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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sat 12 Aug, 2017 5:58 pm

Olowalu Petroglyphs - Maui?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sat 12 Aug, 2017 7:53 pm

eggs wrote:Olowalu Petroglyphs - Maui?

Yes those are them eggs, aka Pu'u Kilea in Hawaiian. Easily accessed off a dirt road near the Olowalu General Store.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sun 13 Aug, 2017 8:32 am

Heading back to the UK
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sun 13 Aug, 2017 2:40 pm

Reminds me of the Lakes District?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sun 13 Aug, 2017 3:18 pm

There might be a good reason for that ... :)
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sun 13 Aug, 2017 6:07 pm

eggs wrote:There might be a good reason for that ... :)

Ah! Then let's try Buttermere, maybe looking towards Fleetwith Pike and Haystacks?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sun 13 Aug, 2017 6:22 pm

Curiously the Haystacks et al are in the direction of view - but not in view. They are in the next range on from this view.
Not Buttermere.
I believe the nature of the fall into this lake you can see on the right is rather unique in the Lakes District.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sun 13 Aug, 2017 7:46 pm

I hope my research is not leading me down the garden path.
Wast Water, which is England's deepest lake, looking towards Yewbarrow, Great Gable and Lingmell?
The steep fall I believe is a scree slope ("Wastwater Scree") formed as a result of ice and weathering erosion on the volcanic rocks.
Approx 2,000 feet from the top to the base, which is about 200 feet below the surface of the lake.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sun 13 Aug, 2017 8:28 pm

Well done.
Wast Water it is - Yewbarrow is the smaller but shapely peak at back and the large screes are the "unique" part of this view.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sun 13 Aug, 2017 9:16 pm

Returning to Aotearoa:
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Among the Clay Cliffs of Omarama - Qualiburn via Omarama, South Island New Zealand
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Mon 14 Aug, 2017 10:23 pm

A fairly short walk but I had to put money in an honesty box to visit here.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Mon 14 Aug, 2017 10:47 pm

Patience.. we are not bogged down in clay yet...
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Tue 15 Aug, 2017 7:29 am

Rightho I'll take a stab and say those pale brown panicle features on the road through to the Southern Alps just past Twizel - never been up close but always tell myself I should go check them out when driving past. Google tells me the place is called 'Clay Cliffs of Omarama'.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Tue 15 Aug, 2017 7:56 am

Well worth it MM!!
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Tue 15 Aug, 2017 12:34 pm

MountainMadness wrote:Rightho I'll take a stab and say those pale brown panicle features on the road through to the Southern Alps just past Twizel - never been up close but always tell myself I should go check them out when driving past. Google tells me the place is called 'Clay Cliffs of Omarama'.
eggs wrote:Well worth it MM!!

Correct MM, Clay Cliffs of Omarama. As eggs says they are well worth investigating. Located on private property, you leave I think $5 in a box at the gate. As per my image you can walk up to and explore among the pinnacles, which are quite fascinating.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Wed 16 Aug, 2017 9:27 am

Ah good then I'll put it on the list - usually too much in a hurry to head to the Alps (especially as around those parts we get the first glimpse of them!) but nowadays with kids it will be a more promising prospect......

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Thu 17 Aug, 2017 9:24 am

And facing the other way (as you can see I didn't wander too far off the beaten track.........)

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby L_Cham_67 » Thu 17 Aug, 2017 10:14 am

Kind of reminds me of driving on the Coromandel Peninsula, somewhere just off SH25?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Thu 17 Aug, 2017 11:19 am

I have been on that road - but not on the Takaka Hill Walkway adjacent to it.
A nice area of Karst exposure
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby MountainMadness » Thu 17 Aug, 2017 11:56 am

You have it eggs - admit I just bush-bashed up from a pull over bay to my vantage point while the baby was having a feed.......

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Thu 17 Aug, 2017 12:12 pm

Found some interesting Karst in Ireland....
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Burren National Park with Mullaghmor in view
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Thu 17 Aug, 2017 10:27 pm

Burren National Park, County Clare?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Fri 18 Aug, 2017 2:53 am

Correct John.
Mullaghmor in view.
Its amazing how wide spread these white hills are. The NP is just a small part of it.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Fri 18 Aug, 2017 10:39 pm

eggs wrote:Correct John.
Mullaghmor in view.
Its amazing how wide spread these white hills are. The NP is just a small part of it.
I haven't yet been to Ireland but always envision endless rolling green hills. Clearly there is much more.

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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sun 20 Aug, 2017 3:01 pm

Would it help if I read from Shakespeare?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sun 20 Aug, 2017 5:28 pm

Shall we start the bidding with Whanganui?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Sun 20 Aug, 2017 6:31 pm

eggs wrote:Shall we start the bidding with Whanganui?

A long way south-ish from there and on the other island.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Sun 20 Aug, 2017 10:24 pm

Second bid - somehow near Shakespeare Bay / Picton?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby johnw » Mon 21 Aug, 2017 2:50 am

eggs wrote:Second bid - somehow near Shakespeare Bay / Picton?

Much further south and not quite as literal, but old Bill might feel at home here...
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Re: Game: Where-is-it? (international)

Postby eggs » Mon 21 Aug, 2017 9:36 am

So you might have been on the Avon in Christchurch?
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