Journal and notes of Guy Richards, Whitney South Sea Expedition, 1927-1928
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Lucas takes up four of them. It has one great chamber known as the cathedral which is two hundred feet high and a hundred and seventy feet in width. In the Lucas are to be found Grandmother's Shawl, The Three Sisters, Josephine's Mitre, The Bells, etc., etc. Afterwards Hannibal, ably avoiding Mr. Colgate, took a long walk down McCook's Creek through the Devil's Coach House to the recreation field. It is a beautiful walk through wild country and besides the animals I have mentioned seeing before we saw a large mountain goat which we scared up from his hiding place around a crag on the mountain. Monday, August 29th. (Jenolan Caves to Sydney). Spent the day on the journey from the Blue Mountains back to Sydney. We stopped at Jamieson Valley and Leura Falls. But after reaching Katoomba, where we had lunch again at the Carrington House, the trip was pretty much the same as the one coming up to the caves. I returned next to the gentleman from New Zealand with whom I had shared the entire bus coming up from Sydney. This time, however, it was a tighter squeeze, and we did not re- main on such congenial terms. He kept moving his foot and forcing my foot, or feet, all the way over against my side of the bus and although I frowned on him fiercely for several miles he maintained the state of tension which he had established completely across the country. We arrived in Sydney in the evening and re- established ourselves in our old room, number 225, at