Update Blue Mountains Walk . Tuesday 19th , Wednesday 20th , Thursday 21st March
from Morten Storaker/James Daniel
Attendees to date,
Tuesday 19th March
9am, meet at Morts place. 5 Richmond Ave Medlow bath 0417218761
1: SES headquarters visit, incident control centre, vehicles and equipment at Katoomba
2: followed by Ngula Bulgarabang walk Katoomba 4km easy, last 300m steep and rocky, great view over the megalong valley
3: Megalong tea rooms for lunch
4: Mermaid cave waterfall, easy walk, some steps
5: Anvil rock Blackheath plus the wind eroded cave
Finish around 5pm
Dinner at the Gardiners Inn pub, Blackheath ,
then do the Katoomba falls night walk, a really nice path lit up at night. Easy 2km . Starting at 7.30 pm
Suggested Accomodation
Gardiners Inn pub, Blackheath
Wednesday, 20th,
Meet at Medlow 9am
drive towards Lithgow, stop at the lolly bug shop at the bottom of Mt Victoria, visit the WW2 gun emplacements, view the viaduct at Bowenfels, then on to the blast furnace, lunch at the Tin Shed in Lithgow, then on to Hassans walls lookout , then maybe a drive out to the Mt Banks walk, or possibly on to Mt Tomah (fabulous botanical gardens) ?
Dinner at Morts house
Suggested Accommodation
Gardiners Inn pub, Blackheath
Thursday 21st
9am at Morts place
Drive out to Evans crown via Rydal, nice walk not too hard, quite a few steps, great views, then on to Tarana pub, lunch at the pub
Michael Rayner key Speaker - 50th Re-union NSBHS1973
For the enjoyment again of all who attended the 50th reunion. The incredibly interesting talk of Michael Rayner on architecture, how creativity can solve problems and the comaraderie of Australians when adversity strikes. It is easy to understand why Michael was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to architecture. If you missed the reunion a chance to catchup on one of the highlights.
The Band - formed from classmates, partners and a couple of friends playing at the After Party
Video courtesy of Ian Carragher
Video courtesy of Ian Carragher
Video courtesy of Ian Carragher
50th Reunion and After Party - A Great Success
We will take comments like "What a wonderful couple of events! My most enjoyable weekend in ages" and "fantastic event" as endorsement that the 50th Reunion and After Party were a great success. Having 93 attendees at the 50th Re-union and 61 coming along to the next day after party was a great turnout.
My favourite parts of the weekend in no particular order was the comaraderie of our entire group with each other. Old friends mixed with new friends in an atmosphere of convivial conversation was simply wonderful.
Video courtesy of Ian Carragher
The school tour on the Friday was fun with hilarious laughter at the antics we used to get up to. The new headmaster was charming and enjoyed learning of much of the history of the school first hand from some of the school pupils of '73.
Michael Rayner's talk was facinating how he combined an ethos of structure, nature, art and craft to guide his wonderful archtitectural designs. Using designs of the DNA helix to guide bridge design, or the strength of trees to help solve structural problems of building was facinating. The passion and enjoyment was evident in Michael's discussion of his favourite project of the Dinosaur House. His personal experience of the Brisbane floods was moving and the design response to broken wharves with gates that could automatically swing open in a flood was so smart.
The Sunday highlight was no doubt the musical talent of the "band". The music was just great and a huge thanks to Andrew Hoyle, Neale Morison, Raoul Hawkins, Simon Fraser, Jim Marjoram and singers Sue Hoyle and friend plus the guest drummer for putting on such enjoyable entertainment. It was obvious that not only the audience was having fun but the band were having a great time playing together. I am sure we will be able to get the band together for a future event.
Video courtesy of Adrian Graham
Thanks to those who have posted photos and videos capturing the fun of the weekend events, particularly Ian Carragher and Adrian Graham.