy lids, | ||
- | tent pegs, billy hooks or plates. No matter whether you think they are useless | ||
- | or priceless. Pleate saciifice them to save a poor girl's soul from torment. | ||
I shall hang a bag on the back of the library chair each Friday night and trust this appeal will stir your sympathies and the bag will overflow. | I shall hang a bag on the back of the library chair each Friday night and trust this appeal will stir your sympathies and the bag will overflow. | ||
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"Gimme Girl" Savage. | "Gimme Girl" Savage. | ||
- | - 16 | + | |
- | FO N HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. | + | ===== From Here, There and Everywhere ===== |
- | From the " | + | |
- | "Any person discovering a fire burning unattended in a State forest or in | + | From the " |
- | a fire district, whether in a privately-owned forest or not, shall dc everything reasonably within his power to extinguish such fire, whether or not there is an immediate danger of its causing damage, and shall cause the near' | + | |
- | ' | + | "Any person discovering a fire burning unattended in a State forest or in a fire district, whether in a privately-owned forest or not, shall do everything reasonably within his power to extinguish such fire, whether or not there is an immediate danger of its causing damage, and shall cause the nearest |
- | So far as we know there is no similar regulation in force in Australia, | + | |
- | CLUB GOSSIP | + | So far as we know there is no similar regulation in force in Australia, |
- | News comes from Dorothy Hasluck in New Zealand. She has' been climbing in the Southern Alps-and met Dot-Inglish, so they: exchanged.S.B.W.news. | + | |
+ | ===== Club Gossip ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | News comes from Dorothy Hasluck in New Zealand. She has' been climbing in the Southern Alps and met Dot English, so they exchanged S.B.W. news. | ||
Reg Alder is to be congratulated on an excellent impromptu evening of colour film pictures which he gave us recently - not in the kitchen this time. | Reg Alder is to be congratulated on an excellent impromptu evening of colour film pictures which he gave us recently - not in the kitchen this time. | ||
- | All those Bushwalkers fortunate enough to have visited Bett's Camp,Kosciasko, will be interested to hear that " | + | |
- | The Mannells paid us their annual visit one Friday night in February. It was great to see Jeannie and Gordon and Graham. Master Mannell has inherited the adventurous bushwalker spirit; he poked into every corner of the club-roomleven | + | All those Bushwalkers fortunate enough to have visited Bett's Camp, Kosciusko, will be interested to hear that Mr. and Mr. Corney called to see us one Friday last month and promised to come again some other evening. |
- | Other recent visitors were Harold Chardon and Dick Jackson, both home on leave. Although we have not been Dick for some time, his ship must have been in port new and then for his engagement is announced to an Albury girl named Paula Henderson. | + | |
- | Hon.Secretary Jean Moppett has been having fun lately pinning up a notice from the " | + | The Mannells paid us their annual visit one Friday night in February. It was great to see Jeannie and Gordon and Graham. Master Mannell has inherited the adventurous bushwalker spirit; he poked into every corner of the club-room, even into the Editor' |
- | Congratulations to the O' | + | |
- | "From folly to folly", | + | Other recent visitors were Harold Chardon and Dick Jackson, both home on leave. Although we have not seen Dick for some time, his ship must have been in port new and then for his engagement is announced to an Albury girl named Paula Henderson. |
+ | |||
+ | Hon. Secretary Jean Moppett has been having fun lately pinning up a notice from the " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Congratulations to the O' | ||
+ | |||
+ | "From folly to folly", | ||
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