Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

[eggs]

I had the opposite.
Headed towards Loch in a white out with driving snow.
Cloud started to lift on the way and was able to climb with good views by the time I got there.

Staying in Vic
This one is for lphp....

Some nice late snow on Feathertop. Background has Jaithmathang, McKay and the Cobberas

[Lophophaps]

Arapiles East? Hotham North Expanded Development Zone?

[eggs]

Hmm 2 answers - but which should I answer.... hmmm.
Its not Mitre Rock, though that would be Arapiles North.
But I will grant you that it is north from Hotham.
But perhaps you are being a bit cornicy

[Lophophaps]

I think that you will find that east of Araps can be north of Hotham ...more or less. I'd climb through hell and fire to get the right answer, and did just that, tres steep and very hairy, moreso than Watsons and Blue Lake. The answer eludes me.

[GregR]

Perhaps that's the correct answer in crypto bizzaro language, but I dunno. Looks like Feathertop looking across towards Mr Bite my Tongue.

[eggs]

Thankyou for plain English Greg. Feathertop it is.

I just wanted to show lphp what a really hard to guess shot looked like...
And he responded in kind

[GregR]

Thankyou for plain English Greg. Feathertop it is.

I just wanted to show lphp what a really hard to guess shot looked like...
And he responded in kind

Thanks Eggs.

If you're quick you will get this one before any body else has time to react. I really shouldn't make mine this easy.

Vic again

[peregrinator]

From Jaithmathang to Feathertop?

[GregR]

Indeed it is.

Over to you Peregrinator

[Lophophaps]

Feathertop and Jaithmathang, who would have guessed? I reckon that Arapiles East and Hotham North Expanded Development Zone are close. I must be more specific in future. Calling a picture VIMGP3408 is unhelpful. Note that Jaithmathang will soon be called the Falls Creek West Expanded Development Zone.

[peregrinator]

I'm thinking that the whole state is a Development Zone.

The photograph below is in a part of South Australia that was promoted as a development zone in the mid 1800s. The reality of Goyder's Line demolished those propects. And as you can see by the accumulated guano, there's been no rain there for a while. What's the mountain I was on this May?

Cairn on Mt Ide. Chace Range on horizon. Southern end of Elder Range background right.

[eggs]

Not all that high.
Shall we start the bidding with Mount Ide

[peregrinator]

Not all that high.
Shall we start the bidding with Mount Ide

I'd pay out on that bid. I was standing by with a shot that included Rawnsley Bluff and a bit more of the distant Chace Range in case the posted shot didn't have sufficient clues. Given that the Elder Range looms large in the other direction, this is a short climb that's is most rewarding.

[eggs]

A lucky guess.
I had suspicions about the background, but nothing of certainty.
Did you do this as part of the Heysen Trail or were you after Mt Aleck?

A bit harder but back in Vic

On Flat Rock on the walk through to Mt Stapylton via the Amphitheatre in the northern tip of the Grampians

[north-north-west]

There are pools like that out near Briggs Bluff.

[eggs]

Right area, but not Briggs Bluff.
This is a named spot on a walking track - but not very high.

[Lophophaps]

Mount Zero?

[eggs]

Much closer - but not Mt Zero.
The name has something to do with its appearance

[peregrinator]

Flat Rock.

[eggs]

Yes - Flat Rock is crossed on the walk through to Mt Stapylton via the Amphitheatre in the northern tip of the Grampians

[peregrinator]

Here's an unflat rock in SA. (Probably to be identified by name by eggs in five minutes).

Windsor Pillar, Chambers Gorge, Northern Flinders Ranges

[eggs]

No idea - my 5 minutes are up

[north-north-west]

Dunno if the rock has a name, but that looks like Chambers Gorge. Maybe.

[jimjim]

Is it Arkaroola? Heading up the creek towards Mt Gee? Some sort of radioactive name....

[peregrinator]

Jimjim, it's not Radium Creek, which would be the one you're thinking of. North-north-west, it is indeed Chambers Gorge.

The rock does have a name, and I assumed that because this gorge is visited fairly often, the name might be reasonably well known. Incorrect assumption. I read about it in an excellent book, Field Guide to Chambers Gorge, Flinders Ranges, by Graham C Medlin. It was published in 1983 and is long out of print, but several libraries have it (I read it in the State Library of Victoria). I've now found only two other on-line references to the rock: a 1982 Kenneth Jack drawing and a 1937 photograph by anthropologist, Charles Mountford.

The name of the rock feature is variously Windsor Pillar or Windsor's Pillar. So in the circumstances, north-north-west clearly wins the non-existent prize.

[north-north-west]

Thanks. Pretty sure I have an almost identical shot. It's a fairly distinctive not-flat lump of rock. Have never heard the name, but then I don't have any guidebooks to the area, just maps. Pretty sure the name wasn't mentioned on any of the signs there when I last visited.

OK, name this Tasmanian watercourse:

[GBW]

Tasmanian?

[eggs]

Every so often a Tas entries comes in to make sure we are awake and to spice it up a bit.

[north-north-west]

Yer, Tasmanian. It was still part of Australia last time I checked.

Still in the middle of processing a pile of stuff done somewhere in the vague and misty past, and couldn't be bothered digging elsewhere in the files, so grabbed the first handy image.

[eggs]

Thornton River?