GAME: Where am I?

[Last]

Thank you. I thought this one was going to last another week.

Sorry, I'm away.
Where am I camped? Next to a track

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Byron Gap on a very cold morning

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[eggs]

Byron Gap?

[Last]

Byron Gap?

Correct

[eggs]

A bit lucky given the little detail, but I have been there twice.

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[tassietramper]

Fisher Bluff?

[eggs]

Not Fisher Bluff

[north-north-west]

I think we could be back on the Jukes complex. Maybe looking back at Proprietary? There's definitely a big bit of water high on the right which may be Burbury; smaller wet bits on the left, with a road ... could be one of the other minor lumps in view, although that is a large cairn, and Proprietary is the only peak up there with one ... I think ... although I don't recall it having a post but it has been a few years, and I also don't recall being able to see what looks like either buildiings or mineworks or something siimilar ...
Blech, I have too much to do today to get caught up in this.

[eggs]

Yes - this is Proprietary in view on the climb of Jukes. The tailing dam at Queenstown may be a bit more recent.

[north-north-west]

It certainly makes the drop from Proprietary look deadly.

Where was this:

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[eggs]

The Thumbs?

[Last]

are you on Tyndall looking at Geikie and Sedgwick?

[north-north-west]

Nowhere near the Tyndalls.
eggs is on the right track, although I still had a way to go ... again, too busy today to drag this out. It's on Packer Spur.

[swhite]

In case anyone's wondering: http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=25735&cmd=sp&lstt=1
Next to the Gordon Dam (not "Lake"). Took me a while to find it.

[north-north-west]

In case anyone's wondering: http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=25735&cmd=sp&lstt=1
Next to the Gordon Dam (not "Lake"). Took me a while to find it.

The best place to find Tasmanian locations is ListMap: https://maps.thelist.tas.gov.au/listmap/app/list/map

[swhite]

Cool.

Makes you wonder about the person who one day literally called those dams lakes. Either extremely stupid, or an absolute weasel.

[eggs]

Yes - Thumbs was a rough and general guess given your foreground.

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[north-north-west]

Cool.
Makes you wonder about the person who one day literally called those dams lakes. Either extremely stupid, or an absolute weasel.

Various HEC flunkies.
Many of them are grossly enlarged versions of actual pre-existing lakes. Even yingina/Great Lake has been dammed to control and harness its catchment. And technically some are impoundments (Fake Pedder, for instance). Some were (and still are) marvels of engineering, but at far too high a cost (and I don't mean the $$$ involved).
To conservationists and environmentalists, the Hydro-Electric Commission was the 1914 to 1983 version of today's Sustainable (no, they aren't being sarcastic) Timber Tasmania (formerly known as Forestry Tasmania, or ... well, given those initials, I probably don't need to spell out the word that usually [and accurately] replaced "Forestry") - the true political power in the state and a blight on all decency, fairness and common sense.

And I better stop there before I get sanctioned for getting all political ...

[Son of a Beach]

Cool.

Makes you wonder about the person who one day literally called those dams lakes. Either extremely stupid, or an absolute weasel.

Having been worked with the Nomenclature Board on behalf of my former employer to name (and rename) several bodies of dammed water in Tasmania (not Hydro), I've discovered that the Nomenclature Board (or Placenames Tasmania, as they're now called) do have some good reasons for this. One of the reasons that tripped us up in the organisation I used to work for is that the Nomenclature Board wanted to have names for both the dam wall and for the body of water being held behind the dam wall, but the names must be distinct - not the same name for both features.

In our case, we opted to call the wall "X Dam" and the water body either "Lake X", "X Lake" or "X Reservoir" (depending on a few other factors).

So as much as I don't always like those names, I can see some logic behind it.

Clear naming is important for many reasons. When it comes to water bodies, one of the considerations is that emergency services may want to know the specifics of water bodies in emergency situations in order to extract water for fire-fighting purposes.

[swhite]

Thx. X Dam and X Reservoir sounds like an honest solution. I'm not on-board (ahem) with Lake.

[swhite]

Cool.
Makes you wonder about the person who one day literally called those dams lakes. Either extremely stupid, or an absolute weasel.

Various HEC flunkies.
Many of them are grossly enlarged versions of actual pre-existing lakes. Even yingina/Great Lake has been dammed to control and harness its catchment. And technically some are impoundments (Fake Pedder, for instance). Some were (and still are) marvels of engineering, but at far too high a cost (and I don't mean the $$$ involved).
To conservationists and environmentalists, the Hydro-Electric Commission was the 1914 to 1983 version of today's Sustainable (no, they aren't being sarcastic) Timber Tasmania (formerly known as Forestry Tasmania, or ... well, given those initials, I probably don't need to spell out the word that usually [and accurately] replaced "Forestry") - the true political power in the state and a blight on all decency, fairness and common sense.

And I better stop there before I get sanctioned for getting all political ...

Understand, agree, and not expanding the timber topic, due to time and place.

[Tortoise]

Sustainable (no, they aren't being sarcastic) Timber Tasmania (formerly known as Forestry Tasmania

A quick 2c while we're off-topic, hoping not to totally derail the game: I was told recently by what should be a reliable source that STT is just a name for marketing purposes. It's still legally Forestry Tasmania.

[Last]

Schnells Ridge?

[eggs]

Yes Last

[Last]

Thanks eggs, been there twice, never seen the view. Next

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Mt Murchison

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[teak]

Mount Murchison?

[Last]

Mount Murchison?

Correct

[teak]

Thank you, where was I in this photo?

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Looking South South East from Mount Pillinger.

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[Geevesy]

Pillinger?

[teak]

Yes it is Mount Pillinger.

[Geevesy]

Thanks teak.

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Twin Spires from Lee's Paddocks - Kia Ora route

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