40th Birthday Celebration among other things. At one period Reg Toseland kept the On 13 October 2001, Blue Mountains Society going by taking all three executive Conservation Society celebrated its 40th positions — he was President, Treasurer birthday, with a Birthday Dinner at the and Secretary all together. The next year Conservation Hut. It was wet and misty Dulcie took on the President’s job and Reg outside, but there was a warm glow inside remained Secretary. The Hut. Wyn Jones started the Blackheath This was a wonderful opportunity for native plant nursery. Wyn spoke about the from 7.35 to 8.30 pm. After members to meet some of the pioneers of that there will be an extended the Society and to say 'thank you' for the enormous contribution to the work of the supper and a chance for us to foundation they have laid down for us and Society by Winsome Gregory, who was too socialise and get to know one future generations in caring for our frail to attend, and read one of his poems. another better. Bring a plate beautiful Blue Mountains. Ron and Robin Corringham helped get the of finger food and something The evening started with Rex Gilroy’s Blackheath nursery going, and then Robin to drink. Tea and coffee will short 8mm film of the opening of the became nursery manager causing the be available as usual. original Hut, taken by him as a young nursery to expand and gained contracts to fellow of 18. The ceremony was attended supply native plants to the RTA and other Notice of Meeting by the Minister for Conservation. bodies. Len and June Baxter still walk with A Special General Elizabeth Buki (one of the original the Society. June regularly leads some of Meeting will be held at the members with her late husband John who our weekend bushwalks. Conservation Hut at 7.30 pm was the first Secretary) made the journey So many others have contributed so on 30 November, preceding from Gosford. Others came from near and much over the 40 years. Thank you all. the normal monthly General far — Wilson Alcorn (from Mosman), A quote from Reg and Dulcie Toseland Meeting. The sole topic of Margaret Baker, Barry and Diana Barnes, in a thank you letter: “Elizabeth Buki was discussion will be member- Len and June Baxter, Bessie Bramsen, moved to tears with all the expressions of ship fees. Details are praise for the efforts of her husband John, included in the insert Ron and Robin Corringham (from Bingi on and the handful of original helpers, enclosed. the South Coast), Mick and Jill Dark, Bert attempting to raise some sort of interest for Davies, Wyn Jones, Reg and Dulcie Conservation with both the children of the Scrapbook Toseland, Annelie Wintzler, Bev area, and the local community in Would a member be Thompson. particular.” interested in taking Wilson Alcorn was President of the The night was a stunning success! responsibility for keeping a Society for some years from 1970. Wilson Denis Kevans sang "Moss's Gentle scrapbook of Society spoke with great warmth of the wonderful Fingers" and recited two poems. Jim activities and photographs? people he had met in the Conservation Wallace did a great job as MC. Meredith
Meredith 4782.4823. Society. (And it’s still the same today!) He Brownhill and members of the Society's read a poem by his brother Graham. Education Sub-Committee put up a lovely Weeds of the Month Margaret Baker and Bessie Bramsen display, with early photos and history of the Gorse and Broom are were members of the Lower Blue Society. The meal and friendly service flowering now in the Upper Mountains Conservation Society, which Blue Mountains bright wasn’t much younger than the Upper Blue provided by the cafe was superb. A yellow flowers seen growing Mountains Conservation Society when we wonderful book, the latest edition of "Native by the highway and the amalgamated in 1996. Bessie still attends Plants of the Sydney District" by Fairley railway, in disturbed ground, general meetings and in fact was at a and Moore, donated by Fantail Books in invading general meeting recently on the night of Katoomba, was raffled and won by bushland her 94th birthday! Warwick Mosman. along A special thanks and congratulations to polluted Jill Dark grew native plants at home for members of the Management Committee the native plant sales at the old Hut, and water who worked so hard to make the night a courses. ran workshops to teach the others how to success, and especially to our President propagate native plants. Annelie Wintzler They Robin Mosman who did much of the will soon set was a former Secretary of the Society. organisation AND made the delicious Bev Thompson looked after the Hut roster, seed - huge chocolate cake for dessert. numbers of naturalist in the Science Communication seeds which Group at the Australian Museum. Martyn last up to 35 years in the soil. About Invertebrates & Frogs will present a slide show about Gorse and Broom are noxious weeds, General Meeting, Friday 30 November “Invertebrates and frogs in the bush and which means that they must be fully and In our backyards and in the bush is a your backyard”. You are invited to bring continuously suppressed and destroyed. hidden world, inhabited by hordes of tiny along specimens of invertebrates for The longer they are left, the more difficult animals, sometimes fierce, often bizarre identification, but not frogs because of they are to remove. and colourful, always fascinating to watch their sensitive nature. Bring a magnifying If you have gorse or broom on your — the invertebrates. Some of these are the lens as well. property or in the adjoining bushland, it is butterflies, crickets, cicadas, moths, The meeting will be held on Friday 30 essential to act now to remove them. If assassin bugs, mantises, and all sorts of November, at the Conservation Hut, end of you need advise on how to do it, contact other weird and wonderful creatures. Fletcher Street, Wentworth Falls, starting your local bushcare group or Blue Martyn Robinson, the guest speaker at at 7.30 pm. Visitors are welcome. Mountains City Council’s bushcare our general meeting in November, is a This will be our last general meeting of officer. the year. Martyn Robinson will speak Hut News , No. 172, November 2001 — Page 1. “Hut News ”, the newsletter of Blue Mountains Conservation Society Inc. Traffic congestion from 16,000 more because very few of them remain. If P.O. Box 29, Wentworth Falls, 2782 cars on the M4 and feeder roads will fix numbers are dropping in a population of Phone 4757 1872 Fax 4757 1753 that! species then there is a chance that that Email: [email protected] The Save the ADI Site Party was population may decrease to such limited Web page: http//www.pnc.com.au/~bmcs formed in response to the failure of both numbers that they then become President: Robin Mosman 4757.1354 Government and Opposition to conserve endangered — with extinction. (fax) the site in toto and will be standing There are two threatened species that 4757.4503 I would like to name that are local to the First Vice President: Bob Seaborne 4751.6100 candidates in the seats of Macquarie (e-mail) [email protected] (Robert Warren), Lindsay (Geoff aquatic world of the Blue Mountains. Second Vice President: Jim Wallace 4784.3305 Brown), Chifley (Barbara Bates) and One is a plant, one an animal. One lives Correspondence Secretary: Frances Love Bennelong (Noel Plumb) on November in spectacular Blue Mountains’ water- 4757.2585 (e-mail) [email protected] 10. falls; the other can be found in swamp Meetings Secretary: Heather Hull 4739.1493 areas — or soaks — that exist throughout (e-mail) [email protected] Election Promises are Thin Membership Secretary: Elizabeth van Reyswoud this area. Phone/Fax 4759.2508 on the Ground! Both species are endangered with (e-mail) [email protected] extinction. Both are threatened by Treasurer: Bart Beech 4739.9947 Election promises to protect the decreasing water quality. (e-mail) [email protected] environment are always thin on the The Dwarf Mountain Pine (Micro- Publicity: Margaret Sleath 4759.3350 ground and candidates for this election strobos fitzgeraldii) is a very restricted (e-mail) [email protected] have not promised us much ground cover species that can only be found in the Land Use: Lyndal Sullivan 4782.1635 either! (e-mail) [email protected] spray zones of upper Blue Mountains Walks Convener: Bill Graham 4759.1692 The questionnaire of candidates and waterfalls. This makes it unique! A (e-mail) [email protected] their answers is included in this Hut pine, native to Australia, that selectively Plant Nursery Manager: David Coleby News. Our survey of candidates is a grows underneath waterfalls. For Phone/Fax 4784.1395 very necessary strategy to discover just thousands of years the Dwarf Mountain Education: Meredith Brownhill 4782.4823 what action candidates intend to (e-mail) [email protected] Pine has enjoyed a constant shower of Bushfire Rep: Hugh Paterson 4751-2303 undertake for the environment if elected. pristine water, making its branches (e-mail) [email protected] Due to electoral commission droopy — it would be a tragedy if in only Bushcare: Clive Heywood-Barker constraints, names of some candidates 200 years, our impact on water quality 4782.9209 were not released in time for our survey. caused this dinosaur of the plant species (e-mail) [email protected] However the questionnaire has been National Parks: Frank Winternitz 4751.2957 to decline into extinction. Projects: Helga Esamie 4787.7690 successful in that all the candidates for The Blue Mountains Water Skink is (e-mail) [email protected] Macquarie and Lindsay who were the other threatened species currently Ian Baird 4782.6775 surveyed have responded. The need for dependent upon water quality in the Blue (e-mail) [email protected] consolidation of the Greater Blue Mountains. The Skink is about the size Serge Domicelj 4784.1907 Mountains World Heritage Area is also of a Banana — with similar colourings to (e-mail) [email protected] now publicly established and has Newsletter Editor: Christine Davies 4787.7246 a really ripe one — brown and yellow. It (fax at BANC, mark for attn C Davies) 4787.7777 received considerable support. only lives in the swamp areas between (e-mail) [email protected] The majority of candidates have Newnes Plateau and Hazelbrook; answered YES to our request for them to nowhere else in the world can it be seek $12 million for World Heritage found. Consolidation. Liberal Candidates for Another threat we need to think about Save the ADI Site Macquarie and Lindsay have given is weeds. Weeds threaten not only the The extensive woodlands which once qualified answers to this question. Blue Mountains Water Skink, but also covered Western Sydney’s Cumberland It is disappointing that Labor the Dwarf Mountain Pine. Weeds Plains have been cleared, first for Candidates and the Liberal Candidate for compete for water and space with our farming, more recently for housing. Lindsay have not been able to give a native plants; this in turn means there is Only six percent of the original direct answer to voting against a second less food for our native animals, and less Cumberland Plains Woodland remain. airport in the Sydney Basin. chance of biodiversity. The largest intact representation of this What to do with this questionnaire Weeds can dramatically change entire important woodland has been protected and answers? Pin it up at work on the aquatic worlds. They change the plants as Commonwealth Department of noticeboard, give a copy to friends and that grow on water banks and the ones Defence land, the ADI site at St Marys. take it to the polling booth. Make your that grow beneath the water’s surface. When the ADI site was no longer vote count for the environment! They also change the type of animals needed for defence purposes, here was a living in and out of the water — because rare prize! — 1,545 hectares of heritage Threatened Species and of the big change in food that is listed Cumberland Plains bushland, available! All in all, there is a huge containing over 50 species unique to the Water Week (14th - 20th October) change in biodiversity, and therefore a area, and open space between St Marys greater chance of threatened species. and Penrith and a breath of fresh air for Imagine if you were small enough to see the creeks around here as enormous, In this article, pollution and weeds the congested Western Suburbs! It had have been the bad guys in the story of an to be preserved! — but the Federal flowing oceans. The life beneath one of these creeks would be as extra-ordinary aquatic world. The bad guys are trying Government decided to sell this public to run the Dwarf Mountain Pine and the land to private developers. as the life an astronaut might see when travelling on another planet. Blue Mountains Water Skink out of 1200 people attended a protest rally town. Luckily, we have caught the bad and unanimously demanded the Below the surface of anything is where the numbers and diversity of living guys in action — and just in time. protection of the whole site as a new Remember the NO pollution rule, and Regional Park and Nature Reserve, and a creatures multiplies. A good example of this was proven in a study done by a that no weeds are the only good weeds! new political party, the Save the ADI For more information please contact Site Party was launched. Macquarie University researcher. In this study at least 4620 different species were Xuela Sledge, Threatened Species At present the ADI site is Western Community Programs Facilitator, Sydney’s primary reservoir of found in one, very average, backyard. Within the aquatic world, the situation NPWS, Phone: 47873104 or email: Cumberland Plain woodland would be the same. [email protected] biodiversity. The imposition of an 8,000 Already there are signs, however, that lot housing development on the site will we need to take greater care of our water. Membership Enquiries fix that! Threatened species are an indication of At present the ADI site has a major Contact Elizabeth van Reyswoud this. If a species is threatened, there is a Phone/Fax: 4759.2508 (a.h.) mitigating effect on air pollution in chance that we may lose it forever Western Sydney and the mountains. Email: [email protected] Post: PO Box 29,Wentworth Falls 2782 Hut News , No. 172, November 2001 — Page 2. 'The Conservation Hut is of president, treasurer or secretary! of Australia's degraded land and water both our joy and our And they had already spent years systems at $64 billion, and outlines the taskmaster’ renovating the almost derelict range of actions needed to arrest salinity, In 1973 the building they rented from the Council. land and river degradation and President of Blue Mountains They propagated native plants in biodiversity loss. Conservation Society (then named their backyards — the ones who The plan involves $3.7 billion a year Katoomba and District Wildlife knew how to do it taught the others at in public investment over 10 years and Preservation Society) wrote these workshops held at the old Hut — and $2.8 billion a year from private words in the March newsletter - . He they sold the plants at the Hut, and at investment. This might sound a lot but went on to list the positions needing street stalls. They ran the tea compared to other portfolios of to be filled in order to maintain the rooms for 30 years — every Commonwealth expenditure it is not Society's self-appointed task of weekend, public holiday and every much compared with the $18 billion pa opening the Hut as a kiosk and tea day of all school holidays for 30 for Defence or the $23.8 billion pa for room for weary bushwakers and years. Then they used the money Human Health (according to the other visitors every weekend, every they had raised to buy threatened 1999/2000 budget papers). public holiday and every day of every environmentally sensitive land and Some of the facts which demonstrate school holiday, using it as a vehicle give it back to the National Park - why drastic changes are needed include: for increasing conservation $6,000 for a hanging swamp in awareness. • Over half a million hectares of native Wentworth Falls, $40,000 for an vegetation is being cleared a year They needed a Hut roster, a inholding in Kanangra-Boyd National supervisor and band of workers to • Salinity already affects well over two Park. Last but by no means least, million hectares man it during the hours they they campaigned tirelessly for the undertook to have it open to the • In the last 200 years 20 species of preservation of the bush they loved, mammals have been declared extinct public; a curator to look after the and some of their campaigns are exhibits and arrange their and 97 plants (with a further 3,329 legends. categorised as rare or threatened) presentation; a Hut supplies In their spare time, they supervisor to check, order and pick The Repair Package proposes a range bushwalked for the love of it. of actions needed to bring about this up stock or arrange for its delivery; a These were the people who librarian to look after the growing repair as well as financial investment. started the Blue Mountains National targets are proposed for land, stock of books and record Conservation Society 40 years ago. borrowings. The Hut had to be soils, rivers, vegetation and biodiversity. They were on the cutting edge of the Implementation is proposed at regional cleaned, and prepared for meetings, revolution which is turning around the and someone was needed to and catchment level. attitudes of white Australians to their This Plan represents a health supervise all this, and the environment, teaching them to see its maintenance of a regular supply of insurance policy for the environment; a unique beauty and value. All of us policy that will save money in the longer firewood. Extra hands were needed who love and value the Blue at working bees — for gardening, term. However the longer the delay in Mountains today owe them a debt of implementing a serious nationally painting, carpentry, clearing and gratitude, for what they were able to cleaning. Then there was the clerical coordinated approach to repairing the save and for opening our eyes to the land, the costlier it will be, and the more work, and for the newsletter, an wonder of what was around us. editor, contributors, typist, duplicator unlikely will be our success. operator and somebody to organize National Repair Package The problem won’t go away if it is its putting together, addressing, In our Federal election questionnaire, ignored. Now is the time for national sealing, stamping and dispatch. An candidates were asked to support the leadership . outings convener was needed to National Environmental Repair Package organize the monthly bushwalk, and developed by the Australian “there is a famous saying that lastly — but most importantly to them Conservation Foundation and National when one is on the brink of — members were needed who were Farmers Federation. This question refers disaster the only progressive willing to talk about conservation at to a joint report released last year by step is backwards. other societies' functions and in the ACF and NFF. The report, entitled ”(vince serventy) schools. All this before any mention "Repairing the Country", costs the repair

record of making this process deliver for Leura rail airspace, but local developers the environment whenever they hold the have long had their eyes on the Spring- balance of power. wood site. The story of attempts to have Vocally Challenged? a public square on this site contains Forests Minister, Wilson Tuckey (a more plot development than the Old former publican) has derisively Testament. Nevertheless, the developers criticised ACF president Peter Garrett for keep trying to undermine the idea. being a former (sic) rock singer who Recently, a columnist in the Blue employs lawyers and economists to Mountains Gazette, ‘Mountain advise him on Australia’s environment. Murmurs’ (which happens to be a non- Readers are invited to submit their own gender specific collective) lent its weight lists of which occupations so thoroughly to the developers’ latest ploy. ‘Mountain warp one’s perspective that their Murmurs’ should not be misled into Party Records Speak Volumes veterans should never be allowed to undervaluing this irreplaceable vantage Both major parties make promises have anything to do with conservation! point. about the environment. Unfortunately, Suppressing a Murmur The Vampire Strikes Back (Seen in when in government, neither party’s There are two locations in Blue “““Batnews”)“Batnews”) record matches the promises. They Mountains town centres which are both ‘Want to go into BAT for WomBATS simply do not spend enough on accessible to the public and command and BATtallions of other species affected protection of air, water, forests, nor do spectacular views of Blue Mountains by fighter flights over the Blue they heavily penalise those who degrade National Park, underscoring the concept Mountains from BATstown Airport. them. of our ‘City Within a World Heritage Then bring your droppings and play a No matter which major party wins Area’. One is the western stretch of joke on the DingBATS aboard this fighter government, the real significance of Leura Railway platform, the other is the plane. If these joyflighters don’t like it, legislation affecting the environment is School of Arts site (or Westpac carpark), let them take a SaBATical, join the likely to be determined by bargaining in a section of publicly owned land at defence forces, and taste being real the Senate. There are two minor parties Springwood. ComBATants. Don Morison. whose senators have a proven track No plans are known for flogging the Hut News , No. 172, November 2001 — Page 3. PERHAPS DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Sometimes in the bush - Nov 24 (Sat) Management Meeting , 9 am, Mid Mountains Community Centre, sunlight on leaves, Lawson. soft small winds of spring, Nov 30 (Fri) General Meeting , at the Conservation Hut, 7.30 pm. “Invertebrates thrust and bloom of that season, and frogs in the bush and your backyard”, Martyn Robinson, skill of a nesting bird weaving, Australian Museum, 7.30 to 8.30 pm. Bring a plate of finger food and territorial proclamation of her mate a drink for extended supper afterwards. (See Page 1) in crystal cadence, Dec 02 (Sun) Blue Mountains City Council BUSHCARE PICNIC at Megalong dew spangled spider web, butterfly, Reserve. 12 pm onwards. bright beetle, scent of leaf mould, QUOLL CLUB (Activities for 12 and under - contact Jessica 4788.1200)) glimpse of a wallaby — BUSHCARE (Tools provided — bring morning tea and gloves.) sometimes in the bush, thresholds. Nov 09 (Fri) Valley of the Waters Bushcare Group. (2nd Friday of every Thresholds of splendour, of some month) Contact Karen on 4757.1929 for the meeting place. great truth? (following Friday if wet). Perhaps, perhaps ... BUSHWALKS : Graham Alcorn, December 1991. Monday Leisure Walks: Usually half day walk unless noted, leisurely pace. Nov 05 Birdwood Gully. Allan 4739.2767. Springwood Stn 9am. Easy. BBQ. Nov 12 Lithgow Zig Zag & Viaduct View.
Ron 4757.1526. Train to Zig Zag Calico Bags for Christmas Station arr. 9.16am, leaves Wentworth Falls 8.29, return 3.05pm. Be in the The Society’s calico bags with the last carriage. Medium day walk. Take lunch. Also Train Museum visit. message “14 million plastic bags go to Nov 19 Bus Trip to Jenolan Caves (walk on final section of Six Foot Track). Bus leaves Katoomba Depot at 8.30.
Bill 4759.1692 for bookings. Lunch landfill in Australia each day” will make at Caves House or bring your own. Opportunity for cave inspection or great Christmas presents. They cost $5 other walk in afternoon. each. You can buy them at our Nov 26 Undercliff/Overcliff and Rocket Point.
Bill 4759.1692. Wentworth November general meeting, or at the Falls Station 9am. Easy. Cafe or BYO. Conservation Hut cafe or Fantail books, Dec 03 Kings Tableland.
Norah 4757.4058. Wentworth Falls Station 9am. Katoomba. Easy. BBQ. Magpie Christmas Dec 10 Darwin’s Walk to Kings Tableland.
Kees 4759.1958. Wentworth The song of the cicada is a distinctive Falls Station 9am. Easy. BBQ. sound of the Australian summer. Most Dec 17 Evans and Christmas Party at Tarana Hotel.
BillG 4759.1692. Bus leaves Katoomba 8.30 am. Easy. Arrange pickups with Bill. Australian cicadas take at least two years to develop and some probably take “Getting to Know the Blue Mountains Walks” several more years. When they are ready, on Wednesday and THURSDAY from November 21. (Half day, easy/med) the cicada nymphs emerge from their Nov 07 Pope’s Glen .
Bill 4759.1692. Blackheath Neighbourhood Centre 9am. underground homes, climb up the closest (Wed) Easy. BBQ. tree, moult one last time, and the males Nov 14 Forgotten Walk No1.
Allan 4739.2767. Faulconbridge, St Georges sing to attract a mate. (Wed) Cres, opposite church, 9am. Easy. BBQ. But what happens when somebody Nov 21 Pierces Pass to Grose River and return.
Bill 4759.1692. Mount moves the tree? (Thu) Victoria Station 9am. Car pool. Long walk, take lunch. Medium. We moved into our home in McLaren Nov 28 Historic Glenbrook, Zig Zag, Bridge.
Jock 4758.6346. Car park near Crescent almost two years ago. There (Thu) Glenbrook Cinema 9am. Medium, half day. Lunch at cafe. was a large conifer in the front garden. It Dec 05 Woodford Dam.
Jock 4758.6346. Great Western Highway, cnr made a nice Christmas tree. We (Thu) Winbourne Ave, Hazelbrook, 9 am. Easy. Take lunch. decorated the lower branches with tinsel Dec 12 Sassafras Gully (from Springwood Avenue, cnr Homedale Street — Meet and coloured balls, then in March cut the (Thu) there 9am).
Bill 4759.1692. BBQ after tree down. Dec 19 Portal Lookout and Euroka Clearing.
Allan 4739.2767. Glenbrook The Blackheath summer came early Station carpark 9am. Easy. BBQ and picnic. Last walk in 2001. this year, with the emergence of cicadas in the first week of October, lots of them Weekend Bushwalks: Bushwalkers are requested to phone the contact before 8 pm the day before the walk. The walk may be cancelled if fewer than 4 walkers register, in my front garden. But where was the tree? or if other circumstances make conditions unsafe. Instead of a large conifer to provide Nov 03 Govett’s Leap to Junction Rock.
June 4787.7312. Blackheath Station (Sat) 9.30am. Medium. Hard climb out. Bring lunch. shelter from predators, they found some Nov 10 Mt Wilson to Wollongambe River.
June 4787.7312. Mt Vic Station metre-high scribbly gums, a variety of (Sat) 9.30am. Medium. Bring lunch and swimming togs. small native shrubs, native grasses, and Nov 17 Pulpit Rock .
Don 4787.6447. Blackheath Station carpark 9.30 am. two hungry magpies! (Sat) Medium. Bring lunch. The cicadas won’t be singing in my Nov 24 National Pass, Wentworth Pass.
Matthew 4782.4218. Conservation garden this year — but the magpie family (Sat) Hut 9am. Medium, hard climb. Long day, bring lunch. are doing very nicely. Christine Davies. Dec 01 Walls Ledge, Centennial Glen, Porters Pass.
Mary 4787.6918. (Sat) Blackheath Station carpark 9.30 am. Medium. Bring lunch. Welcome to New Members Dec 09 Nellie’s Glen, Bonnie Doon Lookouts.
Jim 4784.3305. Gearins Lean Sainsbury, Lawson (Sun) Hotel Katoomba 9.30am. Medium. Bring lunch. Ian and Susan Ernst, Mosman Dec 15 Weekend Walkers and Friends CHRISTMAS PARTY at Mount David Warren, Lawson (Sat) Tomah Botanic Gardens. Meet Mt Victoria Station 10 am for car pool. John and Glenda Wylie, Blackheath Self catering. All invited. Jenny Cantwell, Warrimoo Chris Klein, Warrimoo Walks are generally Easy to Medium Grade, unless otherwise noted. Easy : Martin and Patricia Cantwell, Chatswood Mostly good surfaces, but some rough or steep sections. Suited to people of average Clara Hali, Blackheath fitness. Medium: Includes rough or steep sections, some of which may require Margaret Garrett, Wentworth Falls clambering over natural obstacles. Suited to people of better than average fitness, but Kids Club : discuss with the contact if in doubt. Hard: We occasionally arrange a walk Michael Sutton, Glenbrook considered most suited to experienced and very fit walkers but it is conducted at a Jonathan Creagh, East Blaxland moderate pace. Always discuss with the contact if the walk you would like to do is Britanny & Loesje Fletcher, Glenbrook Medium/hard or Hard, before attending. If this is your first walk , or you are in any Lauren McKechnie, Emu Heights doubt, discuss with the contact or Bushwalks Convener Bill Graham 4759.1692.

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