Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

[johnw]

Congrats on your 5000th post.

Thanks cajun, I hadn't noticed until you mentioned it. For someone who is very quiet in real life that surprises me a little.

... the scouts arrived via public transport, but wouldn't be able to replicate that trip exactly today.

Hmm, it might have something to do with Royal National Park Station having closed in the 1990s.

I was thinking RNP also. Apparently there was a scout camp platform there. But what looks like cabbage palm debris is confusing me, as you get those mainly around places like Palm Jungle, Forest Island etc - areas of littoral rainforest. Lilyvale? I guess it's more likely but I can't find anything on it either.

[cajun]

Liliyvale area it is John.

The 'Nasho continues to surprise me

All yours.

[johnw]

Liliyvale area it is John.

The 'Nasho continues to surprise me

All yours.

As I can't find any details of an old chapel near RNP station, I'm thinking maybe the scouts traveled to the now-closed Lilyvale station.

Often surprises me too, no matter how many times I've been there. Thanks cajun but ribuck mentioned Lilyvale first, so should go next.

[cajun]

Fair enough. I didn't see that post on the previous page.

[ribuck]

Thanks cajun and john_w.

This old photo is from the NT. At least one of the regular players in this game has been there.

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Northern Territory

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[icefest]

This old photo is from the NT. At least one of the regular players in this game has been there.

eggs has been everywhere

Looks like W maccas.
Near standley chasm?

[peregrinator]

This old photo is from the NT. At least one of the regular players in this game has been there.

eggs has been everywhere

Looks like W maccas.
Near standley chasm?

If by some chance eggs has not quite been everywhere yet, any place he's missed can probably expect a visit soon.

[ribuck]

Indeed, eggs has been there.

It is in the West Macdonnell NP, icefest, but not near Standley Chasm. The camera was being held level for this shot, by the way.

[eggs]

Gosh guys - I have not been everywhere - nor will I get everywhere. NNW seems closest to that mantle.
On the LHS - out of view the cliff face will be steeper forming a deep V as the river channel.
I believe the name I had for this place was unofficial - so I think you will need to reference the point were you turn off to go up it.
Note - I have only written one trip report from the NT.

[icefest]

Ormiston Gorge?

[icefest]

Gosh guys - I have not been everywhere - nor will I get everywhere. NNW seems closest to that mantle.
On the LHS - out of view the cliff face will be steeper forming a deep V as the river channel.
I believe the name I had for this place was unofficial - so I think you will need to reference the point were you turn off to go up it.
Note - I have only written one trip report from the NT.

Methinks thou doth protest too much [/joke]

[ribuck]

Clearly eggs recognises the place, but wants someone else to work it out. The place has two unofficial names, one given by Dot Butler, and a government-named spot is very close.

I'll post a wide-angle shot if it's not guessed tonight. And no, it's not Ormiston Gorge. It's a short distance off the main tourist circuit.

[peregrinator]

Gosh guys - I have not been everywhere - nor will I get everywhere. NNW seems closest to that mantle.

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Who knows, who's counting, who cares? All I know is that you've both contributed many beautiful images here, adding great value to the site. Often from places I ain't been to, nor ever likely to get to.

[ribuck]

On the LHS - out of view the cliff face will be steeper forming a deep V as the river channel.

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West MacDonnells

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[beardless]

Serpentine Gorge

[eggs]

The clue was to check out my report.
I had called this place Waterfall valley - but it lies north from Bowmans Gap.

How far up to the waterfall face did you get Ribuck?

[ribuck]

I had called this place Waterfall valley - but it lies north from Bowmans Gap.

It's also known as Canyon of the Thirteen Pools, and is the watercourse that drains into Bowmans Gap from slightly north of east.

How far up to the waterfall face did you get Ribuck?

It was 1980s, so I don't remember exactly, but I do remember climbing over the same scree slope that you did. We then climbed to the top and camped overnight on the top of Red Walls. It was a dodgy climb (easy to dislodge massive boulders), and I probably wouldn't do it again, given that there are two better ways to get there (using the next-north minor creek to gain the northern ridge then crossing over above the waterfall, or entering the northern efflux of the massif).

On doing a search, I see that eggs has himself posted this valley twice to this game (once in 2013, once in 2017). I hope to visit it again this autumn, so I'll try my hardest not to post it again so soon

And, by the way, we know that NNW hasn't been there, because one crosses Ormiston Pound to get there, and we know that NNW is uninspired by the Pound...

Over to you, eggs.

[eggs]

It would have been nice to have spent longer there, Ribuck.

Next one is last Nov in Victoria

On the Crinoline [Mt Ligar]

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[Lophophaps]

It looks like The Crinoline.

[eggs]

The Crinoline is correct

[Lophophaps]

Thanks. The red gritty stones are fairly distinctive. NSW.

[johnw]

Let's start somewhere. Are you on top of Mt Solitary?

[Walk_fat boy_walk]

Or on approach to ruined castle maybe?

[Lophophaps]

The place where the pic was taken is near Solitary and The Castle in the Blue Mountains.

[ribuck]

It looks a bit dry for it, but there are some rocks like this on one of the exits from Leura Forest.

[jonnosan]

I think it's either the summit of Mt Blackhorse or possibly the lower peak of Mt Mouin

[Lophophaps]

Mouin is much closer, but still not correct.

[Walk_fat boy_walk]

It's not approaching Duncan's pass /tarros ladders is it?

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[ribuck]

Near the saddle just north of Mt Dingo?

[jonnosan]

Looking at Mt Merrimerrigal coming up from Warrigal Gap?