The weekly e-newsletter of
Bendigo Orienteers Inc.
Issue 38/14: 22 October, 2014
Contact (for this publication): Peter J. Creely: luddcreely@impulse.net.au (Ph. 5443 1975)
Web site: www.bendigo-orienteers.com.au
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Way back then, a blast from the past – – I was getting rid of a lot of O stuff and I came across an article Noel Schoknecht (a former President of our club) and I wrote for the Australian Orienteer of the day. When you look at Bendigo as it is now you realise how much the scene has changed and how we need to move around our gold mining terrain to glimpse even a tiny part of what it must have been like then.
“Let me draw you a picture – of a valley with a small creek flowing softly through it, forming holes with water in them as clear as crystal; kingfishers flitting about in the golden wattle and disappearing into the foliage which almost hid the creek from view.”
In contrast, a quote from Mr. Charles Clacey, from England, who visited this same place only a few months after gold was discovered in 1851.
“Never shall I forget the scene! There were no trees, only trunks and a few branches littering the rare pieces of ground that hadn’t been dug over. It was like a sandy plain or one vast succession of countless gravel pits; the earth was everywhere turned up – mens’ heads were in every direction popping up and down in the holes – the sounds of the picks and shovels, the hum of so many thousands of voices — !”
Oh how different it is now!
Lomglea South. Report and results available on our webpage
Coming events. Saturday 25 October. Bush Classic 18.
Map: Diamond Hill
Organiser: Andrew Cameron.
Start: 12.30 to 2.00 pm. Courses close at 3.00 pm.
Format: Five courses: 1, 2 and 3 difficult navigation, 4 moderate and 5 easy.
Directions: From Bendigo: From the centre of Bendigo, head South toward Kangaroo Flat. Turn left at the lights into Camp Street, right into Church St (orienteering signs), left into Chapel St. Continue under train bridge, then right into Allingham Street and left into Shelton’s Road. Parking 500m on side of road. Alternatively, travel out to Spring Gully on SG Road and turn right into Burns Street. Continue to the tee intersection and turn left into Diamond Hill Road. After a couple of kms turn right into Shelton’s Road.
From Castlemaine: Travel towards Bendigo. At the traffic lights at the Lockwood Road intersection in Kangaroo Flat turn right into Camp Street and then as for Bendigo.
From Melbourne: travel via the Calder towards Bendigo. At the Lockwood Road traffic lights in Kangaroo Flat turn right into Camp Street and then as above for Bendigo.
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