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- | *********-X-X-X-**4HH4-*** | + | A monthly bulletin of matters |
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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | + | Postal Address: Box 4476 G.P.O., Sydney, N.S.W., 2000. |
- | XXXXX-X-X X X X 4E-**-X-X-X-X-X-X--X-X-X-X-*X -X- X X -X-X-**.X-X-if-X-X.*****X-X-X--X*X-X-X-X-X-X. X X X X* | + | |
- | ***-X-X-X-X-X--)e-X-X-X-X-*-X-**.X-X-X***********XXX*******X-X-XXX-X-X-X-X-*********.X-X-X*XXX**** | + | Meetings at the Club Room on Wednesday evenings after 7.30 p.m. |
- | A monthly-bulletin of mattes | + | |
- | POSTAL AIMS: Box 4476 G.P.0.9 Sydney, N.S.W. | + | Enquiries regarding Club - Mrs. Marcia Shappert, |
- | *************# | + | |
- | Editor: | + | === March, 1974. === |
- | Typist: Kath Brown | + | |
- | Duplication: Frank Taeker | + | |**Editor**|Spiro Ketas, 104/ |
- | Business | + | |**Typist**|Kath Brown| |
- | IN THIS ISSUE: | + | |**Duplication**|Frank Taeker| |
- | The February General Meeting Kanangra Adventure | + | |**Business |
- | Paddy Pallin Advertisement | + | |
- | Ayres Rock and Spoilation of Nature The Blue Breaks | + | ===== Contents ===== |
- | by Jim Brown Page 2 | + | |
- | Dot Butler 4 | + | | | |Page| |
- | 6 | + | |The February General Meeting|Jim Brown| 2| |
- | 8 | + | |Kanangra Adventure|Dot Butler| 4| |
- | 9 | + | |Ayres Rock and Spoilation of Nature|Marie B. Byles| 8| |
- | 12 | + | |The Blue Breaks |
- | 13 | + | |N.S.W. Federation of Bushwalking Clubs - Annual Reunion| |13| |
- | 14 | + | |S.B.W. Office Bearers |
- | 15 | + | |Walks Secretary' |
- | 17 | + | |Social Secretary' |
- | 18 | + | |Europe in Midwinter|Frances Colley|18| |
- | Marie B. Byles Jim Brown | + | |
- | | + | ===== Advertisements ===== |
- | Wilf Hilder Elaine Brown Frances Colley | + | |
- | X XX | + | | |Page| |
- | 4E-x-X*X X X X :X-X-X-X-X-X--X9H# | + | |Paddy Pallin| 6| |
- | Page 2 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974. | + | |Mountain Equipment|12| |
- | THE FEBRUARY GENERAL MEETING. | + | |
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== The February General Meeting. ===== | ||
by Jim Brown. | by Jim Brown. | ||
- | Although it's the first busine8s | + | |
- | ceedings) Tom Wilhelm who accepted Linda' | + | Although it's the first business |
- | Frank Roberts was the other absentee. | + | |
- | Minues | + | Minutes |
- | Service was advice that our Kangaroo Valley land had been proclaimed a Wild Life Sanctuary. Membership movements included resignations from Audrey and. Bob Godfrey (now settled in Queensland) and re-instatement of | + | |
- | Meryl Smith (back from abroad). | + | The Treasury indicated that the closing balance in current funds at the end of January was $761, and Auditor Gordon Redmond cautioned that, because of several adjustments, |
- | The Treasury indicated that the closing balance in current funds at the end of January was $7619 and Auditor Gordon Redmond cautioned that, because of several adjustments, | + | |
- | slightly from that figure. | + | A Federation delegate opined that there had not been anything |
- | . A Federation delegate opined that there had not been anything | + | |
- | ficant | + | Things were a deal more favourable for Barry Wallace and team of 18 on the Wollondilly-Tomat Falls country, which included some gourmandising |
- | Things were a deal more favourable for Barry Wallace and team of 18 pn the Wollondilly-Tomat Falls country, which included some goummandising | + | |
- | The long January weekend, saw Wilf HildeM's crew of 7. in the Snagy. | + | The long January weekend, saw Wilf Hilder's crew of 7 in the Snowy Mountains, including Kelly' |
- | covered about 26 miles. | + | |
- | Wolgan/ | + | On the first weekend of February, David Rostron |
- | Page 3 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 19749 | + | |
- | with two of the party withdrawing after lunch and the remaining 15 reaching Otford about 7.0 p m. | + | To complete the recital, we couldn' |
- | On the first weekend. of February, David Rostron | + | |
- | towards Davies Canyon, but the volume of water in the falls made the going so | + | In General Business, Dot Butler was able to bring us up to date on negotiations |
- | tricky that two of the party withdrew quite early on Saturday, and the rest abandoned plans to' | + | |
- | of the people | + | Alex Colley referred to a recent statement by the Federal Minister for Conservation |
- | brought out 24 people, while Elaine Brown' | + | |
- | To complete the recital, we couldn' | + | Next we heard that the A.B.C. wanted to obtain some TV film footage showing |
- | In General Business, Dot Butler was able to bring us up to date on negotiations | + | |
- | Alex Colley referred to a recent statement by the Federal Minister for Conservation | + | In fact the meeting ended by loading an added burden to the President when he indicated that, in the absence of any other taker, he would act as convener of the Re-union sub-committee provided help with the supper |
- | Next we heard that the A.B.C. wanted to obtain some TV film footage showing | + | |
- | news media. | + | After announcements that certain Club officers would not seek re-election in March and that any proposed Constitutional Amendments must be received before the March meeting of the Committee, we called it a night at 9.30 p.m. |
- | In fact the meeting ended. by loading an added. burden to the President when he indicated that, in the absence of any other taker, he would act as convener of the Re-union sub-committee provided help with the supper | + | |
- | ments was forthcoming. | + | ---- |
- | After announcements that certain Club officers would not seek re-election | + | |
- | in March and that any proposed Constitutional Amendments must be received before the March meeting of the Committee, we called it a night at 9.30 p m. | + | ===== Kanangra Adventures. |
- | **XXXXXX# | + | |
- | Page 4 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974.. | + | |
- | KLIVANGRA ADVENTUPZ. | + | |
by Dot Butler. | by Dot Butler. | ||
- | NEWS FLASH .the rain continues.....enormous flood damage in Queensland.....roads cut in the great Outwest.....Mt. Isa isolated in a sea of wet spinifex, unable to get its copper out or fuel supplies stock being drowned in thousands....FLASH....FLASH....Typhoon Ida? or, Clara? or Whatnot swooping towards our drenched coastline.. ..FLASH.... FLASH Giant tides (the perigeesyzygy | + | |
- | perverse breed what do Bushwalkers do? Nothing is good enough but an abseiling trip down Davies Canyon, the roughest canyon in the Roughest Country in the State! | + | NEWS FLASH.... the rain continues..... enormous flood damage in Queensland..... roads cut in the great Outwest..... Mt. Isa isolated in a sea of wet spinifex, unable to get its copper out or fuel supplies stock being drowned in thousands.... FLASH.... FLASH.... Typhoon Ida? or, Clara? or Whatnot swooping towards our drenched coastline..... FLASH.... FLASH.... Giant tides (the perigee-syzygy |
- | Our intrepid leader is Dave Rostron. He has, for once, left his | + | |
- | recent bride at home. Judith is keen on bushwalking, | + | Our intrepid leader is Dave Rostron. He has, for once, left his recent bride at home. Judith is keen on bushwalking, |
What should you know that you don't know? tell you: | What should you know that you don't know? tell you: | ||
- | Our party of 8 in two car S reached the campsite near Whelan' | ||
- | about the same time and we retired to roost somewhere around midnight. | ||
- | We made a reasonably early getaway next morning, along the road towards Kanangra Tops then a turnoff on the left along the fire trail to Queen Pin. After several detours left or right to avoid pools of water, muddy patches or great fallen trees across the track we eventually came to | ||
- | a stop at a point beyond Which it would be inadvisable for even a Bushwaiker to take his car. Then we strode off along a track which headed in our | ||
- | direction and at length abandoned it and struck out through the wet scrub, | ||
- | down a steep hillside till we burst through a thicket of dense vegetation and found ourselves gazing on Sally Camp Creek. I had last seen it in drought time when there was no difficulty in following down the bed of the creek; the contrast now was somewhat chilling all those extra feet of water rushing along just imagine what the abseil over the waterfall is going to be like! | ||
- | We made heavy going downstream, pushing through wet bushes, making | ||
- | thighdeep crossings when the other side looked possibly less torturing | ||
- | than the side we were on, blondining over fallen treetrunks above the | ||
- | swirling water, occasional stops for everyone to catch up; Laurie is trailing along somewhere back there, physically present but mentally absent; Bob looks fetching in his cutdown overalls; Peter is beginning to look blue about the gills; Willie Burke is cursing his slippery soles and our | ||
- | leader is wondering whether he is really going to manage to " | ||
- | We had been walking for two hours, various members going for involuntary slides on the slippery rocks and a general feeling of insecurity pervading all. Whilst negotiating a deep crossing amongst black rocks, | ||
- | suddenly eleven stone of Irish muscle floundered and fell on top of me. | ||
- | ." | ||
- | Page 3 TEE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974. | ||
- | I perfarmed a jack-knife-forward-bend at the knee, to the detriment of | ||
- | that joint which pretty soon started to stiffen up. Even bashing along at high speed to keep it warmed up was no good, so I bade the party Godspeed and told them I was going out to the high country and they could | ||
- | have the canyon on their own. Bill decided to accompany me so we headed back upstream, recognising all the familiar landmarks We had passed on the | ||
- | way down, and just when we couldn' | ||
- | Back at the cars we dug out David' | ||
- | Falls where we ixould expect the others to amer6 after they had completed | ||
- | the trip dawn Davies and up Whalania Canyon. Whilst engaged on these perigrinations what should we pass but a motor-car and auto tent looking all forlorn and deserted in the wet scrub. Tha: | ||
- | sad and deserted as though they hadn't been used. Other gear indicated | ||
- | that the owners were not bushwaikers. We presumed they wei'e fishermen. | ||
- | However, there was no one about to talk to so we continued on our way. | ||
- | Bill and I followed a track around the high swamps, then down a feeder creek which plunged al length over a precipice and disappeared | ||
- | noisily into an eerie mist-filled gorge. It was quite a waterfall due | ||
- | to all the recent rain but it was not Vhalania Falls9 so rather than push through the wet scrub for another mile we headed out to the track and | ||
- | decided to take the car back again to its original parking spot; after all, the others might conceivable came out another way and not up the slimy rocks of the waterfall. | ||
- | Just as well we did. We had abandoned the car just short of a swampy | ||
- | patch, to get around which would have meant a precarious detour through a' | ||
- | close thicket of saplings, and were walking towards the other car when the | ||
- | rest of the party hove into view almost simultaneously. Without letting | ||
- | them get their packs off we had them tell us their story s They had made a very hairy descent downthe first abseil and along a narrow ledge where the wind blast from the rush of water was almost enough to blow them off, then seeing that a quarter of the party had already white-anted the trip, | ||
- | they also called it a day and climbed out via a side ridge and so made their way back to the cars. But one oda thing they had seen on the ways compass-reading and studying the map continuously as they felt their way | ||
- | | ||
- | a fairly recent campfire - its embers were still glowing. But what was noteworthy about it was its unusual size - quite long, and a great heap of ashes as though they had really piled the logs on all night. Another thing that stuck out as unusual was a flattened out beer-can with three names scratched laborously on it and the message that they had slept here the previous night. But no sign of the people themselves. "Just as | ||
- | well," said Barry, "or I would have given them a lecture about not putting | ||
- | out their campfire and leaving a mess of beer cans about" | ||
- | Page 6 TEE SYDNEY BUSHYTALKER March, 1974. | ||
- | Lightweight biiihirailking. | + | Our party of 8 in two cars reached the campsite near Whelan' |
- | and camping gear. | + | |
- | LIGHTWEIGHT TENTS FOR ALL CONDITIONS | + | We made a reasonably early getaway next morning, along the road towards Kanangra Tops then a turnoff on the left along the fire trail to Queen Pin. After several detours left or right to avoid pools of water, muddy patches or great fallen trees across |
- | All " | + | |
- | to stand up to rigorous conditions. They are | + | We made heavy going downstream, pushing through wet bushes, making thigh-deep crossings when the other side looked possibly less torturing than the side we were on, blondining over fallen treetrunks above the swirling water, occasional stops for everyone to catch up; Laurie is trailing along somewhere back there, physically present but mentally absent; Bob looks fetching in his cutdown overalls; Peter is beginning to look blue about the gills; Willie Burke is cursing his slippery soles and our leader is wondering whether he is really going to manage to "do" |
- | supplied with nylon cords and have overlapped | + | |
- | doors at both ends. | + | We had been walking |
- | The Nadgee tent, of standard green Jarpara, is | + | |
- | similar to the famous ' | + | I performed a jack-knife-forward-bend at the knee, to the detriment of that joint which pretty soon started to stiffen up. Even bashing along at high speed to keep it warmed up was no good, so I bade the party Godspeed and told them I was going out to the high country and they could have the canyon on their own. Bill decided to accompany me so we headed back upstream, recognising all the familiar landmarks we had passed on the way down, and just when we couldn' |
- | length | + | |
- | tent) and with zip doors. The De-Luxe Nadgee | + | Back at the cars we dug out David' |
- | tent offers | + | |
- | sewn in nylon floor; closed on one end with vent | + | Bill and I followed a track around |
- | and hood cover, sewn-in mosquito net with zip | + | |
- | opening, and zipped door closure. 7'6" | + | Just as well we did. We had abandoned the car just short of a swampy patch, to get around which would have meant a precarious detour through a close thicket of saplings, and were walking towards the other car when the rest of the party hove into view almost simultaneously. Without letting them get their packs off we had them tell us their story: They had made a very hairy descent down the first abseil and along a narrow ledge where the wind blast from the rush of water was almost enough to blow them off, then seeing that a quarter of the party had already white-anted the trip, they also called it a day and climbed out via a side ridge and so made their way back to the cars. But one odd thing they had seen on the way: compass-reading |
- | BUNYIP RUCKSACK | + | |
- | "This ' | + | A council of war was held. Obviously something was wrong. Barry offered to go back to the camp that Bill and I had seen for some further sleuthing. We all met out on the road soon after and Barry was able to report that their car had been left unlocked, with car keys and money lying around, and that the name of the owner co-incided with one of the names on the flattened out beer can and he was a member of Richmond Air Force. Well, pilots |
- | ' | + | |
- | A single pocket, shaped rucksack. Suitable for overnight camping. Weight 11/21bs. | + | The next day we saw nothing in the papers about the lost ones, nor the day after. It was not till Wednesday that the headlines broke: "THREE SURVIVE ON RAW FISH!" "Two men and a boy plucked to safety by a RAAF helicopter. They had gone up on the Friday night for a 2-day trout fishing trip but got lost, fell into a creek and got their clothes and matches wet. They ran out of food but caught 16 trout which they had to eat raw. On Tuesday they managed to dry their matches and were able to light a fire but they were tired and hungry and " |
- | BUSHMAN RUCKSACK | + | |
- | Has sewn-in curved bottom for extra comfort in carrying. Will hold 30Ibs. 2 pocket model 1141bs. 3 pocket | + | One puzzling item of the newspaper report is that when they realised they were lost the men decided to move __downstream__; |
- | model 1%lbs. | + | |
- | PIONEER RUCKSACK | + | The little boy, Darren (aged 7), they say was terrific. At night he slept between his father and Michael and did the same as they did. He admitted that he didn't like the cold fish much and he spent a lot of time thinking of Mum and his little sister aged 4. I think it would be quite an idea to write to Bill Elliot (31) and Mike Bray (23) and invite them to join the Bushwalkers. After such a nerve-shattering experience they would need no further incentive to become expert bushmen. |
- | Extra large bag with four external pockets and will carry about 40Ibs of camp gear. Weight TAlbs. | + | |
- | Everything for the bushwalker, from blankets | + | ---- |
- | KIANDRA MODEL | + | |
- | Hooded bag. Extra well | + | === Paddymade. |
- | filled. Very | + | |
- | compact. | + | Lightweight bushwalking and camp gear. |
- | Approx 33/4Ibs. | + | |
- | HOTHAM MODEL Super warm | + | __Lightweight tents for all conditions__ |
- | box quilted. | + | |
- | Added leg | + | All " |
- | room. | + | |
- | Approx 41Albs. | + | The Nadgee tent, of standard green Jarpara, is similar to the famous ' |
- | SUPER LIGHT MODEL Half the | + | |
- | weight | + | __Bunyip Rucksack__ |
- | 69 LIVERPOOL ST. SYDNEY 26-2686 61-7215 | + | |
- | Page THE SYDNEY BUSHWAT10ER March, 1973. | + | This ' |
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- | at the cars. | + | __Senior Rucksack__ |
- | A council of war was held. Obviously something was wrong. Barry offered to go back to the camp that Bill and I had seen for some further | + | |
- | sleuthing. We all met out on the road soon after and Barry was able to | + | A single pocket, shaped rucksack. Suitable for overnight camping. Weight 1½lbs. |
- | report that their car had beenleft | + | |
- | lying around, and that the name of the owner co-incided with one of the | + | __Bushman Rucksacks__ |
- | names on the flattened out beer can and he was a member of Richmond Air Force. Well, pilots | + | |
- | equally efficient when grounded amongst thick scrub in a whiteout? We decided to play safe and :report the matter to the nearest Police on our way out. The Mt. Victoria cop was not on the job, so Barry, whose social conscience is very well develpped, offered to go round via Katoomba and report the matter there, giving exact grid references as to the car and the abandoned campfire. The rest of us headed for home via Bell's Road and that was that. | + | Have sewn-in curved bottom for extra comfort in carrying. Will hold 30 lbs. 2 pocket model 1¼lbs. 3 pocket model 1½lbs. |
- | The next day we saw nothing in the papers about the lost ones, nor the day after. It was not till Wednesday that the headlines broke: "THREE | + | |
- | SURVIVE ON RAW FISH!" "Two men and a boy plucked to safety by a RAM | + | __Pioneer Rucksack__ |
- | helicopter, They had gone up on the Friday night for a 2-day trout fishing | + | |
- | trip but got lost, fell into a creek and got their clothes and matches wet. | + | Extra large bag with four external pockets and will carry about 40lbs of camp gear. Weight 2¼lbs. |
- | They ran out of food but caught 16 trout which they had to eat raw. On | + | |
- | Tuesday they managed to dry their matches and were able to light a fire but they were tired and hungry and" | + | __Kiandra Model__ |
- | One puzzling item of the newspaper report is that when they realised they were lost the men decided to move downstream 4 this despite the fact that they knew they had parked their car and set up their tent on the plateau top. Could it be that they were following some "What to do when Lost" | + | |
- | booklet? After all, if you go downstream you'll eventually land out on the | + | Hooded bag. Extra well filled. Very compact. Approx 3¾lbs. |
- | seacoast - after three weeks or a month if you're lucky, and after beating your may through what is, actually, some of the Roughest Country in the State. | + | |
- | The little boy, Darren (aged 7), they say was terrific. At night he slept between his father and Michael and did the same as they did, He admitted that he didn' like the cold fish much and he spent a lot of time | + | __Hotham Model__ |
- | thinking of Mum and his little sister aged 4. I think it would be quite an idea to write to Bill Elliot (31) and Mike Bray (23) and invite them to | + | |
- | join the Bushwaikers. After such a nerve-shattering experience they would need no further incentive to become expert bushmen. | + | Super warm box quilted. Added leg room. Approx 4½lbs. |
- | ****ie****##* | + | |
- | CORRECTION, to Walks Programmes- | + | __Superlight Model__ |
- | 'Frank Taeker' | + | |
- | the two walks he is leading. The correct number is 690-444, | + | Half the weight and packed size of regular bags. 9" x 5½" dia. 2lbs. |
- | Page 8 THE SYDNEY BUSHUALKER Harch9 1974. | + | |
- | AIRES ROCK AND SPOILATION OF NATURE. | + | Everything for the bushwalker, from blankets and air mattresses, stretchers, boots, compasses, maps, books, stoves and lamps to cooking ware and freeze dried and dehydrated foods. |
+ | |||
+ | **Paddy Pallin** | ||
+ | |||
+ | 69 Liverpool St., Sydney. 26-2686, 61-7215. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Correction | ||
+ | |||
+ | Frank Taeker' | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | ===== Ayers Rock And Spoilation Of Nature. | ||
by Marie B. Byles | by Marie B. Byles | ||
- | Marion | + | |
- | do, and I am earnestly looking forward to the' | + | Marion |
- | But What I want to know is whether we are better, except in a very | + | |
- | small degree, than those tourists who carve their names on Ayres Rock or leave heaps of litter on all the trails up the Japan Alps. | + | But what I want to know is whether we are better, except in a very small degree, than those tourists who carve their names on Ayres Rock or leave heaps of litter on all the trails up the Japan Alps. |
- | Everything that bushwalkers take with them is processed from the des.... ruction | + | |
- | Primitive man struck a balance with nature. He fished, hunted or gathered | + | Everything that bushwalkers take with them is processed from the destruction |
- | roots necessary for his sustenance, and he did not breed more than the fish, animals or wild plants. The aborigines of Australia were able to sustain | + | |
- | life in an arid continent without destroying it or making it more arid. | + | In the days before tourism I used to camp alone at Kosciusko. I certainly did nature no harm, and no one could have told where I had camped. |
- | We are not. I do not suggest that primitive man had any more concern for | + | |
- | the well-being of nature than we have but his lack of knowledge, experience and technology did not hurt nature. He was therefore incapable of injuring | + | And what about all those lovely virgin peaks in New Zealand which I joyfully put in my rucksack? In addition to all the processed food and garments one expedition took an axe to cut wood for burning, and of course access routes were always made for others. We did not leave nature any better for despoiling virgin peaks, but worse. |
- | it. But we are. (The only objection to the set-up of primitive man was | + | |
- | that Germain Greer might have had a more uphill task than she has today!) | + | Finally, all these things |
- | In the days before tourism I used to camp alone at Kosciusko. I | + | |
- | certainly did nature no harm, and no one could have told where I had camped. | + | Well, Marion, what is your remedy, perhaps Sheila might help you formulate a reply? But frankly, I cannot see that bushwalkers |
- | ut what about my rucksack, my matches, | + | |
- | clothing, my tent and groundsheet? | + | ---- |
- | world had increased the world' | + | |
- | helped to swell the size of his genealogical tree! In China we read that they have the slogan, "Two children are all right, but one is better" | + | ===== The Blue Breaks |
- | hope to keep Australia as a pleasure | + | |
- | has none by that time, even if we took up China' | + | |
- | And what about all those lovely virgin peaks in New Zealand which I joyfully put in my rucksack? In addition to all the processed food and | + | |
- | garments one expedition took an axe to cut wood for burning, and of course | + | |
- | access routes were always made for others. We did not leave nature any | + | |
- | better for despoiling virgin peaks, but worse. | + | |
- | Finally, all these things | + | |
- | motor cars for all, with the result that you now go as far as the road and then walk, and then get the road lengthened so that you can walk further, and go on getting it lengthened until there is no place to walk further. | + | |
- | Well9 Marion, what is your remedy, perhaps Sheila might help you | + | |
- | formulate a reply? But frankly, I cannot see that bushwaikers, | + | |
- | aineers | + | |
- | , Al- | + | |
- | Page 9 TEE SYDNEY BUSHWALICER March, 1974. | + | |
- | THE BLUE MEALS - TEMPO IARGHETTO. | + | |
by Jim Brown. | by Jim Brown. | ||
- | Of course, walking in the Blue Breaks country in JaEuary | + | |
- | fall as though the pianist is working it out as he goes along. So I traversed a large lump of the Southern Blue Mountains hissing Mozart' | + | Of course, walking in the Blue Breaks country in January |
- | Departure was from Kanangra Walls in the dawning light of Wednesday, | + | |
- | January 30th. Then back about a mile along the road and south across the .-. - | + | Departure was from Kanangra Walls in the dawning light of Wednesday, January 30th. Then back about a mile along the road and south across the dew soaked Marrilman Heath, while "the bloody sun uprose" |
- | dew soaked. Marrilman Heath, while "the bloody sun uprose" | + | |
- | take one around the western faces of Mounts | + | Just beyond Arabanoo I made my only considerable navigational boo-boo of the whole trip. Following an animal pad I slewed a bit far north at one of the several cliffy sections of the ridge. Too late, after losing so much height I was unwilling to scramble back up to the main ridge, I noted a rocky cone ahead of me beyond |
- | steadily down along the ridge to Et. Ardbanoo. All this was done at a sauntering pace, with pauses to peer down into the chasm of Christy' | + | |
- | Just beyond Arabanoo I made my only considerable navigational boo-boo of the whole trip. Following an animal pad I slewed a bit far north at ono of the several cliffy sections of the ridge. Too late, after losing so much height I was unwilling to scramble back up to the main ridge, I noted a rocky cone ahead of me beyong | + | A good restful time there, trying to make up my mind whether to assault the Bulga Range just opposite - it looked rather severe for climbing on a warm afternoon - or whether to seek a less steep ridge upstream. The Kowmung was flowing strongly but not difficult to cross and finally I opted for Bulga. Only 1400 ft. to climb, but I spent two hours over it with the afternoon sun very hot on my back, then another hour along the fairly level ridge top to emerge on the Water Board' |
- | A gocid restful time there, trying to make up my mind whether to | + | |
- | assault the Bulga Range just opposite - it looked rather severe for climbing on a warm afternoon - or whether to seek a less steep ridge upstream. The Kowmung was flowing strongly but not difficult to cross and. finally I opted for Bulga. Only 1400 ft. to climb, but I spent two hours over it with the afternoon sun very hot on my back, then another hour along the fairly level ridge top to emerge on the Water Board' | + | During the night it occurred to me that the following day would be the Thursday after the Australia Day holiday - and it was on the same day 33 years previously I had first passed through Yerranderie on the sixth day of an eight-days solo jaunt from Wentworth Falls to Bowral. Of course, Yerranderie was still a going concern in 1941, and I had visited the store to buy a packet of Sao biscuits, a tin of beef, ½lb of cheese and two bottles of lemonade - which I remember I drank between West and East Yerranderie so they wouldn' |
- | During the night it occurred to me that the following day would be | + | |
- | Page 10 TIM SYDNEY BUSHWALICER March, 1974. | + | Thursday' |
- | the Thursday after the Australia Day holiday - and it was on the same day 33 years previously I had first passed through Yerranderie on the sixth | + | |
- | day of an eight-days solo jaunt from Wentworth Falls to Bowral. Of course, Yerranderie was still a going concern in 1941, and I had visited the store | + | The morning promised another brilliant summer day as I passed at 7.0 a.m. through West Yerranderie, |
- | to by a packet of Sao biscuits, a tin of beef, jib of cheese and two | + | |
- | bottles of lemonade - which I remember I drank between West and East - | + | From the gap it was a little over an hour along the ridge bearing E.N.E. to the top of Amphitheatre Pass (reference Burragorang 293912) and about ¾ hour down the rift into Lacy's Creek, for a midday rest-up at 1.30 p.m. Over lunch I came to the conclusion that the densely-grown banks were " |
- | Yerranderie so they wouldn' | + | |
- | Thursday' | + | The upper part of Lacy's Creek descends quite gradually, and even after the liberal January rains, the stream was only a few inches in depth, running crisply over a sand and pebble floor between a forest containing many tree ferns and pale slender smooth-boled trees shining in the afternoon |
- | journey, repeating a section of Lacy's Creek, I had once before visited, | + | |
- | leading a rather ill-starred trip in August | + | I am convinced that I cut back to the creek too soon after skirting the cascades on the west bank, as the going down in the floor of the valley remained slow and difficult until I finally halted for the night at 7.45 at the first possible campsite, still several hundred yards short of the junction of the North arm of Lacy's Creek. |
- | party covered the upper section of Lacy's Creek at Easter 1970, and as their accounts of the trip didn't indicate delay due to thorny vegetation, | + | |
- | I was eager to have another look. | + | The account in the magazine of the Easter |
- | The morning promised another brilliant summer day as I passed at 7.0 a m. through West Yerranderie, | + | |
- | ridge down to the Tonalli River that wouldn' | + | The climb out, commenced at 1.0 p.m., proved mercifully short, as the rain forest on the ridge was mighty tangled. At the top of the slope the cliffy area was easily outflanked on the northern face and access to the plateau gained at about contour 2000'. The ridge continued to rise, bringing me to a fine vantage point on a ring contour 2450 ft. just after 2.0 p.m. This place commands a far-ranging view, especially |
- | through thick scrub, and it was 9.30 when I recrossed the river and started up the ridge which leads to the prominent rocky headland which identifies Lacy's Gap. Seventeen hundred feet steady climb to the pass, tempo | + | |
- | larghetto - two hours to reach the cliff and skirt around to the pass | + | Maps show an almost unbroken cliff line along the eastern side of the gorge of Green Wattle Creek, but at reference |
- | which is a few hundred yards around to the west. | + | |
- | From the gap it was a little over an hour along the ridge bearing E.N.E. to the top of Amphitheatre Pass (reference Burragorang 293912) | + | This was almost the end of that part of the walk which demanded any navigational care. Departing before 7.0 on the Saturday morning, the climb up into the Break took just under an hour: the descent into Butchers Creek roughly another hour, and after a brief spell I was crawling at my familiar funereal march pace up the Big Stringybark Range, which deposited me on the Water Board Road along Scotts Main Range at 10.45 a.m. It took only another hour to pass the site of Bran Jan House and drop down the road to the Kowmung, where the weirs and gauging stations of the Water Board were all new intrusions since I'd been thereabouts perhaps ten years previously. |
- | and about IL hour down the rift into Lacy's Creek, for a midday rest-up | + | |
- | at 1.30 p m. Over lunch I came to the conclusion that the densely-grown banks were " | + | I had intended a good rest by the river before making the assault on the long but gradually graded Gingra Ridge trail. Instead, driven |
- | .above the stream on the south side. Progress here was fair if not fast, | + | |
- | but after about an hour a steep crumbling slope drove me back to the | + | ---- |
- | creekside, and I now came to a new conclusion. | + | |
- | The upper part of Lacy's Creek descends quite gradually, and even after the liberal January rains, the stream was only a few inches in depth, running crisply over a sand and pebble floor between a forest containing many tree ferns and pale slender smooth-boled trees shin#glin theft2towinnon | + | === Mountain Equipment. === |
- | along, startling the red-and-:blue yabbies. This is undoubtedly the way | + | |
- | to do Lacy-'s Creek, and if my progress was little more than a mile an hour, it was relatively effortless, and at 6.30 p m. I came to the big north bend at The Prow and shortly afterwards scrambled down beside the waterfalls where Lacy's drops several hundred feet very rapidly. | + | If you are... |
- | am convinced that I cut back to the creek too soon after-skirting | + | |
- | the cascades on the west bank, as the going down in the floor of the | + | Buying or hiring. Hiring or buying. |
- | valley remained slow and difficult until I finally halted for the night at 7.45 at the first possible campsite, still several hundred yards short | + | |
- | a | + | Gear for... |
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- | of the junction of the North arm of Lacy's Creek. | + | Walking... Camping... Climbing... Canoeing... Walking... Camping... Climbing... Canoeing... |
- | The account in the magazine of the aster '70 trip told_ me that | + | |
- | the party took between-3 and 3-i- bra. to cover the 2*- miles along North | + | Think of __Mountain Equipment__. |
- | Lacy' | + | |
- | most of the following morning. It did. Turning into North Lacy's at 7.30 a m. it was 11.45 before I identified the creek junction and the | + | 17 Alexander Street, Crow's Nest. 2065. (On the corner of Falcon Street) Telephone 439-3454. |
- | foot of the spur. North Lacy's has no especial difficulties. The banks are less densely | + | |
- | creek descends more rapidly and the rock-hopping is simply slow work.-..My | + | |
- | rate of advance proved | + | |
- | The climb out, commenced at 1.0 p m., proved mercifully short, as the | + | |
- | rain forest on the ridge was mighty tangled. At the top of the slope the cliffy area was easily outflanked on the northern face and access to,the | + | |
- | plateau gained at about contour 2000'. The ridge continued to rise, bringing me to a fine vantage point on a ring contour 2450 ft. just after 2.0 p m. This place commands a far-ranging view, especially | + | |
- | Maps show an almost unbroken cliff line along the eastern side of the gorge of Green Wattle Creek, but at reference | + | |
- | 6.45 p m. | + | |
- | This was almost the end of that part of the walk which demanded any | + | |
- | navigational care. Departing before 7.0 on the Saturday morning, the climb up into the Break took just under an hour: the descent into Butchers Creek roughly another hour, and after a brief spell I was crawling at my familiar funereal march pace up the Big Stringybark Range, which deposited | + | |
- | me on the Water Board Road along Scotts Main Range at 10.45 a m. It took | + | |
- | only another hour to pass the site of Bran Jan House and drop dawn the road to the Kowmung, where the weirs and gauging stations of the Water - | + | |
- | Board were all new intrusions since I'd been thereabouts perhaps ten years previously. | + | |
- | I had intended a good rest by the river before making the assault on the long but gradually graded Gingra Ridge trail. Instead, driven | + | |
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- | OUNTAIN **********************-x- | + | |
- | XXX********************* | + | |
- | EQuIpmENT ********************* | + | |
- | * *.* * * * * * * * * * * | + | |
- | IF YOU ARE | + | |
- | BUYING OR HIRING HIRING OR BUYLIG | + | |
- | BUMTG OR HIRING HIRING OR BUYING | + | |
- | GEAR FOR | + | |
- | WALKING | + | |
- | WALKING | + | |
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- | 00000. CANOWING yoga*** | + | |
- | THINK OF | + | |
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- | FAIRYDOWN STRFPING BAGS | + | |
- | HIGH LOAD PACKS Weight | + | Fairydown sleeping bags, high load packs (weight |
- | AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS YOU COULD POSSIBLY NEED | + | |
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- | of Gingra | + | ===== |
- | othermin, | + | |
- | light of 8.25 p m. | + | === Saturday, March 30th and Sunday March 31st. === |
- | .************ | + | |
- | N.S.W. | + | __Map__: Morrisset |
- | ....Saturdays Earca:L.30th and Sunday March 31st.,. | + | |
- | EAPs Morisset | + | All retired and ex-members of Clubs are invited to attend and meet old friends. |
- | Drive north along the Calga Expressway, past the Oak Est. turn left | + | |
- | at Upper Mangrove sign and proceed to the Springs Road (sign posted). Turn right and continue through to " | + | __How to Get There - From Sydney__. |
- | junction, take the right hand fork (Ravensdale), | + | |
+ | Drive north along the Calga Expressway, past the Oak Est. turn left at Upper Mangrove sign and proceed to the Springs Road (sign posted). Turn right and continue through to " | ||
Black and yellow F.B.W. signs will mark route. | Black and yellow F.B.W. signs will mark route. | ||
- | Programme will include tent erecting, billy boiling and plain and | + | |
- | fancy damper and bush brownie cake competitions. All competition cooking | + | Programme will include tent erecting, billy boiling and plain and fancy damper and bush brownie cake competitions. All competition cooking to be performed on the site. A forum will be held to permit members to air their views on Federation, so bring along your ideas for discussion. A meeting of Walks Secretaries will also be held during the weekend. A campfire and sing-song will be held on Saturday evening. Clubs and groups are requested to arrange short entertainment items for the campfire. |
- | to be performed on the site. A forum will be held to permit members to air | + | |
- | their views on Federation, so bring along your ideas for discussion. A meeting of Walks Secretaries will also be held during the weekend. A campfire and sing-song will be held on Saturday evening. Clubs and groups are requested to arrange short entertainment items for the campfire. | + | __Supper |
- | Supper | + | |
- | EMBERS ARE REQUESTED TO REFRAIN FROM THE CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES AT THE CAMPFIRE BEFORE SUPPER IS SERVED. | + | Members are requested to refrain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages at the campfire before supper is served. |
- | NO bottles, tins, etc. to be thrown into the Campfire. | + | |
- | Please | + | No bottles, tins, etc. to be thrown into the Campfire. |
- | ORGANISING COMMITTEE | + | |
- | Page 14 THE SYDNEY BUSH AIR March9 1974. | + | __Please |
- | 1974.. | + | |
- | The following | + | ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Warwick Daniels (te1.29-8331(B)), Jan Wouters, Gordon Edgecombe (tel.84-3404 (H)). |
- | President VicePresidents | + | |
- | Secretary | + | ---- |
- | Assistant Secretary Treasurer | + | |
- | Walks Secretary Social Secretary | + | ===== S.B.W. Office Bearers - 1974. ===== |
- | Membership Secretary Committee Members | + | |
- | Federation Delegates | + | The following |
- | Barry Wallace Bob Younger | + | |
- | Spiro Ketas Helen Gray | + | |President|Barry Wallace*| |
- | Margaret Richards Frank Roberts Bob Hodgson Owen Marks Margaret Reid' | + | |Vice-Presidents|Bob Younger*, Spiro Ketas*| |
- | Frank Taeker | + | |Secretary|Helen Gray*| |
- | Alistair Battye | + | |Assistant Secretary|Margaret Richards*| |
- | o - | + | |Treasurer|Frank Roberts*| |
- | Substitution Federation | + | |Walks Secretary|Bob Hodgson*| |
- | Delegates | + | |Social Secretary|Owen Marks*| |
- | Conservation Secretary Alex Colley | + | |Membership Secretary|Margaret Reid*| |
- | Literary Editor Spiro Ketas | + | |Committee Members|Rosemary Edmunds*, Diana Lynn*, Frank Taeker*, Alistair Battye*| |
- | Magazine Business Manager Bill Burke | + | |Federation Delegates|Spiro Ketas*, Frank Malloy*, Mike Short, Evelyn Welker| |
- | Duplicator Operator Frank Tacker Keeper of Maps & Timetables John Holly | + | |Substitution Federation |
- | Equipment Hire Frank'Taeker | + | |Conservation Secretary|Alex Colley| |
- | Search & Rescue Contacts Elsie Bruggy Heather White | + | |Literary Editor|Spiro Ketas| |
- | Christa Younger | + | |Magazine Business Manager|Bill Burke| |
- | Archivist Phil Butt | + | |Duplicator Operator|Frank Tacker| |
- | Projectionist Frank Tacker | + | |Keeper of Maps & Timetables|John Holly| |
- | Auditor Gordon Redmond | + | |Equipment Hire|Frank Taeker| |
- | Solicitor Colin Broad | + | |Search & Rescue Contacts|Elsie Bruggy, Heather White, Christa Younger| |
- | Trustees Heather White Bill Burke | + | |Archivist|Phil Butt| |
- | Gordon Redmond | + | |Projectionist|Frank Tacker| |
- | Management Committee " | + | |Auditor|Gordon Redmond| |
- | Kangaroo Valley property. Owen Marks Spiro Ketas George Gray Bill Gillam | + | |Solicitor|Colin Broad| |
+ | |Trustees|Heather White, Bill Burke, Gordon Redmond| | ||
+ | |Management Committee " | ||
* Indicates member of the Committee. | * Indicates member of the Committee. | ||
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- | Page 15 THE SYDITETY BUSHWALICER March, 1974. | ||
- | WALKS SECRETARY'S NOTES FOR APRIL. | + | ---- |
+ | |||
+ | ===== Walks Secretary's Notes For April. | ||
by Wilf Hilder. | by Wilf Hilder. | ||
- | 1974 | + | |
- | 5-6-7 April - Alan Pike gets the April walks rolling with this | + | |1974| | |
- | intrepid Cedar Creek and Ht. Solitary trip. Some scrambling on Walls Pass into Cedar Creek, with some rock-hopping down the creek to a good ridge onto Korrowall. The pass on the Buttress is very exposed - but the views are world beaters. Some mild exposure on the descent of | + | |5-6-7 April|Alan Pike gets the April walks rolling with this intrepid Cedar Creek and Mt. Solitary trip. Some scrambling on Walls Pass into Cedar Creek, with some rock-hopping down the creek to a good ridge onto Korrowall. The pass on the Buttress is very exposed - but the views are world beaters. Some mild exposure on the descent of Solitary to Ruined Castle. Good tracks back to the vehicles.| |
- | Solitary-to Ruined Castle. Good tracks back to the vehicles. | + | |5-6-7 April|A Wolgan test walk with Rod Peters. Glorious scenery down in the most scenic canyon in N.S.W. (with lush campsites |
- | 5-6-7 April - A Wolgan test walk with Rod Peters. Glorious scenery down in the most scenic canyon in N.S.W. (with lush camp- | + | |Sunday |
- | sites laid on). Could be a bit scrubby up Dean Creek but good going through Constance Gorge and down to the ruins of Mt. Wolgan Railway Station complete with rolling stock. Please book early for this trip. | + | |Easter: 11 -15 April|NOT ON PROGRAMME! An additional walk in the Snowy Mts. has been arranged by David Rostron. Munyang Power Station - Whites Hut - Schlink Pass - Gungartan |
- | Sund, | + | |Easter: 11 -15 April|Bob Younger is leading this interesting test walk down ye Kowmung from Bats Camp at Bindook. Easy going on good tracks down Lannigans Creek to beautiful Kowmung River. Grassy banks and lush campsites to Church Creek - with a steep climb up Mt. Armour. Good tracks back to the vehicles with another climb out of Lannigans Creek to Bats Camp. Please book early for this trip.| |
- | scenery and company. Special excursion rail tickets to Waterfall. | + | |Easter: 11 -15 April|Uncle Joe Marton carries the flag to the ' |
- | Easter: | + | |19-20-21 |
- | 11 -15 April - NOT ON PROGRAMME: An additional walk in the Snowy Mts. | + | |19-20-21 |
- | has been arranged by David Rostron. Munyang Power Station- Whites Hut - Schlink Pass - Gumgartan | + | |Sunday |
- | D.C.B.)- Rolling Grounds - Mt. Tate - Guthega. Distance about 77 kilometres (48 m.) with a lot of hill climbing. Grading:- Hard. Tel.No.451-7943. | + | |Sunday 21|No, it's not a misprint! Uncle David is leading this Heathcote Creek walk, in person. Good tracks all the way except from Mt. Westmacott to Myuna Creek. Very pleasant scenery on this medium walk. Special excursion rail tickets to Waterfall.| |
- | Easter: | + | |Anzac Day Thursday 25|What a good way to put in a day - Solitary in a day with Uncle Joe Marton! Early start on this great walk please bring your tiger shoes. Tracks all the way with some scrambling onto Mt. Solitary. Excellent scenery with an unusual range of vegetation.| |
- | 11 -15 April - Bob Younger is leading this interesting test walk down ye | + | |Thursday 25|Uncle Sam Hinde (no relation to that 3rd rate T.V. commercial) leads this easy walk to Marley from Bundeena. Excellent tracks and Aboriginal relics on this ever popular walk. Train to Cronulla |
- | Kowmung from Bats Camp at Bindook. Easy going on good. tracks down Lannigans Creek to beautiful Kowmung River. Grassy banks and lush campsites to Church Creek - with a steep climb up Mt. Armour. Good tracks back to the vehicles with another climb out of Lannigans Creek to Bats Camp. Please book early for this trip. | + | |26-27-28 |
- | Easter: | + | |27-28 April|Saturday morning start on this day and a half ramble around |
- | 11 -15 April - Uncle Joe Marton carries the flag to the ' | + | |Sunday 28|Uncle Bill Hall winds up our April walks with a classic test walk from Waterfall to Loftus. Good tracks for about half the distance with new maps available of Otford and Port Hacking for you to follows the walk on. Special excursion rail tickets to Waterfall.| |
- | a base camp day walks will be arranged to take in all the magnificent graded tracks that go to the scenic highlights of this tremendous area. Please book early to make the transport arrangements as smooth as possible. | + | |26-27-28 |
- | 19-20-21 Tony Denham' | + | |
- | April (1800 hours EST or 700 hours Greenwich | + | Candid off-the-cuff comments |
- | Page 16 TISYD1. BUSHWALKER March9 1974. | + | |
- | 19-20-21 "Old Father Cox keeps rolling | + | I am deeply grateful to our retiring president for his help in many ways and I am even more indebted |
- | April sea", so they say. Hans Beck is leading a test trip to | + | |
- | see 00F.Cox down the Six Foot Track, over Mini Mini Saddle and down Little | + | |
- | Slanday | + | ---- |
- | by Wilf Hilder (who I can safely | + | |
- | previously). Wilf's map reading instruction may be put to good use especially if he gets lost and earns a large slice of humble pie. Very early start from Sydney and starting time at Carrington Falls will be around 8.00 hrs. Quite a bit of rockhopping | + | ===== Social Secretary's Notes For April. |
- | Sunday 21 No9 it's not a misprint! Uncle David is leading this Heathcote Creek walk9 in person. Good tracks all the way | + | |
- | except from Et. Westmacott to Hyuna Creek. Very pleasant scenery on this medium walk. Special excursion rail tickets to Waterfall. | + | |
- | Anzac Day What a:. good- way to put in a day Solitary in a day with | + | |
- | Thursday 25 Uncle Joe Marton! Early start on this great walk please bring your tiger shoes. Tracks all the way with some scrambling onto Mt. Solitary. Excellent scenery with an unusual range of vegetation. | + | |
- | Thursday 25 Uncle Sam Hinde (no relation to that 3rd rate T.V. commercial) leads this easy walk to Marley from Bundeena. Excellent tracks and Aboriginal relics on this ever popular walk. | + | |
- | Train to Cronulla special excursion ticket and very pleasant ferry. ride across Port Hacking to Bundeena. | + | |
- | 26-27-28 Base camp at George and Helen Gray's land at Wood-hill | + | |
- | and short walks from camp. Helen Gray is your leader and | + | |
- | organiser please ring her now and let her know you're coming. | + | |
- | 27-28 April 7 Saturday morning start on this day and a half ramble around. | + | |
- | Ilt.Wilson with our Glad Gladys Roberts. Beautiful | + | |
- | Sunday 28 Uncle Bill Hall winds up our April walks with a classic test walk from Waterfall to Loftus. Good tracks for about half the distance with new maps available of Otford and Port Hacking for you to follows-the walk on. Special excursion rail tickets to Waterfall. | + | |
- | Page 1 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1974. | + | |
- | 26-27-28 | + | |
- | April test walk starting from Clyde River, and taking in Talaterang and Pigeon House. Could. be scrubby on Talaterang, but the scenery is magnificent. Spectacular lookout on Pigeon House. Please book early - Budawang walks are popular. | + | |
- | Candid off-the-cuff comments | + | |
- | no one should hold this office for more than two years. Some ten years | + | |
- | ago I also held the office for two years. Any walks secretary who is | + | |
- | worth his or her salt should be running out of ideas after two years. Without new ideas and new blood the programme stagnates - after 47 years, | + | |
- | I am deeply grateful to our retiring president for his help in many ways and I 'am even more indebted_ | + | |
- | laboured into the wee small hours to typo the programmes and walks notes. It is my fervent wish that you will support the incoming Walks Secretary even better than you have supported me. | + | |
- | ************* | + | |
- | SOCIAL SECRETARY'S NOTES FOR APRIL. | + | |
by Elaine Brown. | by Elaine Brown. | ||
- | April 17th - Map Reading Training night by Wilf Hilder and helped by | + | |
- | Carl Bock. Here is a chance to have some personal tuition by these two vary experienced bushwalkers. If you have any questions which I know a lot of us have when it comes to map reading, tame along with a map (1:63,360) | + | April 17th - Map Reading Training night by Wilf Hilder and helped by Carl Bock. Here is a chance to have some personal tuition by these two very experienced bushwalkers. If you have any questions which I know a lot of us have when it comes to map reading, tame along with a map (1:63,360) and your Silva compass, and ask these two experienced members. A Canadian film on Orienteering in the terrain will be screened during the night. |
- | and your Silva compass, and ask these two experienced members. A Canadian film on Orienteering in the terrain will be screened during the night. | + | |
- | On April 24th9 Fran Christie will give her talk and slide showing on | + | On April 24th, Fran Christie will give her talk and slide showing on China. I think we have visited nearly every country in the world with slides from members but never China, so this should prove a very interesting evening. |
- | China. I think we have visited nearly every country in the world with slides from members but never China, so this should prove a very interesting | + | |
- | evening. | + | ---- |
- | *--X-X-Xxx x****** | + | |
Also at the Annual General Meeting the Amount of Annual Subscriptions was determined as follows:- | Also at the Annual General Meeting the Amount of Annual Subscriptions was determined as follows:- | ||
- | Full Members $7.00 p a. | + | |
- | Married Couples $9.00 p a. | + | Full Members $7.00 p.a.\\ |
- | Full-time Students $4.00 p a. | + | Married Couples $9.00 p.a.\\ |
+ | Full-time Students $4.00 p.a. | ||
Members are reminded that these fees are due and payable. | Members are reminded that these fees are due and payable. | ||
+ | |||
Subscriptions of Non-Active Members wiU be determined by the Committee and advised next month. | Subscriptions of Non-Active Members wiU be determined by the Committee and advised next month. | ||
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- | EUROPE IN MIDT7MER. | ||
- | by Frances_eolley._ | ||
- | (Frances has just retUrned from a nine week tour, with her friend Mary Brennan, of Europe starting with the Scandinavian countries. Here are some extracts from her letters home.) | ||
- | 2212=L12Z11: | ||
- | is on exhibition. Caught the bus from town and driver told us where to get | ||
- | off. Then we had about imile walk through houses to the exhibition. Very | ||
- | beautiful - like walking through a series of giant Christmas cards. Large two-storey houses, many painted white, set amongst silver birches and blue | ||
- | spruces on quite large blocks of land. Some houses had moorings on edge of water. It is so very true that you do see so much more on foot - we find | ||
- | we are walking nearly everywhere. | ||
- | It is light in this part of the world only from about 8 a m. to 4 p m. Then completely dark. We had dinner at about 4.30 p m. The town is dead - | ||
- | seems to be no night life at all and this is Saturday night. Mary and I find the darkness hard to get used to, but find that about 5 p m. we are | ||
- | exhausted, at any rate. | ||
- | There is obviously not such strict control over town planning in Oslo | ||
- | as in Stockholm - very narrow higgledy-piggledy streets. Most surfaces | ||
- | just cobblestones covered with tar, worn away in many places with, | ||
- | are being constantly ripped up - barricades everywhere. We didn't see any | ||
- | in Stockholm. We are staying behind the Royal Palace. This stands on a hill overlooking the town. Jal_get to town we have to walk through beautiful grounds of the palace - a large park - all covered with snow. They cover all paths here with sand to prevent slipping on the ice. | ||
- | 2212.=_L12/ | ||
- | at back of Oslo (called Tryvann Hills)' | ||
- | The view from the top was spectacular - lovely pine covered snowy hills. Very much like Australian Alps in shape of terrain and number of trees. We were to have gone to top of Tryvannstarnet (a tower) to have views of 11,600 sq. miles, but this was closed as they were working on it. Obviously this is one of the main recreational areas of Oslo. Many people walking or langlaufing - area covered with marked ski trails. We went for a walk in the forest - Mary has trouble on the ice with her leather soled. boots and fell over several times. We soon, learnt that I had to hang on to her in dangerous sections. | ||
- | Bergen 5/12/73: At tourist information we found out we could have train | ||
- | trip to Plain which is a town on a beautiful fjord a few hours from Oslo. | ||
- | With Eurail passes this won't cost us anything. The next day we will leave Bergen for Stanargen by hydrofoil - a 4 hour journey, and catch the trqin from there back to Oslo around the southern Dart of Norway. | ||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Europe In Midwinter. | ||
+ | |||
+ | by Frances Colley. | ||
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+ | (Frances has just returned from a nine week tour, with her friend Mary Brennan, of Europe starting with the Scandinavian countries. Here are some extracts from her letters home.) | ||
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+ | __Oslo - 1/12/73__: This afternoon we went out to see Kon Tiki raft, which is on exhibition. Caught the bus from town and driver told us where to get off. Then we had about ¾mile walk through houses to the exhibition. Very beautiful - like walking through a series of giant Christmas cards. Large two-storey houses, many painted white, set amongst silver birches and blue spruces on quite large blocks of land. Some houses had moorings on edge of water. It is so very true that you do see so much more on foot - we find we are walking nearly everywhere. | ||
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+ | It is light in this part of the world only from about 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Then completely dark. We had dinner at about 4.30 p.m. The town is dead - seems to be no night life at all and this is Saturday night. Mary and I find the darkness hard to get used to, but find that about 5 p.m. we are exhausted, at any rate. | ||
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+ | There is obviously not such strict control over town planning in Oslo as in Stockholm - very narrow higgledy-piggledy streets. Most surfaces just cobblestones covered with tar, worn away in many places with cobblestones underneath. Town has trams and quite a few buses. Like Sydney, streets are being constantly ripped up - barricades everywhere. We didn't see any in Stockholm. We are staying behind the Royal Palace. This stands on a hill overlooking the town. To get to town we have to walk through beautiful grounds of the palace - a large park - all covered with snow. They cover all paths here with sand to prevent slipping on the ice. | ||
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+ | __Oslo - 2/12/73__: Caught lovely little two-carriage train up a 2000 ft hill at back of Oslo (called Tryvann Hills). We went up with all the langlaufers - there is a lot of it done here - shops selling gear everywhere. Apparently too early in winter for any downhill skiing lift-tows to be working. They strap their skis onto special racks on outside of train. You pay conductor inside the train - red leather seats and huge glass windows. | ||
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+ | The view from the top was spectacular - lovely pine covered snowy hills. Very much like Australian Alps in shape of terrain and number of trees. We were to have gone to top of Tryvannstarnet (a tower) to have views of 11,600 sq. miles, but this was closed as they were working on it. Obviously this is one of the main recreational areas of Oslo. Many people walking or langlaufing - area covered with marked ski trails. We went for a walk in the forest - Mary has trouble on the ice with her leather soled boots and fell over several times. We soon learnt that I had to hang on to her in dangerous sections. | ||
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+ | __Bergen 5/12/73__: At tourist information we found out we could have train trip to Flam which is a town on a beautiful fjord a few hours from Oslo. With Eurail passes this won't cost us anything. The next day we will leave Bergen for Stanargen by hydrofoil - a 4 hour journey, and catch the train from there back to Oslo around the southern part of Norway. | ||
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