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- | |Warragambe-Wollindilly Wanderings|" | + | |Warragamba-Wollindilly Wanderings|" |
|Evolution of a Bush Walker|" | |Evolution of a Bush Walker|" | ||
- | |Bushwalker' | + | |Bushwalker' |
|Saving Lives or Saving Flowers|" | |Saving Lives or Saving Flowers|" | ||
|Hot News!!|" | |Hot News!!|" | ||
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|It's Goodman' | |It's Goodman' | ||
- | =====Warragambe-Wollondilly Week-End Wanderings - Part 1.===== | + | =====Warragamba-Wollondilly Week-End Wanderings - Part 1.===== |
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Seeking out Ron and telling him all, I soon have him dazzled by dreams of lazy affluence (an attractive vision, to a Public Servant!) It is easy to list the articles we can jettison from our packs to make room for the treasure, and we do a slight moan that Paddy packs were built for only about 70-80 lbs., wondering meanwhile if our backs will take the strain, even at umpteen pounds an ounce. Gold - and all we have to do is find those bars, and sit on our haunches, panning. | Seeking out Ron and telling him all, I soon have him dazzled by dreams of lazy affluence (an attractive vision, to a Public Servant!) It is easy to list the articles we can jettison from our packs to make room for the treasure, and we do a slight moan that Paddy packs were built for only about 70-80 lbs., wondering meanwhile if our backs will take the strain, even at umpteen pounds an ounce. Gold - and all we have to do is find those bars, and sit on our haunches, panning. | ||
- | We decide to risk letting others in on the secret, wherefore we invite Mavis and Betty to accompany us. " | + | We decide to risk letting others in on the secret, wherefore we invite Mavis and Betty to accompany us. " |
The scene it set, and we are about to depart for our present-day Aladdin' | The scene it set, and we are about to depart for our present-day Aladdin' | ||
- | ====Part I. - Some Bait Is Lousy - Really Lousey.==== | + | ====Part I. - Some Bait Is Lousey |
As with all zero days, this particular Friday dawns fine and clear; and so does it remain until a ring from Betty, saying that she cannot come because she has to work on Saturday morning, Then a later ring to say her charms have clicked, so that she is not working after all, and will meet us at Penrith by a later train. We other three board the scheduled loco, bemoaning our fate at having to wait at Penrith, in lieu of moving immediately towards our golden glory. However, just after leaving Blacktown, a huge rucsac comes wandering down the corridor, and who should be struggling behind it but the self-same Betty! On leaving work, she has rushed home to Cremorne and back to Central in 45 minutes (no, not walking all the way) to catch the train, but not knowing we are on it, has remained (and recovered) in another carriage. Being a true Bushwalker, her time has not been wasted, for she has shelled the peas, assisted by a volunteering stranger who fell for the age-old gag. | As with all zero days, this particular Friday dawns fine and clear; and so does it remain until a ring from Betty, saying that she cannot come because she has to work on Saturday morning, Then a later ring to say her charms have clicked, so that she is not working after all, and will meet us at Penrith by a later train. We other three board the scheduled loco, bemoaning our fate at having to wait at Penrith, in lieu of moving immediately towards our golden glory. However, just after leaving Blacktown, a huge rucsac comes wandering down the corridor, and who should be struggling behind it but the self-same Betty! On leaving work, she has rushed home to Cremorne and back to Central in 45 minutes (no, not walking all the way) to catch the train, but not knowing we are on it, has remained (and recovered) in another carriage. Being a true Bushwalker, her time has not been wasted, for she has shelled the peas, assisted by a volunteering stranger who fell for the age-old gag. | ||
- | The bus roars out of Penrith with the whole quartet aboard. At Wallacia, we are prevailed upon to partake of a meal, just to be sociable with the metber | + | The bus roars out of Penrith with the whole quartet aboard. At Wallacia, we are prevailed upon to partake of a meal, just to be sociable with the member |
Midnight finds us entering Silverdale, an attractive little hamlet, in scattered seclusion on a ridge-top bathed in moonlight. The plan is to take the track which leads down to he junction of Monkey Ck. and the Warragamba, another three miles, but to find the track from the village seems a problem. Our hopes rise when down the road we hear voices, raised in song, albeit unmelodious. We stop the party and then step back - we require respite from the barrage of liquor fumes surrounding them! Our questioning is met with drunken laughter "What! Go down to Monkey Creek? Tonight? You can't do that, even in daylight. There just isn't any track!" | Midnight finds us entering Silverdale, an attractive little hamlet, in scattered seclusion on a ridge-top bathed in moonlight. The plan is to take the track which leads down to he junction of Monkey Ck. and the Warragamba, another three miles, but to find the track from the village seems a problem. Our hopes rise when down the road we hear voices, raised in song, albeit unmelodious. We stop the party and then step back - we require respite from the barrage of liquor fumes surrounding them! Our questioning is met with drunken laughter "What! Go down to Monkey Creek? Tonight? You can't do that, even in daylight. There just isn't any track!" | ||
- | This we do forthwith, our ardour for the gold untramelled by their assuranced | + | This we do forthwith, our ardour for the gold untramelled by their assurances |
Next morning, we have a lazy awakening, followed by a late start - why should prospective millionaires waste energy on an early getaway. Down at the Junction, we find the camp site as bad as its reputation, but as this is to be our fixed camp for the weekend we endeavour to make ourselves comfortable. The river is very low, and very muddy, but being full of the latest issue of the mag. with its article on how to catch perch without effort, we immediately set the line. Thereafter, every hour, we replace the ever missing bait. We begin to wonder whether we read the article aright; were the fish to feed us, or were we to feed the fish? Eventual conclusion is that this bait is as futile as last night' | Next morning, we have a lazy awakening, followed by a late start - why should prospective millionaires waste energy on an early getaway. Down at the Junction, we find the camp site as bad as its reputation, but as this is to be our fixed camp for the weekend we endeavour to make ourselves comfortable. The river is very low, and very muddy, but being full of the latest issue of the mag. with its article on how to catch perch without effort, we immediately set the line. Thereafter, every hour, we replace the ever missing bait. We begin to wonder whether we read the article aright; were the fish to feed us, or were we to feed the fish? Eventual conclusion is that this bait is as futile as last night' | ||
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====River Canoe Club - Topographical Section.==== | ====River Canoe Club - Topographical Section.==== | ||
- | Mr. Ted Caines Phillips, 39 Silver Street, St. Peters, convenor of the above section, advises that the following map is now on dislay | + | Mr. Ted Caines Phillips, 39 Silver Street, St. Peters, convenor of the above section, advises that the following map is now on display |
Patonga Creek (Lower Hawkesbury River). | Patonga Creek (Lower Hawkesbury River). | ||
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====1. Sunday Hiker:==== | ====1. Sunday Hiker:==== | ||
- | His luv' for the bus hwith a woman under one arm, a bottle of fizz(?) in the other, two Sunday papers characteristically scattered as though a paper chase were the order of the day - and, note, rarely more than 1/2 mile from the nearest railway station. | + | His luv' for the bush with a woman under one arm, a bottle of fizz(?) in the other, two Sunday papers characteristically scattered as though a paper chase were the order of the day - and, note, rarely more than 1/2 mile from the nearest railway station. |
====2. Bushwalker: | ====2. Bushwalker: | ||
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Not being the artist of the cartoon aside, I am privileged to say it is inadequate. No sketch can portray the madness of the game! The climber surveys the rock face for suitable finger holds and after becoming entangled in rope a various stages, sometimes reaches the top. " | Not being the artist of the cartoon aside, I am privileged to say it is inadequate. No sketch can portray the madness of the game! The climber surveys the rock face for suitable finger holds and after becoming entangled in rope a various stages, sometimes reaches the top. " | ||
- | ====4. | + | ====4. |
Imagine being encased in 16 suits of clothing, attaching steel spikes 10" long to your boots, and then enjoying the scenerY at 20, | Imagine being encased in 16 suits of clothing, attaching steel spikes 10" long to your boots, and then enjoying the scenerY at 20, | ||
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When you read in the daily papers of the millions of people in the world who are slowly dying through lack of food, have you ever wondered whether we ought to turn from our work of preserving the bush to the work of preserving men? | When you read in the daily papers of the millions of people in the world who are slowly dying through lack of food, have you ever wondered whether we ought to turn from our work of preserving the bush to the work of preserving men? | ||
- | Probably many humantitarians | + | Probably many humanitarians |
- | And yet, is any life, even that of trees and flowers, to be despised? Albert Schweitzer, one of the greatest living humanitarians, | + | And yet, is any life, even that of trees and flowers, to be despised? Albert Schweitzer, one of the greatest living humanitarians, |
- | There is a rather lovely myth current in eastern Asia which illustrates the same idea that even the life of the vegetable kingdom is to be held sacred. It turns around the Bodhisattvas, | + | There is a rather lovely myth current in eastern Asia which illustrates the same idea that even the life of the vegetable kingdom is to be held sacred. It turns around the Bodhisattvas, |
Our work of conserving the bush may be a lesser work than of those who are working to save people death by starvation. But it is not work to be despised, and, if we do the work that lies nearest us, we have done what we can to help rebuild the world after the most terribly destructive of all wars. | Our work of conserving the bush may be a lesser work than of those who are working to save people death by starvation. But it is not work to be despised, and, if we do the work that lies nearest us, we have done what we can to help rebuild the world after the most terribly destructive of all wars. | ||
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====Scene on Central: | ====Scene on Central: | ||
- | Mavis Jeanes, fresh from brides-maiding her sister, Betty, haunted the ticket windows in the late hours, with prospective, | + | Mavis Jeanes, fresh from brides-maiding her sister, Betty, haunted the ticket windows in the late hours, with prospective, |
====Barrington News:==== | ====Barrington News:==== | ||
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====Yarrangobilly-Brindabella Trip:==== | ====Yarrangobilly-Brindabella Trip:==== | ||
- | Both porters and drivers on Central co-operated in delaying departure for 1 1/2 hrs. to ensure that all of Ray Kirkby' | + | Both porters and drivers on Central co-operated in delaying departure for 1 1/2 hrs. to ensure that all of Ray Kirkby' |
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He heard me and froze in his tracks, waiting for what might befall. I stooped and armed with my leather gloves tried to pick him up but no limpet on its rock clung more firmly than he to Mother Earth. In fact, he not only clung but appeared to be submerging in the soil. | He heard me and froze in his tracks, waiting for what might befall. I stooped and armed with my leather gloves tried to pick him up but no limpet on its rock clung more firmly than he to Mother Earth. In fact, he not only clung but appeared to be submerging in the soil. | ||
- | I pulled and heaved and managed to get a good look at his moist earth-sprinkled nose - or rather bill, flat and broad like that of a platypus - and at the claws, wide and horny capable, they tell us, of scraping their way through concrete, given a crack to start on. With these he dug so firmly into the earth that not all my efforts could dislodge him. My gloves, thick though they were, were not proof ragainst | + | I pulled and heaved and managed to get a good look at his moist earth-sprinkled nose - or rather bill, flat and broad like that of a platypus - and at the claws, wide and horny capable, they tell us, of scraping their way through concrete, given a crack to start on. With these he dug so firmly into the earth that not all my efforts could dislodge him. My gloves, thick though they were, were not proof against |
A long time we waited in silence, I not moving a muscle and hardly daring to breathe. I wanted to see him in action, and feared that if I startled him he would burrow into the earth and vanish right under my nose. | A long time we waited in silence, I not moving a muscle and hardly daring to breathe. I wanted to see him in action, and feared that if I startled him he would burrow into the earth and vanish right under my nose. | ||
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- | 10, | + | =====Easter Again.===== |
- | EASTER AGAIN | + | |
By Ray Kirkby. | By Ray Kirkby. | ||
- | Easter and Tumut? Wrong', there were twenty mutts. But no, they were not mutts for at Tumut there-had been no rain and there was no rain - just lovely sunny days. It is not possibleete) | + | |
- | At Tumut, Joyce Marchant' | + | Easter and Tumut? Wrong, there were twenty mutts. But no, they were not mutts for at Tumut there had been no rain and there was no rain - just lovely sunny days. It is not possible to say that our train was late leaving Central |
- | Our lorry haulted | + | |
- | 4 | + | At Tumut, Joyce Marchant' |
- | Our Ex Air Force driver from Brindabella drove up' | + | |
+ | Our lorry halted | ||
+ | |||
+ | Our Ex Air Force driver from Brindabella drove up the steep hair pin bends with such abandon that he had to be restrained. If he had insured us as our first driver had done we should not have minded. For who would not die gladly, clutching a third party risk policy in his hand? | ||
- | . | + | =====Limelight On Everest.===== |
- | . . , LIMELLIET ON E' | + | |
- | The year's scoop is presented to you per medium of the Bushwalkerr- | + | The year's scoop is presented to you per medium of the Bushwalker: |
- | Eric Shipton, English mountaineer | + | |
- | . . _ . | + | Eric Shipton, English mountaineer |
- | , | + | |
- | eXperienee | + | Mount Everest |
- | , Mount Eleerest | + | |
- | They gave? for example, details of the climbing to be expected on the final hbiglls. Across the face of 'Everest, roughly a thousand feet below the summit, | + | They gave, for example, details of the climbing to be expected on the final heights. Across the face of Everest, roughly a thousand feet below the summit, |
- | In 1924, two climbers mere abit to b1tch the First 'Step, but were drivem | + | |
- | 11. | + | In 1924, two climbers mere able to breach |
- | mountain mists closed about them, and of their subsequent fate nothing is known. | + | |
- | This upper band of limestone | + | This upper band of limestone |
- | or two calm 'days in ti'le-year which may or may not come; waited whilst snow | + | |
- | obscured the rocks, hoping that it would not be there on the one or two deTL when the blizzards might sleep - they have suffered hardship only to be | + | Nine years later, in 1933, the Third Attempt was launched, yet it achieved no more than the 1924 climbers, except to add to the knowledge of what not to do about that band of limestone. The second assault party of this expedition comprised Frank Smythe, conqueror of Kamet, with Eric Shipton as his climbing partner. Shipton |
- | driven back again and again by those few feet of rock, the Second Step. | + | |
- | Nine years later, in 1933, the Third Attempt was launched, yet it achieved no more than the 1924 climbers, except to ado to the knowledge of what not to do about that band of limestone. The second assault party of | + | Prior to this, Shipton was a farmer in Kenya; just a plain bloke like you or me, who could see Mt. Kenya from the farm on which he worked. Because he had done some climbing |
- | this expedition comprised Frank Smythe, conqueror of Kamet, with Eric | + | |
- | Shipton as his climbing partner. Shipton | + | To return to farming after this was loathsome; Shipton had come to love the mountains, and he determined to live amongst them. He conceived the idea of running small, lightweight parties to unmapped parts of the Himalayas. The 1933 Everest show had cost £10,000 and contained 16 climbing personnel. Too costly and too cumbersome was Shipton' |
- | Prior to this, Shipton was a farmer in Kenya; just a plain bloke like | + | |
- | you or me, who could see Mt. Kenya from the farm on which he worked. Because he had done some climbing | + | That Shipton' |
- | or the Warrumbungles. Frank Smythe heard of his climbing | + | |
- | To return to farming after this was loathsome; Shipton had come to | + | The mountain was next in the news in 1935. Shipton was back, with a party comprising six climbers and a surveyor. Their object was reconnaissance: |
- | love the mountains, and he determined to live amongst them. He conceived the idea of running small, lightweight parties,to unmapped parts of the | + | |
- | Himalayas. The 1933 Everest show had cost 110,000 and contained 16 climbing | + | In 1938, the Fifth Attempt was carried out, with Tilman as leader and Shipton as a climber. This expedition was the first really light-weight |
- | personnel. Too costly and toa cumbersome was Shiptonls | + | |
- | 64monthts | + | War interrupted Shipton' |
- | That Shiptonls | + | |
- | The mountain was next in the news. in 1935. Shipton was beck, with a | + | ---- |
- | party comprising six climbers and a surveyor. Their object was reconnaissance: | + | |
- | way for another attempt in 1936. 'This, the fourth assault expedition, was placed under the 1933 leader, Hugh Ru-diedge. Ruttlodge | + | ====Wedding Bells:==== |
- | yet, in the face of the lattor1s | + | |
- | 16 in 133. Heavy snows on the mountain drove them back without even attempting | + | Those who have wondered at the absence of Betty Jeanes now have their answer in the fact that, on Thursday, 18th April, she became Mrs. Hilary Mannes. We extend |
- | In 1938, the Fifth Attempt was carried out, with Tilman as leader and Shipton as a climber. This expedition was the first really light-weight | + | |
- | 12. | + | |
- | Assault, with only seven in the climbing party. Once more they pit their strengths against the rock and ice; once more they retreated below the Second Step. | + | |
- | War interrupted Shipton' | + | |
- | WEDDING BELLS: Those who have wondered at the absence of Betty Jeanes now have their answer in the fact that, on Thursday, 18th April, | + | |
- | she became Mrs. Hilary Mannes. We extond | + | |
- | Statistics show that the number of McGregors in the club has doubled, whilst the Isaacs have been halved. This change in the status quo occurred on Saturday Anril 13th, when Elsa Isaacs became Mrs. Malcom McG. Congrats to Malcom, and felicitations to the now member of the clan. | + | |
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+ | Statistics show that the number of McGregors in the club has doubled, whilst the Isaacs have been halved. This change in the status quo occurred on Saturday April 13th, when Elsa Isaacs became Mrs. Malcom McG. Congrats to Malcom, and felicitations to the new member of the clan. |
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