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

Postby wildwanderer » Wed 30 Dec, 2020 5:56 am

Thanks Zapruda.

In NSW.
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Kedumba River Crossing, Blue Mountains NP
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby crollsurf » Fri 01 Jan, 2021 2:13 pm

Somewhere around Capertee?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby wildwanderer » Sat 02 Jan, 2021 5:36 am

Not Capertee.

Occasionally a brumby will be seen in the area. Lots of roos. I took this pic at sunrise.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby wildwanderer » Sun 03 Jan, 2021 6:47 pm

Another clue.

There is a restored hut very close to this area. The location is not the snowy mountains or anywhere near.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Sun 03 Jan, 2021 8:11 pm

Brumbies, roos, a restored hut, some flat land and views up to an escarpment suggests that you are at the Kedumba River Crossing.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby wildwanderer » Mon 04 Jan, 2021 5:20 am

Nice work ribuck.

Yes it was early morning at the camping area at Kedumba River Crossing.

I'm looking over once farmed grassland towards the fold in the land caused by Waterfall Creek, the view rising to the walls lining Lions Head Ridge, Kedumba Pass and beyond.

Kedumba Slab Hut is 200 metres or so to the NNW of my location.

There were plenty of roos and a brumby was seen cantering over the grassland in the evening.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Mon 04 Jan, 2021 8:17 am

Thanks wildwanderer. This one is in the Northern Territory. Maybe eggs will agree to give others a 48-hour head start on this one...
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Zapruda » Tue 05 Jan, 2021 7:10 am

Are you in Hugh Gorge?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Tue 05 Jan, 2021 7:10 pm

No, Zapruda, but I'm in the same park (Tjoritja/West MacDonnell NP).
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby commando » Tue 05 Jan, 2021 8:24 pm

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

Postby ribuck » Tue 05 Jan, 2021 11:00 pm

commando wrote:Serpentine Gorge

Not Serpentine Gorge, commando, although you are closer than the previous suggestion.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby commando » Tue 05 Jan, 2021 11:14 pm

So going West with that clue is Ormiston Gorge.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Wed 06 Jan, 2021 1:17 am

commando wrote:So going West with that clue is Ormiston Gorge.

It's not Ormiston Gorge, but you could walk there from Ormiston Gorge in four hours.

This photo is taken from two hundred metres further upstream:
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Canyon of the Thirteen Pools, just north of Ormiston Pound, NT
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby commando » Thu 07 Jan, 2021 12:23 am

This is the location but i don't have a name.
23°36'17.0"S 132°46'05.0"E
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Thu 07 Jan, 2021 5:51 am

Nice work, commando.

There's no official name, but some of the Ormiston Gorge rangers call it Waterfall Valley. East coast bushwalkers tend to call it Canyon of the Thirteen Pools, a name assigned in 1972, when Dot Butler wrote:

"I went up the north tributary of the Ormiston River, which developed into a steep rocky canyon, and I counted the pools which appeared to be permanent. There were 13, the last quite a deep circular pool in an amphitheatre at the base of a 100 ft. high dry waterfall chute. Digby [Frank Rigby], who has a talent for coining telling names, called this the Canyon of the 13 Pools"
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby commando » Thu 07 Jan, 2021 11:20 am

Thanks for the curly one Ribuck
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Thu 07 Jan, 2021 3:23 pm

Giant Red Gum Tree, Orroroo
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby commando » Thu 07 Jan, 2021 3:35 pm

johnw wrote:Giant Red Gum Tree, Orroroo


That's correct John
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Thu 07 Jan, 2021 9:55 pm

Thanks commando. NSW:
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Bombo Headland Quarry Geological Site, Bombo via Kiama NSW
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby commando » Thu 07 Jan, 2021 10:35 pm

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

Postby GregG » Thu 07 Jan, 2021 10:50 pm

Could be Bombo quarry if that is columnar basalt I am seeing.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Fri 08 Jan, 2021 9:44 am

commando wrote:Kiama

Close but no.

GregG wrote:Could be Bombo quarry if that is columnar basalt I am seeing.

Yes Greg, had a nice stroll around there a few months back during one of my post lockdown getaways.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby commando » Fri 08 Jan, 2021 11:44 am

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

Postby GregG » Fri 08 Jan, 2021 5:35 pm

Thanks John, I used to go fishing there maybe forty years ago, it was a good spot to cast into quite deep water fairl easily but you certainly hsd to keep a constant watch on the incoming waves, someone told me it is now a National Park.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Fri 08 Jan, 2021 6:22 pm

GregG wrote:someone told me it is now a National Park

NPWS have it listed as a geological site Greg but their involvement is unclear. Locals can walk dogs there so maybe a proposed regional park?

This one vaguely reminds me of a distant view of Fairy Falls on the Empire Pass near Dantes Glen.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby GregG » Fri 08 Jan, 2021 7:28 pm

The stand of Acacia Elata in the foreground is a clue, and here's the falls from below, not all that big but quite dainty and pleasing, maybe thats why they are called Fairy Falls. John, you have chosen wisely. Over to you.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Fri 08 Jan, 2021 10:23 pm

GregG wrote:The stand of Acacia Elata in the foreground is a clue, and here's the falls from below, not all that big but quite dainty and pleasing, maybe thats why they are called Fairy Falls. John, you have chosen wisely. Over to you.

Thanks Greg, I've crossed them many times. I partially matched a distant photo of mine from a slightly different angle but wasn't 100% certain.

NSW again. Where did I plant my $20 hiking pole last week?
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On Alice Rawson Peak overlooking the western fall of the Main Range, Kosciuszko NP via Charlotte Pass NSW
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby GregG » Sat 09 Jan, 2021 5:24 pm

I'll open the bidding with Mt Townsend.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Sat 09 Jan, 2021 8:19 pm

GregG wrote:I'll open the bidding with Mt Townsend.

No, but not far off Greg. I was originally heading up there but changed my plans on approaching it.
There were too many people already on Townsend and I hadn't visited this nice alternative for many years.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sat 09 Jan, 2021 9:15 pm

Mueller? Or more specifically the saddle between Mueller and Townsend etc?

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