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No: 91 NEWSLETTER October 2001 Sunday 7th October Mt. Hay, Riversliegh Sunday 14th October Farnborough Beach, Fishing Ck. Sunday 21st October Mt. Sleipner Weekend 27th & 28th October Wappamunga - Camp Weekend 3rd & 4th November Stony Ck.- Mt. Ganter Sunday 11th November Thozet Catchment Area Sunday 18th November Canal Creek - Picnic, Canoeing Sunday 25th November Struck Oil, Mt. Morgan Sunday 2nd December Moore’s Creek Saturday 8th December Zilzie to Emu Park Sunday 9th December General Meeting Weekend 15th & 16th December Xmas Break-up Saturday 29th December Recycle Movie Star Night Weekend 19th & 20th January Kroombit Tops Saturday 26th January Great Aussie Charity Bush Dance Weekend 26th to 28th January Great Keppel Island PROGRAM DETAILS Closing date for nominations normally several days prior to the walk. Some walks may have a limit on numbers per group. If you require transport it is doubly important to nominate well in advance. If travelling with someone else it is common courtesy to pay your share. Walk Legend D/W Day Walk T/W Through Walk or Car Shuttle required. O/N Overnighter H/W Half Day Walk 4WD Access by 4WD only! X/T Extended Trip TRN Training B/C Base Camp N/F No Facilities / No Water, Showers or Toilets. SOC Social Walk Grading Fitness Distance Terrain (select 2 or 3) E Easy. Suitable for Beginners. A Less than 5 km 1 Trail / Graded Track Moderate. Reasonable fitness B 5 to 10 km 2 Off-track / Cross-Country M required. C 10 to 15 km 3 Not Pre-Walked H Hard. Fit walkers only. L 15 to 20 km 4 Minor scrub X Over 20 km(same day) 5 Medium or Heavy Vegetation Total uphill sections 6 Creeks / Rock hopping Alt Expressed in meters 7 Steep scrambles Date: 7 October Location: Mt. Hay, Riversliegh Type: SOC Social Organiser: Sharyn Come along and dig up a thunder egg at Mt. Hay and join us for lunch at Riversliegh. Date: 14 October Location: Farnborough Beach, Fishing Ck. Type: D/W T/W M L 2 Walk Leader: John Good scenery. Walk from Capricorn International Resort to Cario Bay and then up Fishing Creek. Beach walk, soft sand, water crossings and some mud. Date: 21 October Location: Mt. Sleipner Type: D/W M A 47 Alt 540 Walk Leader: Richard A walk for the energetic. Date: 27 & 28 October Location: Wappamunga Type: SOC Social Organiser: Ron The president’s big “ 5-0”. Camp overnight, swimming and canoeing. Date: 3 & 4 November Location: Stony Creek Type: B/C O/N E B 24 Alt 220 Walk Leader: John Introductory to camping and moderate hill climbs, this is an enjoyable walk for those wanting to try off-track walking. A chance of swim at lunch time. Date: 4 November Location: Mt. Ganter Type: D/W H B 46 Alt 580 Walk Leader: Richard Get good views of the Byfield area from the top of Mt. Ganter. For those looking for an easier walk we will walk the first part of this walk up the creek, an introductory to creek walking and rock hopping. Date: 11 November Location: Thozet Range Type: T/W H/W M A 24 Alt 380 Walk Leader: Jeff An early morning crest walk up Mt Birkbeck, then down the northern ridge (5 small hills) of the Thozet Creek catchment area with a Birdseye view of the northeastern part of our city towards the end of the walk. Date: 18 November Location: Canal Creek Type: SOC Social Organiser: Roslyn BYO picnic, a quite day swimming, canoeing or just doing nothing. Date: 25 November Location: Struck Oil, Mt. Morgan Type: D/W M B 2346 Alt 100 Walk Leader: Bevan Donny’s Walk, a memorial walk for one of our club founders. Gold coin donation. Date: 2 December Location: Moore’s Creek Type: H/W E B 14 Walk Leader: Bevan An easy creek walk. Date: 8 December Location: Zilzie to Emu Park Type: H/W E B 6 Walk Leader: Jane Walk along beaches from Zilzie to Emu Park and join us for lunch at the Pine Beach Hotel. Meet at Zilzie boat ramp at 7:45 am. Date: 9 December Location: Kershaw Gardens Type: General Meeting Meet at Knight St. carpark at 12:30pm for lunch with meeting commencing at 2:00pm. Date: 15 & 16 December Location: Hedlow Creek Type: B/C SOC Xmas Break-up Social Organiser: Dot Come along and join in our annual club Xmas break-up party. Date: 29 December Location: Recycle Movie Star Night Type: SOC Social Organiser: Maxine BBQ tea - $5.00 a head, come along dressed as a recycled movie star, games, dances, BYO drinks and chairs. Date: 19 & 20 January Location: Kroombit Tops Type: B/C 4WD X/T N/F M C 2467 Trip Leader: John Escape the summer heat to a Kroombit Tops base camp. There are some challenging walks, swimming and great scenery in this area. Drivers require their own forest access permits! Please take all drinking water. Nominations close 13 January 2002. Date: 26 January Location: Great Aussie Charity Bushdance Type: SOC Social Organiser: Shirley Social Bushdance promoted by Jacana Bushdancers Capricornia Inc. Get a group together and come along, and have a good nights fun. Date: 26 to 27 January Location: Great Keppel Island Type: D/W O/N SOC M C 136 Walk Leader: Dot John This weekend is a preparation outing for the annual clubs meeting to be held on May long weekend. All are invited to come along for the weekend and help plan our walks and entertainment for the May weekend. Should be a good fun weekend as it will not be all work. Nominations for this weekend will need to be in by 13th January. For further details of walks itinery please contact [email protected] PRESIDENT’s REPORT AUGUST 2001 It is hard to believe that another year has passed us by – in my last report we were preparing for the Cooktown trip, which is now almost twelve months behind us & now the time to visit Carnarvon is almost here. I hope the people participating this year have as much fun as we have on the annual trips in past years. The last year has again had a good variety of walks and social events on offer – some say too many social events and not enough walks but this has been a very popular year for BIG birthdays. Next year surely must taper off a little! We have made use of all our favourite places – Woolwash, Berserkers, Belgamba area, Blackdown, Byfield, the beaches, Mt Hedlow area, etc. Something new to most of us was a most enjoyable weekend at Stanage Bay, which we all say must be repeated and preferably for a long weekend next time. Another popular first for the club was the ladies only through walk which I have to claim as my idea – us ladies endured much hardship for two days and one hard night but I think I heard one or two mutter that we should try it again to see if we can improve on it. I think the men’s only through walk was a little easier on them? The May Day weekend held at Gin Gin by the Bundaberg Bushwalking Club was very well run and much enjoyed by all who attended. It is our turn next year and plans are under way – I encourage all who can to get involved in this event as it is well worth it – plus we need you! The early part of the year brought sadness with the deaths of Wes March and Donny McDonald. Donny celebrated his 85th birthday with us at our meeting on 3rd December 2000 and even sang a song for us. He was delighted with a little gift of photos taken at the Woolwash in October, and of course we had a cake for him. Two of our members Peter Hallinan and Jim Beyers lost their wives in tragic circumstances, later in the year a past member Susan Sorensen also lost her partner suddenly. An incident at Easter reminded us all that it is very important to keep up our Ambulance cover! Alan Collett found he was in good hands at the time of his emergency and has survived to walk another day. Get-well wishes should also go out to our other accident victim – Leigh who broke her ankle, and I think one or two other walkers had ankle injuries on the same day! June has also had health problems, Bevan his rocks, Jane her toe – I can’t go on – the list is too long! Forgive me if I have forgotten anybody. (Maxine’s toenail?) Some hard effort was put into a grading system for our walks, and it seems to be working quite well even though some of us don’t bother to read just how high we are going to be trying to climb! Thanks to John, Jeff, Craig and Ian for their work on that one. Once again thank you to all our walk leaders, office bearers, social committee and most importantly the newsletter people and all of you who write reports for the newsletter. Thank you all for your support over the past twelve months. Dot Svendsen Memories of Girt Island Sunday afternoon 19 August 2001 A string of 48 people and two dogs Tide out Miles of wet sand Early-spring afternoon High spirits Laughter and reminiscing Gentle sea breeze Sea eagle’s nest with chick Wood swallows arrowing No sandflies Wet joggers Pleasant walk Smoke from fire on mainland Cool water Family get-together No worries Walking for a cause.