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

Postby Graham51 » Thu 03 Nov, 2022 4:52 pm

I think that’s the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Thu 03 Nov, 2022 7:59 pm

Graham51 wrote:I think that’s the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse.

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

Postby Graham51 » Fri 04 Nov, 2022 6:51 am

I’m away from home at the moment if someone else wants to take a turn.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Graham51 » Fri 04 Nov, 2022 6:02 pm

This should be quick.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Fri 04 Nov, 2022 6:45 pm

Hornby Lighthouse at Sydney's South Head.

I see from the NPWS website that you can hire the whole of South Head for three hours for $760 for a private party. And there I was assuming that South Head was public access.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Graham51 » Fri 04 Nov, 2022 7:42 pm

That sounds a pretty reasonable price. Does it include the nude beach? Your turn ribuck.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Sat 05 Nov, 2022 5:48 am

This one is in NT. What's the summit that people are on in the foreground?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Sat 05 Nov, 2022 1:25 pm

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

Postby ribuck » Sat 05 Nov, 2022 5:35 pm

That's correct, johnw.

The lumps in the distance are (from left to right) Mt Giles, Mt Sonder and Mt Razorback.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Sun 06 Nov, 2022 8:57 am

Thanks ribuck, NT remains on the bucket list after Covid cancelled our 2020 Darwin trip.

NSW, the track name or my approximate location will do:
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View from Woodford-Oaks Trail, Blue Mountains NP via Woodford NSW
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby crollsurf » Sun 06 Nov, 2022 9:19 am

There are quite a few tracks where you can get a view like that. I'm guessing the Saint Helena Ridge Trail
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Sun 06 Nov, 2022 12:12 pm

crollsurf wrote:There are quite a few tracks where you can get a view like that. I'm guessing the Saint Helena Ridge Trail

No, but you're really close.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Mon 07 Nov, 2022 2:04 pm

johnw wrote:
crollsurf wrote:There are quite a few tracks where you can get a view like that. I'm guessing the Saint Helena Ridge Trail

No, but you're really close.

So close that I actually walked past it, twice (out and back).
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby crollsurf » Mon 07 Nov, 2022 3:34 pm

Woodford Oaks Trail?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Mon 07 Nov, 2022 7:05 pm

crollsurf wrote:Woodford Oaks Trail?

That be it crollsurf. We walked from Woodford to Tobys Glen and back on that occasion. All yours.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby crollsurf » Mon 07 Nov, 2022 8:01 pm

The hint narrowed it down. Not to far away and still in NSW
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Tue 08 Nov, 2022 8:44 am

Looking back towards golden stairs etc from Chinaman's gully?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby crollsurf » Tue 08 Nov, 2022 11:28 am

Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:Looking back towards golden stairs etc from Chinaman's gully?
That's it

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

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Tue 08 Nov, 2022 1:45 pm

Cool. NSW again...
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby GregG » Tue 08 Nov, 2022 9:47 pm

An opening bid : Erskine Creek.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Wed 09 Nov, 2022 10:18 am

GregG wrote:An opening bid : Erskine Creek.

Correct, below Pisgah Rock
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby GregG » Wed 09 Nov, 2022 8:54 pm

Thanks WFBW, it looked quite familiar although somewhat greener than last time I was down there.

Staying in NSW, this next picture doesn't have much of the wider landscape to provide clues but does have that fairly distinctive Darth Vader look-alike rock to help pin it down.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby GregG » Thu 10 Nov, 2022 7:48 am

Same national park as the previous location which narrows it down to 2690 km/sq. :)
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Thu 10 Nov, 2022 6:43 pm

Darth Vader rocks are a dime a dozen in the Blueies, but there's a spot a bit like that below Medlow Bath.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby GregG » Thu 10 Nov, 2022 9:04 pm

Ah, sorry, I didnt quite realise that which might mean this one is a bit on the hard side. This location is in a valley near a nice stand of E.deani (I think) as pictured, its not far from a partially ruined swimming hole weir that was constructed along with a walking track by a property developer back in the day to encourage potential buyers.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby GregG » Thu 10 Nov, 2022 9:05 pm

And no, sorry, not Medlow.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Fri 11 Nov, 2022 6:41 am

So, near Leura from the clue. But I don't recognise the location so I'll leave it for others.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Tyreless » Fri 11 Nov, 2022 7:54 am

GregG wrote:E.deani

Black Hagfish? Not meaning to be pedantic, and I needed to look it up, but I think you mean E.deanei.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby GregG » Fri 11 Nov, 2022 11:52 am

Hahaha! Quite right Tyreless, that missing "e" makes a huge difference eg I go online and order 100m of E deani to repair the roof and then wonder why it is being delivered in a refrigerated truck :( and to say nothing about the smell :( Grrrrr!
Anyway - the nice stand of E deanei is growing not very far downstream of an ancient volcanic crater or diatreme thingie. It would be no more than 20 kms from WFBW's Pisgah Rock.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Fri 11 Nov, 2022 1:37 pm

All this talk of Blue Gums had me stumped. I couldn't see the forest for the trees. But I'm hoping I'm now finally out of the woods :).
This is an extremely tough one unless you actually know it. Not much online, but if I'm correct I've driven past the locality hundreds of times but never visited.
After much detective work I'm guessing this is somewhere in the vicinity of Deanei Reserve near Springwood. Probably along Fitzgeralds Creek.
The only pictorial evidence I found noted several weirs and a partially drained dam. I'd assume that Sun Valley is the diatreme reference, although this would be upstream?
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