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

Postby puredingo » Mon 12 Aug, 2024 7:01 pm

John’s been all around it….
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby puredingo » Mon 12 Aug, 2024 7:12 pm

…and Fatboy, definitely a river although a lesser walked one than your guesses.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Mon 12 Aug, 2024 8:18 pm

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

Postby puredingo » Mon 12 Aug, 2024 8:52 pm

Not the Kowmung but you’re in the neighbourhood
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Mon 12 Aug, 2024 9:58 pm

Mmm, not finding too many choices that fit the criteria. Jooriland River?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Tue 13 Aug, 2024 1:34 am

johnw wrote:Mmm, not finding too many choices that fit the criteria. Jooriland River?

Or maybe Tonalli R? Although I don't think either name would fit the description of a region.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby puredingo » Tue 13 Aug, 2024 8:04 am

Joorilands is right. I’ve always considered the Joorilands as regional or at least its own specific location…Whoops?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Tue 13 Aug, 2024 2:01 pm

puredingo wrote:Joorilands is right. I’ve always considered the Joorilands as regional or at least its own specific location…Whoops?

Thanks dingo. I've probably got a few spots I think of like that too, but maybe only mention regions we can find, in the clues :).
Out of interest, while searching I stumbled upon an online copy of the lovely 1937 Dunphy Bindook map, showing Jooriland (Creek back then).
Posted by Katoomba Library as part of their local studies collection. Obviously long before the Burragorang Valley was flooded.
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Looking towards Sivewright Spur and Mt Griffith Taylor from near the Bee Box track, Bungonia NP via Marulan NSW
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby puredingo » Tue 13 Aug, 2024 3:44 pm

Haha, yeah John my next clue was going to be; “think more zone than region” as a nod to the bushwalking access zone that runs through the Joorilands….but we got there anyway.

Hmmm, looks like the shoalhaven river. Maybe around Matador spur?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Tue 13 Aug, 2024 9:07 pm

puredingo wrote:Hmmm, looks like the shoalhaven river. Maybe around Matador spur?

You're in the frame, but not that close to Matador/o spur. I am looking at a spur, with a mount behind.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Thu 15 Aug, 2024 9:24 am

Could be looking towards the Tolwong mine area from the bottom of the Trestles track?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby johnw » Thu 15 Aug, 2024 11:20 am

Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:Could be looking towards the Tolwong mine area from the bottom of the Trestles track?

Very close, sort of, so I'll give it to you. And I just realised that I more or less buggered up the last clue.
I'm actually near the bottom of the Bee Box track looking across an unnamed spur, towards Sivewright Spur and Mt Griffith Taylor.
There is some zoom; essentially I'm looking towards roughly opposite the Trestles Track.
A memorable walk - we were doing the Bee Box circuit, somehow missed the turn off and ascended Camp Oven Spur in error.
Had to came all the way back down then became benighted on the way out after locating the correct route.
Still managed to finish in the dark using head torches. All yours.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Thu 15 Aug, 2024 12:56 pm

That whole area is under-rated, pretty much everywhere between there and Yalwal is brilliant country.

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

Postby johnw » Sat 17 Aug, 2024 1:41 pm

No guesses, and no idea. I suspect it's somewhere in the north of KNP. WAG, Tumut River near Farm Ridge?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby sandym » Sat 17 Aug, 2024 3:15 pm

Gosh, has JohnW finally been stumped. I have no idea either.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sat 17 Aug, 2024 6:05 pm

johnw wrote:No guesses, and no idea. I suspect it's somewhere in the north of KNP. WAG, Tumut River near Farm Ridge?
Right wilderness area, wrong river. Quite a large hill at the back

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

Postby north-north-west » Sat 17 Aug, 2024 7:48 pm

I thought Kiandra area, but it would seem not.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sat 17 Aug, 2024 8:57 pm

north-north-west wrote:I thought Kiandra area, but it would seem not.
Unfortunately no, getting further away

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

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sat 17 Aug, 2024 9:39 pm

A wider field of view would reveal a structure to the left, mid height

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

Postby icefest » Sat 17 Aug, 2024 11:28 pm

Doubtful Creek?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 9:36 am

icefest wrote:Doubtful Creek?
John was closer

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

Postby icefest » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 12:27 pm

That was a struggle.

You are looking West at the Tooma River.
You are on Dargals Trail, a short walk north of the bridge over the Tooma River. (this is the sneaky structure you reference!)
The Hill behind is Big Mountain Dargal.
You can see the Wheelers Hut Train on the clear, nearer hilltop on the right of the photo.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Walk_fat boy_walk » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 3:30 pm

icefest wrote:That was a struggle.

You are looking West at the Tooma River.
You are on Dargals Trail, a short walk north of the bridge over the Tooma River. (this is the sneaky structure you reference!)
The Hill behind is Big Mountain Dargal.
You can see the Wheelers Hut Train on the clear, nearer hilltop on the right of the photo.
Correct except the structure referenced is wheelers, which can be seen accross the valley (there is no bridge at the tooma crossing)

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

Postby north-north-west » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 3:48 pm

Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:(there is no bridge at the tooma crossing)


There is on the MVO, where it crosses at the dam.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby icefest » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 4:53 pm

Okay,

Staying in NSW.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 5:40 pm

Ummm, you haven't gone and given us the Tooma River near the Farm Ridge crossing, have you?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 6:03 pm

north-north-west wrote:Ummm, you haven't gone and given us the Tooma River near the Farm Ridge crossing, have you?


Or the Tumut River near Farm Ridge?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby icefest » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 6:19 pm

peregrinator wrote:
north-north-west wrote:Ummm, you haven't gone and given us the Tooma River near the Farm Ridge crossing, have you?


Or the Tumut River near Farm Ridge?



I've spent way to long looking for where the Farm Ridge Track crosses the Tooma!

This is indeed the Tumut River near Farm Ridge!
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 7:38 pm

I got my river names mixed up, of course I meant the *&%$#! Tumut. I think. The one at the bottom of that steep firetrail from Round Mtn.

Whatever, even if peregrinator got the name right and thus gets the next go, at least I knew where you were.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby peregrinator » Sun 18 Aug, 2024 8:58 pm

north-north-west wrote:I got my river names mixed up, of course I meant the *&%$#! Tumut. I think. The one at the bottom of that steep firetrail from Round Mtn.

Whatever, even if peregrinator got the name right and thus gets the next go, at least I knew where you were.


No, you get the next go. I guessed you did mean that, and was confirming you had the answer. I'd enjoyed the skirting all around it thing that went on. But this just happens to be one of the few places in NSW that I have actually walked. Though the Tumut was less tumescent when I was there.
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