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+ | =====Coolong.===== | ||
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+ | By Edna Stretton. | ||
- | COOLONG. | ||
- | By Edna Stretton. We waited! | ||
- | Dunc stirred the simmering stew. Her cooking was always delectable but today not one of the three walkers sitting around the ,camp fire felt tempted. Five hours had passed since we had farewelled Reggie who, with food tied in a bundle, had set out, Eick Whittington fashion, for Yerranderie. The first hour had passed quickly. We had tried to be cheerful) tallcing over the events of the earlier part of the trip - the Endrick, Shoalhaven, Bungonia, Joadja, Wollon7 dilly. Joan tried to make us see the humour in the washout causod by a cloud burst on our first day out But the voices became gradually softer. We stared at the fire. Nobody had even bothered' | ||
We waited! | We waited! | ||
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- | We listened!. We stood: We prayed! One, two, yes, three forms rounded the boric on the creek. Few words were spoken. There were no introductions.' | ||
- | seemed to care. The two strangers .knew the caves well. Yes, Reggie had contacted the right mon. Ac accompanied one, aiming to *search from the foot of the mountain while Ebris wont with tho -other, to bogin their search from higher ground. | ||
- | We .waitedl | ||
- | That morning wo had made camp on Lanniganls Creek. We were all excited, Aftor tents were hurriedly pitched, we scampered off to explore the caves. The old tree stump, with yards of string attached, at the entrance bore evidence of | ||
- | , many such excursions. This should have been sufficient warning for us to 4-ake precautions. But we ignored it and saw no danger in or adventure. Besides, Mary | ||
- | had been in the caves before; and didn't we have matches, a candle and two. torches? Surely string was not necessary: | ||
- | It was indoed thrilling! The cave was large and soft underfoot and or did not have to be a student of geology to admire the delioate formation of the limestone-thrown into relief by the steady flare of the candle. This was better than Jenolan: We were our own guides: . We supplied our own lighting! We clasped | ||
- | hands and walked further into the mountain. By the time we reached King's Cross, | ||
- | a grand column in the centre of the cave, marking the branching of tho main tunnel, we thought it time to turn back. The maze of fresh tunnels bewildered us. Dare | ||
- | we go into one of them? Remember, we had no, string: But what was that Mary was | ||
- | saying? | ||
- | lope's Bower: | ||
- | the right. We followed our guide, but Penelope Is Bower that day was never more | ||
- | 4. | ||
- | elusive. We should return! The candle had burnt to a small stump, the matches were almost spent, an d our torch was useless. Hang Penelope Bower! We must go | ||
- | backi We halted, extinguished the candle and held a consultation in the &alt. Bats flew ower our heads indignant that their home should be invaded. But Penelope' | ||
- | That had happened seven hours ago.. Reggio had been to Yerrandorio and back since than and-now that help had come, our anxiety was loss great:. | ||
- | Wo wnitod! | ||
- | We li St On0 d We St 0 0 d I We prayed! One, two, throe, four, yes, five people | ||
- | camo into view. Mary had boon found l She was out We hugged hot, sat her down before the firo while Dune piled her plate with food. We asked her a few questions and learnt of her oxperionees only through her voluntary convorsation. Did she think she would be found? Yes, Mary had realised what Reggio won ld do. What had she done in there? Too afraid to novo sho had sat in the one spot and used the remainder of the candle and matches' | ||
- | The two strangers had returned to Yorranderie, | ||
- | SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY- ISSTJE. | + | Dunc stirred the simmering stew. Her cooking was always delectable but today not one of the three walkers sitting around the camp fire felt tempted. Five hours had passed since we had farewelled Reggie who, with food tied in a bundle, had set out, Dick Whittington fashion, for Yerranderie. The first hour had passed quickly. We had tried to be cheerful, talking over the events of the earlier part of the trip - the Endrick, Shoalhaven, Bungonia, Joadja, Wollondilly. Joan tried to make us see the humour in the washout caused by a cloud burst on our first day out. But the voices became gradually softer. We stared at the fire. Nobody had even bothered to ask Diane the recipe of her latest dish, and that was the usual thing when we saw her in her favourite position, bending over the fire. Joys of the trip and good things to eat were only secondary considerations now, for at that very moment Mary was alone in the darkness, thinking goodness knows what thoughts, alone, cold and miserable, in the innermost recesses of that mountain - alone in Mt. Coolong! |
- | Next month (October) there will be a:special:Anniversary issue of the Magazine. Old m3mbers | + | |
- | with the Editor | + | We waited! |
- | Arthur Gilroy advises that ho vri 1.* I be loading | + | |
- | to Wentworth Falls on 10-11-12th | + | Reggie was a good walker - one of the best. Eight miles from here to Yerranderie! Eight miles back! Three miles an hour! He should be back any moment now. Would he return alone? He mustn' |
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+ | We listened! We stood! We prayed! One, two, yes, three forms rounded the bend on the creek. Few words were spoken. There were no introductions. Nobody seemed to care. The two strangers knew the caves well. Yes, Reggie had contacted the right man. He accompanied one, aiming to search from the foot of the mountain while Doris went with the other, to begin their search from higher ground. | ||
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+ | We waited! | ||
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+ | That morning we had made camp on Lannigan' | ||
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+ | It was indeed thrilling! The cave was large and soft underfoot and one did not have to be a student of geology to admire the delicate formation of the limestone thrown into relief by the steady flare of the candle. This was better than Jenolan! We were our own guides! We supplied our own lighting! We clasped hands and walked further into the mountain. By the time we reached King's Cross, a grand column in the centre of the cave, marking the branching of the main tunnel, we thought it time to turn back. The maze of fresh tunnels bewildered us. Dare we go into one of them? Remember, we had no string! But what was that Mary was saying? Penelope' | ||
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+ | That had happened seven hours ago. Reggie had been to Yerranderie and back since then and now that help had come, our anxiety was loss great. | ||
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+ | We waited! | ||
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+ | We listened! We Stood! We prayed! One, two, three, four, yes, five people came into view. Mary had been found! She was out! We hugged her, sat her down before the fire while Dunc piled her plate with food. We asked her a few questions and learnt of her experiences only through her voluntary conversation. Did she think she would be found? Yes, Mary had realised what Reggie would do. What had she done in there? Too afraid to move she had sat in the one spot and used the remainder of the candle and matches when the intense cold became unbearable. She had even tried to light a fire by rubbing, aboriginal fashion, her straw hat over her hobnails. But this was not successful. She sang, exhausting her entire repertoire and then settled down to wait, wait, wait. Then help came! She was all right now. | ||
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+ | The two strangers had returned to Yerranderie, | ||
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+ | ====Special Anniversary Issue.==== | ||
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+ | Next month (October) there will be a special Anniversary issue of the Magazine. Old members | ||
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+ | Arthur Gilroy advises that he will be leading | ||
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+ | =====The Bank Holiday Scandal.===== | ||
- | THE BANK HOLIDAY SCANDAL 5. | ||
By Jim Brown | By Jim Brown | ||
- | Come to thini,; | + | |
- | group to whom Bank Holiday | + | Come to think of it, I suppose its a racket if you're of the leisured group to whom Bank Holiday is in fact a holiday: from which it follows that if you got Bank Holiday you' |
- | There. was of 3oi..lrao, 1).: | + | |
- | which charactoriseo | + | There was, of course, a PWF behind |
- | At all events during the ensuing weeks I approached quite a number of possible. comors | + | |
- | It had boon arranged that I should out ahead on Saturday morning | + | At all events during the ensuing weeks I approached quite a number of possible |
- | establish camp at the top o'f Page 1 s Pass, also try to find the Pass, which was reported to be somewhat elusive. So I went west by No.93 the 8.40 a.m. Lithgow train to you, 6.1i, | + | |
- | For the information of those who follow, I should note the following. Road not as shown now military highway, cleaves through hills instead of around contours, often follows the original | + | It had boon arranged that I should |
- | Reaching the point about 2.30, 1 reconnoitred the Pass immediately: | + | |
- | Three cooking fires had just been kindled when the racketeers arrived | + | For the information of those who follow, I should note the following. Road not as shown - now military highway, cleaves through hills instead of around contours, often follows the original |
- | unexpoc.., | + | |
- | but the tourist car was past. Fortunately | + | Reaching the point about 2.30, I reconnoitred the Pass immediately: |
- | - As a party we were incredibly good at getting established (i found later not so hot at getting moving). I led a bucket brigade to the spring before light faded, tents blossomed around the caravan, and in wonderful | + | |
- | The evening was incredibly | + | Three cooking fires had just been kindled when the racketeers arrived |
- | With recollections of a 5.50 reveille and breakfast by moonlight and a westerly gale the previous, Bank Holiday week-end (supervised by First Light Bransdon) it seemed almost luxury to de-tent at 7.0, and Norma Barden emerged much later gloating "I can get up an hour after Kath and still be to ady to move off at the same time". I wondered if Miss Barden' | + | |
- | Leaving packs we' | + | As a party we were incredibly good at getting established (I found later not so hot at getting moving). I led a bucket brigade to the spring before light faded, tents blossomed around the caravan, and in wonderful |
+ | |||
+ | The evening was incredibly | ||
+ | |||
+ | With recollections of a 5.30 reveille and breakfast by moonlight and a westerly gale the previous Bank Holiday week-end (supervised by First Light Bransdon) it seemed almost luxury to de-tent at 7.0, and Norma Barden emerged much later gloating "I can get up an hour after Kath and still be ready to move off at the same time". I wondered if Miss Barden' | ||
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+ | Leaving packs we paid our respects to Mt. King George, finding beautiful camping spots just below the crest of the mountain where no one is likely to want to camp anyway, returned to the caravan and made the descent of Page's Pass to lunch on the Grose. | ||
Page's is quite a good Pass: two landslides are fairly easily outflanked, and if the trail should be mislaid in one of its less defined spots, the ridge it follows below the cliff face is easily negotiable. Someone has made an experimental coal mining shaft a short distance below the walls, close to the first of the slides. | Page's is quite a good Pass: two landslides are fairly easily outflanked, and if the trail should be mislaid in one of its less defined spots, the ridge it follows below the cliff face is easily negotiable. Someone has made an experimental coal mining shaft a short distance below the walls, close to the first of the slides. | ||
- | Lunch contained one small discernible racket. The food list said ham: instead we had corned beef and sausage. I could almost forgive this in the beauty of the afternoon walk down the Grose, with superb tawny cliffs to make one marvel that there could be any way down at all, and the sun putting a blue glitter on the gum loaf, and tinting the casuarinas a anoky olive-brown. It was remarkable, however, how Blue Gum Forest continued to turn on a " | + | |
- | Night in Blue Gum with the fires painting the tall pale masts of the forest is ever dreamlike and sublime, and the PWF used it to good advantage (having adequately fed the brute in accordance with food list). Do we go out via Lockley' | + | Lunch contained one small discernible racket. The food list said ham: instead we had corned beef and sausage. I could almost forgive this in the beauty of the afternoon walk down the Grose, with superb tawny cliffs to make one marvel that there could be any way down at all, and the sun putting a blue glitter on the gum leaf, and tinting the casuarinas a smoky olive-brown. It was remarkable, however, how Blue Gum Forest continued to turn on a " |
- | 7'. | + | |
- | the old woman, we' | + | Night in Blue Gum with the fires painting the tall pale masts of the forest is ever dreamlike and sublime, and the PWF used it to good advantage (having adequately fed the brute in accordance with food list). Do we go out via Lockley' |
- | The highlight of Monday morning was Norma Barden' | + | |
- | At least, if Cheated | + | The highlight of Monday morning was Norma Barden' |
- | Bo it admitted they had the propriety to join 11.s in the last stagger into Blackheath, where we carried out one of those quito irreconcilable operations which only bushwalkors | + | |
- | ' | + | At least, if cheated |
- | For my part, I was still fooling | + | |
+ | Be it admitted they had the propriety to join us in the last stagger into Blackheath, where we carried out one of those quite irreconcilable operations which only bushwalkers | ||
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+ | We sang the old familiar walking songs in the train, and presently subsided into slumbrous positions. Arrived in Central we paused before going our various way to voice a word of thanks for a wonderful weekend to the PWF loader. She, of course, smilingly disclaimed any credit with disarming modesty, so that we all became ridiculously profuse in our protestations, | ||
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+ | For my part, I was still feeling | ||
Oh, well, it was just one more racket. | Oh, well, it was just one more racket. | ||
- | GLOSSARY. | + | |
+ | __Glossary.__ | ||
PWF - Poor weak female. | PWF - Poor weak female. | ||
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(Authority - R. Braithwaite.) | (Authority - R. Braithwaite.) | ||
- | SNOWY RIVER SCREENING. | ||
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- | "LOST HIKER" . | ||
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- | It scorns that nearly ovary, time the PrOs...- reports " | ||
- | Because the Press strives for sensationalism at all costs, perhaps- YOU like to hoar 'from the horse 's mouth" about the Cade of-the Missing. 51kor., | ||
- | Three 'of .us from the .Sydney .University Bush- Walkors. decided to Spend-' | ||
- | down Miry ' Ridge, along the Koulaung,i .up Church Creek, and so to l' | ||
- | Early. Saturday =mini; saw us. taking to the road through the heavy' mou-ntain frost and climbingoto thoo.Tops themselvos, inspooting: the: glorious vi.Sta to tho north, ea,st arid south. Then -we tUrnod due south,, making .for the top of.: | ||
- | Misery Ridge thr,op:gb the scrub, Using map and compass fe struck 'what was | ||
- | apparently the blazed trail. (marked on the map) from the road to MiSerf, so:, after | ||
- | a cheerful smoke-oh, fannod out some hundred yard S apart to pick-up. . | ||
- | blazoe ..Tho scrub was ,thick, and it was all too easy to lose, sight of each ' othor - which Ls lust what happened. At this point, had fo reseen what | ||
- | happen,' | ||
- | course of action did not occur to me, unfortUnately for the searchers that,were to come, and after cooce-ing into the raging' | ||
- | prickly scrub, and precipitous rocky cliffs necessitating a bit of contour crawling. | ||
- | Somewhere at this stage I must have dropped, my map, which had been stuck in my | ||
- | bz.dt.to facilitate the constant roferonces to it. Useless, of course, to look for it. After three hours of sliding end .scrimbling came the sublime fooling we all know of seeing the beautiful Kowmung just below. What, still no Ian and Harold? | ||
- | Actually I struck the Kowmun.g just where Mathesonts Creek joins it; I must have loft Misery Ridge spmewhoro on the way down if I was over on it. It was | ||
- | 5.30,' -and I. expootod the othor two any time. I lit a rob.ring fire on the green | ||
- | bank, left a .noto under .a stone ' | ||
- | 9. | ||
- | And so a whole day of slow progress along tho banks of the Kowmung. It | ||
- | was fairly rough going, with much rock-hopping and an apparomtly infinite number of crossings. Thoro is no sort of track for the first fow miles oast of Misory Ridge, and thoso nottlos: What a calamity, on ono of the crossings (many of which wore waist-doop for me) when I lost my footing and " | ||
- | Moro is one fascinating place, which I imagine to be Rudder' | ||
- | On the lighter side, when I stopped at about midday that day I was getting cold, so docidod to dry out my wet shorts by the fire. They wore hangly limply on a log, when along came one of those mighty blasts of wind which so characterlood the Kowmung that weekend, and my shorts wore in the fire. Had anyone soon no dressed in thom during the next two days (Which thoy didn' | ||
- | In between singing all the songs I know to myself, wondering about my two mates, and onthusing over wallabies and rabbits, I would study my marital picture of the map, trying to viSualise how much of the Kowmung I had still to cover. The mental image lot me down badly, for .I campod that night at the antranco of a crook which I took to be either Lannigan' | ||
- | Morning camo, clear and cold. It was a gamble, but I thought I'd go up the crook. Another little note telling Ian and Harold my plans. It was tho sixth and last of the series of notes scribbled on cigarette packets and paper bags, which together with my many arrows must have amused the search parties which followed two days later. What a dreadful crook I chose to climb: I chased half a dozen cattle up the first few hundred foot, until it became too stoop for them and the dumb creatures lot me pass. For a long time it moant scrambling on all fours, clutching at tufts of grass and bushes - ask the unfortunate search party who | ||
- | followed it upl It was obvious that I had gambled on the wrong crook. At last | ||
- | came the very tap, and the rather frightoning vista of mile upon mile of rolling | ||
- | hills and valleys stretching to the south and east with never a sign of civilisation. Then I recognised Mount Oolong, and decided to make for it though I did not like the look of what lay in between. | ||
- | Rather depressed, I plunged down into the next gorgo - Waterfall Crook - and ate some sultanas at the bottom. Strange how one loses one's appetite when forced to live on uninteresting food like broad, bacon, and sultanas for throe days. At the top of the next ridge, I thought I was having hallucinations, | ||
- | track seemed to be running the east, | ||
- | 10. | ||
- | Singing blithely, and thinking " | ||
- | , Lannigan Is .Creek I would have boon in Yerranderie that afternoon. As it was, I was dotorminod to roach some form of scivilisation, | ||
- | Sovoral hours after dark, the gleam of an iron roof was a welcome eight. | ||
- | 11 charged down the hill, to the music of barking dogs, and found Io my annoyance that the occupants wore -.may for the night. Having lot mysolf in, I rang at thoir tolophono to no avail, the exchange being closed,. So,. too tired ovon to | ||
- | oat, I foil asleep on a bed on the verandah. At dawn, I triod tho 'phone again, and decided to walk on. I dismissed the idea of fol1owin7 the telephone line into Yorrandorio, | ||
- | Have, a cup of tea". | ||
- | Tho throe days, | ||
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- | The whole " | ||
- | Notoriety, it scorns, is easy to aoliiovo. | ||
- | "JACK AND JILL GO UP THE HILL AND FETCH A PAIL OF WATER. | ||
- | Thotreos. at Era. will, at least during the summer months, appreciate a drink | ||
- | . now and then. If you are down them, arrango a watering party. and don't forgot | ||
- | thota trees right up- the ' | ||
- | Remember, when you are enjoying yourself. at' Era, don't lot the' trees be sad for lack of water. | ||
- | THE FEDERATION ANNUAL REUNION | + | ---- |
- | 18th and 19th Soptombor. H All walkers are welcome, | + | |
- | It was 9 o 'clock when the road brought | + | ====Snowy River Screening.==== |
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- | @R ING OR WRITE | + | The Snowy, Wollondilly-Burragorang Valley and Williams River Kodachrome colour movie films will be screened at the Shell Theatrette, Shell House, Carrington Street, near Wynyard, at 8 p.m. on Friday, September 17th ONLY. |
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- | Our spy not-work (the .oyes, oars and nose of tho S.B.W.) has missed none: of the stirring events surrounding Peg Bransdonis | + | ---- |
- | '" | + | |
- | On the following | + | =====" |
- | Further developments | + | |
- | "Once upon a time there was a happy and contented walker who also had certain | + | After reading again the familiar headlines, word patterns and cliches which the press uses for reporting overdue walkers, we invited Miss Marmion to let us have her own story, so that the S.B.W. at least would know what happened. Her description was as follows: |
- | 12, | + | |
- | from a walk and did strike his partner a foul blow. And there was weeping and gnashing of tooth (no tearing of hair) and the kin' | + | It seems that nearly every time the Press reports |
- | with.tho intention of practicing his lost art. And so I sayoth | + | |
- | document charging him with infringement of patonts | + | Because the Press strives for sensationalism at all costs, perhaps you would like to hear "from the horse' |
- | Confirmation of the serious nature of the accident came from our agent Mberdhaum" who reported | + | |
- | "Soon the 0.F. (we may reveal that this stands for " | + | Three of us from the Sydney University Bush Walkers decided to spend three days of the University vacation walking from Rocky Tops on the Kanangra Road, down Misery Ridge, along the Kowmung, up Church Creek, and so to Yerranderie. On the Friday night, we taxied from Blackheath to an iron hut some 14 miles along the Kanangra Road from Jenolan Caves, where we slept that night. |
- | for the first time in years there was no cook in his food party, no one to | + | |
- | provido | + | Early Saturday morning saw us taking to the road through the heavy mountain frost and climbing to the Tops themselves, inspecting the glorious vista to the north, east and south. Then we turned due south, making for the top of Misery Ridge through the scrub, using map and compass. We struck what was apparently the blazed trail (marked |
- | dates, no one to prepare seven different kinds of vegetables or throe choices | + | |
- | in sweets. No slave to put more salt in this, or water in that, cook this a | + | Actually I struck the Kowmung just where Matheson' |
- | bit longer, | + | |
- | have to retire to bed with only a scant covering of bracken. From this the cold might drive him at four in the morning to prepare the oatmeal of his hoart's | + | And so a whole day of slow progress along the banks of the Kowmung. It was fairly rough going, with much rock-hopping |
- | desire. The outlook in the fox's tent was, in a word, grim. But in quick time | + | |
- | (impartial observers say 10 minutes) the horizon was cleared and the sun shone. | + | There is one fascinating place, which I imagine to be Rudder' |
- | In reply to our urgent Telegram asking the exact meaning of the word " | + | |
- | if it meant female requesting full details of the tactics employed, we recei{ied | + | On the lighter side, when I stopped at about midday that day I was getting cold, so decided to dry out my wet shorts by the fire. They were hanging limply on a log, when along came one of those mighty blasts of wind which so characterised the Kowmung that weekend, and my shorts were in the fire. Had anyone seen me dressed in them during the next two days (which they didn' |
- | the followinp | + | |
- | "On your next private walk load yourself up with juicy oranges, | + | In between singing all the songs I know to myself, wondering about my two mates, and enthusing over wallabies and rabbits, I would study my mental picture of the map, trying to visualise how much of the Kowmung I had still to cover. The mental image let me down badly, for I camped that night at the entrance of a creek which I took to be either Lannigan' |
- | cubes and a black of Carb.mello | + | |
- | places. Your likely prospect will get very thirsty so whip out the.oranges and carefully hide the pool. The damsel will accept them very gratefully. | + | Morning came, clear and cold. It was a gamble, but I thought I'd go up the creek. Another little note telling Ian and Harold my plans. It was the sixth and last of the series of notes scribbled on cigarette packets and paper bags, which together with my many arrows must have amused the search parties which followed two days later. What a dreadful creek I chose to climb! I chased half a dozen cattle up the first few hundred foot, until it became too steep for them and the dumb creatures let me pass. For a long time it meant scrambling on all fours, clutching at tufts of grass and bushes - ask the unfortunate search party who followed it up! It was obvious that I had gambled on the wrong creek. At last came the very top, and the rather frightening vista of mile upon mile of rolling hills and valleys stretching to the south and east with never a sign of civilisation. Then I recognised Mount Colong, and decided to make for it, though I did not like the look of what lay in between. |
- | Such vogetarian | + | |
- | ear_in | + | Rather depressed, I plunged down into the next gorge - Waterfall |
- | After that it is only a matter of keeping her from the foxes, tigers or the | + | |
- | siren-liko vegos, who don't cook anyway." | + | Singing blithely, |
- | Peggy' | + | |
- | To the amatour | + | Several hours after dark, the gleam of an iron roof was a welcome |
- | "Arnamite | + | |
- | energy. One could go further and predict.that mention in your columns will be . only a forerunner of promotion to the pages of a-Sunday journal notorious for reporting | + | It was 9 o' |
- | and let you be the judge.; | + | |
- | 13. | + | The three days' lone peacefulness ended in a panic of worry and dismay. From the moment I reached the main road to Camden, I was beseiged by reporters and photographers. And you know the rest - the exaggerated and distorted accounts that had news value for a day. |
- | The monaco | + | |
- | Think of your aching foot and cast your mind back to the Clubroom | + | The whole unfortunate episode was nobody' |
- | on July. 30th. One valkor | + | |
- | Ego inflatod | + | Notoriety, it seems, is easy to achieve. |
- | A recant issue of the Campbelltown | + | |
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- | No, the crowd of people juggling | + | |
- | ---- 0 ---- 0 ---- | + | ===="Jack and Jill go up the hill and fetch a pail of water" |
- | Five walkers arrived at Hill Top Station | + | |
- | Fashion Note: The one bright | + | The trees at Era will, at least during the summer months, appreciate a drink now and then. If you are down there, arrange a watering party - and don't forget those trees right up the hill - they need the water most. |
- | ,0...ng o 4...11 | + | |
- | When Eric Rowon arrived | + | Remember, when you are enjoying yourself at Era, don't let the trees be sad for lack of water. |
- | the evening meal, oi a torch, and when-tho eight or so members and ton prospoctives | + | |
- | 0 ilim4, 0 .mmal.m..." | + | ---- |
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- | SNAKES:. AND. LADDERS | + | ===The Federation Annual Reunion: |
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+ | Will be held at " | ||
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+ | ====Are you requiring transport from Blackheath?==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ring or write: | ||
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+ | Siedlecky's taxi and tourist service. | ||
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+ | 116 Station Street, Blackheath. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 'Phone Blackheath | ||
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+ | |||
+ | =====Gossip.===== | ||
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+ | Our spy net-work (the eyes, ears and nose of the S.B.W.) has missed none of the stirring events surrounding Peg Bransdon' | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | On the following | ||
+ | |||
+ | Further developments | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Once upon a time there was a happy and contented walker who also had certain | ||
+ | |||
+ | Confirmation of the serious nature of the accident came from our agent " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Soon the O.F. (we may reveal that this stands for "Old Fox") realised that for the first time in years there was no cook in his food party, no one to provide | ||
+ | |||
+ | In reply to our urgent Telegram asking the exact meaning of the word " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "On your next private walk load yourself up with juicy oranges, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Such vegetarian | ||
+ | |||
+ | After that it is only a matter of keeping her from the foxes, tigers or the siren-like vegos, who don't cook anyway." | ||
+ | |||
+ | Peggy' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | To the amateur | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Dynamite | ||
+ | |||
+ | The menace | ||
+ | |||
+ | Think of your aching foot and cast your mind back to the Clubroom | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ego inflated | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | A recant issue of the Campbelltown | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | No, the crowd of people juggling | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | Five walkers arrived at Hill Top Station | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Fashion Note__: The one bright | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | When Eric Rowan arrived | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Snakes and Ladders.===== | ||
Lecture by David Stead. | Lecture by David Stead. | ||
- | uTrot me out a deadly serpent, just 7th deadliest you cann | + | |
- | ( ` Banen Pattorson) | + | " |
- | The case which David Stead brought into the Club on the evening of his lecture was disappointingly | + | |
- | venomous reptile of fair dimensions. Our hopeful | + | (Banjo Patterson) |
- | dashed when David regretfully explained that, though | + | |
- | hadnIt | + | The case which David Stead brought into the Club on the evening of his lecture was disappointingly small. Nevertheless it could have contained a venomous reptile of fair dimensions. Our hopeful |
- | neighbours be if they knew. | + | |
- | The , | + | The audience |
- | explained that he referred to the evolutionary ladder. Reptiles and amphibians | + | |
- | wore the lowest air breathing | + | Preceding the bony fishes wore the cartilagenous |
- | ago. Like all eth;r vertebrate animal life they had evolved from fishes. There | + | |
- | wore still many amphibious animals, | + | The Australian reptile is very similar to Asiatic types though because of the long period of separation of the Australian continent |
- | maintained their contact with the water. All life required | + | |
- | obtained | + | There were four main types of reptiles: snakes; lizards; tortoises and turtles; and crocodiles and alligators. The snakes |
- | surface and became the simplest form of lung. Thu human embryo passed through | + | |
- | all the evolutionary stages from fish to human during its growth. | + | Lizards were all harmless, |
- | Preceding the bony fishes wore the cartilagonous | + | |
- | purposes, | + | Next there was the gecko - and here David produced a live specimen - black and about 5 inches long, with big eyes and a large fleshy tail. It had cups on its feet so that it could climb upside down. It seldom came out of the shadows |
- | The Australian reptile is very similar to Asiatic types though because of the long period of separation of the Australian continent | + | |
- | the Indian Cobra. When angry they spread their heads in the same way as a | + | The skinks, which were the commonest family of lizards, were represented by the land mullet, the blue tongued lizard and other species. David produced specimens of the fire-tailed skink and White' |
- | cobra. The death adder is similar in some respects to the viperino typos of snakes of India and Africa. | + | |
- | There were four main types of reptiles: snakes; lizards; tortoises and turtles; and crocodiles and alligators. The snakes | + | The dragons are represented by rock lizards, frilled |
- | but it was not easy to identify a number of the species. (For example the | + | |
- | harmless carpet and diamond snakes of N.S.W. | + | The monitors are represented |
- | snake of Victoria and S.A. which was very venomous.) Everybody had interesting | + | |
- | stories to tell of snt:Ikos, some of which wore quite fantastic, such as that of 'the man who got out of his car and looked over into a valley, the whole floor of | + | The feeding habits of the monitor lizard led to an interesting |
- | which was filled with writhing carpet snakes. The | + | |
- | seen through the bottom of a glass. | + | There were several varieties of turtles - the Sydney turtle inhabiting the mud flats round Sydney and the Murray turtles were two of the local types. The Luth or leathery turtle has sometimes been seen off the coast of N.S.W. The enormous turtle seen by Myles Dunphy of Beecroft Pen would have been a leathery turtle. |
- | Lizards were all harmless, | + | |
- | to this were a couple of Amcrical | + | There were two varieties of crocodile in Australia. The Queensland crocodile (Crocodilus johnstonii), growing to about 7 feet long and not dangerous, and the Asiatic Crocodile (Crododilus porosus) of Northern |
- | Arizena,Coloralo | + | |
- | of those was the legless lizards, found:on the coastal sandstone strip. Legless | + | After this David showed us slides, first an excellent evolutionary diagram from the American publication |
- | lizards could ho distinguished from snakes by various | + | |
- | 15. | + | After this lecture members will look upon the reptiles with a more friendly and understanding eye, remembering |
- | first of which was their " | + | |
- | react to noise. The jaws of a lizard | + | ---- |
- | those of a cake wore loose - so that they ceuld open to the point whore the | + | |
- | reptile could cat something larger than itself. Lizards | + | =====Photographic Section.===== |
- | are, soft and fleshy. They are very easy to tame and soon bocomo | + | |
- | fed a little. Most of the small lizards | + | The programme for the next month is as follows: |
- | Next there was the gecko - and here David produced a live specimen - black and about 5 inches long, with big eyes and a large fleshy tail. It had cups | + | |
- | on its foot so that it could climb upside down. It seldom came out of the | + | |1948| | |
- | shado7s | + | |September 23rd.|Exhibition of work done over last few months.| |
- | parts was responsible for almost eliminating the fly pest. When pursued it | + | |October 28th.|Afterwork on Prints - lecture.| |
- | could drop its tail and escape while its enemy was busy oating | + | |November 25th.|Lecture on Stereoscopy and demonstration.| |
- | wore glad to learn that it could then grow another tail. | + | |December.|No meeting.| |
- | The skinks, which were the commonest family of lizards, were represented by the land mullet, the blue tongued lizard and other species. David produced | + | |1949| | |
- | specimens of the fire-tailed skink and White' | + | |January 27th.|Talk on Enlarging and how to make Enlargers.| |
- | skinned mottled black above and white below. This family produces living | + | |February 24th.|Talk on Mounting, etc.| |
- | young. The young arc almost | + | |
- | usually 4 or 6 born at once and the mother deposits them all in separate places | + | Most lectures will, if possible, |
- | so that, if there is danger, some at least are likely to escape. Almost within | + | |
- | seconds of being born they are catching flies, and within 10 minutes react very | + | |
- | quickly and energetically to danger. (This must surely be one of the clearest | + | |
- | cases of purely instinctive action, since, if they are deposited separately, they cannot learn from the mothcr. Ed.) | + | |
- | The dragons are represented by rock lizardsyfrilled | + | |
- | their raised " | + | |
- | The monitors are represented | + | |
- | apecios | + | |
- | of the turtle. The turtle deposits | + | |
- | long with a nine inch frill. When excited it gets right up on its hind legs | + | |
- | and runs. | + | |
- | Tho feeding habits of the monitor lizard led to an intercsting.digression on the prodigious regenerative capacity of nature - e.g. the destruction of all but a fow.of the 500,000 eggs of tho fish (either. as eggs or young fish), mutton birds piled two foot high along a four mile beach, bluebottles piled on the beach all along the coast. | + | |
- | There were several varieties of turtles - the Sydney turtle inhabiting the mud flats round Sydney and the Murray turtles were two of the local,. types. The Luth or leathery turtle has sometimes been seen off abe coast of N.S.W. The enormous turtle seen by Myles Dunphy of Beecroft Pen' | + | |
- | 16. | + | |
- | There wore two varieties of crocodile in Australia. The Queensland | + | |
- | crocodile (Crocodilusjohnstonii), growing to eout 7 feet long and not dangerous, and the Asiatic Crocodile (Crododilus porosus) of Northorn | + | |
- | After this David showed us slidos, first an excellent evolutionary diagram from the American publication | + | |
- | included a description of the hamadryad, | + | |
- | of seven foot. The death adder rolios | + | |
- | not got out of a person' | + | |
- | After this lecture members will look upon the reptiles with a more friendly and understanding eye, remembering | + | |
- | PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION | + | |
- | September 2,rd. October 28th. November 25th. December. | + | |
- | 1949 January 27th. February 24th. | + | |
- | Exhibition of work done over last few months. Afterwork on Prints-- lecture. | + | |
- | Lecture on Stereoscopy and demonstration. | + | |
- | Talk on Enlarging and how to make Enlargers. Talk on Mounting, etc. | + | |
- | Most lectures will, if possible, | + | |
Ray Kirkby. | Ray Kirkby. | ||
- | The U.S. Government investigated the origin of the 87,789 forest fires which wore reported in 1940. Of thoso 18,248 wore traced directly to smokers, while there is no doubt that many of untraced fir r. were of the same origin. | ||
- | Readors will notice that the magazine is produced this month in smaller typo. If the typo proves satisfactory future issues will be of 14 or 16 pages instead of 16 or 18. But the amount of reading matter will be the same. | ||
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+ | |||
+ | The U.S. Government investigated the origin of the 87,789 forest fires which were reported in 1940. Of these 18,248 were traced directly to smokers, while there is no doubt that many of untraced fires were of the same origin. | ||
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+ | |||
+ | Readers will notice that the magazine is produced this month in smaller type. If the type proves satisfactory future issues will be of 14 or 16 pages instead of 16 or 18. But the amount of reading matter will be the same. | ||
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