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199804 [2016/05/20 08:39] – [Nude Bushwalking: where to keep your Swiss Army knife.] kennettj | 199804 [2016/05/24 14:16] (current) – [From the Dungala Club] kennettj | ||
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|11|From the Dungala Club| | |11|From the Dungala Club| | ||
|13|Christmas-New Year week in the Snowy Mountains by David Trinder| | |13|Christmas-New Year week in the Snowy Mountains by David Trinder| | ||
- | | |Footnotes by Patrick James. | + | | |Footnotes by Patrick James| |
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Advertisers | Advertisers | ||
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Members Representative Louise Verdon joined the Club in 1991 and is a keen cross country skier with a bent for walking in the wilds of Tasmania. This year is the first opportunity Louise has had to work on the Committee after being overseas last year. | Members Representative Louise Verdon joined the Club in 1991 and is a keen cross country skier with a bent for walking in the wilds of Tasmania. This year is the first opportunity Louise has had to work on the Committee after being overseas last year. | ||
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====== Club Coolana ====== | ====== Club Coolana ====== | ||
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At the AGM it was uncertain if Joan Rigby wished to remain on the Coolana Maintenance Committee, and elections in absentia without notice are not the done thing. | At the AGM it was uncertain if Joan Rigby wished to remain on the Coolana Maintenance Committee, and elections in absentia without notice are not the done thing. | ||
- | Helpers at Coolana Although much has been achieved at Coolana, we still need helpers at our maintenance weekends. | + | Helpers at Coolana. Although much has been achieved at Coolana, we still need helpers at our maintenance weekends. |
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- | helpful occupations. Contact Joan Rigby (02) 6247 2035. | + | |
Gardening tools are still needed at Coolana and we would be happy with your cast offs: rakes, spades, shovels, clippers, secateurs, wheel barrows, lawn mowers, whipper-snippers, | Gardening tools are still needed at Coolana and we would be happy with your cast offs: rakes, spades, shovels, clippers, secateurs, wheel barrows, lawn mowers, whipper-snippers, | ||
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Rubbish Removal. | Rubbish Removal. | ||
- | Barbeque. The barbeque needs to be redesigned and rebuilt. A design with movable and removable fire bars and grid is favoured. | + | Barbeque. The barbeque needs to be redesigned and rebuilt. A design with movable and removable fire bars and grid is favoured. |
====== Away with the Birds ====== | ====== Away with the Birds ====== | ||
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Type 2 is to move about on the prowl, pointing your binoculars at everything that moves. | Type 2 is to move about on the prowl, pointing your binoculars at everything that moves. | ||
- | OPTICAL AIDS. | + | OPTICAL AIDS |
No Virginia not an eye disease but devices to help one to see. The most common are binoculars, but monoculars and telescopes are also possible. | No Virginia not an eye disease but devices to help one to see. The most common are binoculars, but monoculars and telescopes are also possible. | ||
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Minolta 10 x 25 6.5 113 339 | Minolta 10 x 25 6.5 113 339 | ||
- | FIELD GUIDES & BOOKS. | + | FIELD GUIDES & BOOKS |
These are essential. Field Guides are listed below together with their current retail prices. | These are essential. Field Guides are listed below together with their current retail prices. | ||
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Between the nine of us we managed to see, spot or sight 44 different birds. | Between the nine of us we managed to see, spot or sight 44 different birds. | ||
- | Australian Wood Duck | + | Australian Wood Duck\\ |
+ | Pacific Black Duck\\ | ||
+ | Little Pied Cormorant\\ | ||
+ | Large Black Cormorant\\ | ||
+ | Whitefaced Heron\\ | ||
+ | Purple Swamphen\\ | ||
+ | Eurasian Coot\\ | ||
+ | Brown Quail\\ | ||
+ | Wonga Pigeon\\ | ||
+ | Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo\\ | ||
+ | Rainbow Lorikeet\\ | ||
+ | Australian King Parrot\\ | ||
+ | Crimson Rosella\\ | ||
+ | Laughing Kookaburra\\ | ||
+ | Superb Lyrebird\\ | ||
+ | White-throated Treecreeper\\ | ||
+ | Superb Fairy-wren\\ | ||
+ | Superb Blue Wren\\ | ||
+ | Varigated (Fairy) wren\\ | ||
+ | White-browed Scrubwren\\ | ||
+ | Brown Gerygone (Warbler)\\ | ||
+ | Brown Thornbill\\ | ||
+ | Lwein' | ||
+ | New Holland Honeyeater\\ | ||
+ | Jacky Winter\\ | ||
+ | Eastern Yellow Robin\\ | ||
+ | Red-capped Robin\\ | ||
+ | Golden Whistler\\ | ||
+ | Rufous Whistler\\ | ||
+ | Grey Shrike-thrush\\ | ||
+ | Satin Flycatcher\\ | ||
+ | Magpie Lark\\ | ||
+ | Rufous Fantail\\ | ||
+ | Grey Fantail\\ | ||
+ | Willie Wagtail\\ | ||
+ | Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike\\ | ||
+ | Australian Magpie\\ | ||
+ | Pied Currawong\\ | ||
+ | Australian Raven\\ | ||
+ | Satin Bowerbird\\ | ||
+ | Red-browed Finch (Firetail)\\ | ||
+ | Silvereye\\ | ||
+ | Bassian Thrush\\ | ||
+ | Common Blackbird\\ | ||
- | Pacific Black Duck | + | UNCONFIRMED SIGHTINGS |
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- | Little Pied Cormorant | + | |
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- | Large Black Cormorant | + | |
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- | 5 Whitefaced Heron | + | |
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- | Purple Swamphen | + | |
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- | Eurasian Coot | + | |
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- | Brown Quail | + | |
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- | Wonga Pigeon | + | |
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- | 10 Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo | + | |
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- | Rainbow Lorikeet | + | |
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- | Australian King Parrot | + | |
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- | Crimson Rosella | + | |
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- | Laughing Kookaburra | + | |
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- | 15 Superb Lyrebird | + | |
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- | White-throated Treecreeper | + | |
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- | Superb Fairy-wren | + | |
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- | Superb Blue Wren | + | |
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- | Varigated (Fairy) wren | + | |
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- | 20 White-browed Scrubwren | + | |
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- | Brown Gerygone (Warbler) | + | |
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- | Brown Thornbill | + | |
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- | Lwein' | + | |
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- | New Holland Honeyeater | + | |
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- | 25 Jacky Winter | + | |
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- | Eastern Yellow Robin | + | |
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- | Red-capped Robin | + | |
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- | Golden Whistler | + | |
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- | Rufous Whistler | + | |
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- | 30 Grey Shrike-thrush | + | |
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- | Satin Flycatcher | + | |
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- | Magpie Lark | + | |
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- | Rufous Fantail | + | |
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- | Grey Fantail | + | |
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- | 35 Willie Wagtail | + | |
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- | Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike | + | |
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- | Australian Magpie | + | |
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- | Pied Currawong | + | |
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- | Australian Raven | + | |
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- | 40 Satin Bowerbird | + | |
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- | Red-browed Finch (Firetail) | + | |
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- | Silvereye | + | |
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- | Bassian Thrush | + | |
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- | 44 Common Blackbird | + | |
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- | UNCONFIRMED SIGHTINGS. | + | |
As you know bird watching can become extremely exciting and in the heat of the moment wrong (incorrect) sightings can be reported; hence the need for one or two or three clear, level-headed individuals to be present. | As you know bird watching can become extremely exciting and in the heat of the moment wrong (incorrect) sightings can be reported; hence the need for one or two or three clear, level-headed individuals to be present. | ||
- | Albatross | + | Albatross\\ |
- | + | snow petrel\\ | |
- | snow petrel | + | brolga\\ |
- | + | cassowary\\ | |
- | brolga | + | moa |
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- | cassowary | + | |
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- | moa | + | |
No explanation for an albatross in Coolana has been put forward. | No explanation for an albatross in Coolana has been put forward. | ||
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The group of nine: Lorraine Bloomfield, Bill Holland, Fran Holland, Patrick James, Jim Percy, Mary Perry, Merrilyn Sach, Maurice Smith, Jo van Sommers. Saturday was fine and warm, Sunday was fine, overcast and cool. | The group of nine: Lorraine Bloomfield, Bill Holland, Fran Holland, Patrick James, Jim Percy, Mary Perry, Merrilyn Sach, Maurice Smith, Jo van Sommers. Saturday was fine and warm, Sunday was fine, overcast and cool. | ||
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- | ALL THOSE PRIZES. | + | ====== All Those Prizes ====== |
By Patrick James | By Patrick James | ||
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Suppliers of a full range of bushwalking, | Suppliers of a full range of bushwalking, | ||
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Grand View Hotel. | Grand View Hotel. | ||
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Located at Jenolan just beyond the Devil' | Located at Jenolan just beyond the Devil' | ||
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Mountain Equipment. | Mountain Equipment. | ||
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- | Annual General Meeting March 1998 by Barry Wallace | + | ====== |
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+ | by Barry Wallace | ||
- | There were around 40 members present when the president called the meeting to order at around | + | There were around 40 members present when the president called the meeting to order at around |
The minutes of the previous AGM were read and received with no matters arising. | The minutes of the previous AGM were read and received with no matters arising. | ||
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Alan Donnelly’s programmed canyon trips over the weekend of 28 February, 1 March saw 6 starters hanging around down Heart Attack Canyon on the Saturday and 8 down Surefire Canyon on Sunday. | Alan Donnelly’s programmed canyon trips over the weekend of 28 February, 1 March saw 6 starters hanging around down Heart Attack Canyon on the Saturday and 8 down Surefire Canyon on Sunday. | ||
- | The report for Eddy’s Colo River walk over the weekend of 7, 8 March indicated 5 starters and a pleasant weekend. | + | The report for Eddy’s Colo River walk over the weekend of 7, 8 March indicated 5 starters and a pleasant weekend. |
Ian Rennard’s midweek walk with 9 starters on the Tuesday concluded the walks reports for the month. | Ian Rennard’s midweek walk with 9 starters on the Tuesday concluded the walks reports for the month. | ||
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Conservation report covered the continuing baiting of foxes and feral dogs at Coolana by NPWS rangers. | Conservation report covered the continuing baiting of foxes and feral dogs at Coolana by NPWS rangers. | ||
- | General business and the announcements followed, and the meeting closed at 2157. | + | General business and the announcements followed, and the meeting closed at 21.57. |
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- | From the Dungala Club. | + | ====== |
- | First, on behalf of the ex (and present) members of the SBW who are in the Dungala Club, I wish to thank all those concerned in the organising of the many gatherings celebrating the 70TH anniversary of the Sydney Bushwalkers Inc. My wife and I did not get to Coolana or the Nostalgia Night (sorry Don) but the Dinner and Manly Dam were great. | + | First, on behalf of the ex (and present) members of the SBW who are in the Dungala Club, I wish to thank all those concerned in the organising of the many gatherings celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Sydney Bushwalkers Inc. My wife and I did not get to Coolana or the Nostalgia Night (sorry Don) but the Dinner and Manly Dam were great. |
At this point some of your readers will be asking "What is the Dungala Club" | At this point some of your readers will be asking "What is the Dungala Club" | ||
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As Dungala members retired from the workforce many used their new leisure to fully explore their country and soon found bus camping trips the economical answer. | As Dungala members retired from the workforce many used their new leisure to fully explore their country and soon found bus camping trips the economical answer. | ||
- | I give this background as, when the Club was formed there was much opposition from some SBW members who felt Dungalas were poaching from SBW. "After all", it was said. "there is provision for non-active SBW membership. What's the point of another club? | + | I give this background as, when the Club was formed there was much opposition from some SBW members who felt Dungalas were poaching from SBW. "After all", it was said. "there is provision for non-active SBW membership. What's the point of another club?" |
The point of the Dungala Club is, while still retaining your links to the walking world, to widen your horizons and increase your social activities now your walking days are over. Some of our members retain non-active membership in the SBW, others don't, others were never walkers but have that spirit of enquiry and adventure that marks not only walkers but many others. | The point of the Dungala Club is, while still retaining your links to the walking world, to widen your horizons and increase your social activities now your walking days are over. Some of our members retain non-active membership in the SBW, others don't, others were never walkers but have that spirit of enquiry and adventure that marks not only walkers but many others. | ||
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Alan Wilson. | Alan Wilson. | ||
- | FOOTNOTES | + | |
+ | ====== Footnotes ====== | ||
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+ | by Patrick James | ||
My trusty calendar tells me that this month we have ANZAC day, two types of Easter, plus Croatian, Danish and Dutch national days. Full moon is on Easter Day right on schedule. | My trusty calendar tells me that this month we have ANZAC day, two types of Easter, plus Croatian, Danish and Dutch national days. Full moon is on Easter Day right on schedule. | ||
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Social Calendar: May 27: from the Australian Museum we have Dr Pat Hutchings' | Social Calendar: May 27: from the Australian Museum we have Dr Pat Hutchings' | ||
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====== Christmas - New Year In The Snowy Mountains ====== | ====== Christmas - New Year In The Snowy Mountains ====== |
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