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- | SINK OR SWIM WITH Tilt ADMIRAL | + | ===== Sink Or Swim With The Admiral. ===== |
- | - Dot Butler | + | |
- | The gods who shape the course | + | - Dot Butler |
- | The Admiral was very cocky right from the start; Garth was on time at the Hyde Post Office, I was on time at Hyde station with the down train, Brian was on time with the up train. Despite a last- minute dash of packing Stan was not late to pick us up and we drove an towards Parramatta collecting a waiting Dawn, aad Vivian was on time at Parramatta station. "This is faatastic," | + | |
- | in their seats. "Not yet," they smirked - Not yetl") | + | === It was all the Admiral's fault. === |
- | We made good time and reached Katoomba by 9 , and there was our hired bus waiting to take us on to Kanangra just as soon as the train should arrive with the rest of the party. The Admiral glowed visibly (and audibly) at this further sign of his good management. Stan shot off down Lurline St. and parked his car at Snow's parents' | + | |
- | The Admiral' | + | The gods who shape the course |
- | Nothing for it but to get into our sleeping bags and, lying down on the long seats of the bus, try to get some sleep. | + | |
- | ("So far so good," grinned the gods. " | + | The Admiral was very cocky right from the start; Garth was on time at the Hyde Post Office, I was on time at Hyde station with the down train, Brian was on time with the up train. Despite a last-minute dash of packing Stan was not late to pick us up and we drove on towards Parramatta collecting a waiting Dawn, and Vivian was on time at Parramatta station. "This is faatastic," |
- | ,out midnight the others arrived. We made room for them and the reluctant driver moved off on the long journey to -Morong Creek which we reached about 3 a.m. " | + | |
- | abashed by this joke as snow is really very pleasant stuff. Some of us threw some bark under a bush and crept in, and some put up tents, and we had 4 or 5 hours sleep. | + | We made good time and reached Katoomba by 9, and there was our hired bus waiting to take us on to Kanangra just as soon as the train should arrive with the rest of the party. The Admiral glowed visibly (and audibly) at this further sign of his good management. Stan shot off down Lurline St. and parked his car at Snow's parents' |
- | Breakfast and away by 8.30. Whether by good luck or good management I can't say, but by use of maps and compasses and a half-conscious | + | |
- | 17. | + | The Admiral' |
- | awareness of where the sun was through the mist we got successfully on to Paralyser ridge. We trailed along in the blurring mist. | + | |
- | "I like this," remarked Garth to anyone | + | About midnight the others arrived. We made room for them and the reluctant driver moved off on the long journey to Morong Creek which we reached about 3 a.m. " |
- | We found the bulldozed track where they brought out the crashed plane and followed it, aad then continued on without eventualities to Cyclops. At this stage we were all together, but going slowly as | + | |
- | Dawn and her friend Vivian were beginning to tire. We pieced together the story of Vivian' | + | Breakfast and away by 8.30. Whether by good luck or good management I can't say, but by use of maps and compasses and a half-conscious awareness of where the sun was through the mist we got successfully on to Paralyser ridge. We trailed along in the blurring mist. "I like this," remarked Garth to anyone |
- | judgement flies out the door." | + | |
- | turned out that the only other trip theI, | + | We found the bulldozed track where they brought out the crashed plane and followed it, and then continued on without eventualities to Cyclops. At this stage we were all together, but going slowly as Dawn and her friend Vivian were beginning to tire. We pieced together the story of Vivian' |
- | from IfiEJ22, | + | |
- | At Paralyser trig we all assembled about mid-day. Here my fatal optimism got the better of me and to cheer Vivian up I told her all her troubles were nearly over - indeed we were almost there (with a little stretch of the imagination on our part); all we had to do now was to drop down a spur to the Kanangra Creek/River junction for lunch, then amble down creek a couple of miles in the afternoon to Kanangra Clearing where we would camp fcr the night. Then next day a delightful loaf up the Cox to Breakfast Creek and home the easy way via Devil' | + | At Paralyser trig we all assembled about mid-day. Here my fatal optimism got the better of me and to cheer Vivian up I told her all her troubles were nearly over - indeed we were almost there (with a little stretch of the imagination on our part); all we had to do now was to drop down a spur to the Kanangra Creek/River junction for lunch, then amble down creek a couple of miles in the afternoon to Kanangra Clearing where we would camp for the night. Then next day a delightful loaf up the Cox to Breakfast Creek and home the easy way via Devil' |
- | With the Junction in sight, half the party bashed ahead to get a lunch fire.going, leaving the leader to follow at a slower pace with the others. The vanguard were just shooting off on the wrong spur when Garth recognised the right one and we called the Madden crowd back. But no TO retrace their steps a hundred yards would be too great an effort - they would go down their spur. The result was Garth and I were down at the junction at 1.30 and it was well over half an hour before the Madden group showed up after a mile or so extra along the ridge and fighting their way down the overgrown creek. | + | |
- | By 3 o' | + | With the Junction in sight, half the party bashed ahead to get a lunch fire going, leaving the leader to follow at a slower pace with the others. The vanguard were just shooting off on the wrong spur when Garth recognised the right one and we called the Madden crowd back. But no! To retrace their steps a hundred yards would be too great an effort - they would go down their spur. The result was Garth and I were down at the junction at 1.30 and it was well over half an hour before the Madden group showed up after a mile or so extra along the ridge and fighting their way down the overgrown creek. |
- | ERNIE? He had been with the Admiral ten minutes | + | |
- | 18. | + | By 3 o' |
- | but now? Odearodearodearl | + | |
- | he was and collect Ernie, then come on and join us at Kanangra Clearing by 8 o' | + | No sign of the rear party by 8, so off pushed Jack Perry who had been up and warbling round the breakfast fire since crack of dawn. No sign by 9. At 9.15 action seemed to be called for. Stan and Snow would burn through to Katoomba and bring Stan's car back to Megalong |
- | No sign of the rear party by 8, so off pushed Jack Perry who had been up and warbling round the breakfast fire since crack of dawn. No sign by 9. At 9.15 action seemed to be called for. Stan and Snow would burn through to Katoomba and bring Stan's car back to Masalong | + | |
- | "Did you meet up with the Admiral," | + | "Did you meet up with the Admiral," |
- | You know, when you pound along the banks behind steam-engines like say Putt and Stitt and Wagc and Arnie the distance between Breakfast Creek and Kanangra River is a mere nothing - it hardly registers. But when yau_ glance behind and see someone crawling on hands and knees over the boulders it comes as a tremendous shock. But no complaining from Vivian - poor little game little wench - just a timid request, "Would you mind not going too fast in front, Dot, I want to sec where you put your feet." (II!) | + | |
- | The rain, though not particularly heavy, had been steady and continuous, and as the already saturated ground could hold no more, the river gradually rose. However we crossed the Cox without undue qualms. On the level cowpads the Admiral stopped to rest the girls and we others kept moving, and at 1.30 behold Breakfast Creek. Garth dumped his hea' | + | You know, when you pound along the banks behind steam-engines like say Putt and Stitt and Wagg and Arnie the distance between Breakfast Creek and Kanangra River is a mere nothing - it hardly registers. But when you glance behind and see someone crawling on hands and knees over the boulders it comes as a tremendous shock. But no complaining from Vivian - poor little game little wench - just a timid request, "Would you mind not going too fast in front, Dot, I want to see where you put your feet." (!!!) |
- | 19. | + | |
- | Mt. Olympus roared with laughter. "What a long time it takes for some people to wake upl" they Chortled.) | + | The rain, though not particularly heavy, had been steady and continuous, and as the already saturated ground could hold no more, the river gradually rose. However we crossed the Cox without undue qualms. On the level cowpads the Admiral stopped to rest the girls and we others kept moving, and at 1.30 behold Breakfast Creek. Garth dumped his heavy pack and promptly went back to take the girls' while Ernie and I, with dry wood from the inside of a fallen tree, plus Ernie' |
- | When at length Garth showed up with Dawn's pack, the girls behind him mad a worried Admiral whipper-in, it was after 2, and by the time lunch had been consumed and bandages and sticking-plaster applied it was twenty to 4 before we started. ( For the first time I began to suspect that that low rumbling in the sky wasn't thunder but laughter.) | + | |
- | The 34 crossings (or whatever it is) of Breakfast Creek got' | + | When at length Garth showed up with Dawn's pack, the girls behind him and a worried Admiral whipper-in, it was after 2, and by the time lunch had been consumed and bandages and sticking-plaster applied it was twenty to 4 before we started. (For the first time I began to suspect that that low rumbling in the sky wasn't thunder but laughter.) |
- | sheltering in his wake with the Admiral as backstop. When he was in to his Waist we knew that the flood was up to Dawn's shoulders, and | + | |
- | Oh Dean i Don't even think of the sodden packs end clothes and sleeping | + | The 34 crossings (or whatever it is) of Breakfast Creek got hairier and hairier as we proceeded. Rain continued to fall and the steep escarpments either side of the creek poured down their hundred and one contributing watercourses till eventually we found we could not make the crossings singly. So Garth organised us into a line and with arms linked New Zealand fashion we made all subsequent crossings, Garth breaking the force of the water upstream and the rest of us sheltering in his wake with the Admiral as backstop. When he was in to his waist we knew that the flood was up to Dawn's shoulders, and Oh Dear! Don't even think of the sodden packs and clothes and sleeping |
- | Instead of getting shallower, as we-got higher up the crossings got deeper. Garth would test them first, and when he found them above his waist he would pronounce them too dangerous without a rope so we would make heroic sidles | + | |
- | The low-lying part of the flatwas seVeral | + | Instead of getting shallower, as we got higher up the crossings got deeper. Garth would test them first, and when he found them above his waist he would pronounce them too dangerous without a rope so we would make heroic sidles |
- | Next morning we crawled out and cooked up half a cup of oatmeal and put on it the last of our milk powder and sugar, than packed our wet tents and off again to the flood. Why harrow you with the rest of it? Garth' | + | |
- | 1 pm,It appeared Jim Brown, Dot Barr and.Geof Broadhead had got to Canon' | + | The low-lying part of the flat was several |
- | 20. | + | |
- | there at 4 and after a cup of tea had pushed off via Devil' | + | Next morning we crawled out and cooked up half a cup of oatmeal and put on it the last of our milk powder and sugar, than packed our wet tents and off again to the flood. Why harrow you with the rest of it? Garth' |
- | However, we didn't get there, as you already know. | + | |
- | We had a cup of tea with the Canons | + | We had a cup of tea with the Carlons |
- | , | + | |
- | Garth and Ernie made a, fire t-2nd cooked up our lunch...one (1) packet' | + | Garth and Ernie made a fire and cooked up our lunch... one (1) packet of Chicken Noodle, soup with some bread crusts in it. Then with a grin on his face Garth brought out his final triumph |
- | 5 o.' clock. We filled in the ne-xt hbur t the It; | + | the hamburgers, and Ernie for the train fare home. |
- | the train out at 6.5 p m. - Six 'typical, S,,,,...E34-vir44, ,t66-ney Broke to the Wide, owing the Admiral for phone calld..-_G4tti fo,brr7the. | + | |
- | fhe hamburgers | + | So into town by 9 p.m. Then as I'd promised myselft |
- | to | + | |
- | So into town by 9 p.m. Then", | + | "Guess again, brother. I' |
- | straight to the Wentworth Hotel, | + | |
- | impregnated jumper and all, so, | + | "Let her go," yawned the gods on their mountain height, "The joke's over." |
- | of mountain air, but I must_ _sti.7, | + | |
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- | Sims bedrofem -where we sat -c3ti-it: | + | |
- | aa.4: | + | Into the sleeping |
- | the still-crowded lounge' | + | Glideth late or soon\\ |
- | "Let her go," yawned the gods on their mountain height, "The joke 's over." | + | That gentle companion,\\ |
- | ......1 | + | The lovely |
- | ,ce | + | |
- | Into the sleeping | + | Soft as a dewdrop,\\ |
- | Glideth late or soon | + | Cool ss a willow,\\ |
- | That gentle companion, | + | She layeth her bright head\\ |
- | The lovely | + | Beside mine on the pillow. |
- | Soft as a (3.6wdrop, | + | |
- | Cool ss a willow, | + | ---- |
- | She layeth her bright head Beside mine on the pillow. | + | |
- | 21. | + | |
GHASTLY ITTRESSIONS | GHASTLY ITTRESSIONS | ||
or - Dawn Askew. | or - Dawn Askew. |
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