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[NOVEMBER 17 th 1956] track, just past a sticky patch which 
was tricky to negotiate. After setting up 
camp we had lunch and were off at 
the very early hour of 11.45. Max had 
brought Roddy with him - a month off 
seven years - and the four of us set 
off. Max at first couldn't find the 
track he had been on with Claude 
Austin so we wandered through very 
tall bracken till we stumbled across it. 
Then it was easier. We had a 
good view of a small flock of EMUS. At 
the end of the track we had a stiff 
scramble through very tall bracken and up 
round the shoulder of a hill till we came 
to a most impressive waterfall, not a 
straight drop, but a total of some 70 ft. 
Then back down the track where Mike 
spotted an Echidna which Max bravely 
dug out with his fingers and held up. 
It was a long walk and the two boys 
were tiring. However when we got 
back to camp we too subsided with a 
