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 The original plan was to do three fairly evenly timed days, getting water from Butchers Creek for Friday night. However, the drought altered that since we had discovered on Alan Doherty's Easter walk that Butchers Creek was pretty dry. So Friday and Sunday were short days but Saturday was real macho stuff (well, to me, anyway), a day we all agreed that even Bill Capon would have been proud of. Aside from our gallant leader, Peter Miller, the party consisted of Fusae and Ray Dargan, Bob Duncan, Bob King and myself.
-We started off from Kanangra Walls at about 8.30 on Friday morning, having earlier met up with George Walton's party of about 20 people. The weather was lovely and clear for the whole weekend. Real drought weather!! The views were terrific, a real contrast Peter told us to the last time he'd been there as it had been bucketing rain then. So off through that
-scratchy heath we went, to have morning tea on the top of Cottage Rock and
+We started off from Kanangra Walls at about 8.30 on Friday morning, having earlier met up with George Walton's party of about 20 people. The weather was lovely and clear for the whole weekend. Real drought weather!! The views were terrific, a real contrast Peter told us to the last time he'd been there as it had been bucketing rain then. So off through that scratchy heath we went, to have morning tea on the top of Cottage Rock and then on down Roote's Ridge to be on the Kowmung by 12. Some of us had a "swim" if you can call jumping in, gasping, and then jumping out again a swim. It was quite cold. After having lunch we crossed the river on rocks to keep fairly dry feet (yes, that's how low the Kowmung is) and took about an hour to find the "perfect" campsite. It's amazing how choosy you are when you have all afternoon. Happy hour started early with lots of goodies with all of us lightening our packs for the next day. We all slept
-then on down Roote's Ridge to be on the Kowmung by 12. Some of us had a
-"swim" if you can call jumping in, gasping, and then jumping out again a
-swim. It was quite cold. After having lunch we crossed the river on
-rocks to keep fairly dry feet (yes, that's how low the Kowmung is) and took
-about an hour to find the "perfect" campsite. It's amazing how choosy you
-are when you have all afternoon. Happy hour started early with lots of
-goodies with all of us lightening our packs for the next day. We all slept
 out on Friday night, not putting up flies, as there was no moisture in the air.
-We were up at 6 so that we could be away by 7. We all carried enough water for the whole day as we didn't expect to see any before returning to the Kowmung. It was a pleasant walk up the ridge and onto Scott's Main
-Range fire trail. It is one of those lovely, open ridges which is not too
+We were up at 6 so that we could be away by 7. We all carried enough water for the whole day as we didn't expect to see any before returning to the Kowmung. It was a pleasant walk up the ridge and onto Scott's Main Range fire trail. It is one of those lovely, open ridges which is not too steep. Then we had the first bit of tricky navigation, to find the right ridge down into Butchers Creek. When we got down into the creek, we discovered a fairly big water hole. We all had a good drink with morning tea (although we didn't have enough time to boil a billy), and then up the ridge on the other side of the creek to then stand below the northern end of the Axe Head. It was intimidating standing there with that mountain
-steep. Then we had the first bit of tricky navigation, to find the right
-ridge down into Butchers Creek. When we got down into the creek, we liscovered a fairly big water hole. We all had a good drink with morning tea (although we didn't have enough time to boil a billy), and then up the ridge on the other side of the creek to then stand below the northern end
-Jf the Axe Head. It was intimidating standing there with that mountain
 locoing above us, magnificent in the bright sunshine.
- The next section was a slippery scramble to get up on top. It was
-one of those "one-step-forward, one-step-back" ridges until, tired, studded
+The next section was a slippery scramble to get up on top. It was one of those "one-step-forward, one-step-back" ridges until, tired, studded with prickles but triumphant, we all emerged on the top. After a short break and lured on by Peter's promises of lunch soon, we started along the top of the range. The views were terrific with 3600 panoramas. What amazed me was the narrowness of the top with some sections being only 4 or 5 metres wide. It was with some relief that we flopped down to have lunch, sheltering from a brisk breeze. After he'd eaten, Ray wandered off a little way to sketch and produced a really lovely drawing in about ten minutes.
-with prickles but triumphant, we all emerged on the top. After a short
-break and lured on by Peter's promises of lunch soon, we started along the
-top of the range. The views were terrific with 3600 panoramas. What
-amazed me was the narrowness of the top with some sections being only 4 or
- etres wide. It was with some relief that we flopped down to have lunch,
-sheltering from a brisk breeze. After he'd eaten, Ray wandered off a little way to sketch and produced a really lovely drawing in about ten minutes.
 On the move again after lunch, we sometimes went over the top of the rocky outcrops and sometimes sidled around them until eventually we reached Mount Tonalli, right at the end of the range and looked down into Byrnes Gap. We followed a very clear track down until it mysteriously ran out, but after a bit of exploration by Bob King and Peter, we scrambled down a track which followed a gully down, a little further back from where we'd been.
-At Byrnes Gap, we had a bit of a break, sitting on the grass beside the fire trail. If my memory is correct, it was about 2.30 by the time we left there and walked along the fire trail for about 3i km which seemed, at that stage of the day, to be all up hill. We left the fire trail at Mount Kowmung and climbed 60 m so that we were just under the cliff line and we then sidled around the base until we found the right ridge to follow down to Church Creek and thence to the Kowmung River.
-We resisted the temptation to take the wrong ridge; it was too late in the day to make that sort of error and be likely to get away with it.
+At Byrnes Gap, we had a bit of a break, sitting on the grass beside the fire trail. If my memory is correct, it was about 2.30 by the time we left there and walked along the fire trail for about 3 km which seemed, at that stage of the day, to be all up hill. We left the fire trail at Mount Kowmung and climbed 60 m so that we were just under the cliff line and we then sidled around the base until we found the right ridge to follow down to Church Creek and thence to the Kowmung River. We resisted the temptation to take the wrong ridge; it was too late in the day to make that sort of error and be likely to get away with it.
 It was fairly rough and scratchy until we were actually on the ridge. However, a little way on, Peter identified Chiddy Obelisk off to the left, which gave us all "The Warm Fuzzies" that the navigation was correct. We chooffed off down the ridge which, for the most part, descended gently and then dropped into Church Creek. Then we cruised along the Creek, back to the Kowmung in failing light just before 6 pm. We threw ourselves onto the ground (luckily, no one was camped there) and enjoyed being "home".
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 ====== Is There a Doctor in the House? ======
- by Jim Brown. (From "The Sydney Bushwalker" - November, 1953.)
+by Jim Brown. (From "The Sydney Bushwalker" - November, 1953.)
-Morning papers on October 21st reported an operation carried out by expert gynaecologists on a lioness at Taronga Park. The surgery was performed with all mod. cons. including anaesthetics, and no doubt a stiff fee (including danger money) was paid to the sawbones.... However.... On the previous weekend Dave Brown's party from the Mini Mini Range operated on an eagle at the junction of Gibraltar Creek with the Cox, free, gratis, and without publicity. It happened like this.
+Morning papers on October 21st reported an operation carried out by expert gynaecologists on a lioness at Taronga Park. The surgery was performed with all mod cons. including anaesthetics, and no doubt a stiff fee (including danger money) was paid to the sawbones.... However.... On the previous weekend Dave Brown's party from the Mini Mini Range operated on an eagle at the junction of Gibraltar Creek with the Cox, free, gratis, and without publicity. It happened like this.
 The party found the wedge-tail squatting forlornly on rocks along the edge of the Cox, with the talons of one foot caught in a rabbit trap. Evidently it had happened some days previously, for the bird was too weak to fly. This posed a problem: plainly death by starvation was only a matter of time, yet no one was very happy about approaching those razor claws, or the curved beak, or the bent wings.
-However Dr. Frank Barr took photographs (for medicinal reasons only, of course): and Dr. Richard Hoffman administered the anaesthetic (with a six-foot pole of driftwood). Thereupon Drs. David Brown and Kenneth Meadows, with nurses Sheila Binns, Beryl Christiansen and Kath Brown hovering in the background, removed the foreign body from the patient.
+However Dr. Frank Barr took photographs (for medicinal reasons only, of course) and Dr. Richard Hoffman administered the anaesthetic (with a six-foot pole of driftwood). Thereupon Drs. David Brown and Kenneth Meadows, with nurses Sheila Binns, Beryl Christiansen and Kath Brown hovering in the background, removed the foreign body from the patient.
-For a time post-operative complications were feared, and at one stage it was thought that the anaesthetist had been over-enthusiastic. However the patient rallied after a time, and after a convalescent period of about two hours, took off, flying slowly at a low level down the river.
+For a time post-operative complications were feared, and at one stage it was thought that the anaesthetist had been over-enthusiastic. However the patient rallied after a time, and after a convalescent period of about two hours, took off flying slowly at a low level down the river.
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 ====== Watery Wadbilliga ======
 Bob Younger
-Out walking party in mid October was small - Reg Alder, Tim Coffey, Bill Hall, Charles Hill from Canberra and myself. We intended to walk for two days around the headwaters of the Tuross River and then for a day in Big Badja area (Deua N.P.) and finally visit the Big Hole near the Shoal, haven. Luckily we used two camper vans for transport. The vans crossed the Tuross River easily on Monday afternoon. As we headed east to our base campsite where the Razorback firetrail crosses Black River it started to rain. It rained all night and we were happy to cook in the camper vans.
+Out walking party in mid October was small - Reg Alder, Tim Coffey, Bill Hall, Charles Hill from Canberra and myself. We intended to walk for two days around the headwaters of the Tuross River and then for a day in Big Badja area (Deua N.P.) and finally visit the Big Hole near the Shoalhaven. Luckily we used two camper vans for transport. The vans crossed the Tuross River easily on Monday afternoon. As we headed east to our base campsite where the Razorback firetrail crosses Black River it started to rain.
+It rained all night and we were happy to cook in the camper vans. Next morning dawned wet and dismal with a changed weather forecast to match. We set off early to see what the ridge was like. After several kilometres we found out - driving heavier rain, cloud down and casuarina heath very wet. We continued on the fire trail for a few kilometres to see if we could get under and out of the weather but to no avail.
+We therefore returned to camp and the pleasure of a cuppa and yarn in Reg's van which could comfortably seat us all. We should have departed at that stage. Down came the rain even heavier and Black River started to rise. By evening it was roaring. Next morning heavy rain still and high over all the rocks, the River ran sullen, fast and ominously quiet.
+In the afternoon the weather improved and we tried walking on the Kydra fire trail. Several flooded creeks were crossed and then we came to the Tuross several kilometres upstream.from our original crossing. It was dangerously high as expected and we turned back. The following morning we returned in the vans along Razorback fire trail, crossing several flooded creeks rather gingerly. We approached the original Tuross crossing with keen interest. It had dropped from its peak of about 100 metres wide, but was still almost one metre deep and flowing very fast with breakers and troughs.
+A small white house not far away looked occupied and we walked/waded there and obtained permission to camp on some high ground alongside the fire trail. I counted six separate thunderstorms circling us that afternoon and some of them were depressingly thorough with light hail, heavy rain and wind.
-Next morning dawned wet and dismal with a changed weather forecast to match. We set off early to see what the ridge was like. After several kilometres we found out - driving heavier rain, cloud down and casuarina heath very wet. We continued on the fire trail for a few kilometres to see if we could get under and out of the weather but to no avail.
-We therefore returned to camp and the pleasure of a cuppa and yarn in Reg's van which could comfortably seat us all. We should have departed at that stage. Down came the rain even heavier and Black River started to
-rise. By evening it was roaring. Next morning heavy rain still, and
-high over all the rocks, the River ran sullen, fast and ominously quiet.
-In the afternoon the weather improved and we tried walking on the Kydra fire trail. Several flooded creeks were crossed and then we came to the
-Tuross several kilometres upstream.from our original crossing. It was
-dangerously high as expected and we turned back. The following morning we returned in the vans along Razorback fire trail, crossing several flooded creeks rather gingerly. We approached the original Tuross crossing with
-keen interest. It had dropped from its peak of about 100 metres wide, but
-was still almost one metre deep and flowing very fast with breakers and troughs.
-A small white house not far away looked occupied and we walked/waded there and obtained permission to camp on some high ground alongside the fire trail. I counted six separate thunderstorms circling us that afternoon
-and some of them were depressingly thorough with light hail, heavy rain and wind.
 We were there from Thursday morning until 11 am Sunday. We were reminded of the risque song about the old ladies locked in the lavatory except that in our case the water was definitely, if slowly, getting lower and lower!
-Our hostess on the farm is a kind-hearted animal lover. She and her husband had bought the block when she had retired. He was working in Cooma/ Sydney. Her companions in the house were eight dogs and two birds, all of which had some disability (blind, deaf, three-legged, etc.) and had been poorly treated or not wanted. She had worked for a vet and Animal Welfare in Sydney and would sometimes accept the challenge of caring for an unfort-
-unate animal which appealed. You can imagine the uproarious welcome we got
+Our hostess on the farm is a kind-hearted animal lover. She and her husband had bought the block when she had retired. He was working in Cooma/ Sydney. Her companions in the house were eight dogs and two birds, all of which had some disability (blind, deaf, three-legged, etc.) and had been poorly treated or not wanted. She had worked for a vet and Animal Welfare in Sydney and would sometimes accept the challenge of caring for an unfortunate animal which appealed. You can imagine the uproarious welcome we got from this team whenever we visited!
-from this team whenever we visited!
-As the river dropped we could see several 'drifts' of soft sand deposited across the crossing. It was also possible that the rocky bottom
+As the river dropped we could see several 'drifts' of soft sand deposited across the crossing. It was also possible that the rocky bottom in the fastest current had been gouged out. So we borrowed shovels from
-in the fastest current had been gouged out. So we borrowed shovels from
+the farm and set about making the crossing negotiable again. This was cold and uncomfortable work; it was not possible for the first couple of days to stand in the main current without some prop.
-the farm and set about making the crossing negotiable again. This was cold and uncomfortable work; it was not possible for th first couple of days to stand in the main current without some prop.
-Luckily we had some additional food in the vans and also had medicants like muscat, fruit cake, nuts and sweet biscuits. However, as the fall
+Luckily we had some additional food in the vans and also had medicants like muscat, fruit cake, nuts and sweet biscuits. However, as the fall rate of the river slowed we rationed ourselves. Our farm friend had little extra stock and like us had to cross the river to replenish. After working our way to the far bank on Saturday, we attempted to find a farm house and purchase some eggs from the civilised side. Not far from the river we saw a car approaching and welcomed it as an indicator of food. It stopped, a man got out, opened a satchel and offered Reg, the nearest, a copy of The Watchtower. It was refused more emphatically than politely. He enquired about the crossing and again received an emphatic answer. After a quick look at the rest of us, disguised as wet, partly clad ruffians, he quickly re-entered the car which retraced its rough and muddy way.
-rate of the river slowed we rationed ourselves. Our farm friend had little
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-extra stock and like us had to cross the river to replenish. After working our way to the far bank on Saturday, we attempted to find a farm house and purchase some eggs from the civilised side. Not far from the river we saw a car approaching and welcomed it as an indicator of food. It stopped, a man got out, opened a satchel and offered Reg, the nearest, a copy of The Watchtower. It was refused more emphatically than politely. He enquired about the crossing and again received an emphatic answer. After a quick look at the rest of us, disguised as wet,partly clad ruffians, he quickly re-entered the car which retraced its rough and muddy way.
 We did not find an occupied farmhouse and with a keen wind and dropping temperature, eventually returned to camp. Prospects of getting the vans through the river the next day looked good. Morale was further lifted by a slap-up meal that night as our hostess let us buy some eggs and tinned ham.
-There was not much scope for walking while we waited, as in every direction there were flooded creeks and rivers and every fold in the undulations produced a wading problem. We passed the time monitorying the river height and rate of fall, grooming the crossing and rambling here and there.
-/
+There was not much scope for walking while we waited, as in every direction there were flooded creeks and rivers and every fold in the undulations produced a wading problem. We passed the time monitoring the river height and rate of fall, grooming the crossing and rambling here and there. We passed the time monitoring the River height.
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-'We passed the time monitoriig the River height..
 One morning we worked on the farm, mainly cutting away a large tree which had fallen on a fence and repairing the damage. We had regular cuppas and yarned at length about walking over the years and every other subject under the sun.
-We carefully calculated the highest safe water level for the vans. On Sunday morning it was obvious that the river would not fall that far for another day or two. We cut a stick to the actual highest level of the water and used it to survey our vans for possible dangers. Reg's van had a front
-cross me ber well placed to throw water on to the fan. Charles' van's fan was reasonably enclosed except for water coming through the radiator. Although some flotation force would be exerted by the partially empty water and petrol tanks, the water should do no more than splash the underneath of
-the high floors. The current was still quite fast and the water would be above the doors' bottoms but there would be no real danger, we judged, of
-being pushed sideways. Reg took off his fan belt. Charles had some heavy
---dastic and jammed it over the lower part of his radiator with a green branchlet whittled to size. Reg fashioned a cavitation inducer out of a food tin and fixed it to his exhaust. Ropes were attached to the front of
-the vehicles and coiled out of the way to avoid having to. do this under water if our precautions failed. Down to the river again to chart the optimum route across.
+We carefully calculated the highest safe water level for the vans. On Sunday morning it was obvious that the river would not fall that far for another day or two. We cut a stick to the actual highest level of the water and used it to survey our vans for possible dangers. Reg's van had a front cross member well placed to throw water on to the fan. Charles' van's fan was reasonably enclosed except for water coming through the radiator. Although some flotation force would be exerted by the partially empty water and petrol tanks, the water should do no more than splash the underneath of the high floors. The current was still quite fast and the water would be above the doors' bottoms but there would be no real danger, we judged, of being pushed sideways. Reg took off his fan belt. Charles had some heavy plastic and jammed it over the lower part of his radiator with a green branchlet whittled to size. Reg fashioned a cavitation inducer out of a food tin and fixed it to his exhaust. Ropes were attached to the front of the vehicles and coiled out of the way to avoid having to do this under water if our precautions failed. Down to the river again to chart the optimum route across.
-There were a few minutes of anticlimax as we started the motors and attempted to move off. The brake linings, saturated from creek crossings on Thursday had frozen to the drums in the very low temperature overnight.
-However we were able to free them after several jerks. We drove back to the top of the low ridge to thoroughly warm the engines (Reg's nearly boiled
-without a fan belt). Then we said goodbye to our farm hostess who had come to see us off and crossed without incident to the cheers of the passengers who had waded across.
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+There were a few minutes of anticlimax as we started the motors and attempted to move off. The brake linings, saturated from creek crossings on Thursday had frozen to the drums in the very low temperature overnight. However we were able to free them after several jerks. We drove back to the top of the low ridge to thoroughly warm the engines (Reg's nearly boiled without a fan belt). Then we said goodbye to our farm hostess who had come to see us off and crossed without incident to the cheers of the passengers who had waded across.
 ====== "We'll Be Marooned" ======
+by Kenn Clacher
+The walkers all at Quilty's Clearing Met for Ettrema to see.\\
-by Kenn Clacher.
+The walk was led by Bill Capon, A canny leader he.\\
-The walkers all at Quilty's Clearing Met for Ettrema to see.
+The first stretch was through Myall Creek Then Bill did show his class,\\
-The walk was led by Bill Capon, A canny leader he.
-The first stretch was through Myall Creek Then Bill did show his class,
 "We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon "If we don't find Naked Pass".
-The pass was found the second try, Then into Ettrema Creek,
-And up Jones' Creek the party walked, 'Twas no place for the meek.
+The pass was found the second try, Then into Ettrema Creek,\\
-Plain Creek was followed next, downstream, But something Worried Bill.
+And up Jones' Creek the party walked, 'Twas no place for the meek.\\
+Plain Creek was followed next, downstream, But something Worried Bill.\\
 "We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "'Cos this creek flows uphill."
-At last the rogue creek flowed downhill To Moore Creek as it should.
-The walkers followed the rough creek bed Rock hopping best they could.
+At last the rogue creek flowed downhill To Moore Creek as it should.\\
-Now another obstacle blocked their path, So Bill Capon he calls:
+The walkers followed the rough creek bed Rock hopping best they could.\\
-"We'll be marooned, 'less we can find A way round Williams Falls."
+Now another obstacle blocked their path, So Bill Capon he calls:\\
-A way was found, not as Bill feared Up umpteen feet of cliff,
+"We'll be marooned, 'less we can find A way round Williams Falls."\\
+A way was found, not as Bill feared Up umpteen feet of cliff,\\
 To Bundundah Creek, along and out, Up Pass Point in a jiff.
-Down Paul's Pass now the program said But rain made things too wet.
-"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "It hasn't eased up yet."
+Down Paul's Pass now the program said But rain made things too wet.\\
-So Puckett Pass was utilised To get them down again.
+"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "It hasn't eased up yet."\\
+So Puckett Pass was utilised To get them down again.\\
 Just Tullyangela Creek remained, A piece of wild terrain.
-But new maps showed cliff lines along The whole length of the creek.
+But new maps showed cliff lines along The whole length of the creek.\\
-"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "It could take us a week."
+"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "It could take us a week."\\
-So Bill said Transportation Spur Would see us home instead.
+So Bill said Transportation Spur Would see us home instead.\\
 There was one problem that remained, When would it be ahead?
-We chose a spur to climb on out By democratic vote.
-"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "If despotism's smote."
+We chose a spur to climb on out By democratic vote.\\
-But Transportation Spur it was, And as we hurried on,
+"We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "If despotism's smote."\\
-All members of the party then Were happy they weren't wrong.
+But Transportation Spur it was, And as we hurried on,\\
-We made it finally to the cars, Just after one last shout,
+All members of the party then Were happy they weren't wrong.\\
+We made it finally to the cars, Just after one last shout,\\
 "We'll be marooned," said Bill Capon, "Before this walk is out."
 ====== Body Talk : First Aid Notes ======
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 STINGOSE - about $2.50 at chemists - miraculously relieves the pain and swelling from bull-ant and other insect bites and bluebottle and jellyfish stings. Too vital to get buried with the First Aid Kit, so I keep it in an outside pack pocket.
-ALSO YOU EVER HAD A TETANUS VACCINATION?
+ALSO YOU EVER HAD A TETANUS VACCINATION? \\
-This is especially needed by Bushwalkers.
+This is especially needed by Bushwalkers. A booster is needed every 10 years.
-A booster is needed every 10 years.
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 ====== The Magical Limestone Cave Tour ======
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 John's advertisement read - "Blayney to Goulburn via picturesque gold rush country with adobe cottages and old mills. Throw in your easel and paints or your tin whistle for a total enjoyment weekend!" Well, that's how it turned out to be! A glorious four day trip of 160 kms cycling on tarred or dirt roads, through eucalypt forest and farming country.
-The mixed goods/passenger train left Central Station at 6 o'clock on Thursday night arriving at Blayney five hours later. Our party of seven slept on the hard floor of the waiting room after unloading the bikes from the luggage van. Friday morning dawned crisp and cool as we packed our  sleeping bags and cooked breakfast on the verandah. There was Jane on her Miyata ten speed, Wal on his blue Sebring, John on his low-geared Kesting, Glen on his Cannondale with the one and a quarter inch tyres, Mary-Ann on a new fifteen speed Gemini and Peter on a light blue Repco.
+The mixed goods/passenger train left Central Station at 6 o'clock on Thursday night arriving at Blayney five hours later. Our party of seven slept on the hard floor of the waiting room after unloading the bikes from the luggage van. Friday morning dawned crisp and cool as we packed our sleeping bags and cooked breakfast on the verandah. There was Jane on her Miyata ten speed, Wal on his blue Sebring, John on his low-geared Kesting, Glen on his Cannondale with the one and a quarter inch tyres, Mary-Ann on a new fifteen speed Gemini and Peter on a light blue Repco.
-We cycled out of the sleepy town past the shops with the wide verandahs, heading south, with the sun peepill:, over the horizon. Lunch was eaten in the yard of a disused steam saw-mill on Trunkey Creek Road surrounded by logs
-and the carcases of two traction engines. In ,one corner stood a steam crusher battery used in the late 1800's to crush the gold-bearing ore from the mines. Glen explained how the rock was crushed, mixed with water and mercury and then sluiced over a copper plate which held the fine particles of gold for further extraction treatment. Some of the long leather belts that drove the circular saws were still intact under the tin roofed mill and at one end of the shed was the smith's forge complete with an array of wood and leather bellows for stoking the fire. Hand-forged pliers and spikes still lay in the coke ashes. Even the "dunny" was authentic, as I learned when I opened the door. Fashioned from bush hardwood, clad with rough sawn weatherboards, the whole structure swayed to every movement of the wind. I wondered about red-back spiders as I sat on the wooden seat above a deep hole in the ground.
+We cycled out of the sleepy town past the shops with the wide verandahs, heading south, with the sun peeping over the horizon. Lunch was eaten in the yard of a disused steam sawmill on Trunkey Creek Road surrounded by logs and the carcases of two traction engines. In one corner stood a steam crusher battery used in the late 1800's to crush the gold-bearing ore from the mines. Glen explained how the rock was crushed, mixed with water and mercury and then sluiced over a copper plate which held the fine particles of gold for further extraction treatment. Some of the long leather belts that drove the circular saws were still intact under the tin roofed mill and at one end of the shed was the smith's forge complete with an array of wood and leather bellows for stoking the fire. Hand-forged pliers and spikes still lay in the coke ashes. Even the "dunny" was authentic, as I learned when I opened the door. Fashioned from bush hardwood, clad with rough sawn weatherboards, the whole structure swayed to every movement of the wind. I wondered about red-back spiders as I sat on the wooden seat above a deep hole in the ground.
 The neighbour's dog from across the road joined in the fun by bringing a big blue ball to us so he could "fetch", the game only ending when his master called.
-The village of Trunkey Creek consisted of a farm implement/car repair workshop, six houses, the pub and a general store. The inside of the store was furnished in the style of the 1920's with pine shelves holding the groceries whilst the lady proprietor served us from behind a wooden counter. But she didn't sell "tuppence worth of aniseed bullets" so I had to buy
-twenty at a cent each! How times have changed!
-We pitched camp on a grassy sward above the creek at Abercrombie Caves camping reserve that evening. The East Lindfield Methodist Church hosted the night's entertainment with bush ballads accompanied by guitars and a fiddle. The next morning some of us explored the Emperor's Cave with its stalactites that hang down and stalagmites that go up. The further our party walked the more fairy tale-like the glistening calcium shapes became. Fourteenth century castles and twentieth century space domes appeared in my imagination with orange coloured mushroom fungi adding to the bizarre beauty.
-The road from the caves proved to be very rough with small rocks,
-water channels and high-speed car bumps slowing us down on the dirt surface. Very steep hills and dust from passing traffic didn't help. To compound our troubles Mary-Ann's chain kept ,coming off. At a bend in the road we stopped to admire a dilapidated Aut fashioned from upright bush poles set in tile ground, laced with thinner branches and then plastered over with mud.
-July, 1986 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 13
-Bathurst
-BLAYNEY t/
-L. oi.cwell
-WOLLONGONG
-Trunk- i:reek Abercrombie Caves
-YDNEY
-ftoute of trip
-GREAT DIVIDING RANGE
-Katoomba
-Penrith
-Tuena
-GOULBURN
-SKETCH MAP OF BICYCLE TRIP.
-CYCLING SOUTH ON THE ROAD FROM BLAYNEY TO GOULBURN.
+The village of Trunkey Creek consisted of a farm implement/car repair workshop, six houses, the pub and a general store. The inside of the store was furnished in the style of the 1920's with pine shelves holding the groceries whilst the lady proprietor served us from behind a wooden counter. But she didn't sell "tuppence worth of aniseed bullets" so I had to buy twenty at a cent each! How times have changed!
+We pitched camp on a grassy sward above the creek at Abercrombie Caves camping reserve that evening. The East Lindfield Methodist Church hosted the night's entertainment with bush ballads accompanied by guitars and a fiddle. The next morning some of us explored the Emperor's Cave with its stalactites that hang down and stalagmites that go up. The further our party walked the more fairy tale like the glistening calcium shapes became. Fourteenth century castles and twentieth century space domes appeared in my imagination with orange coloured mushroom fungi adding to the bizarre beauty.
+The road from the caves proved to be very rough with small rocks, water channels and high-speed car bumps slowing us down on the dirt surface. Very steep hills and dust from passing traffic didn't help. To compound our troubles Mary-Ann's chain kept coming off. At a bend in the road we stopped to admire a dilapidated hut fashioned from upright bush poles set in tile ground, laced with thinner branches and then plastered over with mud.
 The corrugated iron roof had seen better days and rust holes were appearing at the edge of the sheets. The ceilings were made of hessian bags stuck over with 1930 newspapers. Much of the furniture that remained had been broken by vandals.
-That afternoon our party rode into the small township of Tuena, which was holding its annual Gold Rush Festival. People had come from miles arouna and were taking part in the Tug-of-War or competing in the horse riding events. A display of hand adzing and gold panning was proceeding in the Arts and Crafts pavilion. The farmers on the pub verandah looked distinctly "under the weather" as they drank their "tinnies" and enjoyed the uusic of the Bathurst Scotch Pipe Band. The pipers who were dressed
+That afternoon our party rode into the small township of Tuena, which was holding its annual Gold Rush Festival. People had come from miles around and were taking part in the Tug-of-War or competing in the horse riding events. A display of hand adzing and gold panning was proceeding in the Arts and Crafts pavilion. The farmers on the pub verandah looked distinctly "under the weather" as they drank their "tinnies" and enjoyed the music of the Bathurst Scotch Pipe Band. The pipers who were dressed in traditional red and green tartan seemed out of place in this Australian setting.
-in traditional red and green tartan seemed out of place in this Australian setting.
 It started to rain as we pitched our tents in a grassy paddock, just off the road, with nightfall fast approaching. The evening meal was cooked in a shearing shed amongst the wool clippings and bales of straw. Stan produced his harmonica whilst Glen read us excerpts from "The Man From Snowy River". John sang about "Cursed Toongabbie" whilst all of us joined in the chorus of "Van Diemen's Land".
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 After lunch we did some downhill coasting on the tarred road that led to the Pejar Dam where we admired the giant spillway and man-made sluice race that had been carved out of solid rock many years before.
 The next afternoon we cycled into Goulburn town, past the old-style colonial Courthouse, and then into the park for a snack. At two o'clock we stacked our bikes in the guard's van ready for the journey home!
 Many thanks, John.
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 See you at the pictures. Bring your own Jaffas. PETER MILLER 818 1990.
-CONGRATULATIONS to - -
+**CONGRATULATIONS** to - -\\
-Wendy and Steve Hodgman on the birth of their son Sean during April
+Wendy and Steve Hodgman on the birth of their son Sean during April and Jenny and Steve Brown on the birth of a daughter, Stephanie in May.
-and Jenny and Steve Brown on the birth of a daughter, Stephanie in May.
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 ====== The June General Meeting ======
-by Barry Wallace.
+by Barry Wallace
 The meeting began at around 20.13 with the President presiding and some 25 or so members present. There were apologies from Alex Colley, Belinda McKenzie, Gordon Lee and Ross Coyle. New members Jeff Niven, Lesley Moore, Jim Oxley, Ross Coyle, Carolyn Wilcox and Rosemary Kenny were summoned to be welcomed into membership but only the latter two were actually present to receive their badges.
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 The minutes of the previous meeting were read, and with some minor corrections, received. A recission motion was foreshadowed regarding the previous meeting's decision to build an additional fireplace in the hut at Coolana. This should come forward at the July General Meeting, so if you have an interest, be there. At this stage there was something of an hiatus while someone explained part of the proceedings of the previous month's meeting to someone else who had not been there - Hmmmmm
-Correspondence comprised a letter of apology from Spiro H. for his absence from the committee and the meeting, enclosing a copy of the items of interest from the latest F.B.W. Meeting, a press release from the State Opposition opposing the Government's rumoured intention to build dams on the Colo and having a bit each way, by both deploring the use of external affairs powers in conservation matters and urging the Federal Govt. to use them in this instance (one can only assume they were relying on the press to edit the whole thing into unintelligibility before publication), and acknowledgments of receipt of our letters regarding woodchipping from the Victorian and Federal Governments. No outgoing correspondence was reported.
+Correspondence comprised a letter of apology from Spiro H. for his absence from the committee and the meeting, enclosing a copy of the items of interest from the latest F.B.W. Meeting, a press release from the State Opposition opposing the Government's rumoured intention to build dams on the Colo and having a bit each way, by both deploring the use of external affairs powers in conservation matters and urging the Federal Govt. to use them in this instance (one can only assume they were relying on the press to edit the whole thing into unintelligibility before publication), and acknowledgments of receipt of our letters regarding wood chipping from the Victorian and Federal Governments. No outgoing correspondence was reported.
 Business arising brought a motion that we write to the relevant State Government ministers seeking information on any dams proposed for the Colo River.
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 people on a Govetts Leap walk which went to program. (No Bill, even a real mate would not have arranged it the other way round.)
-Over the June long weekend David McIntosh led a Colo walk, there were 4 People, but no report. Bill Capon's Budawangs trip had 13 starter's and did not go to program despite the cold. Laurie Quaken had 7 people on his BUdawangs trip. They reported blurred glimpses of Bill's party from time to time and all returned safely. Ian Debert and Stan Madden reported a variable number of attendees ranging from 14 to 17 on a leisurely three days around Stan's farm.
+Over the June long weekend David McIntosh led a Colo walk, there were 4 People, but no report. Bill Capon's Budawangs trip had 13 starter's and did not go to program despite the cold. Laurie Quaken had 7 people on his Budawangs trip. They reported blurred glimpses of Bill's party from time to time and all returned safely. Ian Debert and Stan Madden reported a variable number of attendees ranging from 14 to 17 on a leisurely three days around Stan's farm.
 The Federation Report indicated that the November Bushsports event attracted 35, that insurance is still under review, and that the M.W.S.& D. Board have advised that they have no plans to increase the storage capacity of Warragamba Dam. There was one S. & R. call-out for the month. The Secretary is to write condemning offshore minerals exploration of The Royal National Park.