G’day Coke
Hope the chemo and radio went OK last Thursday and hope any side effects remain at bay. It’s been a while since I climbed Kosciusko, but here is a description of walking in Northern Victoria from the Bluff to Cobbler. All the places mentioned are mountains, apparently named by a bored survey team a hundred an fifty years ago. Rumour has it that the nearby mountains called The Governors, they originally named the Governors Balls. Somehow Mt Buggery stayed on the official maps. A group of us used to call ourselves the ‘mad buggers walking club’ and left a log-book in an army ammunition box on Mt Buggery - I wonder if it is still there. All of this, was of course, a long time BC.
From Sheepyard Flat to Buggery,
Is just a three day walk,
With packs and tracks and tents and gear
And friends with whom to talk.
We scale The Bluff and reach Bluff Hut
Fill in the log-book there
And camp the night and yarn away,
Camp fire, tall tales and much hot air.
Next day, pass Lovick and his hut,
Hells Window, Magdala and Big Hill.
Our goal tonight is Howitt and the Springs
There camp and stop with time to kill.
Cross Cut Saw and Buggery
Around the Terrible Hollow
Speculation, Viking and Despair
We leave until the morrow.
Then out the Wonnangatta track,
To Cobbler Lake and plateau
Past the Mount to waiting cars
Long drive, then dinner with Bordeaux.
Sailor
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock
