bers played a game of beach cricket 
at the outer entrance to the cave, but 
such would not have been possible on 
the piesent occasion. 
Still further to the ea.st. beyond the 
Jilowhole, the rounded outline ot Urown 
-Mountain reaches south towards the 
■sea, and terminates in a Itiuif lieau- 
iana of dialtaso cIlfT.s which de.scend 
hundreds ot feet sheer to tile .sea. Wan¬ 
dering uero.ss the inooilike country 
which is so characteristic of tite coas¬ 
tal strip around Safety Cove the liquid 
notes of the yellow-winged honeycat- 
ers call iiice.s.santly from tlie numer¬ 
ous patches of -scruli. Occasionally cer¬ 
tain of the g'rotind feeding blrtl.-i are 
aroused, and a.s they rise with a whirr 
from almost at the feet of some ot the 
party there is another intere.st added 
to the moorland trail, above which a 
.sea eagle pianos across on his way to 
search the .“hores of the cove for such 
edilile morsels a.s the waves have cast 
upon the snnds. 
At the summit of Brown .Mountain 
the cairn, like many of the other 
tairns on our mountain tops, is Irfiing 
allowed to fall to pieces. Krom liere 
a fine vista ot the shore line and har¬ 
bour unfolds it-telf; the iiicturesque set¬ 
ting of I’oft Arthur is seen to good 
advantage. Kor a closer view (.1 the 
.settlement itself there is peiliap.s no 
better viewpoint than that on Scor¬ 
pion Bock, the hill Ju.st above the 
church: whil.st for an cv'on more c.x- 
teiided iianorama of the peiiiii.siila set- 
lements a visit can be i>aid to the .sum¬ 
mit of .Mount .‘'.rthiir, whicli is not far 
from the township. On the summit 
can lie seen the foundations of one of 
the old seinaiilioro .stations. Several 
parties from the camp paid vi.sil.s to 
this and other vantage iioints. On 
Kaster Monday practically all the mem¬ 
bers visited Balf-.Moon llay, a silvery 
arc of sand facing the ocean and 
bounded on the west by the great 
rounded dome of Brown Mountain and 
on the east by the long point which 
separates this outer liay from the fn- 
ner and quieter waters of Safety Oov<i. 
The long ocean rollers end their north¬ 
ward journey here, and the niii.ssive 
sand dunes which fringe the .shore tes¬ 
tify to the forces which are at work 
on this section of the const. 
These dunes, with their steeply-in¬ 
clined faces on the seaward side, ever 
prove a fascination and within a few 
minutes of the arrival of the parties 
at the bay there was gre.at activity 
as regards .sand sports, 'I’he various 
slides and other exercises carried out 
on tlie slopes recalled vl.slons of the 
winter sports ot our 'i'a.“maiiiari iriigiB 
lands, where snow takes the (ilacc of 
sand. Tasmania lias niu.li to offer 
in the held oi winter spoil, imt up to 
me present little lias oeeii none to 
.ibv.iM. 'me iNutlonal Bark 
Hoard has done ami 's still doing al. 
m.u it can wnli its Imiited re.scuice.s 
111 order tc open up a winter tour- 
1..1 l.aliic ill our highland.s, but more 
needs to lie done liy tiie larger depart- 
ii.outs ot the state. 
.Miuh ot the initial credit as re- 
giirus the cdiiiiiieiicemeiit of winter 
sjiort ill Ta.sitiaiila Is due to .Mr. K. T. 
r.miiiett, lorneriy Director of the Tas- 
niiiiilaii (iovernnieiu Tourist Bureau, ii 
is a iiinltcr of gre'ui regret that Mr. 
Kiriiiull no longer pcn.iinally controls 
our tourist trulilc, and tlie iiolicy of 
1 raiisl erriiig liis eiil hiisiasin and ex- 
perl Unowlcd.ge ol tlie tourist attrac¬ 
tions of our isliuiil slate lo another 
sidiere is open to criticism, as in more 
ways lhan cue it bus meant a loss to 
llic slate. 
The .sand slides of Half .Moon Bay 
[inivide just us invigorating exercise 
us tile .snow slopes of .Mount Kield, and 
after an hour or more of tiic.se, tlie 
iTiemliers ussenililed for luncli vviin 
lailli aiqieliles air.l wits sharpened, for 
it would liave be n dilliciilt to ima¬ 
gine a niorrier parly than tliat whicli 
a.ssemliled for lumli under tiie shade 
ol the casiirinus whicli Iringe the 
shore. 
.After luneli visits were paid lo sev- 
I ral places ol interest in the near vicin¬ 
ity. and till' various groups all return- 
iM to lamp in am|ile time for the even¬ 
ing meal, vvliich t hef Barker and his 
assistaiiis litid iircpared in tlieir u.sual 
illieieiil iiianiier. .At the gatherng an 
oiilKirl'iiilty wa.s taken of tiuuiking 
.vb's.srs. llrlggs Bro.s. for Iheir kind- 
iiesi to llip camiieis during our .stay 
at isairty (’eve, and, in addition, ether 
reaiarkf vveia ni.ule, .ill of wliicli went 
to slunv ihal tlie twenty-second Kas- 
!:r C.imt) lim; licen enjoyed liy all. The- 
lieifei'i weatl'er experienced, in addi¬ 
tion to Ollier consider.itions, greatly os- 
aisted in thi." direction. Hxceiit for 
a sliglit misty shower of alioiit an 
hoar's duration on .Monday evening the 
weather wa.s perfe.-t during the whole 
eutroivy of tile camii. 
Dwing tc tlie excrllent manner in 
which 1li(> vvireles.s worked, the usual 
camii-fire concert.s gave place to con¬ 
certs and lectures taoadca.st from Mel- 
lioiirnc. One evening we hud the idea- 
sure ol hearing Dr. .1. .A. Beach lectur- 
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