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Itcanberra BUSH WALKING CLUB INC. NEWSLETTER 'S CANBERRA BUSH WALKING CLUB INC. NEWSLETTER P.O. Box IQ Canbta, A.C.T. 2601 It Registered by Australia Post: Publication number NBH 1859 VOLUME 28 AUGUST 1992 NUMBER 8 AUGUST MONTHLY MEETING WHERE? Dickson Library Community Room WHEN? Wednesday 19 August 1992, 8.00pm WHAT? St John Ambulance Association Before the meeting join members at 6.00pm at Dickson's Asian Noodle House, below New Shanghai Rest., Woolley St, Dickson. Please be there at 6.00pm MEMBERSHIP MATTERS Prospective Members Eric Sadlovski 51 Archdall St Macgregor ACT 2615 2547943(h) 274831 2(w) Wayne Donaldson 116 Bacchus Crct Kambah ACT 2902 2961913(h) Nathan Carroll 3 Tully St Holder ACT 2611 2882349(h) 2668150(w) Jonathan Caddick 17/50 Embling St Wanniassa ACT 2903 2319067(h) 2503809(w) Rhonda Watt 16 Doyle RI Queanbeyan NSW 2620 2976489(h) Andrew Brooks 1 Guise St Sutton NSW 2620 2756625(w) Wendy Howe 23 Lambert St Lyneham ACT 2602 2472214(h) 2527386(w) Catherine Koukias c/- ATO, cnr Moore/Barry Or Canberra City ACT 2601 2487611(h) New Members The Club welcomes the following new members: Gerry Neville, Lian Mack, Graham tuttridge, Seamus Forde, Sylvia Flaxman, Brian MacLeod, KG.Mortimer. WALK REPORT The Kimberley in June Earlier in the year I was lucky enough to be invited to join a small group of Canberra walkers on a private trip to the Kimberley. In three and a bit weeks we did long walks in two areas, one very much on the "tourist track" and one in a quite remote and seldom visited part of the region. Our first area of interest was the upper reaches of the Prince Regent River below Mount Agnes. This was selected as a good walking area from maps only and the walk organiser, Mary Hoffman assisted by Ray Franzi, certainly did a good job. The lower Prince Regent and the Gulf at the seaward end are part of a Nature Reserve set up as part of some world biosphere program with entry prohibited for mere mortals like us. However, the area above the Nature Reserve proved interesting enough. As there are entry restrictions and few roads, none of the tour companies such as Willis 2 Walkabouts operate in the area and just getting there was an adventure in its own right. This involved four days travel, not all full days but close enough. Day one was an early morning flight (leave home at 5.30am) to Darwin via Sydney and Brisbane arriving after lunch and leaving the afternoon for sightseeing in Darwin. That evening Eric and I enjoyed one of Australia's best bargains, a backpackers dinner at one of the local pubs for $1.50 (they made it up on the drinks though). Day two was an eleven hour bus trip across the top end to Kununurra. We learned on this day what our likely walking timetable would be as the sun rose at about 5.1 5am and set just after 500pm WA time. On day three the five of us drove our rented Toyota Landcruiser out along the Gibb River Road to Mount Elizabeth Station, a trip of about 430 kilometres. With stops to explore at Emma Gorge, a swim at Jack's Hole, and the state of the road this took from 7.00am to after 400pm. Day four was a short drive through the Station on their private "road" (for which we paid a toll of $50)to the start of the walk. This 115 kilometre trip with stops to search for aboriginal art (successful) took long enough that we changed our plans and spent that night beside the vehicle and finally started walking half a day later than originally intended. We had several surprises in WA. It was incredibly dry with the previous wet season being the worst for 50 years. We always managed to find water but had to carry reserves in case we didn't. With up to eight days food in the pack this was an unwelcome addition. We had also thought that the section of river we would walk on was above a natural barrier to saltwater crocodiles. The information from the station owner that this was not so really gave us food for thought when we were faced with our first compulsory swim. It also meant that we scanned the pool carefully before a4 of our optional cooling off dips. (Despite the fact that it was well into winter and Canberra had sub-zero temperatures, we walked in up to 34 degree heat). In the end we saw no saltwater crocs and only a couple of the freshwater variety. The heat and early sunrise and sunset made for a fairly strict walking regime. Up by 5.30am, breakfast and break camp and be away walking in nice cool conditions by 700am. By about 9.00 it had started to get hot and by the time we stopped for lunch at or before 12.00 it was boiling hot. Any distance travelled after lunch was really a bonus and we had usually made camp by 4.00pm so as to have time to prepare the evening meal before it got dark. I think the only time we did not camp by 4.00 was the day we couldnot find a camp site and ended up beside the stream on "soft" rocks. We spent a week walking in country which was completely unmarked by human presence. Other than planes (we saw three and heard another) we saw no evidence of any previous visitors. No structures, no sawn off tree stumps etc. I now have a different appreciation of wilderness. We did see and hear quite a bit of fauna - black and red cockatoos, emus, and dingoes spring to mind. The river was also home to fish, described as sooty grunters, which thanks to the expertise of Ray, supplemented our spartan fare on a couple of occasions. After a week of isolation we climbed out of the gorges and back to the "road" which we hit at what we thought was about 12 kilometres from where we left the landcruiser. With walking every day we had developed a good rhythm and even after vvälking about 13 kilometres and climbing several hundred metres with full packs in 30 + heat, Eric and I managed to speed along the track to the car in only 1 hour 50 minutes. On the way back to the others we measured the distance as 11.7 km. After a few weeks of sedentary life back in the office I doubt that I could do that distance in that time at the end of the day! We then had almost two days back to Kununurra to meet another three colleagues and head off on the second trip - nine days at Purnululu National Park, better known as the Bungle Bungles. The major cost of the Prince Regent walk was the hire of the landcruiser. It seemed a waste to leave it sitting under a tree for a week and be paying almost $100 a day hire, but this was undoubtedly the most cost effective way to get to this area. The difficulty of access meant though that the area has remained unspoilt by human visitation and we had the feeling of true wilderness walking. Allan Mikkelsen "Walk Report" - Walking with Adelaide Bushwalkers (ABW) Faced with "4-6" (it was 9) weeks working in Adelaide I knew I could not survive without the regular "fix" I've been living on for nearly 20 years, so... Janet Duncan gave me her brother's phone number. He told me that he was no longer very active, but gave me another phone number. From there I received considerable detail about the club including details of the fortnightly meeting in 2 days time. At the meeting, the person I'd talked to on the phone found me among the 80-100 people there, presumably from my lost look (thank you, Peter) and introduced me to lots of people. I then enjoyed a social meeting very similar to ours, but with less business and more people. This was followed by a scramble trying to book onto a walk for each of the following two weekends - messy, as everything, including transport, is organised at the meeting and I was hopping between two groups in opposite corners of the haIl trying to introduce myself, find transport, explain that, yes, I did have some experience in walking, and no, I wasn't a member of the club but was a bona fide visiting member of another club (ABW require walkers to be at least prospective members of the club unless you are a visiting member of another club). I received all 'the gen' on the first walk - to the Barrier Range, North of Broken Hill(!). I was kindly given a lift back to my hotel, in the diagonally opposite corner of the Adelaide city square. I was picked up about 4:30pm Friday for the for the 600km drive for our 3 day June long weekend. About midnight, we were gathered in by the leader as we blundered around on tracks outside Silverton, 30km N of Broken Hill, and joined the rest of the party camped near a dry creek bed. I tied my fly guys to rocks, mainly, as the ground was rock hard. Next day, after driving to a property another 30km North, we (17 in the party) set off East(ish) aàross the treeless plain into the nearby Barrier Range - a range of rolling hills, also very barren. Most of the day we were walking up dry river beds, often among picturesque river red gums.
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