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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sun 05 Aug, 2018 6:43 pm

Not blue mtns

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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Sun 05 Aug, 2018 6:50 pm

Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:Not blue mtns

My next thought is the Shoalhaven R. around Bungonia or thereabouts.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sun 05 Aug, 2018 7:17 pm

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Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:Not blue mtns

My next thought is the Shoalhaven R. around Bungonia or thereabouts.
Yep downstream a bit at mcullums flat

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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Sun 05 Aug, 2018 9:02 pm

Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:
johnw wrote:
Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:Not blue mtns

My next thought is the Shoalhaven R. around Bungonia or thereabouts.
Yep downstream a bit at mcullums flat

Gotta get back down that way. Apologies - another NSW shot, will look for other states next time I'm up:
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Negotiating the boulder choke, Bungonia Slot Canyon. Bungonia NP via Marulan NSW
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Zapruda » Sun 05 Aug, 2018 9:07 pm

Bungonia gorge? I love that climb over that boulder choke.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 1:26 am

Zapruda wrote:Bungonia gorge? I love that climb over that boulder choke.

Yes, Bungonia Slot Canyon, some big boulders in there to climb over.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Zapruda » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 7:51 am

Where am I standing in the ACT?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 8:42 am

Gingera?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Zapruda » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 8:45 am

north-north-west wrote:Gingera?


Bingo, all yours.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 9:00 am

My clearest memory of that peak was trying to replace the batteries in my GPS and finding three out of four in a new packet DOA. Not impressed.

Still snow and ice, but in Victoria. what was I climbing?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 9:34 am

Mt Speculation?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 9:45 am

Nope.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby LachlanB » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 11:21 am

north-north-west wrote:Nope.

So you're saying that Eggs' guess was idle speculation?



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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 12:00 pm

Unless I had been there and the spot had fixed in the memory - all you have is speculation. My wife would agree about the idle bit...:(

How does the Speculation work...hmm...looks like some scrambling up a broken rock line above the snow line..
So.. Speculation has a series of rock bands to ascend - but so does King Spur onto Koonika, McDonald, the Bluff, Helicopter Spur, Buggery, Stanleys Name Spur onto the Crosscut and probably some I am not aware of.
I have been down Helicopter and up Buggery and the Bluff, but not any others.
Even then - I may have passed it without a fix of that view in the mind. So its a case of stepping through them till we arrive..
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby LachlanB » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 12:38 pm

Hey, at least you're having a shot at them... :D
I'm an ignorant northerner who wouldn't have the faintest idea where NNW's photo is. I was too late for all the nice easy NSW photos that I could actually identify.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 1:00 pm

eggs wrote:Unless I had been there and the spot had fixed in the memory - all you have is speculation. My wife would agree about the idle bit...:(

How does the Speculation work...hmm...looks like some scrambling up a broken rock line above the snow line..
So.. Speculation has a series of rock bands to ascend - but so does King Spur onto Koonika, McDonald, the Bluff, Helicopter Spur, Buggery, Stanleys Name Spur onto the Crosscut and probably some I am not aware of.
I have been down Helicopter and up Buggery and the Bluff, but not any others.
Even then - I may have passed it without a fix of that view in the mind. So its a case of stepping through them till we arrive..

It's somewhere there.
And this is a few metres off the track. Not far, but I did it on purpose to get this specific angle because you can see the possibilities from the track.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 1:04 pm

I'll will shift onto the Bluff then
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 1:11 pm

The Bluff it is. Just below the bit where I slipped on the ice going down. Ohhh, what a fun day that was.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 1:31 pm

Yes. The Bluff was a great little climb - definitely vertical in places.
I did that at the start of my 4 day trip with lots of water on board.

Next one is in SA.
What were we approaching?
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Mayo Hut on the Wonoka Creek
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 2:41 pm

Yanyanna? Or is that one just a ruin now? Sure I've done this bit of the Heysen...
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 2:46 pm

Might get to check out Yanyanna [which I believe is still there] next week.
[Heysen trail photos make it out to be a tin structure.]

This one has some recent history as a restored location - lovely bunk area with mattresses, tables and chairs and a fire place.
The hill at the back offers a clue - check the skyline carefully.

Actually - I thought someone might suggest its an emu - which is also true if you look closely by enlarging the image.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 4:38 pm

Mayo Hut?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 5:26 pm

Yes - it is the Mayo Hut on the Heysen Trail.
Near the Mayo Gorge on the Wonoka Creek.
Wonoka Hill is at back with Hawker nearby.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Mon 06 Aug, 2018 9:42 pm

That skyline looked familiar from my walks around this area, even though I haven't got to Mayo Gorge yet (nor to County Mayo, old boyo).

The skyline in this Victorian shot is not too difficult to identify. Any suggestions about where the photograph was taken earn the good old bonus point.

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Mount Cobberas Number One and Cleft Peak, Cobberas Wilderness Zone
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Tue 07 Aug, 2018 1:09 pm

Cobberas #1 and Cleft Peak from Cobberas Track?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Tue 07 Aug, 2018 7:20 pm

Both peaks identified correctly and you get most of the bonus point. The view is looking north-north-west, but it is from a bit further away than Cobberas Track. It's from Dingo Flat, adjacent to Limestone Road.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Tue 07 Aug, 2018 11:34 pm

Thanks

This is in Queensland - probably after a drop of rain
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Barron Falls near Kuranda
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Tue 07 Aug, 2018 11:47 pm

Looks like our old favourite Barron Falls. I can't recall seeing that much water in them, must have been torrential.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Wed 08 Aug, 2018 9:32 am

I think I have "seen" more than this. I was essentially in a cloud of spray at the time...:)
Barron Falls from the tourist lookouts near Kuranda.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Wed 08 Aug, 2018 4:09 pm

eggs wrote:I think I have "seen" more than this. I was essentially in a cloud of spray at the time...:)
Barron Falls from the tourist lookouts near Kuranda.

I actually found a clip of the falls in flood on youtube last night, which made this fade into obscurity :shock:. I should look back through my photos over several visits and see how they compare. June last year there was not much flow at all.

I'll stick with QLD. Name the waterway, bonus points for identifying the track/my location:
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Tallebudgera Creek - Tallebudgera Creek Conservation Park, West Burleigh QLD
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