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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Tue 25 Jul, 2023 12:12 pm

Johnston is correct
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby johnw » Tue 25 Jul, 2023 9:02 pm

eggs wrote:Johnson is correct

Thanks eggs. I think it's actually Johnston, which is what I typed, but some spell checker decided otherwise.

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Ruins at Coal Mines Historic site, Saltwater River on Norfolk Bay, Tasman Peninsula
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Tue 25 Jul, 2023 9:20 pm

British civilisation at it's finest
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby north-north-west » Wed 26 Jul, 2023 7:51 am

Looks the ruins on Poiint Lesueur, Maria Island.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Graham51 » Wed 26 Jul, 2023 10:15 am

That’s the ruins at Saltwater River mines.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby johnw » Wed 26 Jul, 2023 11:06 am

Graham51 wrote:That’s the ruins at Saltwater River mines.

Correct Graham, all yours.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Graham51 » Wed 26 Jul, 2023 1:09 pm

Thanks John. That’s an often overlooked but very interesting site.
Where was I on this occasion?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Wed 26 Jul, 2023 2:32 pm

Looking at Mount Weld from near Lonely Tarns?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby L_Cham_67 » Wed 26 Jul, 2023 4:03 pm

Weld from the Lonely Tarns area?

EDIT - grasshopper beat me to it haha, curse the new page ;)
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Graham51 » Wed 26 Jul, 2023 7:59 pm

It’s actually looking over a little tarn just below Mt Sarah Jane, near the turn off to the climb, but Lonely Tarns is near enough.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 8:07 am

That's a really nice area.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby north-north-west » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 8:40 am

Heading up Heemskirk?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 2:03 pm

Nope. Further south.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 2:18 pm

epsilon?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby johnw » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 3:05 pm

Mt Agnew?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 9:17 pm

Neither Epsilon or Agnew.
Hint: From the cars, we didn't just walk to this peak...
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby eggs » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 10:07 pm

Mt Lee?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 10:41 pm

Nope. This mountain is a bit lonely.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 10:47 pm

Let's try Solitary.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby grasshopper92 » Thu 27 Jul, 2023 11:29 pm

Correct Tortoise! Not quite the same after the fires, but a nice trip all the same.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Fri 28 Jul, 2023 9:21 am

Thanks. I'd love to visit it one day too. Next:
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby north-north-west » Fri 28 Jul, 2023 11:44 am

You had far better weather than my first time up LaPerouse.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Fri 28 Jul, 2023 11:46 am

north-north-west wrote:You had far better weather than my first time up LaPerouse.

We certainly did, but this isn't that...
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Fri 28 Jul, 2023 11:58 am

Boomerang looking at Bobs?
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Fri 28 Jul, 2023 12:33 pm

Last wrote:Boomerang looking at Bobs?

That be it, Last.
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby north-north-west » Fri 28 Jul, 2023 1:25 pm

Last wrote:Boomerang looking at Bobs?


Yeah, that was the other option, but I remember different colour base for the fjeldmark. *slaps memory*
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Fri 28 Jul, 2023 2:37 pm

north-north-west wrote:
Last wrote:Boomerang looking at Bobs?


Yeah, that was the other option, but I remember different colour base for the fjeldmark. *slaps memory*

Maybe it's the light. It's not quite how I remembered it either, but Bobs is distinctive

Thanks, Tortoise, next
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Letstryagain » Sat 29 Jul, 2023 10:02 am

I think you could be in the same area. Bob's-Boomerang saddle perhaps
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Last » Sat 29 Jul, 2023 10:12 am

Letstryagain wrote:I think you could be in the same area. Bob's-Boomerang saddle perhaps

a looong way from there
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Re: GAME: Where am I?

Postby Tortoise » Sat 29 Jul, 2023 10:28 am

Been wondering about the Tyndalls...
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