Myles Dunphy Journal

A graphic account from 1930s

Gone Bush

For almost seventy years from 1908, Myles Dunphy (1891–1985) kept rough journals of his bush walks. In the 1970s he rewrote these in his meticulous script and inserted his original drawings and photographs as illustrations.

This bushwalk in the summer of 1932–33 covered the Boyd & Morong Mountains, South Boyd, Boyd Range, Kowmung River, Colong Caves, Colong Gap, Tonalli and Yerranderie in the southern Blue Mountains.

Myles Dunphy was the father of conservation in New South Wales. From the 1930s, he began exploring and mapping natural and wilderness areas and working for their preservation. He helped to found the National Parks and Primitive Areas Council in 1933 and was its secretary for thirty years. The Council worked for the reservation of national parks. The Warrumbungle National Park was created in 1953 and in 1959 the Government gazetted 63,000 hectares in the Blue Mountains.
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