17th November 2005, 08:46 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1970
Location: gippsland lakes/vic
Posts: 5,104
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I'm not telling. I feel young though.
I knew all the Groome Family [started the park] including old Arther. He used to WALK to Brisbane to raise awareness and money to have Lamington turned into a national park. The best bushman I've ever seen [I've seen a few]. Even Paddy Fitzgerald who took the tourists up to Lamington from our place on horseback and cut 100's of ks. of tracks up there, wasn't as good as old Arther. He could go out and find a new waterfall every day of the week.
He was the one who found that plane that went down in Lamington after everyone else failed to find it. Just took a cut lunch with him and said: 'I'll be back with any survivors'. He did just that and there were survivors too. Great book on him and his endeavors worth reading.
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