DOCSLIB.ORG

BUSHWALKING NSW Bonnum

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
BUSHWALKING NSW Bonnum Ngaityung Falls, Little Forest Plateau, south of Mt Bushwalker. Photo: Brett Davis, Shoalhaven Bushwalkers Huayhuash Circuit, Peru, with Trapecio peak in the background, day 4 of 11 days walking, July 2015 Photo: Linda Groom, Canberra Bushwalking Club Walk Safely—Walk with a Club The Official Publication of Bushwalking NSW Inc Volume 40, Issue 4, Spring 2015 ISSN 0313 2684 From the Editor: Roger Caffin [email protected] editor’s desk. Graphic Design & Assembly: Barry Hanlon he front cover shows us descending from the plateau under the Pic Proofreader: Roy Jamieson d’Anie on the GR10 in the Pyrenees. The plateau is a totally unreal Tplace - kilometres and kilometres of jumbled limestone boulders, Bushwalking NSW Officers: with the pointy Pic d’Anie rising up in the middle. President: Mitchell Isaacs Watch your step on that stuff, because if you slip then one of two Executive Officer: Kirsten Mayer unpleasant things will happen to you. You could go down one of the [email protected] thousands of narrow limestone slots which go deep underground, never to Phone: 9565 4005 be seen again. Oh well, you would probably get jammed half way down as Website: the slots are very narrow, but getting out could be an interesting exercise. www.bushwalkingnsw.org.au Alternately, you might not go right into a slot: you might just impale Address all correspondence to: yourself on one of the razor sharp edges and scrape all the skin off your PO Box 119, Newtown, NSW 2042 arms and legs. I am not sure which would be worst. Fortunately the weather was fine, and that sort of limestone is a bit like Bushwalking NSW Inc represents very coarse sandpaper: grippy! Anyhow, once you go through the Col approximately 68 Clubs with a total d’Anie you reach much ‘softer’ grassy terrain, as shown on the cover. membership of about 12,000 Around the corner it flattened out a bit and we stopped for lunch on the bushwalkers. grass. Formed in 1932, Bushwalking NSW Roger Caffin provides a united voice on behalf of all bushwalkers on conservation, access Editor and other issues. Articles for Publication People interested in joining a bushwalking club may write to the We are always happy to receive pictures for publication, even if there is no story. Send Executive Officer at: them in! [email protected] The Bushwalking NSW website www.bushwalkingnsw.org.au contains a list of clubs and lots of useful information on bushwalkling, including the Australian Bushwalking FAQ. If you are an adventurer or a stroller, a nature enthusiast or enjoy fitness, you'll discover great company, amazing landscapes and exiting activities when you join a bushwalking club! Index Visit the Bushwalking NSW website to find a club near you to join: Wouldn’t you like to be here? 2 www.bushwalkingnsw.org.au From the Editor’s Desk 3 Walking the Traverse of the Gods 4 Bushwalkers are very friendly and always welcome newcomers. Walking with a club New England Wilderness Walk 7 will help you discover new places, new Wolgan Walk 9 skills, and new friends. The Great South West Walk 11 Bonnun Pic 13 Book Reviews: On Track, Searching out the Sundian Way 15 Letter to the Editor 15 Keep Exploring. Front Cover: Descending from the Pic d’Anie plateau, GR10 Pyrenees, France. Be amazed! Photo: Roger Caffin. Volume 40, Issue 4, Spring 2015 The Bushwalker | 3 Walk Safely—Walk with a Club Michael Keats The Bush Club Arrive at cliff top, rest: 555 803, 11:10. Continue: 11:20. Arrive vehicle: 553 812, 11:40. In speaking with Graeme before the walk, he said: I first heard that the terrace ‘goes’ from Peter Treseder, possibly when showing him Orang Utan Pass on 27/3/93. Peter had been doing some climbing on Mount Looking across the Mt Banks face. Photo: Brian Fox Banks at the time. I don’t know if her earlier climbers discovered it. f ever a place name captured the there is no view at the top, unless the Never content to repeat a walk done by imagination this one surely did. The walker edges down the slope towards the another, or even previously by himself, Iname was coined by Phil Foster of escarpment, at which point there are leader Yuri Bolotin added a twist to the Springwood Bushwalkers in 2013. Having views of the Grose Valley. walk as previously done by Graeme just completed the walk on Sunday 7th Holbeach and Peter Medbury by testing June 2015, I have to fully endorse the Bushwalkers Notes. the proposition that Banks Wall could be name. There was a point on the walk walked from the end of Frank Hurley when I felt very much that I was on an The earliest documented notes I have Head. More about that later. assignment to meet my maker. Others are about this walk were recorded by Graeme The group set off from the recognised perhaps better than I at disguising their Holbeach who completed the walk on 5th picnic parking area at 08:34, noting with true thoughts or perhaps I am just getting September 1996. Economical on words, disgust the theft of the plaque too old for this kind of caper. Graeme’s log records: commemorating the westernmost point of Nature provided a brilliant winter day, George Caley’s epic journey 14th glorious sunshine and a cloudless sky. Conditions… generally clear and sunny November 1804. Caley was the first The only down side was a rising wind that all day; fairly warm; light NW wind; European to climb Mount banks and increased up to 30 knots in the early slight cloud cover developing late possibly the first white person to gaze into afternoon. During the walk in sheltered afternoon. the valley of the Upper Grose. areas we were comfortably warm, in Commenced walking: 553 812, 07:50. The first part of the walk was on the exposed areas we chilled down rapidly. Arrived at cliff line, Banks Wall, Top: made trail that encircles the eastern flanks Temperature range from 10 to 15 C. 559 789, 08:40. of Mount Banks. Good time was made Mount Banks is part of the Explorers Descend to terrace (about 10 m) and with the rock shelf lookout at the cliff Range, which is located along the then continue north along the base of the edge being reached at 09:32. After gazing northern escarpment of the Grose Valley cliff line into a large in the Blue Mountains National Park. The recess at 557 803. range starts at Bells Line of Road (W end) Exit this rain forest and extends E along the northern edge of area at the upper level the Grose Valley. Mount Banks is the first and follow terrace noticeable peak along the range and is around the corner for about 2 km S of the Bells Line of Road. It 100 m to where a very was named Mount Banks in 1804 by the deep slot cuts into the explorer George Caley, who had worked cliff line (approx. 555 for the botanist Sir Joseph Banks. Caley 803). was the first European to reach and climb To get to end of the Mount Banks. slot where it is safe to The distinctive thing about Mount cross it is necessary to Banks is the way the terrain and traverse on a narrow vegetation change radically approaching ledge around a short the top of the mountain. For the first two- corner. thirds of the walk to the summit, the Exit the area at a terrain is the standard sandstone of the slightly higher level Sydney and Blue Mountains regions, with and then proceed a thin, rough scrub. After this, however, around the corner for there is a volcanic basalt plug which gives about 100 m for an rise to a richly vegetated summit with easy short climb to the grass and a canopy. Views can be had on top. the lower slopes of the mountains but North up the Grose Valley. Photo: Roger Caffin 4 | The Bushwalker Volume 40, Issue 4, Spring 2015 Walk Safely—Walk with a Club at the view for some minutes and taking by rock climbers and pictures of the stunning sandstone walls, abseilers. Yuri suggested that we should first test At 11:43 an the walking ledge going south to see how orchid species far it would go. This proved not only to go growing from the but added another 20% to the length of cliff face was noted. the Traverse of the Gods. Irreverently I A seed head showed suggested we could create some new it to be a hooded gods. species. I had seen This added section of ledge walking similar in the cliffs took us to the end of Frank Hurley Head, of Carne Creek. and high above the deep chasm of Gordon Based on this and Smith Chimney to our east. Future walks checking my notes it of the Traverse could have a more is more than likely dramatic start by commencing from this Rimacola elliptica. point. Frank Hurley Head is covered in By 11:58 we had very low heath and is an easy delightful made it to a special walk. place named by Phil At 10:10 we were back at the point Foster as ‘The Abode where most walkers of the Traverse start. of the Mountain Despite pleas for morning tea to be in the Spirit’. sun on the top of the cliff edge, it was not This is a tight, ‘U’ to be. We opted instead for a draughty shaped indentation cave cum overhang along the ledge [it in the cliffs that wasn’t that bad! - Ed].
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Hut News September 2020 Reduced 6
    Hut News Issue no. 384 September 2020 Blue Mountains Conservation Society Inc. HUT NEWS Nature conservation saves for tomorrow Blue Gum Forest - a threatened future, part 2 Wyn Jones Our walk continued into Blue Gum Forest through the years yet to wither and die. Part of me promised these trees stripped of leaves by a hot burn, heading west magnificent trees AND the valley that they should not where the understory was completely burnt. The trees suffer another fire, for this forest is my soul, your soul, were shedding bark which protected them from our heritage. killing heat. Blue Gums have about 1-2 cm of smooth bark to protect them from too much heat, though it is Climbing up Perrys Track, I fought sadness and not enough to prevent epicormic bud death, I suspect. elation, step after step. With my friends in 2006, I had measured 2000 of these forest trees, which included And as we have seen before, many of the large trees the giants and the saplings risen from the fire before showed little or no epicormic growth on most of the 2006. The giants included a few, very old warrior trees. trunk, the crown being the only part which was Yet most are now gone, or are going. We must greening up. Taking lunch at my most favourite spot measure them again though this will be a forensic by the river, my past self conversed with the reality of analysis of the forest, one which will be handed on to the present: for this place had changed.
    [Show full text]
  • Two Centuries of Botanical Exploration Along the Botanists Way, Northern Blue Mountains, N.S.W: a Regional Botanical History That Refl Ects National Trends
    Two Centuries of Botanical Exploration along the Botanists Way, Northern Blue Mountains, N.S.W: a Regional Botanical History that Refl ects National Trends DOUG BENSON Honorary Research Associate, National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Sydney NSW 2000, AUSTRALIA. [email protected] Published on 10 April 2019 at https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/LIN/index Benson, D. (2019). Two centuries of botanical exploration along the Botanists Way, northern Blue Mountains,N.S.W: a regional botanical history that refl ects national trends. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 141, 1-24. The Botanists Way is a promotional concept developed by the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden at Mt Tomah for interpretation displays associated with the adjacent Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area (GBMWHA). It is based on 19th century botanical exploration of areas between Kurrajong and Bell, northwest of Sydney, generally associated with Bells Line of Road, and focussed particularly on the botanists George Caley and Allan Cunningham and their connections with Mt Tomah. Based on a broader assessment of the area’s botanical history, the concept is here expanded to cover the route from Richmond to Lithgow (about 80 km) including both Bells Line of Road and Chifl ey Road, and extending north to the Newnes Plateau. The historical attraction of botanists and collectors to the area is explored chronologically from 1804 up to the present, and themes suitable for visitor education are recognised. Though the Botanists Way is focused on a relatively limited geographic area, the general sequence of scientifi c activities described - initial exploratory collecting; 19th century Gentlemen Naturalists (and lady illustrators); learned societies and publications; 20th century publicly-supported research institutions and the beginnings of ecology, and since the 1960s, professional conservation research and management - were also happening nationally elsewhere.
    [Show full text]
  • Blue Mountains Bushwalking Guide
    Blue Mountains Bushwalking Guide GLENBROOK - BLAXLAND - WARIMOO 1. Glenbrook Crossing / Red Hands Cave — 8km circuit. 240 minutes, easy walk. Rainforest / ferns, birdlife, follows a creek, suitable in mist, picnic facilities. Aboriginal art site. After Information Centre on G.W. Highway turn first left into Ross Road, left into Burfitt Parade and follow road around into Bruce Road. Walk starts at NPWS Visitors Centre at end of Bruce Road. 2. Jellybean Pool — 2km return, 60 minutes, easy walk. Ideal Summer swimming hole, suitable in mist, picnic and toilet facilities. Walk starts at NPWS Visitors Centre in Bruce Road (see directions above). 3. Euroka Creek — 2.5km return, 60 minutes, easy walk. Views, birdlife, suitable in mist, picnic and toilet facilities. Start at Euroka Clearing in National Park, access from NPWS Visitors Centre in Bruce Road (see directions above). 4. Jack Evans Track (Erskine Creek) — 2.5km return, 90 minutes, medium walk. Views, birdlife, rainforest / ferns, suitable in mist, picnic facilities. Blue Gums, sandy beaches, rockpools. Start at carpark on Nepean Lookout Road in National Park, access from NPWS Visitor Centre in Bruce Road (see directions above). 5. Florabella Pass — 3km one-way. 150 minutes, medium walk. Views, birdlife, rainforest / ferns suitable in mist. Start at Ross Crescent, Blaxland. SPRINGWOOD 6. Wiggins Track, Sassafras, Glenbrook, Magdala Creek — 10km circuit, 300 minutes, medium walk. Views, birdlife, rainforest / ferns, waterfalls, suitable in mist, picnic facilities. Start Sassafras Reserve. To reach this (heading west) go to Springwood's main street called Macquarie Road. Turn left into Raymond Road, right into Springwood Avenue. The Reserve is signposted on your left.
    [Show full text]
  • 2020-09-29 Enclosure Item 21 Part 4.PDF
    Enclosures Amendment 5 to LEP 2015 (Heritage Review) (enclosure 4) Meeting: 29 September, 2020 Schedule 5 Environmental heritage Part 1 Heritage items Property Suburb Item Name Address Significance LocalID Description BELL Holly Lodge 72-90 Bells Line L 2 DP Local BELL003 Of Road 1028912 BELL Bells Line of Road Blue Mountains Local BELL001 National Park BELL Grose Gorge Blue Mountains Local BELL005 National Park BELL Pierces Pass Blue Mountains Local BELL006 National Park BELL Water Trough Hill Blue Mountains Local BELL004 National Park BELL Bell Railway Station 79P Chifley Road PTT . MS Local BELL007 and interiors 448.3090 BERAMBING Burando and shed 17-19, 21-27 L 2 DP Local MT004 Berambing 835429; L 1 Crescent DP 835429 BLACKHEATH St Mounts and 1A, 3 Abbott L 1, 2 DP Local BH052 interiors Street and 194- 622465; L A 196 Great DP 348276; L Western 1 Sec. 1 DP Highway 1941 BLACKHEATH Currong 13-15 Ada Road L 7, 8 Sec. 1 Local BH066 DP 1179 BLACKHEATH Magellan 18-20 Ada Road L 10-12 Sec. Local BH068 2 DP 1179 BLACKHEATH Majorca 22-24 Ada Road L 13, 14 Sec. Local BH069 2 DP 1179 BLACKHEATH Montana 37 Ada Road L 19, 20 Sec. Local BH071 1 DP 1179 BLACKHEATH Centennial Glen 18-152 Birdwood L 7006 DP Local BH021 Pass and Porters Avenue 1126180 Pass Reserve BLACKHEATH Anvil Rock Blue Mountains Local BH006 National Park BLACKHEATH Baltzer Lookout Blue Mountains Local BH005 National Park BLACKHEATH Blackheath Walls Blue Mountains Local BH007 National Park BLACKHEATH Blue Gum Forest Blue Mountains Local BH010 National Park BLACKHEATH Braeside Walk
    [Show full text]
  • Back from the Brink - the Grose Wilderness
    MAGAZINE OF THE CONFEDERATION OF BUSHWALKING CLUBS NSW INC. ISSN 0313 2684 AUGUST 2001 WINTER EDITION VOLUME 27 NO 1 www.bushwalking.org.au [email protected] B ACK FROM THE BRINK - T HE GROSE WILDERNESS by Andy Macqueen* The dreary appearance, abrupt- THE CONFEDERATION OF ness, intricate and dangerous route we valley or out amongst the mazes of experienced at this place, induced me to ridges too unpleasant, too difficult, or B USHWALKING CLUBS ROLE call it the Devils Wilderness. too scary to contemplate. So wrote George Caley after clam- Development has been kept out of John Macris Conservation Officer bering down to the confluence of the most of the Grose area for two centu- Grose River and Wilderness Brook in ries, thanks to its ruggedness and to The year was 1996. While various 1804. He was on an epic journey to various moves to preserve it. As early outdoor recreation groups were aligning as 1875 a with one another and launching their large part was colourful campaigns based on a presumed reserved inherited right of access to every bridle or partly in fire trail on public land, Confederation was recognition taking a somewhat different direction. that it was a The central and oldest section of national Blue Mountains National Park centred spectacle, on the Grose Valley, had remarkably thereby retained a high level of remoteness and defining what natural integrity, in spite of its proxim- could be ity to the tourist mecca of the upper described as mountains towns. Australias It was conceivable to us that the first national commercial or mass tourism footprint park.
    [Show full text]
  • 2020 Annual Report V11 Final Compressed X 3) 16 March 2021
    Annual Report 2020 Contents President’s report ................................................................................................................................................................. 2 2020 performance at a glance ............................................................................................................................................. 3 2020 in review ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4 District group highlights ...................................................................................................................................................... 8 Conservation ....................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Life members ...................................................................................................................................................................... 31 Directors’ report ................................................................................................................................................................. 32 Financial Accounts ............................................................................................................................................................. 36 ACN: 002 680 408 Website: www.austplants.com.au Registered office: 38 Karranga Ave
    [Show full text]
  • Regional Information
    Blue Mountains – World Heritage Wilderness Location Activity Anvil Rock and Wind Eroded Cave, Blackheath Bushwalks, views Bacchante Rhododendron Garden, Blackheath Garden, picnic area Bell's Line of Road Scenic drive Berghofer's Pass, Mount York Historic bushwalk Cathedral of Ferns Walk, Mount Wilson Bushwalk Cliff Drive - Scenic Lookouts, Katoomba Views, picnic areas Cliff Drive - Scenic Lookouts, Leura Views, picnic areas Coachwood Glen, Megalong Valley Bushwalk Charles Darwin Walk, Wentworth Falls Historic walk Echo Point Lookout and Three Sisters, Katoomba Views Evans Lookout, Blackheath Views Explorers Marked Tree, Katoomba Historic site Frank Walford Park and Aquatic Centre, Katoomba Recreation, swimming pool Giant Stairway and Federal Pass, Katoomba Bushwalk Gordon Falls Reserve, Leura Picnic area, lookout Govett's Leap Lookout, Blackheath Views, picnic area Hargraves Lookout, Shipley Plateau Views Horne's Point, Mt Piddington, Mount Victoria View, bushwalk Horse riding, Megalong Valley Recreation Katoomba Falls, Katoomba Walks, picnic area Kings Tableland, Wentworth Fails Aboriginal site, views Lawson’s Long Alley Track, Mount York Historic bushwalks Leura Cascades, Leura Walks, picnic area Memorial Garden and Swimming Pool, Blackheath Recreation Mermaids Cave, Megalong Valley Bushwalks Mount Tomah Botanic Garden, Mount Tomah Garden, views Mt Blackheath, Shipley Plateau Views, hang gliding Mt York Historic Site, Mount York Views, bushwalks Mt Piddington & Fairy Bower Reserve Views, bushwalk Mount Victoria, Valley of the Waters
    [Show full text]
  • Autumn Program 2019
    Autumn Program 2019 THE SYDNEY BUSH WALKERS INC – Autumn Program 2019 SYDNEY BUSH WALKERS INC P.O. Box 431 Milsons Point NSW WALKS GRADING Day Walk: A day walk means walking all day - the walks usually start at 8:00am and finish by dark. Often we have dinner afterwards. Weekend Walk: A weekend walk may start Friday night and camp at the start or early Saturday morning. On the first day, the party usually gets to camp after 3:00pm and before dark, (hopefully). Happy hour occurs before dinner and is a time when party members share ‘nibbles’. The next day’s walking could start between first light and 9:00am, usually 8:00 to 8:30am. We usually get back to the cars between early afternoon and dark. After dark finishes do happen, however they are usually not planned for. Often a dinner is arranged at a venue on the way home. THE GRADING SYSTEM The Grading System is shown at the bottom of each page and has 4 categories: (D)istance, (F)itness, (A)scent, (T)errain and (E)xposure Distance S < 10km, M 10-19km, L 20-30km, X >30km; Fitness 1-3; Ascent 1-3; Terrain 1-3; Exposure D - Distance: S - Short under 10 km per day M- Medium 10 - 20 km per day L - Long 20 - 30 km per day X - Extra Long more than 30 km per day F - Fitness: 1 Beginners - frequent long rest breaks 2 Intermediate fitness - stand up regroups, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea breaks, stops for views 3 Strenuous, fit walkers only - short regroups, short meal breaks A - Ascent: 1 Flat to undulating 2 Undulating with one or more 200m to 300m climbs 3 Climbs of 300m plus, or one or more large steep climbs T - Terrain: 1 Formed tracks and / or open terrain, no scrub 2 Sections of rough track and / or off track and/or creek crossing and / or rock scrambling 3 Similar to 2 for long periods and / or thick scrub E - Exposure: Mild to high exposure to heights (yes or no) Note that some walks may involve an exploratory component where the leader is exploring a new area or feature.
    [Show full text]
  • The Mounts DISCOVERY TRAIL
    The Mounts DISCOVERY TRAIL Enjoy a very spectacular and Drive summary varied high mountain drive • 48km (one way) • 1hr to drive (one way) by following this Discovery • Highway, narrow sealed roads , gravel roads, 4WD trail • Start: Berambing Trail. One of the best places • Finish: Bowens Creek to see mountain rainforests • Alerts!: Narrow, winding roads through Mount Wilson and Mount Irvine. and a botanist’s delight! The excellent complete circuit across Bowens Creek can �� ���������������������������� ������ be completed by bicycle. � ������ �� ����� Highlights include the Mount ��� � ����� �� � �� ���� ������ �� Tomah Botanic Garden, Grose Valley lookouts and walking ������������ �� �������� ������������������ tracks, Mount Wilson forests, ������� ���� � � lookouts and gardens. � �� � �� �� � � � � ������������ � ��������� � ������� ������� � �������������� � � � Route Description ������������ � �� �������������� This discovery trail takes in part of the main ����� ���� � ���� Greater Blue Mountains Drive (and the �� � �� Botanists Way) along Bells Line of Road, ������� �� ���� �� almost completing a full circuit. From �� ������������ ��� � Berambing go westward along Bells Line of � ����������������� Road to the first optional diversion – 2km � ����� �������������� �� down Valley Ridges Road on the left to �� ����� ����������� ������������ �� Waratah Picnic Area. ��� Back on the Bells Line, the road climbs up onto the basalt top of Mount Tomah and the entrance to Mount Tomah Botanic Garden on the left (entry fee). This is The turnoff
    [Show full text]
  • 'Mt Kosciuszko' Ekspedycja Macarthura I Strzeleckiego
    Andrzej S. Kozek1 Znana i mniej znana historia nazwy góry 'Mt Kosciuszko' Najwyższy szczyt kontynentu australijskiego nosi nazwę ‘Mt Kosciuszko’ i o tym wiemy od czasów szkoły podstawowej. Pamiętamy też, że zostal odkryty i nazwany przez polskiego podróżnika i odkrywcę, Pawła Edmunda Strzeleckiego. Przez Polaków uważany jest za wspaniały pomnik Tadeusz Kościuszki. Jednak historia tej nazwy oraz mnóstwo wokół niej zawirowań są mniej znane i są źródłem błędnych informacji zarówno w Polsce jak i w Australii. Wydaje się więc celowe rzetelne zgromadzenie faktów w jednej publikacji z podaniem odnośników źródłowych. Słowa kluczowe:Góra Kościuszki, Tadeusz Kościuszko, P.E. Strzelecki, Australia, Aborygeni, testament Kościuszki, równość wobec prawa, wolność, demokracja. Ekspedycja Macarthura i Strzeleckiego Paweł Edmund Strzelecki (1797-1873) przypłynął do Sydney w kwietniu 1839 r. jako jeden z czterech pasażerów na towarowym statku Justine wiozącym ziemniaki i jęczmień [P1, str. 57]. Australia była już wtedy pół wieku po lądowaniu brytyjskiej floty Gubernatora Artura Filipa w zatoce, którą nazwał Zatoką Sydnejską, a blisko 70 lat po włączeniu przez James’a Cook’a Australii do Korony Brytyjskiej. Strzelecki był pasjonatem geologii, nowej wówczas nauki o minerałach i bogactwach Ziemi i posiadał sporą wiedzę w tym zakresie. Za cel pobytu w Australii postawił sobie badania geologiczne Australii, a przynajmniej jej wschodniej części, czego systematycznie nikt do tego czasu nie robił. Pierwsze trzy miesiące pobytu w Sydney Strzelecki poświęcił na poznawanie ludzi i otoczenia, co okazało się bardzo pomocne w realizacji jego celów. Jeszcze w kwietniu poznał Gubernatora Gippsa, któremu przedstawił swoje zamiary i który radził mu eksplorować nie zbadane jeszcze wtedy wnętrze Australii. Poznał wtedy również Lady Franklin, która później, wraz z mężem Johnem, gubernatorem Tasmanii, już po koronnych wyprawach Strzeleckiego gościła go i umożliwiła mu eksplorację i pionierskie badania geologiczne tej wyspy.
    [Show full text]
  • Week 5 Year 5 and 6 English All Packages
    | NSW Department of Education - Parents and carers guide Week 5 - Package 1 - Year 5 and 6 English/literacy - Exploring literary description Things your child will need Have these things available so your child can complete this task. Ideal ● Exploring literary descriptions video ● Activity sheet 1 (attached) ● Paper or workbook ● Pencil or pen ● Highlighter Back up ● Printed version of the PowerPoint presentation ● Paper Before your child starts This lesson is the first of two lessons exploring literary descriptions. Students use literary descriptions to add detail within a story, such as a character or setting. What is a literary description? A literary description is a creative way to describe a person, place or thing. These are found in literary texts such as novels and poetry, but might also be found in persuasive texts, such as in a travel brochure describing a destination. The most common literary descriptions are based around a character or a setting. education.nsw.gov.au What your child needs to do Your child will watch a video of a lesson about identifying and finding examples of literary descriptions in texts. The teacher will guide your child as they learn how to identify, explain and create a literary description. Throughout the lesson, your child will be asked to pause the video to complete an activity on the activity sheets. What your child can do next Your child will be completing a range of activities, including: ● learning what a literacy description is. ● highlighting and annotating texts for key features. Options for your child Activity too hard? Have your child find adjective clues that focus only on a character’s physical appearance first such as ‘matted’ or ‘smooth’ to describe the physical feature of hair.
    [Show full text]
  • A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the Year 1813
    A Journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the year 1813 Blaxland, Gregory (1778-1853) A digital text sponsored by Judith and Brian Campbell University of Sydney Library Sydney 2001 http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ozlit © University of Sydney Library. The texts and Images are not to be used for commercial purposes without permission Source Text: Prepared from the print edition published by Gibbs, Shallard and Co Sydney 1870 All quotation marks are retained as data. First Published: Australian Etexts 1810-1839 prose nonfiction exploration and explorers (land) A Journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, in the year 1813 Sydney Gibbs, Shallard and Co 1870 2nd Edition A Journal of a Tour of Discovery Across the Blue Mountains NSW in the Year 1813. Preface. THE Journal of my father, giving an account of his passage over the Blue Mountains in 1813, and published in London in 1823, is no longer to be had. Frequent enquiries have been made for it; and recently I have discovered a stray copy. There is but one survivor of the expedition—W. C. WENTWORTH, Esq.; and in order to perpetuate the memory of the successful exploration of my father and his companions, I reprint his Journal, with his original dedication of it to his uncle. JOHN BLAXLAND. Ryde, January, 1870. To John Oxley Parker, ESQ., of Chelmsford, Essex. LONDON, FEBRUARY 10, 1823. DEAR SIR,—Feelings of gratitude for your kind attention to me in the early part of life, have induced me to dedicate to you the following short Journal of my passage over the Blue Mountains, in the colony of New South Wales, under the persuasion that it will afford you pleasure at all times to hear that any of your family have been instrumental in promoting the prosperity of any country in which they may reside, however distant that country may be from the immediate seat of our Government.
    [Show full text]