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gandolph wrote:..If I could fathom how to upload photos to this site I could post a couple of classics from the 50's showing cattle grazing peacefully on McArthurs Flat and the remains of the original Emmetts hut, not the metal rubbish that people imagine was from Emmetts.
gandolph wrote:f $44,000.00 {It recently went up from $11,000.00}.
Once upon a time I camped opposite on Orange Tree Flat on Little River a
jackhinde wrote: i recall a while back when it went from $10000 to $11000 and they replaced all the signs along the fences (
DaveNoble wrote:Yes, it went up 10% when the GST came in. I would not have thought that being in the catchment area was "goods" or a "service".
michael_p wrote:Gandolph,
Thank you for sharing your memories of the Nattai. For those of us who are relatively recent visitors to the area your recollections of seeing cattle grazing and Emmett's original hut are fascinating. It's easy to forget this area was once farm land.
Regards,
Michael.
kanangra wrote:Wow! Thank you so much. That is fascinating. I just cannot believe how extensive Macarthur Flat is. Incredible to think how the bush grows back in such a relatively short time. Also amazed at how substantial Emmets Hut is. Quite a large structure. If it was in that condition in 1952 it must have been built in the 19th century?
I hope your log book is preserved as it sounds like a classic to me. A time capsule of an era that is gone for ever. Its all expensive high end technical designer fashionable gear now.
K
gandolph wrote:The hut was located exactly as shown on the Mittagong 1 inch to 1 mile army survey map, that is on a slight rise above the present popular camping flat and about midway along. If you search really hard you can find foundation rocks.
michael_p wrote:Amazing stuff and again thank you for sharing.
I've read a few of Jim Barrett's books on the history of the Burragorang. Unfortunately most of the history covered relates to the Wollondilly and Cox's Burragorang with a little about the Nattai. It's great to see your photos and read some more about the history of the area.gandolph wrote:The hut was located exactly as shown on the Mittagong 1 inch to 1 mile army survey map, that is on a slight rise above the present popular camping flat and about midway along. If you search really hard you can find foundation rocks.
I think I know where the foundation rocks are. Have a look at this photo that I took in 2008. It is just a bit back and across from the main camp area. From memory the stones location roughly fits in with the location gandolph described.Maybe these are the foundation stones of the real Emmetts hut
Regards,
Michael.
BUSH RESCUE IS LONG AND PAINFUL ORDEAL SYDNEY
Pitifully weak and unable to walk, 56-year-old university lecturer, Sean John Ryan, is lying on a rough bush stretcher, marooned on a 2,240 foot wild goat plateau at Burragorang, in the heart of some of the wildest country in the State. Ryan is being fed stimulants and liquid food in the rough shelter of a small cave by a rescue party of 15 police and civilians who already have carried him more than 10 miles through the Blue Mountains, and still face at least another eight miles trek to the nearest road head. Last Sunday Ryan and a friend, Claude Walter Lee were hiking through the mountainous country when Lee left Ryan to search for water. Unable to find Ryan again, Lee made his way to Central Burragorang police station late on Monday. On Tuesday a search party found Ryan in a state of collapse. Lee stayed with Ryan while police returned to Nattai and early on Thursday set off again on the hazardous trip back to Ryan.
Harassed by gorges, thorny undergrowth, scorching sun and at times drench rain, the party, laboured at snail's pace throughout yesterday to bring Ryan out. The journey took such great toil of Ryan's strength that it was considered dangerous to attempt the treacherous descent from Wild Goat Plateau. The possibility of bringing
Ryan out by helicopter was explored, but weather conditions, trees, and undergrowth reduced the chances of success to a minimum. Until he recovers his strength Ryan may have to stay on the plateau for several days.
SICK MAN ON TOP OF MOUNTAIN, SYDNEY
Sat : Burragorang police will try to day to rescue 56-year-old Sean John Ryan from the top of a 2240ft. mountain. He is seriously ill after a four-day ordeal in a gorge without food and water. He became separated from fellow hiker Claude Lee of Mittagong, while searching for water early on Sunday, and was not found until Wednesday night. Police tried to get an RAAF helicopter to land on top of the mountain, but none was available.
Ryan was carried from the bottom of the gorge, where he was found, up a foot-wide path which sometimes rose a foot in three. His stretcher-bearers repeatedly lost their footing and clutched the cliff-like face to stop themselves crashing into the valley.
It will be another two days before he can be brought out and taken to hospital.
He is still 12 miles from the nearest road and the stretcher party will have to cut a path through rugged bush and undergrowth.
Ryan is lecturer in accountancy at Sydney University and lives in Summer Hill.
POLICE FIGURE IN DRAMATIC RESCUE. LOST MAN FOUND.
Constable E. F. Fairlamb, who is in charge of the Burragorang police station, and a tracker led the intensive search for Sean John Ryan, University lecturer, who was lost in the Burragorang Valley for eight days, and who was found on Thursday. Police risked their lives on mountains 3000 feet high to bring Ryan down to safety in the
valley. He was found by a tracker, Ted Green, dying from thirst and starvation on a bluff 15 miles from Burragorang. After a hazardous descent a party of police brought Mr. Ryan to the home of Constable Fairlamb on Sunday and given food. He was later driven to his home in Summer Hill. First-Class Constable Fairlamb is a son of Sgt E S. Fairlamb, officer-in charge of police at Muswellbrook.
PATH OF POLICE RESCUE PARTY
Golden Moon Bluff, with dotted line showing the path along which Sean John Ryan's rescuers carried him on Sunday. The arrow at top points to a cave behind the bluff near a creek where Ryan spent Saturday night. The bottom arrow shows the point at which Ryan was picked up by car and taken to Burragorang Police Station. The men in the foreground are police members of the second rescue party
michael_p wrote: - An area, adjacent to the Wattle Ridge property, was reserved for mining. Imagine a mine out there, how it would have changed the area.
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