Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

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

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Mon 03 Jan, 2022 9:07 pm

Not BMs

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

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Tue 04 Jan, 2022 1:35 pm

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

Postby puredingo » Tue 04 Jan, 2022 7:01 pm

Looks like the upper reaches of the Ettrema....but dunno?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby sandym » Tue 04 Jan, 2022 7:03 pm

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

Looks like I was typing at the same time as PureDingo :D
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Tue 04 Jan, 2022 8:52 pm

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

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

Postby ribuck » Tue 04 Jan, 2022 11:33 pm

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

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Wed 05 Jan, 2022 7:19 am

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

Postby ribuck » Thu 06 Jan, 2022 12:16 am

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

Postby icefest » Thu 06 Jan, 2022 9:33 am

Illamurta Springs?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Thu 06 Jan, 2022 5:06 pm

Not Illamurta Springs, icefest. The same half of the NT though.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Fri 07 Jan, 2022 3:05 am

The same place, looking in the opposite direction:
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby GregG » Fri 07 Jan, 2022 9:44 am

Wild guess - Ormiston Pound West McDonnell Ranges
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Fri 07 Jan, 2022 5:35 pm

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

Postby GregG » Sat 08 Jan, 2022 11:42 am

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

Postby ribuck » Sun 09 Jan, 2022 12:47 am

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

Postby ribuck » Sun 09 Jan, 2022 6:22 pm

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

Postby eggs » Sun 09 Jan, 2022 7:37 pm

The fall appears to be Giles Springs.
I did not get down to the old Giles Springs cattle yards.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ribuck » Sun 09 Jan, 2022 10:33 pm

That's right eggs, it's Giles Springs Yard. Abandoned, according to the map. Lots of interesting relics there.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 10 Jan, 2022 11:32 am

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

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Mt Painter in the Arkaroola Sanctuary, northern Flinders Ranges
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Mon 10 Jan, 2022 12:38 pm

Mt Painter, from the Sillers Lookout track?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 10 Jan, 2022 4:33 pm

Mt Painter is correct.
The Ridgetop tour ends at Sillers, but this is the view from the Split Rock pass
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Tue 11 Jan, 2022 10:50 am

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?

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Wonoka Hill, Elder Ra, The Low Ra, Red Ra, Wilpena - from Yourambulla Ra
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Tue 11 Jan, 2022 11:32 am

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.

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

Postby peregrinator » Thu 13 Jan, 2022 8:39 am

Eggs, thank you for the explanation.

My picture above was taken approximately 200 kilometres SSW from yours.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Fri 14 Jan, 2022 9:02 am

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

Postby eggs » Fri 14 Jan, 2022 11:56 am

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

Postby north-north-west » Fri 14 Jan, 2022 5:03 pm

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

Postby peregrinator » Fri 14 Jan, 2022 6:00 pm

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

Postby north-north-west » Fri 14 Jan, 2022 8:00 pm

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

Postby icefest » Fri 14 Jan, 2022 8:59 pm

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

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

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