Volume 38 Issue 1 Pugilistic Creek, Kosciusko National Park. “Sub-zero in March” Summer 2013 Wouldn’t you like to be here? Rare female Honey Possum with babies in pouch, Mt Chance (WA) campsite on Bibbulmum Track. Photo: Nancy Ainsworth, Watagan Wanderers Karen Davis at Wineglass Tor above the Great Horseshoe Bend in the Shoalhaven River. Photo: Brett Davis, Shoalhaven Bushwalkers Walk Safely—Walk with a Club T h e Bushwalker The Official Publication of the Confederation of Bushwalking Clubs NSW Volume 38, Issue 1, Summer 2013 From the editor’s desk. ISSN 0313 2684 IRST, an acknowledgement. In the last issue I had a picture on the inside front cover of a walker in a gorge, but I had lost all the details. Editor: Roger Caffin Karen Davis wrote to me to tell me that she is the walker, the pho-
[email protected] F Graphic Design & Assembly: tographer is her husband Brett Davis, and she is in Bungonia Gorge. They Barry Hanlon both belong to the Shoalhaven Bushwalkers. Coincidentally, one of the Proofreader: Roy Jamieson photos opposite is also of Karen, but in the Budawangs. Another bit of amusement concerns the Totem Pole. You will find what Confederation Officers: looks like another photo of Michael Keats by the Totem Pole inside - but it President: David Trinder is actually someone else. They went there after reading Michael's story. Administration Officer: My wife and I have not done much walking recently: what with Sydney
[email protected] hitting a record 45.8 C and the Shooters Party about to be let loose in Na- Website: www.bushwalking.org.au tional Parks, we have felt a bit inhibited.