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MBW 833 Aug 2020.Indd MELBOURNE BUSHWALKERS INC. ABN 14 396 912 508 the news August #833 2020 STAY HOME STAY SAFE STAY CONNECTED Cover photo by Wen Qi DUE TO THE REINTRODUCTION OF RESTRICTIONS OF MOVEMENT TO CONTAIN THE SPREAD OF COVID-19, ALL CLUB FACE-TO-FACE ACTIVITES UP TO AND INCLUDING 19TH AUGUST HAVE BEEN CANCELLED. REFER TO OUR WEBSITE FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. The News of the Melbourne Bushwalkers Inc WE ARE a MEMBER OF (The News) is published monthly, and is the offi cial newsletter of Melbourne Bushwalkers Inc. Editor: Wen Qi Walk previews, walk reviews, articles, poems, news items, photographs of Club events, reports of new gear, book/ movie reviews, letters to the editor, advertisements, et cetera are always welcome. However, the Editor reserves the right to edit contributions where space, clarity or propriety dictate, and to maintain editorial consistency. There will be no Wednesday night meetings until further notice. Note: photographs should be sent as separate high resolution fi les which are capable of being edited. General correspondence should be directed to: Please send your contributions as unformatted text fi les by email to [email protected] The Secretary Melbourne Bushwalkers Inc Closing date for receipt of material for The News is the PO Box 1751 21st of the month. MELBOURNE VIC 3001 Advertisements should relate to bushwalking (e.g.gear, www.melbournebushwalkers.org.au maps, trips, tours, health and fi tness etc.). These may be published subject to space availability and Editor’s discretion. For current advertising rates contact the Editor at [email protected]. Next committee meeting: Monday 3rd August club officer positions available -Social secretary -Sunday walks secretary -Vice president If interested, please get in touch by emailing [email protected] Would like your trip photos featured in the newsletter? Due date for contributions to September News: 21 August email: [email protected] Page 2 Issue 833 – August 2020 President’s Column In this diffi cult time for all Victorians, I hope that you and your families remain safe and healthy in the coming weeks. The news of lock-down dashed our cautious pursuit of a new normal for many of us. It’s so important to seek small pleasures, whether in walking the neighbourhoods baking, catching the wintery sunlight or peacefully watching birds from our windows, backyards or balconies or having a phone call with a fellow MBW member. We are nearly at the end of the month and Plastic Free July is nearly over. I like to mention that the movement started small almost a decade ago in Australia. This year, the annual challenge arrives as plastic is making something of a comeback amid the pandemic. Even if this year is complicated, breaking free from our normal routines — whether by starting to recycle soft plastic, cooking at home more or shopping at a bulk source shop — can present an opportunity. For me it is about continuing to fi nd ways to replace the “unrecyable” - like sewing my own masks or growing hydroponic greens. This feels like that I am doing something good, in line with my values. This is also a reason why I see a great value in volunteering with the MBW club as well as with other organizations. Just in the past week I mentored a new group of Climate Reality Leadership Corps Leaders from Australia. I joined the launch of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps Global Training, a virtual event uniting people from around the world to highlight what’s at stake for our planet and our future. Over 9 days myself and over 500 mentors globally helped train some 10,000 committed individuals from all over the world to learn how to kick start climate action in their community. As we continue to social distance and organize virtual talks, I will off er an updated presentation based on the academy award wining fi lm Inconvenient Truth later this year to club members and share what action we will be taking as a club to address climate change. Take Care Of Yourself And Each Other. Susanne Page 3 Issue 833 – August 2020 Noticeboard Website Snippets Ian Mair (Webmaster) A month has passed since the club’s updated website was released. Since then it has been tweaked almost daily, adding new features and refi ning others. Thank you to the members who provided comment and pointed out opportunities for improvement. Keep the comments coming. Add shortcut icon on your phone The MBW website contains a touch icon that you can use as a shortcut on your phone. Simply open the website home page in your preferred browser and follow the recommended procedure for your device to create a shortcut on your screen. The touch icon should be displayed automatically and you have one- click access to the club’s website. Sharing you photos on the website One of the more signifi cant changes with the new website is the process for uploading images from the Members’ Area. The previous procedure of submitting images by email has been replaced with a direct upload facility in your browser, an approach more familiar to those who upload images to other photo sharing sites. Taking advantage of the power of modern browsers, the selected images are automatically resized on your computer before they are uploaded, removing the need to resize images as a separate process before submission. With optimism still high, and a hearty program of walks being schedule for the coming months, leaders may wish to try out the new facility by uploading preview images for their planned walks. While the shortage of recent trips from which to share is a drawback, some of you may also wish to consider submitting photos from older trips. Provided no images have been previously uploaded and are available on the website photogallery, you can still share you own images with other members. The only requirement is that the submission will need to be completed before 11pm on the day you upload the fi rst image since the trip will likely be past the normal time allowance for submissions after a trip and the new upload will trigger the daily processing routine. Making the club’s history accessible In its 80th year and still going strong. Melbourne Bushwalkers has a long and proud history full of larger-than-life characters and tales both frightening and frivolous. The club’s newsletter, started in 1948 provides a continuous record told in the vernacular of the day. A digital archive of the newsletter is maintained on the website for anyone to browse and while away these cold winter evenings. A major eff ort is being made to fi ll the gaps in the earlier years. In the past month the issues from the 1970s have been added and work is progressing on the 1980s. Page 4 Issue 833 – August 2020 Noticeboard If browsing old newsletters is not for you, then the updated website has added new life to the excellent history of the club’s fi rst 50 years and makes for absorbing reading. You may even recognise some of the names and faces of members still active today! Page 5 Issue 833 – August 2020 Along The Track Lorne Waterfalls, Castle Rock & The Canyon Pack Carry June 24-25 Trip report & Photos by Meredith Quick The group met at the Sheoak Falls Carpark at 9am, all ready to have our temperatures checked, to affi rm we were in good health and had not been exposed to the virus. All new, but necessary processes implemented by the club to protect the health of our members. We left the carpark via the Sheoak Falls track. Only 750 meters up the track was our fi rst falls, Sheoak Falls. From there we walked the short side trip to Swallow Cave Falls. Two waterfalls and we had been walking for less than an hour. We returned to the Sheoak Falls track and took the track up to the Castle Rock track. Castle Rock was closed due to COVID restrictions, so we had a short break and then continued along the Sheoak Falls track until it met the Garvey Track (dirt Road) after a couple of metres was the track to Cumberland Falls. A 4km return side trip. We dropped our packs and headed down the slippery steep track to the Cumberland River, there was a river crossing and the water was too high to continue. It was winter and the water was extremely cold, it was day one of a two day walk and none of us were particularly interested in getting our dry, warm feet wet. So we retraced our steps and returned to our packs, deciding to have an early lunch on the side of the track. After lunch we returned to the Garvey track and headed to the start of the Kalimina Falls track. This was a well- formed walking trail, steep in sections, slippery and muddy after the recent rain. After 1.1km we reached the Page 6 Issue 833 – August 2020 Along The Track turnoff to the Upper Kalimina Falls, the 600 metre track was closed due to a damaged boardwalk, the fi rst time I visited but the sign was not around. We dropped our packs again and had a look down the track, meeting many families returning from the falls. We were advised there was damage at the end of the track on the falls viewing platform, so we had a quick look at the Falls from a distance before returning to our packs. We walked a further 600 metres to the Lower Kamina Falls, 100 metre side trip from the main track.
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