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IT November 2001 Page 1 in Touch with the Management THE CANBERRA BUSHWALKING CLUB INC. NEWSLETTER it GPO Box 160, Canberra ACT 2601 VOLUME 37 November 2001 NUMBER 11 NOVEMBER GENERAL MEETING 8pm Wednesday 21st Archaeological digs and sites Speaker: Doug Wright Shine Dome, Australian Academy of Science Gordon Street, Canberra City Make the most of the evening and join other members at 6.00pm for a convivial meal at the Vietnam Restaurant, 8-10 Hobart Place, Canberra City (opposite Canberra House Arcade, next to Aussie Home Loans) Try to be early to ensure there will be ample time to finish and still get to the meeting in good time the original participants, came After the recent success of our along on the recent weekend, and PRESIDENT’S photo exhibition (480 people two other “old-time” members Reet PRATTLE visited the exhibition at the Botanic Vallak and Eleanor Stoddart were Gardens) I have removed the there as well. Rob and myself, plus display of framed photographs to At a time when both governments Alan Davey and John Kelly came Namadgi Visitors Centre. The and public service seem to be in along as “porters” but in fact our Centre’s management are very “caretaker mode”, our club contin- services in this regard were not willing to promote both the exhibi- ues at what we do best, that is, taken up. planning, leading and participating tion and the profile of our club, and in bushwalks and other outdoor It was a wonderful weekend of to this end they will display our activities. Meg will talk more sunshine, spring flowers, dramatic little information sheets on an about the next few month’s pro- limestone cliffs and a beaut camp- ongoing basis. Drop in over the gram, but I will mention in site and swimming spot by the next couple of months and have particular a recent weekend walk Shoalhaven. A big thankyou to another look at these wonderful that was actually part of our plan of Gosta for organising this event: he photos. The management have celebrations for the club’s 40th even photocopied for us from the asked whether the owners of the anniversary. Gosta Lynga arranged National Library the hand-written photos would be interested in a re-enactment of the club’s origi- “walks report “ he wrote for the having them for sale (in fact I was nal walk in 1961, which was a trip club at the time. What good for- approached about one photo by a from Canberra out to Bungonia tune for us to belong to a club member of the public while I was Gorge, and down the Shoalhaven whose participants have kept alive setting them out!) If people are River to a camp on what was their love and enthusiasm for the interested in this idea, could you known as “Cedar Flat”. Both outdoors, for so many years. please contact me personally (by e- Gosta, and Dorothy Brown, two of mail preferably) and I will put you Canberra Bushwalking Club IT November 2001 page 1 in touch with the management. We edge of Adelaide's urban sprawl to do need to keep at least part of the The Heysen Trail ascend Mt Lofty. After Mt Lofty exhibition intact until next April the trail undulates steeply through when we will be required to stage It is about 1500 km in length and is native or pine forest as well as some kind of display for Heritage a long way from Canberra. That's crossing through hills orchard Week. why it has taken me six years to country. Beyond Kersbrook a walk from end to end of the Hey- section through the Warren Con- Committee matters tend to slow sen Trail. The Friends of the servation Park passes through down as the summer approaches, Heysen Trail record only 70 per- dense native forest, a habitat for and probably also because of the sons as having 'done' the whole millions of orchids. More large elections, so there are no matters of thing; some have done it in less pine forests follow and Mt Craw- immediate importance to report to time, and others have walked the ford makes demands on the walker, club members. Thank you to all whole trail in a single hit, but that but after that the trail crosses those people who participated in would clearly involve some com- beautiful park like grazing country, various roles in our 40th anniver- plicated logistics, for this trail then through parts of the Kaiser- sary celebrations, and helped to passes close to only a few towns stuhl Conservation Park to drop make these events such an enjoy- and access by public transport is suddenly out of the Barossa Range able and positive part of the club very limited. I appear to be number to enter Tanunda at the old Lu- year. 71, and the first from Canberra. theran village of Bethany. Jenny Horsfield When asked what the trail is like I b. Beyond Tanunda the trail trav- President find myself unable to give a clear erses the very highly 'developed' answer. It cannot be compared with Barossa Valley in which it is Apology any long distance walk on the sensitively restricted to 'green' eastern seaboard - after all it is in roads or country back lanes. North A couple of editorial errors ap- South Australia. I think of it as of Kapunda, Peters Hill must be peared in the article “Pollies on Mt comprising three ill-defined sec- negotiated before heading east to Kelly” by Alan Vidler and Dan tions. the Tothill Range which is fol- Buchler, in our anniversary maga- a. The first is in the south from lowed to Logans Gap. Here the zine. On page 20 the comment in Cape Jarvis to Tanunda in the nature of the walk changes again as italics was meant as an editorial Barossa Valley. From the start the the track crosses steeply undulating reminder and should not have been rugged coastline is followed treeless exposed hills to bring the included in the text. through the beauty of the Deep walker to Burra - a town of consid- On page 20 second column the Creek Conservation Park with erable historic interest. paragraph beginning “the return constant views out to sea and to After Burra walking is again very route” would have left the reader Kangaroo Island and possible demanding as the trail rises and confused. It should have read “JH glimpses of the occasional whale. falls precipitately over steep tree- surprised by going much better It is characterised by short, steep less hills, slavishly following fence than JK”. climbs and descents and significant lines and denying all attempts or beach walking. North of Victor Our apologies to Alan and Dan for desire to adhere to contours. As Harbour the trail passes through these unintentional errors. with much of the walk, water is much 'developed' small-farm land scarce and adequate reserves must Jenny Horsfield and but maximum use is made of always be carried - indeed the trail Janet Edstein 'green' roads and unfrequented now heads east into country which gravel roads, and wherever possi- could only be perceived as semi- Notice of Motion ble stiles give access to tracks mallee as it approaches Touralie across private property. Myponga Gorge. Through the rock of this To be considered at the November and Yulte Conservation Parks are rugged pass, pioneer track-makers meeting: "The Club donate $200 rugged, scrubby or forested and are have carved a route for the bullock to the Foundation for National a prelude to the climb up Mt Cone wagons to cart produce to Ade- Parks And Wildlife to be used for and onward to cross the Finnis laide. research into the reasons for the River before ascending Mt Mag- The next challenge is Mt Bryan, decline in population numbers of nificent with its 360 degree views. another demanding climb to its 936 the Corroboree Frog (the Club Beyond Mt Magnificent the track m summit before descending down emblem) including the captive traverses the extensive Kuitpo the Toolang valley to Hallett. Then breeding program" Forests and also passes through the more hard exposed walking fol- Dick Johnston old goldfield at Jupiters Creek and lowing old stone fences which Conservation Officer Echunga before skirting the eastern traverse the ridgeline of the Brown Canberra Bushwalking Club IT November 2001 page 2 Hill Range, finally dropping into merly brutally steep and abrupt, a the greater part of Australia hap- the Spalding Valley where the trail new brilliantly graded foot track pens to be - arid, sparsely settled, suddenly becomes easy following traverses a number of enormous grossly and indiscriminately over- the now disused aquaduct which scree slopes in its 6 km journey to cleared and now overstocked, quite formerly collected water for the summit (named by James Eyre unforgiving but possessed of a Whyalla. in 1840, but there are no views huge variety of beauty which is from the top). uniquely Australian. Spalding is by-passed but there is a pleasant campsite at Freshwater A long undulating ridge-top fire Ted Fleming . Oct 2001 Weir on the aquaduct. Many more trail leads to the old copper mine at kilometers beside the aquaduct lead Spring Creek and the trail then MEMBERSHIP to the Bundaleer Reservoir (not follows this beautiful valley with seen from the track) and on to the its magnificent red gums for a MATTERS Never Never Creek valley with its couple of km before a very steep own unique rugged beauty, passing climb to another fire trail leading to Prospective members: Yandowie Station (grazing) before Stony Creek and a campsite. Re- Marian Heard, Daryl Poole, Nor- entering a forest of exotic trees in cently the Friends of the Heysen man Bowman, Jocelyn Bowman, which Curnows Hut is situated.
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