Lost?

I was looking through my pictures looking for materials to include in my ACIS album, when I came across this:

It makes me giggle a bit to think about what my readers' reactions(!) might be when seeing some of the things we relied on to find our way in the bush.

Some have more artistic value than practical use, while others of historic value

Modern ones tend to carry more information

[Updated]
In this photograph, you will find (if very careful) example of the old practice of track blazing with a slasher:

And please do visit the linked album photos and see the larger picture. I've also put some extra information there including actual account of trips where the pictures were taken.

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  1. They may. But I haven't picked up. (Remember I'm not born English speaker.)Well, I've just bing'ed "yakking" and "Show all" said there are 243,000 results while "Only from NZ" returned only 368. So seems it's not common expression in NZ. Interesting.Thanks for the "yak", Deb. TTFN :)[update]Just before I really go. I often hear "hard yakker" used to mean "hard work". Not sure if this is really related to "yak"="chat". Still interesting.:bye:

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