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These were tasks that called for a good deal of energy, trifling though they might appear to those real explorers whose feats I was faintly copying, as Early Victorian ladies used to copy fine steel engravings in pale niggling pencil-work. Yet I enjoyed the trouble, enjoyed even the inconveniences, | These were tasks that called for a good deal of energy, trifling though they might appear to those real explorers whose feats I was faintly copying, as Early Victorian ladies used to copy fine steel engravings in pale niggling pencil-work. Yet I enjoyed the trouble, enjoyed even the inconveniences, | ||
- | (Tken from Chapter V - "From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands", | + | (Taken from Chapter V - "From Fiji to the Cannibal Islands", |
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- | uSO EiLP II by '' | + | =====So Help Me.===== |
- | So help roe I say it, and it wasn't as' | + | |
- | BeinL, | + | by "Dingo" |
- | on the :: | + | |
- | The rest of the crew had departed for their first swifi of the day and only Christa and ITself | + | So help me I saw it, and it wasn't as if there had been a pub handy. You see, I was at North Era and the nearest ale was to be tapped at Burning Palms, or so 'twas said. Being a little curious I ambled over on the afternoon of Boxing Day, but anyhow, what I' |
- | " | + | |
- | feet and -gropinc, | + | The rest of the crew had departed for their first swim of the day and only Christa and myself |
- | is in your hinds. The -en sypathise: poor bloke must | + | |
- | have been half asleep." | + | But, so help me, I saw it. You couldn' |
- | chanting Chl' | + | |
- | But so help 1:_e, I saw it. You couldn' | + | Now, some blokes |
- | NOW, some blokes | + | |
- | the: | + | Anything is likely to happen |
- | Anything is likely to halen at Era but you must adyqit | + | |
- | All this points to the fact that I not rulliny our | + | All this points to the fact that I not am not pulling your legs, so to continue with my story. So help me I saw it... What's that? Ladies and gentlemen, I believe I have been handed a metaphorical specimen of a fruit of the berry family. |
- | legs, so to continue with story. So help mc I.saw it----- What's that? Ladies and gentlemen, I believe I have boon handed a metaphorical specimen of a fruit of the berry fad. la | + | |
- | So, be darned to you, I wish I hadn't story, anyway. | + | So, be darned to you, I wish I hadn' |
- | - | + | |
- | SYNCARPIA BY NIGHT.... | + | ---- |
- | She'll snatch | + | |
- | and scratch | + | =====Syncarpira By Night....===== |
- | at itching bite; | + | |
- | she'll swear | + | She'll snatch\\ |
- | and tear | + | and scratch\\ |
- | throughout the night; | + | at itching bite;\\ |
- | she'll mourn | + | she'll swear\\ |
- | 'til dawn | + | and tear\\ |
- | and bless the light; | + | throughout the night;\\ |
- | for where her writhing body lay | + | she'll mourn\\ |
+ | 'til dawn\\ | ||
+ | and bless the light;\\ | ||
+ | for where her writhing body lay\\ | ||
the insect world made hellish play. | the insect world made hellish play. | ||
- | ...Ap DAY | ||
- | with patches red on face and head, | ||
- | a mirror tells her all; | ||
- | with swollen eye from stinging fly | ||
- | from beauty she must fall. | ||
- | uAh,met. my beauty," | ||
- | is that me or gall? | ||
- | If I must wear these bites all day, time I rose and stole away. | ||
- | told yol,. :1-;1 | ||
- | ANNUAL KIDDIES' | ||
- | BUSI-11-.' | ||
- | Walking ta es...poems...cartoons...sketchea...phdtographs..-.' | ||
- | forward contributions, | ||
- | TO = IN S' | ||
- | Part I (January edition) of the ancient history of the Shoalhaven 1-Z. area outlined the way in which the various rocl,:s are fora shale and sandstone are food as sedionts | ||
- | on the floor of a lake or sea, and changed into flint or slate | ||
- | when the countryside is crisJ olded by r;reat forces in the earth' | ||
- | Now that we understand the nature of the rocks -- the brown and grey flint and slate in the lower part, and the sandstones overl: | ||
- | ow what evidence do we base these state_ents of age? ike chief evidence is that of fossils. In the sea which overlay the area of the ordovicia:o slates were small fish called graptolites, | ||
- | Now, ),hen we loo:: to either side of the gorge in this area, we note three ihings 1,' | ||
- | sudd enly to hexdzolitally heddel rocks that is, the upper | ||
- | rocks were not in e:dstence at the ti- then the area was subjected to the great earth forces which distorted the lower shales, and hardened tlIaa to slates. Secondly, the lower are brown or gr(* slates, laid de= far :ro the shore of a sea; the upper arc yellow sandstones which are claposited near a sea or lake shore. Thirdly, referring to the ages lizted on the map, the Ordovician ago ended 380 million years ago, but the Pc.,,r_dan did not begin until 155 million years latur. Layer by lair the shalQs wore built up, year by year -- and | ||
- | tha-0- a ZAP- Aiat o 155 1J toz. fo;p, the | ||
- | c5eCi | ||
- | tlAr ; 2orwri- | ||
- | $34141-6, | ||
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- | NO, 00)000 ru 260,000,000 , le4rS | ||
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- | i3u BoirNia 1,3airbees ck | ||
- | Devonian and Carboniferous ages are :Lissed out. Doposon | ||
- | CCCCar:a tc; ':73ro cruso folcloCi | ||
- | -1.araenea into slates; aTa then, so illior :Tears later, Then the crushin foces haC_ died away, sedimentation occurred again. | ||
- | What is the explanation of this missing chapter? It lies in the fact thats throughout the Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous ages, all this land had been uplifted above the water level; the sea had drained away, and where previously, deposition had been occurring, denudation (erosion) was now taking place. And finally, the area had been submerged once more, but this time the sea had not extended very far beyond the regions we are examining, and sandstones were laid down where for ages only erosion and earth-crumpling had taken place. | ||
- | Now look to Bungonia -- here, Silurian shales and litones. The rocks of the missing chapter: This area had been subil3e rged whilst the eastern sector had been uplifted. | ||
- | ' That is, a shore-line had existed between the area now called Bungonia, and the opposite side of the present Shoalhaven. A noteworthy feature of this limestone belt is the fact that the remains of the ancient corals flank a gorge 1,000 feet deep. And yet, coral is a shallow-water organism and does not build at depths greater than about 10 feet. How, then, can there be 1,000 feet of fossil remains where the water had not been more than some 10 feet deep? The fact is that the land had | ||
- | not tilted and lain stills but it had gone on gradually tilting for millions of years, and as the region sank, fraction by fractions the corals went on building, always growing upwards to maintain their normal depth below the rising water. | ||
- | However, despite the existence of Silurian sedizents on the Bungonia sides there is evidence even here that the progression was not a smooth one. For the upper slates were somewhat eroded away before being covered by the later shales. That is a general uplift had raised the whole land above the sea, and then re-submerged the western side. It did not now subside beneath the original sea, however, being cove-red instead - by a vast inland lake. | ||
- | This land being now submerged, and gradually tilting to allow of the building of the corals, erosion started on the | ||
- | - still-uplifted eastern section. Year by year, rivers were break- | ||
- | ing down the Ordovician slates, and carrying the particles westward -- to the lake, this time, and not to the sea -- where they were re-posited as muds around the corals, later to be | ||
- | _dried to form the Bilur: | ||
- | stone roof. | ||
- | -,SiAGES OFZIEVFLOPMENT | ||
- | =.27- Oa-hi/in/co fro-, | ||
- | Whole arei; ur)cVer ep-confineria | ||
- | Cirapieldes Jv /r1 se.) | ||
- | r / , | ||
- | S,Its Cein9 deposited later -to ic;rol 5 b-,, | ||
- | 1 I r | ||
- | Mud', e5n Cited 01 Q | ||
- | Si-a elf- Silurtat7 | ||
- | Whole area hifeci 6t9tie. 5e,4 ievei | ||
- | M UD5 Rivedrired zwav | ||
- | dried io form SHA1E5 ton-woo-ice EROSION | ||
- | Seo - | ||
- | fAreatoo | ||
- | liW5iern reo | ||
- | asc-iit) subi7)& | ||
- | s | ||
- | Limncc, | ||
- | busit | ||
- | 1.1?, | ||
- | forc9 | ||
- | Er()%iuri corefinues1 doh. | ||
- | "!. ( | ||
- | 7" | ||
- | -1,3reat Fones Crush hrea | + | ====And Day....==== |
- | Deposi-tion occurs agz;.:(1,- | + | |
- | tm-t, | + | With patches red\\ |
- | /jevo I-7/0 7 n Cc-' | + | on face and head,\\ |
- | //11170/6. por/i or? / f/ o< | + | a mirror tells her all;\\ |
- | Gree-t | + | with swollen eye\\ |
- | v4.11% up wail?, cruc | + | from stinging fly\\ |
- | 3 itc",t | + | from beauty she must fall.\\ |
- | Wkoler er a subject foerosiori &ibIded slates worn dowe%Fo pi1-1 | + | "Ah, me! my beauty,"\\ |
- | -\4 | + | saith the cutie,\\ |
- | Ste e7- Permian eas7L6,,, | + | "is that me or gall?\\ |
- | 5 uhrorgeof oncle-,r grest). t /oke | + | If I must wear these bites all day,\\ |
- | 4.1.1111141.# | + | 'tos time I rose and stole away." |
- | T YPI CA-271--GRA P TOL I TE 5 | + | |
- | _Deposition of | + | |
- | SrD, st ones | + | |
- | Ly | + | |
- | (APProx Life cize) | + | |
- | I | + | |
- | N | + | |
- | 41 | + | |
- | -.Te now have the history before us, and :Jay recapitulate the tale, in some six stages: see Plate 2. | + | |
- | .11221:2_1, Ordovician tiz-es. Mole area the floor of a sea, far frou shore; muds being deposited year by year in horizontal layers on the sea-floor -- later dried to form shales. Graptolites in sea and on muds. | + | |
- | stiaE2_2. Biblrian times :ihole area uplifted and partly eroded (tima-gap between Ordovician and Silurian at Buzzonia) Intense earth forces crush and fold area into slates. | + | |
- | Stag p5. Silurian. Test side subsides under inland lake, with shoreline east of BunE,onia Gorge: limestone belts established and Ordovician rocks of east carried west by rivers; re-deposited in lake. | + | |
- | 11,-.2Eal. Devonian - Carboniferous times. Region uplifted entirely. Erosion of Ordovician slates and of More recent Silurians of west. | + | |
- | stEp__L. Permian times. Eastern sector submerged below sea, but not so far from shore as in stage I (shoreline close to present Barber' | + | |
- | Post-Pori: | + | |
- | The story is there complete in the main, and only one minor aspect reycains. During the Zilurian activity, molten rock froz]L deep down in the earth' | + | |
- | Thus we may see in the story of the ancient Shoalhaven area, not a tale of hills eternal and timeless lands, but of a varied inter-change of land and sea. On future walks, you may see yourself the story revealed; the folded slates of the lower gorge, the sandstones of the upper, and the limestones L.12 Bungo-nia -- pieces of a history before tla6- afxma-of | + | |
- | "REUNION?" | + | |
- | Vr. -wsmi. A | + | |
- | Review of February 8-9 1947. | + | |
- | Oh, boy: what a weekend! Rain? Did you say, "Rain?" that rain? No, of course I didn't get wet. Okay,okay -- you all know by now who the gossip writer is; or if you don't, you go damned near the truth in the scathing remarks you hurl atme each time a new issue goes on the mart. So I spent the weekend in a shack, did I? So what -- was I the only one? And if I did, can I be blamed? Did I or did I not spend part of the weekend dishing out tea to wearisome walkers staggering down | + | |
- | or up the hill? Oh, yes,I know -- "But to spend the whole time. Because I forsook the dampness and inconvenience of being cooped up under japara on a weekend of water -- well, is he not best qualified to comment who views happenings from the heights of unbiased detachment? | + | |
- | So there was I, and there were you. And maylpe you thought I didn't get round much? If not, did you-enquire whose face was poked in front of the camera every time the " | + | |
- | Did we have fun on Central! A special carriage on the 9,12 to Kiama, and MB delegated to load it. Imagine my reaction; just imagine the shock to my brain -- when I found that there was no 9.12 to Waterfall. Or, rather, there was, but it was first stop Austinmer. Panic! Organised, of course. An interview in the Station ILaster' | + | |
- | Ahl but you can't keep a Bushwalker down. There' | + | |
- | At this juncture' | + | |
- | came in for a lot of abLscs... In thiz ca-se, -0-0430-cu had | + | |
- | 1.0 | + | |
- | bluncl104 tIVI4ZVQ. tit-T-Wr have In any case, I should pay tribute to the four who showed ma so mlAch courtesy in the task of loading some 60 Bushwalkers on some train or other.. | + | |
- | But I forget. l Here am I telling you all about what I did, when the scandal scout' | + | |
- | Anyhow, next came the bus to Govenor Game. Those who stayed on the train, bound for Lilyvale, mouthed some cutting comment about, " | + | |
- | Arrived at "The Palms", | + | |
- | Dorothy Lawry now armed herself with a shovel, to dig out a waterhole. Rainy days have their compensations: | + | |
- | Camp-fire, Saturday night. S.B.W. arrived and settled in Then more S.B.W. arrived. Then more S.B.W. -- what? aren't they all here yet'? No, Maurie and Tuggie are -just leaving Lilyvale, and Peter Gracie and Betty Penfold won't arrive 'til 3.30 a m.: | + | |
- | A procession of flaming torches came down the hill, plunged their brands into the fire -- and things were away. Sib:ging, sketches fun and games; the rain held off, and the flames roared high. Flashes of brilliant light here and there told those in the know" that "Pie was all about. My, how their faces beamed whene ver thoae Xlashbulbs went off (little knowing that the photo was already taken'. ) | + | |
- | The greatest revelation of thevhole weekend was the bus which brought us home, Fair dinkura, fais, a bus with elastic sides! Walkers just kept going in and going in......you' | + | |
- | -1:ow the soak behind the Ranger' | + | |
- | Alex Colley' | + | |
- | On 22nd. March, 'the Forestry Advisory Council is conducting a tree study walk at "The Island", | + | |
- | The President stressed the importance of the rule that under no circumstances could a Sunday Walk be cancelled. If a leador finds it impossible2 to lead a Programme Sunday Walks a substitute leader MUST be found and the Walks Secretary advised. In other words "The Walk Must Be Ont" | + | |
- | On a fairly close vote it was decided to hold the Annual Reunion an our lease at Stockyard Creek, North tra. It was pointed out that we are paying good money to lease the land, so, shy not camp on | + | |
- | Bill Henley informed the meeting that the Annual Swimming Carnival was being swum at Cattai Creek, via Windsor, and a good time would be had by all. (It's now over -- see results of Championships | + | |
- | R.nlahere in this issue). | + | |
- | After Gwen Roots' trip to Frazer Park, many questions are being asked: Was it an Official Walk or an Official Bus-ride? Wi21 the Leader-repot on Prospectivess or Prospectives report on tha Leader? Did the TTogramme say 4 miles or 40? Was the Official train earlys or was half the official Party late? | + | |
- | Perhaps. the year's prize quip was heard on Marj Clarke' | + | |
- | j.JOSTI BUSHWALKERS!:: | + | |
- | :' | + | |
- | --countryside riddled with tracks, and these veterans of the Wild Dog s.f pathless jumble wr up on. the wrong moUntain! | + | |
- | 12. | + | |
- | was written in mymental notebook: "52 plus 4 kids plus packsill" | + | |
- | And so. we came back to Sydney town. The weekend was wet (raining, I mean),. but we enjoyed it, However, there was one question which worried me when themob had drifted away from the camp-fire can you burn, bash and bury a bottle? | + | |
- | AT OUR FEBRUARY MEETINGS | + | |
- | Reported by | + | |
- | The February General Meeting opened with about 50 Nembers present, with President Jack Rose in the chair. | + | ---- |
- | Four new members were welcomed to the ranks, and after the customary cautions and handshaking were handed their Flannel Flower and Book of Golden Rules. By name: MINNETTA BOWLES, *" ALICE THOMAS, JOHN LENTON, and NORMAN THORNTON, Resignations were received from LANCE BRYANT, RUSSELL ROXBURGH and DON and BETTY GORDON, While our old friends CHARLES PRYDE and BILL KILNER were transferred to the Non-active list. | + | |
- | Wilbur ' | + | |
- | It was announcecl..that an agreement had been reached whereby we are permitted to pay our rentfor the Era Camping | + | |
- | Lease on a-quarterly basis. of this, We were very grato-,- | + | |
- | ful to receive a donation of 2/2/- Coast and- Mountain Walkers towardsdefraying our expense in this mattor,. The right spirit! | + | |
- | On the motion of Edna Garrad, it was decfdjd to request the Federation to communicate with major airlines Deintiy. | + | |
- | , out that many walkers now travel interstate by air and asking that, | + | |
- | ollowing an agitation over the presence of roving cattle, in Gar-rawarra Park, Dorothy Lawry announced that the Government had granted 50 towards purchase of material for construction of a cattleproof fence on the Northern boundary. (Over Christmas two tents were destroyed by the cattle and Ranger Campbell reports more stealing and fouling of campers tucker from the same sourco)t During the -v-ery altoo_ns: | + | |
+ | ====Annual Kiddies' | ||
+ | |||
+ | On Sunday, March 30, Bob Younger wants you to help. When the children from the Devonshire Street Free Library go to Lane Cove, the more helpers there are, the merrier we'll be, and so will the kids. Women are wanted to handle eating arrangements; | ||
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+ | |||
+ | ====Bushwalker Annual - 1947.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Have you forgotten your contribution? | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Story In Stone - Part 2.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | by Trouper. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Part 1 (January edition) of the ancient history of the Shoalhaven R. area outlined the way in which the various rocks are formed - shale and sandstone are formed as sediments on the floor of a lake or sea, and changed into flint or slate when the countryside is crushed and folded by great forces in the earth' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Now that we understand the nature of the rocks - the brown and grey flint and slate in the lower part, and the sandstones overlying them, we can examine the history of the area from a map - a geologic map (Plate 1). In the eastern portions of this map, we see that there are Ordovician slates, overlain by a cap of Permian sandstone, as is seen in the section, A-A. The names need cause no alarm - they are simply a convenient way of classifying a rock according to its age. Thus, from the list on the map, " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Upon what evidence do we base these statements of age? The chief evidence is that of fossils. In the sea which overlay the area of the Ordovician slates were small fish called graptolites, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Now, when we look to either side of the gorge in this area, we note three things. Firstly, the lower rock strata is distorted, and at about 1,000 feet above the river gives way suddenly to horizontally bedded rocks - that is, the upper rocks were not in existence at the time when the area was subjected to the great earth forces which distorted the lower shales, and hardened them to slates. Secondly, the lower rocks are brown or grey slates, laid down far from the shore of a sea; the upper are yellow sandstones which are deposited near a sea or lake shore. Thirdly, referring to the ages listed on the map, the Ordovician age ended 380 million years ago, but the Permian did not begin until 155 million years later. Layer by layer, the shales were built up, year by year - and then a gap. A hiatus of 155 million years, for the Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous ages are missed out. Deposition ceased, and in the interim the shales were crushed and folded and hardened into slates; and then, so many million years later, when the crushing forces had died away, sedimentation occurred again. | ||
+ | |||
+ | What is the explanation of this missing chapter? It lies in the fact that, throughout the Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous ages, all this land had been uplifted above the water level; the sea had drained away, and where previously, deposition had been occurring, denudation (erosion) was now taking place. And finally, the area had been submerged once more, but this time the sea had not extended very far beyond the regions we are examining, and sandstones were laid down where for ages only erosion and earth-crumpling had taken place. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Now look to Bungonia - here, Silurian shales and limestones. The rocks of the missing chapter! This area had been submerged whilst the eastern sector had been uplifted. That is, a shore-line had existed between the area now called Bungonia, and the opposite side of the present Shoalhaven. A noteworthy feature of this limestone belt is the fact that the remains of the ancient corals flank a gorge 1,000 feet deep. And yet, coral is a shallow-water organism and does not build at depths greater than about 10 feet. How, then, can there be 1,000 feet of fossil remains where the water had not been more than some 10 feet deep? The fact is that the land had not tilted and lain still, but it had gone on gradually tilting for millions of years, and as the region sank, fraction by fractions the corals went on building, always growing upwards to maintain their normal depth below the rising water. | ||
+ | |||
+ | However, despite the existence of Silurian sediments on the Bungonia sides there is evidence even here that the progression was not a smooth one. For the upper slates were somewhat eroded away before being covered by the later shales. That is a general uplift had raised the whole land above the sea, and then re-submerged the western side. It did not now subside beneath the original sea, however, being covered instead by a vast inland lake. | ||
+ | |||
+ | This land being now submerged, and gradually tilting to allow of the building of the corals, erosion started on the still-uplifted eastern section. Year by year, rivers were breaking down the Ordovician slates, and carrying the particles westward - to the lake, this time, and not to the sea - where they were deposited as muds around the corals, later to be dried to form the Silurian shales we now see around the limestone roof. | ||
+ | |||
+ | We now have the history before us, and may recapitulate the tale, in some six stages: see Plate 2. | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Stage 1__. Ordovician times. Whole area the floor of a sea, far from shore; muds being deposited year by year in horizontal layers on the sea-floor - later dried to form shales. Graptolites in sea and on muds. | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Stage 2__. Silurian times. Whole area uplifted and partly eroded (time-gap between Ordovician and Silurian at Bungonia). Intense earth forces crush and fold area into slates. | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Stage 3__. Silurian. West side subsides under inland lake, with shoreline east of Bungonia Gorge: limestone belts established and Ordovician rocks of east carried west by rivers; re-deposited in lake. | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Stage 4__. Devonian - Carboniferous times. Region uplifted entirely. Erosion of Ordovician slates and of more recent Silurians of west. | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Stage 5__. Permian times. Eastern sector submerged below sea, but not so far from shore as in stage 1 (shoreline close to present Barber' | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Stage 6__. Post-Permian times. Bodily uplift of whole area, and erosion to present contours. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The story is there complete in the main, and only one minor aspect remains. During the Silurian activity, molten rock from deep down in the earth' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Thus we may see in the story of the ancient Shoalhaven area, not a tale of hills eternal and timeless lands, but of a varied inter-change of land and sea. On future walks, you may see yourself the story revealed; the folded slates of the lower gorge, the sandstones of the upper, and the limestones of Bungonia - pieces of a history before the dawn of man. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====" | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Review of February 8-9 1947.__ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Oh, boy! what a weekend! Rain? Did you say, " | ||
+ | |||
+ | So there was I, and there were you. And maybe you thought I didn't get round much? If not, did you enquire whose face was poked in front of the camera every time the " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Did we have fun on Central! A special carriage on the 9.12 to Kiama, and me delegated to load it. Imagine my reaction; just imagine the shock to my brain - when I found that there was no 9.12 to Waterfall. Or, rather, there was, but it was first stop Austinmer. Panic! Organised, of course. An interview in the Station Master' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ah, but you can't keep a Bushwalker down. There' | ||
+ | |||
+ | At this juncture, I might digress, Railway employees came in for a lot of abuse. In this case, someone had blundered; it may have been me, or it may have been they. In any case, I should pay tribute to the four who showed me so much courtesy in the task of loading some 60 Bushwalkers on some train or other. | ||
+ | |||
+ | But I forget! Here am I telling you all about what I did, when the scandal scout' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Anyhow, next came the bus to Governor Game. Those who stayed on the train, bound for Lilyvale, mouthed some cutting comment about, " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Arrived at "The Palms", | ||
+ | |||
+ | Dorothy Lawry now armed herself with a shovel, to dig out a waterhole. Rainy days have their compensations: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Camp-fire, Saturday night. S.B.W. arrived and settled in. Then more S.B.W. arrived. Then more S.B.W. - what? aren't they all here yet? No, Maurie and Tuggie are just leaving Lilyvale, and Peter Gracie and Betty Penfold won't arrive 'til 3.30 a.m.! | ||
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+ | A procession of flaming torches came down the hill, plunged their brands into the fire - and things were away. Singing, sketches fun and games; the rain held off, and the flames roared high. Flashes of brilliant light here and there told those "in the know" that " | ||
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+ | The greatest revelation of the whole weekend was the bus which brought us home. Fair dinkum, folks, a bus with elastic sides! Walkers just kept going in and going in... you've no idea! Ah, but you should have seen the smooth system worked by Jean Harvey: she swept up the Eastoe toddler in her arms and, whilst men fell back on either side, stepped regally into the elastic sided monster and - oh, yes, she got a seat, alright! But to get back to the bus: a large sign over the door read, "To seat 26." When finally the driver had finished wrestling with his gears, the mob had piled out, and the sides had settled back to their normal contours, a number was written in my mental notebook: "52 plus 4 kids plus packs!!!" | ||
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+ | And so we came back to Sydney town. The weekend was wet (raining, I mean), but we enjoyed it. However, there was one question which worried me when the mob had drifted away from the camp-fire: can you burn, bash and bury a bottle? | ||
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+ | =====At Our February Meeting.===== | ||
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+ | Reported by Brian Harvey. | ||
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+ | The February General Meeting opened with about 50 members present, with President Jack Rose in the chair. | ||
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+ | Four new members were welcomed to the ranks, and after the customary cautions and handshaking were handed their Flannel Flower and Book of Golden Rules. By name: Minnetta Bowles, Alice Thomas, John Lenton, and Norman Thornton. Resignations were received from Lance Bryant, Russell Roxburgh and Don and Betty Gordon, while our old friends Charles Pryde and Bill Kilner were transferred to the Non-active list. | ||
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+ | Wilbur Morris is reported now to be stationed in Tasmania. | ||
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+ | It was announced that an agreement had been reached whereby we are permitted to pay our rent for the Era Camping Lease on a quarterly basis. Apropos of this, we were very grateful to receive a donation of £2/2/- from the Coast and Mountain Walkers towards defraying our expense in this matter. The right spirit! | ||
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+ | On the motion of Edna Garrad, it was decided to request the Federation to communicate with major airlines pointing out that many walkers now travel interstate by air and asking that special attention be paid to the safe packing of rucksacks in luggage compartments. A complaint was received that a steel frame was found bent on arrival in Tasmania. A serious position could arise from this cause. | ||
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+ | Following an agitation over the presence of roving cattle in Garrawarra Park, Dorothy Lawry announced that the Government had granted £50 towards purchase of material for construction of a cattleproof fence on the Northern boundary. (Over Christmas two tents were destroyed by the cattle and Ranger Campbell reports more stealing and fouling of campers' | ||
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+ | Alex Colley' | ||
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+ | On 22nd. March, the Forestry Advisory Council is conducting a tree study walk at "The Island", | ||
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+ | The President stressed the importance of the rule that under no circumstances could a Sunday Walk be cancelled. If a leader finds it impossible to lead a Programme Sunday Walk, a substitute leader MUST be found and the Walks Secretary advised. In other words "The Walk Must Be On!" | ||
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+ | On a fairly close vote it was decided to hold the Annual Reunion an our lease at Stockyard Creek, North Era. It was pointed out that we are paying good money to lease the land - so, why not camp on it! | ||
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+ | Bill Henley informed the meeting that the Annual Swimming Carnival was being swum at Cattai Creek, via Windsor, and a good time would be had by all. (It's now over - see results of Championships elsewhere in this issue). | ||
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+ | After Gwen Roots' trip to Frazer Park, many questions are being asked: Was it an Official Walk or an Official Bus-ride? Will the Leader report on Prospectives or Prospectives report on the Leader? Did the Programme say 4 miles or 40? Was the Official train early, or was half the official Party late? | ||
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+ | Perhaps the year's prize quip was heard on Marj Clarke' | ||
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+ | __Lost! Bushwalkers!!!__ Sure thing, fellers. Where? Who? Well of course, we don't know where - they don't even know themselves. Who? Bob Younger and Kev Ardill, with Norma and Christa - no, no! delete Kev Ardill; he was on the right track. Imagine it: Bushwalkers bushed! And, of all places, in Lake St. Clair Reserve, Tasmania. A countryside riddled with tracks, and these veterans of the Wild Dogs pathless jumble were up on the wrong mountain! | ||
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