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and endeavour to stay upright. We arrived back at the 
camp, and greatly appreciated the hot food saved for us 
by some kindly spirits. 
On the way down we saw some glow worms on the 
scrub path. These gave out a pale, whitish light. Un- 
fortunately, no specimen was gathered. 
The third day most of the club members went to 
Natural Bridge, which is a very interesting place from 
all points of view. The flashing waterfall, which, viewed 
from above, seems to fall sheer into the bowels of the 
earth, from below, issues from a dark cavern and flows 
on in the sunlight. 
Here we saw glow worms again, on the ceiling of the 
cave this time, and they were little pin points of green 
light. We then followed the creek down a few hundred 
yards, but found a clearing and turned back and went on 
upward. The creek branched near a sawmill. Two fol- 
lowed up the left branch nearly to the base of the cliffs 
of Springbrook, and found the going very stiff and slip- 
pery. The remainder followed a snigging track, and then 
hacked a pathway through bracken, lantana, and rasp- 
berry bushes, and explored the ridge leading up to Spring- 
brook, but the catching of a carpet snake occupied our 
attention for a considerable time, and we had to return 
direct to the camp instead of tackling the circuitous 
journey round through Springbrook. 
On this trip we saw quite a number of the birds we 
had seen on the first day’s outing, and. of course, others 
of which we knew nothing. 
The fourth day some of the party explored Nixon’s 
Creek gorge. We had heard of a high waterfall further up 
the creek, but after our Binna Burra experience, we took 
off some fifty per cent, from the height, so did not ex- 
pect such a high one after all. This journey had a strict 
time limit, as it was the last day, and trains wait for no 
man. 
We reached the scrub at the base of Egg Rock and 
scrambled up the creek. We saw two falls. The scrub was 
very thick and palm groves were found along the creek. 
After a time the cliff walls opened considerably. Above 
the scrub, along the creek, was very open forest country. 
As the time limit had expired, we had to return, and did 
not have much time to observe anything very closely. How- 
ever, we saw two orchids, Liparis reflexa and a small Bul- 
bophyllum. 
