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It rained quietly all night. We lit breakfast fires and ate in abdulled tents in gentle rain. Moved off at 8.30 in quiet rain, back a mile down the road, and turned north into the straggly forest. It rained. In fact, it just darned well kept on raining in a calm, insidious manner. | It rained quietly all night. We lit breakfast fires and ate in abdulled tents in gentle rain. Moved off at 8.30 in quiet rain, back a mile down the road, and turned north into the straggly forest. It rained. In fact, it just darned well kept on raining in a calm, insidious manner. | ||
- | Pushing through wet scrub is a bad business. You find a trail of sorts and it doesn/t quite coincide with your bearing, but you follow it because its a break from bush bashing. We did „lust | + | Pushing through wet scrub is a bad business. You find a trail of sorts and it doesn't quite coincide with your bearing, but you follow it because its a break from bush bashing. We did just that, and at 10 a.m. still in steady rain, we were in a nasty little gully west of the correct ridge. |
- | We worked east on to the spur in a sticky tangle of spiny, pea-flowered shrubbery. It rasped our cold, wet legs cruelly and the going became so disagreeable that at 11.30 I led the party off the crown of the ridge end down towards the east arm of Wilson/s (Wanganderry) Creek. Cliffs there - probably not impossible, but the vision of tangled valley and misted gorge ahead not inviting. | + | |
- | By universal consent we looked for and found a generous sandstone overhang for early lunch and discussion of the situation. Having already done it once and got away with it, I rocked the party by recommending retreat. Such the influsnce | + | We worked east on to the spur in a sticky tangle of spiny, pea-flowered shrubbery. It rasped our cold, wet legs cruelly and the going became so disagreeable that at 11.30 I led the party off the crown of the ridge and down towards the east arm of Wilson' |
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+ | By universal consent we looked for and found a generous sandstone overhang for early lunch and discussion of the situation. Having already done it once and got away with it, I rocked the party by recommending retreat. Such the influence | ||
A goodly fire was built, viands produced and various people set about catching trickles from rock faces in buckets and billies. Still the pestilential rain. | A goodly fire was built, viands produced and various people set about catching trickles from rock faces in buckets and billies. Still the pestilential rain. | ||
- | Now, then, since we were turning in tho trip, should we remain overnight in our snug overhang, or beat it back to the road though the lacerating scrub tangle to pitch wet tents in the rain? Out of six people we obtained some fourteen various opinions and verdicts over .a period of time - the time it takes to 02t- a leisca-ed | + | Now, then, since we were turning in tho trip, should we remain overnight in our snug overhang, or beat it back to the road though the lacerating scrub tangle to pitch wet tents in the rain? Out of six people we obtained some fourteen various opinions and verdicts over a period of time - the time it takes to eat a leisured |
- | So it was back to the road in rain developing into a windy downpour, back to camp a hundred yards east of the point where we had left the road eight hours earlier. The other two tents shared the Fire (note the capital) that night - a Fire carefully coaxed from seemingly saturated logs into a roaring, searing furnace. TI-o Fire was built between the two tents - and they were hardly six feet apart - so that the occupants slept salamander fashion in a boiler room atmosphere. Vapours curled from the leeward tent of Ron and Noel, and at intervals frightened faces peered out as the flames licked the steaming japara. | + | |
- | It rained all night, but with first light came a lulls then a tiny patch of pale, clear sky which widened t:11 the sur, coy at his first glimpse of Wanganderry in at least two :tays winked a tentative eye and then smiled. A chill southerly sholJherded the clouds to regions which certainly didn't need them less. | + | |
- | And we road bashed | + | So it was back to the road in rain developing into a windy downpour, back to camp a hundred yards east of the point where we had left the road eight hours earlier. The other two tents shared |
- | We entrained, and Don discarded a pair of boots from the carriage window, after significant gestures to Sunday afternoon strollers who came to investigate. Two of the party actually thanked me for the trip as they left us at Liverpool — Don went his way to explain to his food party (Don't be unkind to him, food party - his unfailing cheerfulness meant a good deal to us that weekend), drained the bitter dregs of defeat again (good cliche there d-'you see7, and have since been carefully cautioning people about the Cl-ctb, " | + | It rained all night, but with first light came a lulls then a tiny patch of pale, clear sky which widened ti11 the sun, coy at his first glimpse of Wanganderry in at least two days winked a tentative eye and then smiled. A chill southerly shepherded the clouds to regions which certainly didn't need them less. |
- | Well, I'm a pansy. I'm a heel. Itra a sissy bushwalker. So what?" | + | And we road bashed in thirteen miles to Mittagong. |
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+ | The pastoral country was green and fresh in the weak sun, the massed clouds pictorial, but it was still road-bashing. The little girl in the cafe couldn' | ||
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+ | We entrained, and Don discarded a pair of boots from the carriage window, after significant gestures to Sunday afternoon strollers who came to investigate. Two of the party actually thanked me for the trip as they left us at Liverpool — Don went his way to explain to his food party (Don't be unkind to him, food party - his unfailing cheerfulness meant a good deal to us that weekend), drained the bitter dregs of defeat again (good cliche there do you see?), and have since been carefully cautioning people about the Club, " | ||
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+ | Well, I'm a pansy. I'm a heel. I' | ||
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ADDITIONS TO LIBRARY | ADDITIONS TO LIBRARY | ||
- | The following books have been donated to the library by Mrs. J. Morris | + | The following books have been donated to the library by Mrs. J. Morris \\ |
"OUR SANDHILL COUNTRY" | "OUR SANDHILL COUNTRY" | ||
"AN AVIARY OF THE PLAINS" | "AN AVIARY OF THE PLAINS" | ||
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by Brian G. Harvey. | by Brian G. Harvey. | ||
- | MINUTES of the September Meeting were not adopted as some doubt arose as to the authority of certain delegates to vote on the notion | + | **MINUTES** of the September Meeting were not adopted as some doubt arose as to the authority of certain delegates to vote on the motion |
- | NOTICE OF MOTION to amend the Constitution to provide for a Y.Inutes 77-077tth7' | + | |
- | THE ANNUAL REUNION CAMP Committee Report was recei.7e,',, | + | **AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION** which will enable greater |
- | THE UNIVERSITY | + | |
- | an-771-177nion | + | **NOTICE OF MOTION** to amend the Constitution to provide for a Minutes Secretary was given. |
- | FErrORATION | + | |
- | OUTDOORS AND FISHING. Clubs are asked to centribv.te | + | **THE ANNUAL REUNION CAMP** Committee Report was received. It indicated |
- | CONSERVATION was defined as "The prevention | + | |
- | 17. | + | **THE UNIVERSITY |
- | A ODE OF TITICS | + | minute that the Annual Reunion |
- | of e7ffrIraled-clubs. Copies will be circulated. It does not contain | + | |
- | anything the S.B.W. has not taught and practised since its inception, | + | **FEDERATION |
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+ | **OUTDOORS AND FISHING.** Clubs are asked to contribute | ||
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+ | **CONSERVATION** was defined as "The prevention | ||
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+ | **A CODE OF ETHICS** | ||
but it will be of immeasurable use to the erring and misguided organisation in our midst, and fills a long felt want. | but it will be of immeasurable use to the erring and misguided organisation in our midst, and fills a long felt want. | ||
- | NATIONAL PARK. Copies of the S.B.W. correspondence with National | + | |
- | 102■10.1.6m0.....las | + | **NATIONAL PARK**. Copies of the S.B.W. correspondence with National |
- | All who attended | + | |
- | rushing rivers are quite a differen-, pnDp3s: | + | |
- | •■•• | + | |
- | Best wishes to Olive Cann (nee Jurd) who is on heir way to her husbandTs | + | ------ |
- | As the summer is upon us again we rcfe2 reath)rs | + | |
- | months on your walks, even on overcast | + | All who attended |
- | pass through the clouds. A prsaloong fai; | + | |
- | of a heavy pack on a very hoc riUncLG a E rid a t ex- | + | |
- | ha us ti on . The onset of the. srff.ptoms | + | |
- | plaints | + | Best wishes to Olive Cann (nee Jurd) who is on her way to her husband' |
- | Temperature may rise to 107°F0 | + | |
- | shade with head and shoulders raised. Douche the body with cold | + | |
- | water, apply wet packs, especially to the h3ad and spine, as these | + | As the summer is upon us again we refer readers |
- | parts are congested. Continue until relieved and temperature reduced, when patient should be given plenty of fluids. It will be wise for the recovered patient to avoid the midday sun by walking in early morning and late in the afternoon on return journey." | + | |
- | al' | + | Speaking |
- | C.M.W.-=bers inured | + | |
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