Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

[jonnosan]

Yep WarrenH got it in one

[WarrenH]

Jonno, thank you.

In NSW.




Warren.

[WarrenH]

A hint, I put the name into the search engine here and have turned up over 5 pages of expert advice, about doing the track. Those experts must all be out walking. I hope that they hurry back.

Warren.

[jonnosan]

Is it on the inland side or seaboard side of the great divide?

[WarrenH]

Is it on the inland side or seaboard side of the great divide?

Jonno, the structure is 58 klicks due West of a point shown as the Great Divide. I measured the distance on SIX Maps.

I asked an old bloke, if he knew where there was a dog trap and he replied, "Yarrh!"

Warren.

[jonnosan]

From your cryptic clues and a little google sleuthing, I think I've tracked it down... Cooma Cottage - start of the Hume & Hovell track in Yass?

[WarrenH]

Jonno, good sleuthing. Your go Mate.

This structure is the smallest of the three buildings at historic Cooma Cottage and it is only a handful of metres from the Northern starting point of the Hume and Hovell Walking Track. The entrance to Cooma Cottage and to the start of the HHWT, is at the corner of Dog Trap Road and Yass Valley Way.

The Aboriginal people and the early settlers in the district called Yass ... Yarrh.

Warren.

[jonnosan]

Thanks Warren.

This is NSW. Technically, it's in a state forest not a National Park, but I am running out of other photos!

[WarrenH]

Jonno, are you in Yarrawa State Forest?

Warren.

[jonnosan]

Not Yarrawa.

BTW a bullfighter told me the range in the background is actually the border of a national park.

[WarrenH]

Jonno, is the bullfighter's name Ben? I don't think Cullen would be a bullfighters name?

Looking across to Mount Jamison with Mount Davidson on the horizon?

Warren.

[jonnosan]

You are in the right general area but I am about 2km away from Ben Bullen state forest and both Mount Jamison and Mount Davidson are in the background range. I am not sure if the cliff itself has a name but the spot I took the photo does, in fact it has a namesake in chile.

edited to fix the distance to Ben Bullen

[WarrenH]

Cape Horn? ... shared by both the Cullen Bullen and Ben Bullen precincts.

Warren.

[jonnosan]

yes that's the one, back to you Warren

[WarrenH]

Thank you Jonno.

In NSW, what is the large sugarloaf shaped feature called? Tip: I was in a National Park but the feature is in a different National Park.



The word sugarloaf is not in the feature's name, which is most surprising, considering all the other sugarloaf shaped hills and mountains in NSW are called someone or other's Sugarloaf.

Warren.

[ribuck]

I was surprised when I visited Mexico to see sugar for sale in fused conical lumps that look just like these iconic Australian mountains. I had always wondered about the name.

[WarrenH]

A double posting removed.

Warren.

[WarrenH]

Ribuck, I'm now doubly pleased that I posted, after reading your post.

A tip: This place must be classy ... it is where big knobs hang out.

Warren.

[WarrenH]

Another Tip: Tomorrow, this photo will have been on for five days. Totally up a creek for five days?

Another tip: North of Yellow Knob, South of Alum Mountain, East of the Botumburra Range and West of the Snowy Range.

Another tip: Next I'll tell you about the pines found on this knob ... I mean sugarloaf.

Good luck.

Warren.

[Tyreless]

Pine Knob (thanks for all the hints - never would have gotten it otherwise).

[WarrenH]

Tyreless, you're most welcome.

I took the shot when I was on the Bicentennial National Trail in New England. I was in Cunnawarra National Park looking into New England National Park ... in the Winter of 2015.

Take it away, Sir.

Warren.

[Tyreless]

Righto. In NSW. There are a few hints on the location in the photo.

[johnw]

Ha, I've taken photos from almost exactly that spot (same tree I think). You are on a spur below Little Twynam looking over the Snowy River and Twynam Creek towards Illawong Hut in the distant lower background.

[Tyreless]

That's right, John. You can see Illawong hut in the photo. You can also see the Guthega ski runs on the hill to the left.
Over to you...

[johnw]

That's right, John. You can see Illawong hut in the photo. You can also see the Guthega ski runs on the hill to the left.
Over to you...

Thanks Tyreless.

Still in NSW, somewhere to cool off in this hot weather:

Uloola Falls after rain, Royal NP via Waterfall NSW

[jonnosan]

is that weeping rock at wentworth falls?

[johnw]

is that weeping rock at wentworth falls?

Looks similar but not in the Blueys this time jonnosan. These falls are somewhat higher than they look in the photo.

[ribuck]

It certainly has that Blueys feel to it. But perhaps it's National Falls in the Royal National Park?

[johnw]

It certainly has that Blueys feel to it. But perhaps it's National Falls in the Royal National Park?

Not National Falls but it is in RNP (narrows it down somewhat). Taken after a fair amount of rain.

[michael_p]

Is that the bottom of Uloola Falls?