Free Copy In This Edition: Page Page Welcome to the Otways! 2 Jesse James 20 John Landy 4 Capital Punishment 22 The Piano 6 “A Calendar of Crime” 24 Lions 8 Geelong Goal—Haunted? 25 Serendip Wildlife Sanctuary 10 Ernest Borgnine 26 Willem Janszoon 12 Recipe—Beef Casserole 28 Asthma 14 Word Search—Cricketers 29 The Ambulance Service 16 Shipwrecked! The Loch Ard 30 The Hair Dryer 18 150 Years Ago 31 Royal Flying Doctor Service 19 Then… & Now 32 The Otway Ranges feature magnificent cool temperate rainforest that require lots of water to survive. The average rainfall for Weeaproinah in the Otways is 2m per year! In recent years the annual rainfall has been much higher resulting in numerous and often quite spectacular waterfalls—Erskine Falls at Lorne, Marriners Falls in Apollo Bay and Triplet Falls next door to Otway Fly Tree Top Adventures. Two other magnificent waterfalls located close to the Otway Fly are Beauchamp Falls and Hopetoun Falls. Winter will produce masses of thunderous water at these falls while during summer they can be just the place to cool off. The Otways is home to some extraordinary beauty and the best way to take advantage of it is on foot. There are numerous tracks scattered throughout the Ranges, some of which will take you along the coast while others will enable you to walk deep into cool temperate rainforests. Located only a short 1.5 hours from Geelong, you can immerse yourself in some of Australia's best rainforest scenery amongst tall trees, ancient plant life and lush ferns. Walk among giant tree ferns at Maits Rest or experience the full beau- ty of the rainforest on the Otway Fly Tree Top Walk. View the dramatic cliffs and secluded beaches along the shore at remote and beautiful Cape Otway. Make the most of your stay with a variety of family activities such as: Paddle with the Platypus, the Cape Otway Light Station, Forrest Mountain Bike Paths and the Great Ocean Walk to name a select few. For those of you adventurous enough to brave the cold, there are excellent camping opportunities throughout the Parks. Whether you are looking for a 2 family friendly place to park your caravan or a solitary night under the stars there's something to cater to every need. Picnic opportunities abound, with love- ly settings at many of the waterfalls as well as Blanket Leaf, Sheoak, Distillery Creek, Moggs Creek, Paradise, Melba Gully, Shelly Beach, Triplet Falls and Blanket Bay to name a few. The Otways are nestled between the Great Ocean Road and the coastal townships of Apollo Bay and Port Campbell, magnificent tourist destinations in themselves. You may want to explore the greater region and stay nearby over- night. There’s plenty on offer from plush hotels and quality serviced apartments to more affordable options. The Otway Fly is open every day (except for Christmas Day) from 9am to 5pm with last entry to the walk at 4.00pm. 360 Phillips Track Beech Forest VIC 3250 The Otway Fly Treetop Walk is a 1 hour rainforest walk experience that is approx 2km in total and features a 600m long and 30m high steel structured treetop canopy walkway that takes you right into the treetops. It’s the longest and tallest walkway of its type in the world! Included in this walk is the kids Prehistoric Path – where there is a dinosaur around every corner! The Otway Fly Zip Line Tour is a 3.5 hour experience and includes 2.5 hours of Zip Line activity (including training and sim- ulation), 8 cloud stations, 6 flights and 2 suspension bridges and 1 hour for the Treetop Walk. This Zip Line Tour is the only Zip Line Tour for Victoria! 3 John Michael Landy was born on April 12, 1930. As an Australian track athlete he was the second man to break the four-minute mile barrier in the mile run, and he held the world records for the 1500 metre run and the mile race. He was also the 26th Governor of Victoria from 2001–2006. Born in Melbourne, John Landy attended school at Malvern Memorial Grammar School and Geelong Grammar School. He graduated from Melbourne University in 1954, receiving a Bachelor of Agricultural Science. During his school years, Landy enjoyed watching 1500 metre track events. He became a serious runner during his college years, joining the Geelong Guild Athletic Club in 1949. He was a member of the Australian Olympic teams at both the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. He took the Olympic Oath in behalf of all participating athletes at the 1956 Olympics. On June 21, 1954, at an international meet at Turku, Finland, Landy became the second man, after Roger Bannister, to achieve a sub-4-minute mile, recording a world record time of 3:57.9, ratified by the IAAF as 3:58.0 owing to the rounding rules then in effect. That record held for more than three years. Worldwide, Landy is probably best known for his part in a mile race in the British Empire Games at Vancouver, British Columbia, in August 1954. Landy ran his second sub-4 minute mile in the race, but lost to Roger Bannister, who had his best-ever time. This meeting of the world's two fastest milers was called "The Miracle Mile", the "Race of the Century" and the "Dream Race"; it was heard over the radio by 100 million people and seen on television by millions more. On the final turn of the last lap, as Landy looked over his left shoulder, Bannister passed him on the right. A larger-than-life bronze sculpture of the two men at this moment was created by Vancouver sculptor Jack Harman in 1967. In Australia, Landy is remembered for his performance in the 1500 metres final at the 1956 Australian National Championships prior to the Melbourne Olympic Games. In Bannister and Landy the race, Landy stopped and doubled back to check on 4 fellow runner Ron Clarke after another runner clipped Clarke's heel, causing him to fall early in the third lap of the race. Clarke, the then-junior 1500 metre world champion, who had been leading the race, got back to his feet and started running again. Landy followed. Incredibly, in the final two laps Landy made up a large Landy helping up Clarke deficit to win the race, something consid- ered one of the greatest moments in Australian sporting history. It was a sponta- neous gesture of sportsmanship and it has never been forgotten. A bronze sculpture of the moment when Landy helps Clarke to his feet is situated on the lawns adjacent to Olympic Park on Olympic Boulevard, Melbourne. On January 1, 2001, Landy was sworn in as the 26th Governor of Victoria, succeeding Sir James Gobbo. On March 15, 2006, in the final month of his term as Governor, John Landy was the final runner in the Queen's Baton relay during the 2006 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony at the MCG stadium in Melbourne, presenting the baton to the Queen by placing it in its specially constructed holder. Upon his retirement he was succeeded by David de Kretser. Geelong’s Landy Field The John Landy Athletics Field is situated at the corner of Swanston Street and Barwon Terrace, South Geelong and was formerly known as Riverside Reserve. It sits adjacent to the Barwon River to the south and the Godfrey Hirst Pty Ltd carpet factory to the east. At the conclusion of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, the Geelong City Council held a dinner on January 15, 1957 to honour the six Geelong Guild athletes—Ron Blackney, John Chittick, Bob Joyce, John Landy, Don MacMillan and John Vernon who had represented Geelong and Australia at these games. During the dinner, where most of the neighbouring Cities and Shires were represented, John Landy made a speech on behalf of the honoured athletes, in which Landy compared the extensive overseas facilities available to athletes to the modest facilities in Australia. Geelong, at that stage had no dedicated athletic field of any kind. As a result, Landy Field became a project of the Geelong Guild Athletic Club and was constructed in 1961. It still remains Geelong’s premier athletic facility today. 5 Today many pianos sit stoically in the corner of living rooms collecting dust, their sole purpose now nothing more than entertainment for children who bang indiscriminately over its keys during their infrequent visits to grandma's house. But for decades the piano was considered the premier musical instrument, with many households gathered around the large box-like structure for an evening of singing and entertainment. The invention of the piano is credited to the Italian, Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731). Cristofori was a keyboard instrument designer in Florence. At this time, the most popular keyboard instruments were the harpsichord and the clavichord. However, a major drawback of the Why called “Piano?” harpsichord was the inability to control the loudness The instrument played of each note, and composers for this instrument were both piano (soft) and forte unable to evoke emotion through its design. Techni- (loud). Thus the new cally more advanced, the clavichord still plucked at keyboard became known wire strings with wire hooks like the harpsichord, but as the “pianoforte,” which allowed the strings to continue vibrating as long as the over the years has short- key was depressed. Although it permitted expressive- ened to “piano.” ness from its players, it was too delicate in tone and was frequently drowned out by other instruments.