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Quite a big waterfall downstream on this river (fair way downstream though). The mountain on the horizon will be known to some and a route to it (but not the location of the photo) is published in a well-known guidebook, but access arrangements have changed since the book was printed.

Looks like the upper reaches of the Ettrema....but dunno?

It looks very Ettrema Tops, so I'll guess looking over Jones Creek.

Looks like I was typing at the same time as PureDingo

Not Ettrema but much closer now.... same catchment. Key word was river, not creek . The distant mountain is quite shapely

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The rocks look extremely Budawangs-like, so I'll go for Endrick River, although my unreliable memory tells me there should be a wider valley and higher rocks.

ribuck wrote:The rocks look extremely Budawangs-like, so I'll go for Endrick River, although my unreliable memory tells me there should be a wider valley and higher rocks.

It is the upper Endrick, looking downstream from near Battleship Rock. The upper Endrick gets quite narrow and even canyoney in places.

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Thanks fat_boy.

Where is this one? It's from the Northern Territory. I'll post a more feature-filled photo later if no-one gets close. This place is usually named on topo maps.

Illamurta Springs?

Not Illamurta Springs, icefest. The same half of the NT though.

The same place, looking in the opposite direction:

Wild guess - Ormiston Pound West McDonnell Ranges

Not in Ormiston Pound, GregG, but very close. I don't think there is a historic cattle yard in Ormiston Pound itself.

The local springs are named after this place.

OK, I "researched" it on the www and got car springs at Alice Springs so that's gotta' be right, right?
Or maybe you were at the Redbank Yards at Owen Springs.

Sorry GregG, I think that counts as a "research fail"

Here's a photo of the spring that shares its name with the old cattle yard:

A free topo map of the area is available here (click "Download map side A jpg"):

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/e ... data/68385

The fall appears to be Giles Springs.
I did not get down to the old Giles Springs cattle yards.

That's right eggs, it's Giles Springs Yard. Abandoned, according to the map. Lots of interesting relics there.

Name of this peak in SA - taken from a tourist road.

Mt Painter, from the Sillers Lookout track?

Mt Painter is correct.
The Ridgetop tour ends at Sillers, but this is the view from the Split Rock pass

eggs wrote:Mt Painter is correct.
The Ridgetop tour ends at Sillers, but this is the view from the Split Rock pass

Yes, I'd forgotten that the track to Sillers lookout is called Ridgetop Track. I haven't been to Sillers. Walked up Ridgetop Track only as far as the southern flank of Mt Painter, so it was nice to see your angle on it. I identified the mountain as pictured due to that long gradual southern slope, with the cliffs on the west and south-west. I misjudged my descent route and had to backtrack a few times to avoid those cliffs.

I have found a couple of good photographs online of Split Rock, but can't see it on a map. Where is it?

The next one is also SA. Not from a tourist track, but a tourist lookout. What are the names of the hill and the partly obscured ranges?

Split Rock is typically shown in the view from a saddle just to its south - on the map attached shown as Monument.
Split Rock is the red star, and you can see what angle I had on Mt Painter from there.

Eggs, thank you for the explanation.

My picture above was taken approximately 200 kilometres SSW from yours.

I didn't think you'd need the eyes of a Hawk to spot this one. It's on the outskirts of a relatively busy town—which gets sufficient tourists to sustain more than one petrol station, a rarity in these parts.

SA is tough. NNW had a photo comp winner from just near this spot.
I presume this is from the lookout at Jarvis Hill, which is on the Heysen Trail near Hawker.

eggs is right; I recognise the plain and Wonoka Hill. Elder Range behind and to the left.
Yourambulla is one of the best bits of the Heysen. Pity it's so short.

Eggs nailed the lookout spot in the Yourambulla Range, close to the town of Hawker.

North-north-west gets the next turn by naming the hill and one of the ranges. Paralleling the Elder is the low The Wide Range, then Red Range. A tiny bit of Wilpena is on the horizon in cloud.

Oooops, I didn't mean to do that. Now I have to find a photo for y'all.

Don't think I've used this before. Both what I'm on and what I'm looking at have names. Either will do, both is better. Staying in SA.

You are looking north at the Pound. You are just north of Bridle Gap.

You are on Richards Dick? No... Dick's Knob?

Does Snave mean anything?