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Volume 43 Number 2 Winter 2013

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ABW ROLLING ACTIVITY PROGRAM Last Updated 29/05/2013

When What Where Who Every Thursday evening from 6pm 2 hour walk Waterfall Gully Rd. Chambers Gully turnoff

During day light saving time: Waterfall Gully Car Park Dan Drake-Brokman

JUNE

Friday 7th Monday 10th Long weekend bus trip

Flinders ranges: - Mt Falkland - Blinman Pools - Patawarta Hill - Base camp

Lead by: - Romano - John Callinan - Kate and Jeremy - John Bartlett

Saturday 15th to Sunday 16th Pack Walk Scorpion Springs Conservation Park Lee Marling Thursday 27th to Sunday 7th July Extended Walk Larapinta Trail NT Richard Bowey

JULY Saturday 6th to Sunday 7th Pack Walk "Christmas in July, "Marrabel Dave & Sally Paterson Saturday 20th to Sunday 21st Bushies Dinner Cromer Shed Mt Crawford Forest - All Welcome!

AUGUST Saturday 3rd to Sunday 4th Pack Walk Wirrabara Forest Lee Marling Saturday 10th to Sunday 11th Pack Walk Baroota Jeremy Carter Saturday 24th to Sunday 1st September Extended Pack Walk Southern Flinders Rangers John Callinan

Saturday 31st to Sunday 1st September Pack Walk Telowie Gorge Lee Marling

SEPTEMBER Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th Joint Rogaine with SARA North of Burra - All Welcome! Saturday 21st to Sunday 22nd Pack Walk Hungry Ranges NE of Orroroo Andrew Cope Friday 20th to Saturday 12th October Extended overseas walk Milam Glacier, Indian Himalaya Lee Marling

OCTOBER

Friday 4th to Monday 7th Warren Bonython Memorial Walk Heysen Trail, northern sections - All Welcome!

Saturday 19th to Friday 8th November

Extended Trip – day walks National Parks in East Gippsland Roger Kempson

NOVEMBER Saturday 2nd to Sunday 3rd Short Pack Walk Cudlee Creek Forest, Mount Misery Andrew Cope

DECEMBER Tuesday 17th Moonlight Kayak Westlakes Richard Bowey

2014

Sunday 15th to Friday 27th June Pack Walk Far North Queensland, Hinchinbrook Island and adjacent mainland interior Andrew Cope

Wednesday Walkers: Contact Dave Evans: [email protected] must check that their fitness and skills are adequate for each activity.

CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION

Deadly Beauty by Danuta Bezuch

ABW ROLLING ACTIVITY PROGRAM Last Updated 29/05/2013

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Contents

ABW Gear Hire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Visit our Website for the most up to date information

ABW Wednesday Walkers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Provisional Programme - second half 2013 (as of 24 May)

Fifty Years On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5by Arthur Ward

Trip Report for Mambray Creek Walk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6by Lee Marling

Mt Brian East Trip Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7By Lee Marling

Sea to the bottom of the Summit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11by Mike Round

ABW Committee Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152013/2014

ABW Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16Membership rates

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ABW ROLLING ACTIVITY PROGRAM Last Updated 29/05/2013

When What Where Who Every Thursday evening from 6pm 2 hour walk Waterfall Gully Rd. Chambers Gully turnoff

During day light saving time: Waterfall Gully Car Park Dan Drake-Brokman

JUNE

Friday 7th Monday 10th Long weekend bus trip

Flinders ranges: - Mt Falkland - Blinman Pools - Patawarta Hill - Base camp

Lead by: - Romano - John Callinan - Kate and Jeremy - John Bartlett

Saturday 15th to Sunday 16th Pack Walk Scorpion Springs Conservation Park Lee Marling Thursday 27th to Sunday 7th July Extended Walk Larapinta Trail NT Richard Bowey

JULY Saturday 6th to Sunday 7th Pack Walk "Christmas in July, "Marrabel Dave & Sally Paterson Saturday 20th to Sunday 21st Bushies Dinner Cromer Shed Mt Crawford Forest - All Welcome!

AUGUST Saturday 3rd to Sunday 4th Pack Walk Wirrabara Forest Lee Marling Saturday 10th to Sunday 11th Pack Walk Baroota Jeremy Carter Saturday 24th to Sunday 1st September Extended Pack Walk Southern Flinders Rangers John Callinan

Saturday 31st to Sunday 1st September Pack Walk Telowie Gorge Lee Marling

SEPTEMBER Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th Joint Rogaine with SARA North of Burra - All Welcome! Saturday 21st to Sunday 22nd Pack Walk Hungry Ranges NE of Orroroo Andrew Cope Friday 20th to Saturday 12th October Extended overseas walk Milam Glacier, Indian Himalaya Lee Marling

OCTOBER

Friday 4th to Monday 7th Warren Bonython Memorial Walk Heysen Trail, northern sections - All Welcome!

Saturday 19th to Friday 8th November

Extended Trip – day walks National Parks in East Gippsland Roger Kempson

NOVEMBER Saturday 2nd to Sunday 3rd Short Pack Walk Cudlee Creek Forest, Mount Misery Andrew Cope

DECEMBER Tuesday 17th Moonlight Kayak Westlakes Richard Bowey

2014

Sunday 15th to Friday 27th June Pack Walk Far North Queensland, Hinchinbrook Island and adjacent mainland interior Andrew Cope

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The Club has a variety of gear for hire at reasonable prices. Members can try out various items before purchasing their own.

BACKPACKS We stock a wide range of sizes and brands.

TENTS Many sizes and brands to choose from. Groundsheets are supplied with the tents.

SLEEPING BAGS Including inner sheet, which must be used.

SLEEPING MATS Lightweight and comfortable. To avoid punctures always use a groundsheet under the tent.

STOVES We have Trangia’s each with a fuel bottle. Methylated Spirits is to be purchased by the hirer separately.

WALKING POLES & GAITERS We have one pair of each.

DEHYDRATOR Must be cleaned before being returned.

PERSONAL LOCATION BEACONS (PLB) The club has 2 and when used for official ABW walks there is no cost. Enquire with our Gear Hire person for other times and costs.

ABW Gear HireVisit our Website for the most up to date information

Lake Torrens Camp by Mike Round

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REMEMBER:

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9:30 am start

July 10 Denis Harper, Shepherds Hill Recreation Park, meet at Alyliffes Rd car park UBD 153 Q1

July 24 Chris Steers, Kingston Pk to Marino lighthouse, meet at Burnham Rd. UBD 152 F14

July 31 Toni Beattie, walk along Sturt creek reserve followed by a party to celebrate Ann Ward’s 70th. birthday. Contact Toni for catering arrangements. UBD 141 C9

August 3 – 10 Peter Beer, Cactus Kill Gum Creek

August 14 John Bartlett, Pioneer Women’s trail and Waterfall Gully. Meet at start of PWT, corner of Dashwood and Glynburn Roads Beaumont UBD 131 P6.

August 28 Les Ormrod, Day walk Belair NP Meet at the old Belair Railway Station

Sept 7-8 Toni Beattie & Margaret Young, Paxton’s cottages Burra- weekend walk.

September 11 Ian Boscence, Waite Reserve, meet at McElligotts quarry car park UBD 143 B4

September 21-22?

September 25 Frank Hall Scott, Ck CP meet at Alameda Mines car park UBD 155 B9

October 9 Toni Beattie, The real O’Halloran Hill?

October 19 to November 8 Roger Kempson, extended trip to National Parks in East Gippsland, Victoria.

October 23 Ed Burgess, TBA

October 30 Frank Hall, Minno Ck meet at car park cnr Turness Ave and Main Rd Coromandel Valley, all day- bring lunch

8:30 am start

November 13

November 27

December 11 David and Helen Evans, Final event for the year, bring a plate.

ABW Wednesday WalkersProvisional Programme - second half 2013 (as of 24 May)

Sunset by Lee Marling

Standing With Pride by Danuta Bezuch

In the bush, even with experience and preparation, things can go tragically wrong... cross check everything on your list. Email us for a copy of a generic checklist.

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In 1963 two ABW teams were the only teams to finish the skyline course from Tanunda to Morialta in the inaugural AUMC 24 Hour Walk. As that 1963 event is now recognised as South Australia’s first 24 Hour Rogaine, I was thrilled when Mike Round and Peter Milnes incorporated a celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in this year’s State Rogaining Championships in April. Mike and Peter and their assistants put in a huge effort and set a challenging course “East of Arden” based on Argadells Station north of Quorn. Tony Lothian and my sister Gwen - my companions in 1963 - were not available this time.

Although a 12 Hour “Roving” Rogaine was an option, Ann and I chose the longer version but elected to adopt a conservative flight plan with few night controls. In effect, ours was to be a 13 Hour Roving Rogaine in which we adhered to our flight plan (instead of modifying it as we went). It was no surprise that our score was less than 40% of that of the winning team of Shaw Callen and Paul Hoopman.

After the presentations, as the sole rep from the 1963 event, I was invited by Mike to cut the 50th Anniversary cake he had baked and his wife had iced. I told the gathering that the two events had been quite

Fifty Years Onby Arthur Ward

different but “proved” that time does indeed go faster as you age – the 1963 course had taken us 23 hours whereas we had taken less than 13 hours fifty years later!

Until this year I had thought the 1963 event had been in April. However, Mike convinced me it would have been in the May university holidays. Then in May this year we climbed Kaiserstuhl on an ABW day walk led by David Evans. It was fifty years to the month since my first climb of this Barossa peak (then known as “Mt Kitchener”) as the first control in the inaugural AUMC 24 Hour Walk.

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22 members, including 6 new ones enjoyed ideal weather of 20C for the walk on both days cooling down to about 6C overnight. We spent Saturday morning walking through Mambray and Alligator Creeks enjoying the views of the high red cliffs and creek vegetation. We pitched tents at Kingfisher Flat, had lunch and set off for Alligator Gorge with just day packs in the afternoon. An hour was spent exploring Alligator Gorge. Given the size of the group we made very good time. Many thanks to Don for being the ‘tail end Charlie’.

Sunday saw us head back down Alligator Creek to Hidden Gorge where we had morning tea. We spent the rest of the morning gradually climbing out of the gorge to the Battery. We had an early lunch enjoying clear views up and down the gulf with Whyalla and Stoney Point clearly visible. After that it was a 90 minute descent via the Bluff back to the cars.

Trip Report for Mambray Creek Walkby Lee Marling

Gulf Panorama by Lee Marling

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Confessions first, I got us lost on the car shuffle, not once but twice! Many thanks to new member Phillip for persisting with us, he must have been wondering what he and Pat had got themselves into!

Anyway after a late start fourteen of us, including four new members, spent a mostly clear Saturday walking through Tourilie Gorge and onto the Olary Plain. We saw the usual roos, emus, eagles and goats, however, the flies were horrendous. Despite the size of the group we made good time and were into the Heysen Trail camp by 3pm. Konrad’s herb infused Polish Vodka was one of the highlights of the evening.

It began raining at about 3am on Sunday and continued until about 11.30 so we walked most of the way back to the cars in showers. There is a lot of clay on the trail in this region and a number of the group found themselves face down in the sticky clay on the descent to Newikie Ck. Nevertheless the group made good time and we were able to have a short lunch break at the usual place on top of the hill with Mt Bryan covered in cloud. We ended with a dash to a cafe in Burra.

Mt Brian East Trip ReportBy Lee Marling

Kangaroos Boxing by Lee Marling

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Alligator by Lee Marling

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Edeowie Second Waterfall Ledge by Mike Round

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When the idea of walking from the top of Spencer Gulf to the top of St Mary Peak first came to my mind, I dismissed it as fanciful but when it came back a year or so later, it seemed borderline sensible so I gave it more thought. What route to take was the first consideration and inspired by Jon Muir’s unsupported crossing of the mainland from the top of the Gulf, I decided to go via Lake Torrens before heading east along Salt Creek and then NE to enter the Pound by Edeowie Gorge. The other consideration was how long to take? Distance between water points meant that dawdling wasn’t an option and I settled on five days.

All this thinking and planning or lack of it took place only a week before I felt I needed to set off to take advantage of the last full moon of winter and so minimize the amount of water needing to be carried. Unfortunately my efforts to contact two of the stations were unsuccessful and I was advised, wrongly as it turned out, that there was no drinkable water until Lake Torrens Station homestead just shy of 120 km away. The apparent lack of ground or bore water seemed odd for pastoral country but with the map showing dams and bores named ‘White Elephant’, ‘Dismal’ and the like, I wasn’t going to argue. In the end I set off from Pt Augusta’s shoreline at 9 am with what I considered would be enough water to get me to the homestead.

The first two hours of walking was along the mangrove lined channel that marks the top of the gulf and after leaving it and crossing the railway line, I felt that the journey had really begun. Ahead of me lay semi arid and generally flat country with open scrub and scattered low trees connecting a series of elongated salt pans and saline mudflats. These are aligned N to S, reflecting the former rift valley while to the east, the Flinders Ranges acted as a visual handrail. Later in the day I aimed straight for lowly Monument Hill and these features combined to make navigation easy. Sometime in the afternoon I realised that I hadn’t packed a few mls of gulf water to empty over SMP but any disappointment I felt was quickly forgotten when the imagined irony of running out of fresh water and having only the ‘forgotten’ salty sample in my possession, struck me. A more immediate concern though was whether I would get anywhere near the summit at all as I’d woken up that morning with a bit of a fever and this got me off to a late start and meant that I needed to take more and longer rest stops and to drink more water than normal. I felt thoroughly exhausted when at 4.30 pm and with only 24 km accounted for, I called it a day, cooked dinner and went straight to bed wondering what the morrow would bring. Fortunately I woke up feeling well.

The view north from the top of Monument Hill showed much of the terrain that was ahead of me that day with its main features being the twin armed saltpan that I dubbed ‘the broken tuning fork’ and harder to discern, Lake Burk which I expected to reach by sunset. The country was in good condition due to recent heavy rains and the walking was enjoyable but it became apparent later in the day that I didn’t have enough water to get to Mt Torrens homestead. It was while considering the options that I came to a water filled wheel track from which I collected some water but an hour later was able to replace it with clearer water of cafe latte appearance from a dam not shown on the map. I reached Lake Burk at dusk and followed its eastern shore and then a fence that brought me to a station road just 5 km short of Lake Torrens. I dumped my pack and followed the road west for 10 minutes to Toms Tank and was relieved to find it had fresh water, sourced I think from near the base of the ranges. It was midnight and I was glad to get back to my pack and get to bed.

I woke feeling a bit like I did on the first day but decided to make no decision about whether or not to continue or exit right until I got to Lake Torrens. This involved climbing over a high netting fence and then crossing the scrubbiest country of the journey outside of the Pound. It was not until midday that I finally got to stand on the lake surface and the delay in getting there reflected my poor state but it still

felt good to be there after only ever having seen the lake as a distant sheen from the top of the ranges. The surface was generally firm and it was also easy on the eyes, being pale fawn in colour and not the dazzling white of some of the other big salt lakes. The lake, as I later learnt, has only the thinnest possible veneer of surface salt below which is hyper saline mud which is firm near the surface except after heavy rain or floods. Apart from a clear strip of surface along the eastern shoreline and along which I intended to walk, the surface was, as far as I could see, covered with salt tolerant low scrub, its presence made possible by silt washed into the lake by Willochra Creek in flood.

I had an early lunch and happy to say it, quickly got to feel better again and set off with some enthusiasm. Further north, the lake opened out with a clear surface extending into a watery mirage in the west. For the first time, the ranges were hidden from view due to the high vegetated sand bank that lined the shore. As on the previous day, I stopped at sunset to eat dinner and have an hour of sleep while waiting for the moon to rise higher in the sky. As I continued north, the sandbank became little more than knee high and I could see the main range siluetted against the moonlit

Sea to the bottom of the Summitby Mike Round

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sky and it now looked very distant. The shoreline has a series of ‘bites’ or scalloping which hid the shoreline immediately beyond it and later in the night, each one of these gave me false hope that the day’s walking was nearly done. But at last I came to the sight I had been looking forward to - the lake bed stretching out in all directions in front of me and signalling that I’d come to the end of the peninsular that forms the large bay into which Salt Creek flows. From now on and for the first time, I would be heading directly towards SMP. Up with the tent and glorious sleep! It was 1 am. Tomorrow I knew I had to put in a big effort to help make up for lost time.

Nine o’clock seemed to have established itself as the time at which each day’s walk got under way and so it was again when I set out across the bay which is also covered with knee high salt tolerant vegetation thanks to Salt Creek. The creek itself was deep with strongly brackish water at the surface and I followed it for three hours before following a fence line and then a farm track that took me to Mt Torrens homestead. The manager and his wife invited me in for a cup of tea but it was for afternoon tea, not morning tea as they had expected and even the latter was my worse case arrival time so as not to cause undue concern. I left with thanks but wishing that the tea had been served with cake as, well behind schedule, food not water was now my concern. As I lay down for a short sleep after dinner that night, it struck me just how simple life had become - eat, sleep, walk and little else and I can’t recall ever previously feeling quite like that. Unfortunately I forgot to set the alarm and woke with a start just before midnight, quickly packed and set off towards the dip in the range that is Bunyeroo Gorge. It had been an exceptionally warm day and a beautiful mackerel pattern of cloud now covered much of the sky and these portended a change in the weather.

While planning the trip, I knew that water was not a concern after Mt Torrens homestead and so hadn’t really looked at the map in any detail beyond that point. I was just expecting the walk to be over flattish ground until I got to the Pound but the terrain had two surprises in store for me, kindly saving the bigger of them till last. The first was when I came diagonally to the first of a series of wide vegetated 5m high sand dunes oriented W-E and which I encountered at twenty minute intervals for the next two hours or so. A similar interval later, I arrived at the Leigh Creek railway line and rewarded myself with a short sleep and an early breakfast before setting off again blissfully unaware of what lay ahead. I was walking towards the main range and admiring how sharply it was etched against the faint predawn light when I became aware of the dark outline of a low range in the middle distance. What’s that? I was practically choking on the words as I hurriedly got out the 1:250,000 map and on it saw a tangle of contours and the words Mt Burns.

It’s hard to know when that walking day actually started but 24 hours had passed since I’d broken camp on Lake Torrens and arrived at the bottom of those hills and in that time, walked 54 km. Low as they are, those hills now seemed like the last straw. Three kilometres north or south would see me skirt around them but I was determined to walk not a metre more than I had to and so opted to forge straight ahead with the encouraging notion that I would aim for any saddles on the ridges. As I set off, I felt a bit defiant and certainly reckless as I ate the last of the scroggin and that was more to boost my faltering spirits than for any immediate real need. Three ridges later and with two more ahead that I could see, I gave up, dropped into the valley and walked out to the northern end of the range. I finally reached the bitumen road highly relieved but also a bit disturbed at the increasing wind and deepening cloud.

It was at this point that the weak side of my brain, the part that’s always on the lookout for the easy option, took over. The next thing I knew was that I’d dropped my pack and was standing at the roadside trying to thumb a lift to Hawker. A truck and two 4WDs later, I gave up and retreated to the shelter of Wobma Creek bed and cooked the last of my food apart from a small packet of dried peas. It was lunchtime of day 5 so although the catering wasn’t quite adequate, it wasn’t far off had I been on schedule and finished the walk that day, however late. Thinking back, it’s hard to remember just how weary the body was but as I set off for the Gorge, I only advanced a few steps before stopping. I’d run out of tea and coffee earlier in the day and my brain’s weak side now decided that a cup of tea would set things right. How wishful and naive! So I detoured north to Edeowie Station on a begging mission. God help me if no-one was home but at least it offered the easiest access to the Gorge.

‘Do you mind if I join you for a cuppa?’ That’s how I greeted Sharon Bolt who, with an impeccable sense of timing, stepped out onto the veranda with mug in hand just as I arrived. Despite that bold introduction that still shocks me to think of, Sharon invited me in and offered to make me a Dagwood sandwich. ‘With the lot please!’ I thought aloud about how such a thing might invalidate my sea to summit walk only to be advised ‘Well you’ve probably already done that by accepting the tea so you might as well eat up’. I then stupidly turned down her offer to reheat the soup as I considered that beggars should show some constraint. Sharon got out the larger scale map of those dreaded hills which are part of Edeowie Station and I could see just how convoluted those ridges were. ‘I felt like I was in some kind of crazy ‘Life-be-in it’ event run by a sadist’ I told her and she said she’d use that next time her husband Neil sent her out there on the bike mustering sheep. I did leave feeling better but not by enough to make me want to turn back 50 m to collect some rain water as I’d been invited to. There’d be water in the gorge.

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I was not that far into the gorge when it started raining and this prompted me to quickly put up the tent and get inside. And get into my sleeping bag. And lie down. Such bliss! This was necessary because I had no rain gear for although rain had been forecast to commence at about this time, I was expecting to be so close to Wilpena by now that carrying the weight didn’t seem warranted. The rain was light and occasionally moderate and I collected enough runoff from the fly to drink but not to cook so dinner had to wait. It rained intermittently during the night and for a while on the following morning. I got up late and some time after the final shower, had peas for lunch by a pool below the first waterfall and then spent a lot of time trying to find the way past the second falls (Glenora Falls). I ended up taking a lower ledge, with its bum-in-space move around a boulder, rather than the conventional ledge which I couldn’t identify despite passing by this way forty odd years ago. (You have to climb up behind a huge boulder to get to the ledge from downstream. Coming downstream the ledge is more obvious.)

wedges, supported the bar until closing time and on the following morning, had the maxi version of their incredible buffet breakfast (and I like to tell people how good it is) before heading off for Hawker and the bus back to Adelaide..

Notes on the walk

The walk took place on 24-29 July 2010. The distance was 185 km and apart from a few kms of track on the outskirt of Pt Augusta, on the approaches to the two homesteads and within the Pound, the walk was cross-country. The trip was planned to take 5 days with a food allowance of 910g/day (and which turned out to be a little bit short) but took six. At the start of the walk, the pack weighed 23 kg including 9.1 li. of water intended to last 3 days. (Nothing too scientific about the 0.1 li, it was just the situation with the containers I had.) I took walking poles and found them to be very helpful, especially in sandy places and on soft salt flats where they helped maintain forward momentum. The poles also helped maintain balance on the occasional slippery surface.

View From Monument Hill by Mike Round

Further upstream, I left the track too early by following a false lead and lost time pushing through thick scrub before finally finding the track to Wilpena. From there I could look up at St Mary Peak and there it was, just there! The summit only a couple of kilometres away but somehow my interest in climbing it had vaporised. And besides, peak baggers are often accused of being blatant egoists. My ego was under control but my stomach wasn’t so I set off with all possible haste to Wilpena resort hoping to be in time for dinner only to arrive five minutes late. On inquiry, the manager informed me that I didn’t look like the type of person who could afford their tariffs even if they had a vacancy and which, thankfully, they didn’t. Instead, he kindly put me up for gratis in spare staff quarters. In return I purchased a bowl of potato

Three weeks after the walk, I went back to collect my rucksack from Glenora Falls. I’d also been invited to spend a couple of nights with friends at the Edeowie shearer’s quarters in October and it was a great pleasure to go back and present a bottle of our olive oil to Sharon Bolt in appreciation of her kindness. And to hear her say that I looked ‘a very different person’ from the last time she saw me.

Mike Round.

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Stony Point by Lee Marling

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