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====Play The Harmonica.==== | ====Play The Harmonica.==== | ||
- | What better way to harmoonise | + | What better way to harmonise |
A course for beginners starts soon. Play Folk, Blues and Rock while learning the basics on the world' | A course for beginners starts soon. Play Folk, Blues and Rock while learning the basics on the world' | ||
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__Also__: Advanced classes in blues harp and chromatic harmonica. | __Also__: Advanced classes in blues harp and chromatic harmonica. | ||
- | __And__ a new course: __Eurythmics__: | + | __And__ a new course: __Eurythmics__: |
All classes go for 10 weeks. They are suitable for adults and students and feature live stereo back-up. The courses are active with lots of playing in class. | All classes go for 10 weeks. They are suitable for adults and students and feature live stereo back-up. The courses are active with lots of playing in class. | ||
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Most of the party of 27 camped at Megalong Ck on Friday night, and the rest of us arrived about 8 a.m. Saturday. We paid our parking fees at Carlon' | Most of the party of 27 camped at Megalong Ck on Friday night, and the rest of us arrived about 8 a.m. Saturday. We paid our parking fees at Carlon' | ||
- | During the afternoon someone said that Keith Docherty had gone down to the river the previous day, and that, in view of his piscatorial proclivities, | + | During the afternoon someone said that Keith Docherty had gone down to the river the previous day, and that, in view of his piscatorial proclivities, |
I had seen some small trout in the Cox River before and I had heard Keith speaking of trout fishing, but I had not realized that such fish were lurking in the water we had often waded across. When we set off upstream on Sunday morning Peter Sharpe had his telescopic rod out and did spinning in pools, and when he caught up with us he was very pleased to have caught a large brown trout, complete with the distinctive brown spots. He said somebody had mentioned that there were no brown trout in the Cox River. | I had seen some small trout in the Cox River before and I had heard Keith speaking of trout fishing, but I had not realized that such fish were lurking in the water we had often waded across. When we set off upstream on Sunday morning Peter Sharpe had his telescopic rod out and did spinning in pools, and when he caught up with us he was very pleased to have caught a large brown trout, complete with the distinctive brown spots. He said somebody had mentioned that there were no brown trout in the Cox River. | ||
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Is found only in the Daintree River and Mossman River areas. | Is found only in the Daintree River and Mossman River areas. | ||
- | ===Sources of Informtion.=== | + | ===Sources of Information.=== |
* "A Salute to the Humble Yabby" by Peter Olszewski. | * "A Salute to the Humble Yabby" by Peter Olszewski. | ||
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- | AUGUST SOCIAL PROGRAM. by Wendy Aliano. | + | ====August Social Program.==== |
- | 19th August. Magazine Wrapping NIght. Come along and help to put the Club magazine | + | |
- | together. Many hands make light work, so don't just leave it to the same old regulars. | + | by Wendy Aliano. |
- | 26th August. Night dedicated to the COLO. Colo area is at its best in spring, so come | + | |
- | and see what it has to offer, so that you can plan your spring walks. Idyllic pools and | + | ===19th August.=== |
- | sandy beaches, sandstone cliffs and rugged countryside all combine to make the Colo one of | + | |
- | the greatest walking areas. And it is comparatively close to Sydney as well! | + | Magazine Wrapping NIght. Come along and help to put the Club magazine together. Many hands make light work, so don't just leave it to the same old regulars. |
- | Ns. | + | |
- | A HUGE | + | ===26th August.=== |
- | RANGE OF | + | |
- | GEAR TO CATER | + | Night dedicated to the Colo. Colo area is at its best in spring, so come and see what it has to offer, so that you can plan your spring walks. Idyllic pools and sandy beaches, sandstone cliffs and rugged countryside all combine to make the Colo one of the greatest walking areas. And it is comparatively close to Sydney as well! |
- | FOR EVERYONE' | + | |
- | NEEDS, WHETHER | + | ---- |
- | IT BE FOR.... | + | |
- | Bushwalking | + | =====Letter To The Editor.===== |
- | O Caving | + | |
- | * Climbing | + | From Alex George, Bureau of Flora and Fauna, Canberra. |
- | | + | |
- | * Cycling | + | |
- | or Car Camping | + | |
- | eastwood | + | |
- | camping | + | |
- | centre | + | |
- | 3 Treiawney Street Eastwood 2122 Telephone (02) 858 3833 | + | |
- | Proprietors, | + | |
- | July, 1987 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 11 | + | |
- | LETTER TO THE EDITOR. from Alex George, | + | |
- | Bureau of Flora-and Fauna, Canberra. | + | |
May I comment on the article 'Which Banksia?' | May I comment on the article 'Which Banksia?' | ||
- | Joseph Banks and his botanical colleague Daniel Solander in fact collected four species | + | |
- | of Banksia at Botany Bay in April-May 1770. It is worth considering that, to the explorers | + | Joseph Banks and his botanical colleague Daniel Solander in fact collected four species of Banksia at Botany Bay in April-May 1770. It is worth considering that, to the explorers marvelling at the strange plants there, virtually none had names. Imagine walking in bush where you not only cannot recognise the plants, but then you realise that they have no names at all! Banks and Solander were able to place their specimens with broad classification groups that had been devised by the founder of modern plant nomenclature, |
- | marvelling at the strange plants there, virtually none had names. Imagine walking in bush | + | |
- | where you not only cannot recognise the plants, but then you realise that they have no names | + | The Banksias that Banks and Solander collected we now know as __Banksia serrata__, |
- | at all! Banks and Solander were able to place their specimens with broad classification groups that had been devised by the founder of modern plant nomenclature, | + | __B. integrifolia__, __B. ericifolia__ |
- | The Banksias that Banks and Solander collected we now know as Banksia serrata, | + | |
- | B. integrifolia, B. ericifolia | + | Regarding flowering times, it must be remembered that these may vary from year to year according to seasonal fluctuations. In fact, the Banks and Solander specimens of all four species from Botany Bay are in flower and bud. There is a photograph of a specimen of __serrata__ |
- | specimens in 1793 and took them back to Spain. There the botanist Antonio Cavanilles named | + | |
- | them B. robur in 1800. Cavanilles also named B. marginata | + | |
- | that Joseph Banks did not see. | + | |
- | Regarding flowering times, it must be remembered that these may vary from year to year according to seasonal fluctuations. In fact, the Banks and Solander specimens of all four | + | |
- | species from Botany Bay are in flower and bud. There is a photograph of a specimen of serrata | + | |
- | the estuary where Cooktown now stands, it was long past the flowering season of Banksia dentata, and the explorers' | + | |
Incidentally, | Incidentally, | ||
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- | BELVEDERE TAXIS BLACKHEATH | + | ---- |
- | 10 SEATER MINI BUS TAXI | + | |
- | 047-87 8366 | + | =====The June General Meeting.===== |
- | KANANGRA BOYD | + | |
- | UPPER BLUE MOUNTAINS | + | |
- | SIX FOOT TRACK | + | |
- | PICK UP ANYWHERE FOR START OR FINISH OF YOUR WALK - BY PRIOR ARRANGEMENT | + | |
- | Share the Fare Competitive Rates | + | |
- | Page 12 | + | |
- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER July, 1987 | + | |
- | THE JUNE GENERAL MEETING. | + | |
by Barry Wallace. | by Barry Wallace. | ||
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The President being overseas as they say, it was VEEP Bill Holland who gonged the gong at around 2022 and called the 25 or so members to what passes for order in these parts. | The President being overseas as they say, it was VEEP Bill Holland who gonged the gong at around 2022 and called the 25 or so members to what passes for order in these parts. | ||
- | There were apologies from Barrie Murdoch (0/5), Wendy Alliano, Anita and Alan Doherty and from FRan Holland. New members Serala Seenivasagam. Kay Chan and Mcirrie | + | |
+ | There were apologies from Barrie Murdoch (0/S), Wendy Aliano, Anita and Alan Doherty and from Fran Holland. New members Serala Seenivasagam. Kay Chan and Morrie | ||
The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and received, with the only matter arising being a further report that our incorporation is through the N.S.W. Finance Department and still proceeding. | The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and received, with the only matter arising being a further report that our incorporation is through the N.S.W. Finance Department and still proceeding. | ||
- | Correspondence comprised a letter from the Police Air Wing acknowledging our letter of thanks, from the Wilderness Society re South-East Australian | + | |
+ | Correspondence comprised a letter from the Police Air Wing acknowledging our letter of thanks, from the Wilderness Society re South-East Australian | ||
The Treasurer' | The Treasurer' | ||
- | The Walks Report, presented by Don Finch, began with a report of his trip over the weekend | + | |
- | of 15,16,17 May. That same weekend Ian Debert had 27 starters on his Cox River walk in cold | + | The Walks Report, presented by Don Finch, began with a report of his trip over the weekend of 15,16,17 May. That same weekend Ian Debert had 27 starters on his Cox River walk in cold conditions laboring somewhat up the final slope out of Carlons Creek. Joe Marten' |
- | conditions laboring somewhat up the final slope out of Carlons Creek. Joe Marten' | + | |
- | with around 20 people and Jan Mohandas led 8 on his Canons | + | Over the weekend 22,23,24 May Bill Holland had either 15 or 17, depending on the version, on his Blue Gum, Grand Canyon walk. Bill Capon had 10 people out on his walk in the Budawangs only to find that they could not find an exit from Holland Gorge and had to return the way they came. Jim Percy reported 15 on a beautiful day out from Waterfall to Engadine, and Alan Mewitt had 25 starters on his trip from Wondabyne. They encountered some unexpected obstacles, trip-cords, bent-sapling booby traps and the like in suspicious proximity to an encampment of Scouts, but otherwise the walk was O.K. |
- | Over the weekend 22,23,24 May Bill Holland had either 15 or 17, depending on the version, on his Blue Gum, Grand Canyon walk. Bill Capon had 10 people out on his walk in the Budawangs | + | |
- | only to find that they could not find an exit from Holland Gorge and had to return the way they | + | Carol Bruce and Don Finch reported 18 people on their Budawang car-swap over the weekend 29,30,31 May and John Redfern had 17 starters on his Tyan Pic - Pantony' |
- | came. Jim Percy reported 15 on a beautiful day out from Waterfall to Engadine, and Alan Mewitt | + | |
- | had 25 starters on his trip from Wondabyne. They encountered some unexpected obstacles, trip-cords, bent-sapling booby traps and the like in suspicious proximity to an encampment of Scouts, but otherwise the walk was O.K. | + | Over the Queen' |
- | Carol Bruce and Don Finch reported 18 people on their Budawang car-swap over the weekend 29,30,31 May and John Redfern had 17 starters on his Tyan Pic - Pantony' | + | |
- | into the farm house for coffee and cake on Saturday night. Gordon Lee's St.Helena Ridge trip | + | |
- | was cancelled due to the condition of the access road. Errol Sheedy had 37 people out on a | + | |
- | good day in Royal National Park on the other day walk that weekend. | + | |
- | Over the Queen' | + | |
- | his Ettrema Creek trip which was described as " | + | |
- | the showers, cooking dampers and getting bogged on the way out from his Yerranderie base camp. Carol Bruce led a party of 5 on some of the more " | + | |
There was a brief Federation Report and no Conservation Report. | There was a brief Federation Report and no Conservation Report. | ||
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The 60th Anniversary Committee once more urged us to buy, buy, buy. | The 60th Anniversary Committee once more urged us to buy, buy, buy. | ||
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General Business saw passage of a motion that we write to the Scouts Association protesting over the incidents on Alan Mewitt' | General Business saw passage of a motion that we write to the Scouts Association protesting over the incidents on Alan Mewitt' | ||
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John Redfern reported on the meeting held recently at Kangaroo Valley with the local Bush Fire authorities. There were various recommendations and the Committee will consider these. | John Redfern reported on the meeting held recently at Kangaroo Valley with the local Bush Fire authorities. There were various recommendations and the Committee will consider these. | ||
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Then it was just a matter of the announcements and it was all over again, at 2204. | Then it was just a matter of the announcements and it was all over again, at 2204. | ||
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- | WANTED | + | ---- |
- | 1987 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 13 | + | |
- | HOW I CAME TO JOIN THE SYDNEY BUSH WALKERS | + | ===Wanted.=== |
- | or NEARLY DIDN'T MAKE IL. | + | |
+ | Leaders for the Spring Walks Program - phone Alan Doherty 818-1138. | ||
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+ | |||
+ | =====How | ||
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+ | Or | ||
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+ | =====Nearly Didn't Make It.=== | ||
by Dot Butler. | by Dot Butler. | ||
- | I left school, a shy little teenager, determined to live up to my chosen motto MENS | + | |
- | SANS IN CORPORE SAND (A sound mind in a sound body). Week-ends saw me at Bondi, a member of Wal Balmus' | + | I left school, a shy little teenager, determined to live up to my chosen motto __Mens Sans In Corpore Sand__ |
- | proudly announced whenever we appeared pictured in the newspapers. We swam all through the | + | |
- | winter with the Ice-bergers and attended dances at the Bondi Surf Club, who numbered among their members three future Presidents of the S.B.W. (Wal Roots, Tom Herbert and Harold Chardon) - slthough | + | Studying to be a Physiotherapist at Sydney University I was introduced in the Anatomy dissecting room to the human body in full detail, and in Physiology classes learnt of its functioning. When learning Surface Anatomy we had a magnificently muscled man model clad only in a G-string who could twitch every muscle independently when tapped by the Professor' |
- | Studying to be a Physiotherapist at Sydney University I was introduced in the Anatomy dissecting room to the human body in full detail, and in Physiology classes learnt of its functioning. When learning Surface Anatomy we had a magnificently muscled man model clad only | + | |
- | in a G-string who could twitch every muscle independently when tapped by the Professor' | + | I also attended the School of Tropical Medicine which ran a course for people planning to work or live in the tropics - missionaries, |
- | wand. " | + | |
- | side of the thorax. " | + | Mike Sawtell' |
- | from the flat wall of abdomen. It was fascinating. | + | |
- | I also attended the School of Tropical Medicine which ran a course for people planning to work or live in the tropics - missionaries, | + | There were gentle Theosophists voicing their beliefs, and Anthroposophists, |
- | became friends. In the interests of getting over our shyness in public we joined Michael | + | |
- | Sawtell' | + | One week-end a small group of us young ones from the class went for a camping trip to a beautiful little deserted beach one of them had heard of - Era. There was only one other group in this remote spot. I was surprised, but excited, to see that they plunged into the sea naked and disported like nymphs and sea gods in the breakers. When they came out they wore only shorts and shirts. They looked like my kind. One of their boys came over and invited us to join them that night around their camp fire, and the die was cast that shaped the future whole of my life. They were members of the Sydney Bush Walkers Club, then in its 5th year of existence. The boy, Edgar Yardley, said I should join their club; they would be meeting next Friday night and he would introduce me. And this was done. I found in bushwalking the adventure I had known as a child, trailing barefoot through the bush with my brothers, feeling, smelling and dancing my way into the blood and bone of Australia. And so it has been for 57 magnificent years.... but.... and here we come to the second part of the title.... |
- | an eccentric who used to stalk majestically around the streets of the City clad, winter or summer, in nothing but a long white cotton robe and sandals, and (for the 1920' | + | |
- | Mike Sawtell' | + | ===Nearly Didn't Make It.=== |
- | beetling black eyebrows. He wrote out our horoscopes and predicted our futures according to | + | |
- | the stars. Half a century had to go by before Australia became really gripped by this occult | + | My mother was a practicing Psychologist. One day there came into her Macquarie Street rooms two distraught parents who couldn' |
- | Eastern belief. Great areas of our forests are now, cut down, pulped and turned into paper so | + | |
- | that the Press may print its daily inanities - its readers' | + | My mother asked would I do Cecil a favour by taking him down to Era, so next week-end down we went, Phillip and Cecil and I. The whole place was deserted. My boyfriend and I dropped our simple clothes and dashed into the surf, and no doubt Cecil in a wild turmoil |
- | There were gentle Theosophists voicing their beliefs, and Anthroposophists, | + | |
- | who urged daily colonic irrigation as the panacea for all health problems. All details concerning | + | Just then who should pass by but an " |
- | the elimination of gpisons' from the colon were given - no holds barred. All this rich melange | + | |
- | of knowledge was absorbed by the class without dispute. Little Miss English, who knew nothing | + | I knew nothing of this; my sponsor, Edgar Yardley, merely telling me at the time, " |
- | about it, was coerced into giving a discourse on " | + | |
- | One week-end a small group of us young ones from the class went for a camping trip to a | + | ---- |
- | beautiful little deserted beach one of them had heard of - Era. There was only one other group | + | |
- | in this remote spot. I was surprised, but excited, to see that they plunged into the sea naked | + | ====New Zealand - November, 1987.==== |
- | and disported like nymphs and sea gods in the breakers. When they came out they wore only shorts | + | |
- | and shirts. They looked like my kind. One of their boys came over and invited us to join them | + | I am at present researching a tramping trip for November, 1987, to Mount Aspiring National Park and Fjordland National Park. I am looking for good company of fit but not necessarily " |
- | that night around their camp fire, and the die was cast that shaped the future whole of my life. | + | |
- | They were members of the Sydney Bush WalkersClub, then in its 5th year of existence. The boy, | + | Would anybody interested please contact - Jim Oxley (phone) (W) 282 2670 (H) 807 2128. |
- | Edgar Yardley, said I should join their club; they would be meeting next Friday night and he | + | |
- | would introduce me. And this was done. I found in bushwalking the adventure I had known as a | + | ---- |
- | child, trailing barefoot through the bush with my brothers, feeling, smelling and dancing my way | + | |
- | into the blood and bone of Australia. And so it has been for 57 magnificent years but.... | + | ====Annual Subscriptions Now Overdue.==== |
- | and here we come to the second part of the title | + | |
- | NEARLY DIDN'T MAKE IT. | + | Anita Doherty. Hon. Treasurer. |
- | My mother was a practicing Psychologist. One day there came into her Macquarie Street rooms two distraught parents who couldn' | + | |
- | Page 14 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER July, 1987 | + | |
- | conscientious about his upbringing | + | |
- | with THAT again I'll cut it off with a carving knife!" | + | |
- | 22 and had never seen a naked human body. I had told my mother of our freedom from clothes | + | |
- | at Era (I remember one night when a sudden fierce downpour occurred - the boys threw off their clothes and rushed out naked into the storm to batten down the flapping abdulled tents, then | + | |
- | came in, dried themselves and got into their dry shorts again. Very sensible.) | + | |
- | My mother asked would I do Cecil a favour by taking him down to Era, so next week-end down we went, Phillip and Cecil and I. The whole place was deserted. My boyfriend and I | + | |
- | dropped our simple clothes and dashed into the surf, and no doubt Cecil in a Wild turmil | + | |
- | the same - we didn't turn to look back. So there we were jumping up and down and shooting | + | |
- | the breakers and having a mighty time, when all at once we became aware that the shore was | + | |
- | getting a long way off - we were caught in an undertow! Frantic swimming back and we reached | + | |
- | a sand bar. Here we three joined hands and (with yells and screams of relief you can be sure) | + | |
- | dragged each other to the beach. | + | |
- | Just then who should pass by but an " | + | |
- | recently elected member was behaving herself in an unseemly fashion on the beach and demanded | + | |
- | that she be dismissed from the Club. A letter was forthwith sent to the culprit, its import | + | |
- | being ' | + | |
- | English, and from poor little Cecil (whom, incidentally, | + | |
- | that the Club's action didn't reinforce his complex). | + | |
- | I knew nothing of this; my sponsor, Edgar Yardley, merely telling me at the time, " | + | |
- | took no notice, and it wasn't until I was looking through the early Minutes to get information required for the writing up of the First Decade of the Sydney Bush Walkers that I read the full story with amazement and disbelief. How times have changed (for the better) over the | + | |
- | past 60 years! | + | |
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- | NEW ZEALAND | + | |
- | I am at present researching a tramping trip for November, 1987, to Mount Aspiring National | + | |
- | Park and Fjordland National Park. I am looking for good company of fit but not necessarily | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | leadership will be open and/or democratic. | + | |
- | Would anybody interested please contact - JIM OXLEY (phone) (W) 282 2670 | + | |
- | (H) 807 2128 | + | |
- | ******** | + | |
- | ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS | + | |
The 1987 subscriptions were due as from the March Annual General Meeting - many are still outstanding. Are you one of the guilty parties? | The 1987 subscriptions were due as from the March Annual General Meeting - many are still outstanding. Are you one of the guilty parties? | ||
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PLease check if you have paid - if not, complete the form in the March, April or May magazine, attach your cheque and mail it to G.P.O. Box 4476, Sydney, 2001. If you have any doubts don't hesitate to contact me on 818-1138. | PLease check if you have paid - if not, complete the form in the March, April or May magazine, attach your cheque and mail it to G.P.O. Box 4476, Sydney, 2001. If you have any doubts don't hesitate to contact me on 818-1138. | ||
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The Committee would hate to have to get tough with unfinancial members, so do your bit to keep us in the black. See you out on the track. | The Committee would hate to have to get tough with unfinancial members, so do your bit to keep us in the black. See you out on the track. | ||
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