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1974 Year: Archive images from 1974
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Map shows the route of a planned 21 day walk...
Preparing a bag of food. These were sent to...
We arrived by taxi from Hobart at midnight....
This is how you have lunch in the drenching...
View towards The Hippo from near Mt La...
A very soggy first night's camp on Moonlight...
Skirting around the craggy Pindars Peak....
Finding our way through dense, prickly...
On the scrubby ridge near My Wylly. It the...
Easing our way through the scratchy scoparia...
View to Ile du Golfe from the Pindars Ridge...
A smile on Rob's face at last. The weather...
View from Pindars Ridge to New River Lagoon...
Approaching Precipitous Bluff. Federation...
Camp on Day 3 was on top of PB. This was the...
Entirely by chance, we met up with another...
Descent of the top of PB. Care needs to be...
Due to poor navigation we had a arduous...
Loading up our leaky little boat.
The 5 km trip down New River Lagoon was...
New River Lagoon. This is how we looked on...
Drying our gear and recovering at Prion...
Precipitous Bluff from New River LagoonApril...
Recovering our food drop on Prion Beach,...
Prion Beach, looking towards the next leg of...
New River Lagoon. The wallabies keep the...
Taking the old wooden boat back up New River...
Time to move on. Crossing New River Lagoon...
Walking across button grass plains means...
Ascending the Ironbound Range.
Camped on top of the Ironbound Range. We got...
Bleak weather while crossing the Ironbound...
View from the Ironbound Range towards Louisa...
View to north from Sth Coast track towards...
Crossing the Louisa River
Trying to warm up and dry out at Cox Bight...
Cox Bight. Maybe late April is a bit late in...
Heavy cold rain set in on the trek from Cox...
Returning from a visit to SW Tasmania's only...
It rained for three days while we dried out...
Denny took us out in his wooden boat to...
So much rain! The track is under there...
Denny King's home at Melaleuca. Ken helped...
Rosella dehyde and deb mashed potato. Meals...
After three days waiting for the rain for...
Bathurst Narrows. After we crossed one of...
The track swings north into the flooded...
Crossing the flooded Spring River just...
The track across the Lost World Plateau. At...
There's a rare ground parrot hiding in this...
Spring River with the Western Arthurs in the...
Two choofers, but still some waiting.
By day 14 of the trip only Ken could be...
With Ken's cooking, Rosella dehydes never...
Near Crossing River. Breakfast on the track....
Early morning view of the Western Arthurs...
We emerged from the wilds at Scotts Peak Dam...
Totally by chance we were re-united at...
A rest on the way to the summit of Mt...
Party approaches the cairn on the summit of...
Heading down towards camp at Low Saddle....
Sunday was along the coast.
'Oooops! Suddenly Margaret is in the picture...
'Well - you can't say we didn't warn you.'
Marion keeps her thoughts to herself.
Enjoying the view from north edge of the...
Bob decides he needs a better view of the...
Philip took in the better view too.
The twentieth century had not yet reached...
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Give them a rock pool and some cannot stay...
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Then everybody got dressed and climbed Mt...
Boys at play on the boulders.February 1974:-...
The top of Mt Cobbler is a good place to...
Joyce lines up with four of the usual...
Gear drying out on Snowy Bluff.March 1974:-...
Keeping cool on Snowy Bluff.
Sunday night's camp on the Moroka River...
The brown tent is Joyce's - I'd recognise it...
Camp, Sunday night.
Joy and David inspect the waterfall. Coming...
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Booting up after crossing the Buckland River...
Dave, who went on in later years to carve...
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Even peak baggers have to come down...
Joyce and Helen certainly seem to know where...
A gathering!
Top of Dikson Falls in the fog.May 1974:-...
This is a spot at the top of Goldies Spur...
Heading back towards Tathra Inn.
Crossing the aqueduct first thing Saturday...
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Plenty of time to relax in the sun.
The leader in a pensive moment.
Another rest stop by the aqueduct.
Crossing a side stream.
Crossing a side stream.
Debbie made the headlines by managing to...
Max checks the flow on the part of the...
Camp.May 1974:- Kangaroo Flat - Axe Creek -...
At the fire tower on Mt Stanley.
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Note the torch. Here Stan hasn't even done...
The June long weekend at Hattah was almost...
Hattah
The lakes were much higher than usual. This...
The flooded area beyond the camp is normally...
The mind having been nourished, shortly it...
Dinner on Saturday night.
Breakfast on Sunday morning.
Side trip on Sunday morning.
Monday morning side-trip.
This is where the little black pig swam off...
Time to dry the socks.
Party re-groups at Camp Creek Gap before the...
The leader starts to dig our way in to...
The party begins to extricate itself from...
Ice crystals blowing on a stiff breeze made...
'You can be proud of yourselves, chaps....
The van broke down somewhere near Violet...
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Now the botanising is going to get serious...
Two very fine grass trees.October 1974:-...
On Sunday a small group undertook a circuit...
'hese people are not botanising. They are...
Snow in the Warbys? Impossible! John munches...
Alex points out Mt Kent and Snowy Bluff as...
Crossing the Crooked River.
Crossing the Crooked River.
'The last building left in Howittville ...
'Thistle menace - Wongungurra valley 16 Nov...
Crossing the Wongungurra River.
'Crossing Wongungurra River below...
'Camp at Talbotville
'Preparing to climb Mt Clear
Mt Clear itself was a side-trip.November...
Leading the charge back to camp.November...
November 1974:- McAllister River - No. 2...
We climb Mt Howitt.November 1974:-...
There were actually 28 participants.November...
Large groups can be slow, so we spent some...
November 1974:- McAllister River - No. 2...
We head for Macalister Springs.November 1974...
