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

Postby Tony » Sat 26 Mar, 2011 5:23 pm

anne3 wrote:I think you are totally correct...well done...post away


Thanks Anne,

I was lucky, the height helped.

This one is in NSW, what is the lake called.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby anne3 » Sat 26 Mar, 2011 5:38 pm

Blue lake?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Tony » Sat 26 Mar, 2011 5:44 pm

Well done, it is Blue Lake, the photo is from the western side which is not the side that most view Blue Lake.

Your turn Anne.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby anne3 » Sat 26 Mar, 2011 6:08 pm

Someone can have a turn....I am off to a party ...it's dress as a hill billy...right up my alley!!!
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby anne3 » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 12:25 am

Ok.....now the party is over....an easy Vic photo, what is the formation in centre of shot......
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Tony » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 4:00 pm

Hi Anne,

I was hoping someone else would have a guess, but I will have a guess. I think it is called the Viking.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby anne3 » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 5:23 pm

Well done...I have a better picture of this, but it is at work.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Tony » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 6:00 pm

anne3 wrote:Well done...I have a better picture of this, but it is at work.


Thanks Anne,

I have not walked in the Victorian Alps, maybe one day.

This photo was taken in NSW, the question is where am I.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby anne3 » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 7:55 pm

Hi Tony....is your back facing the north ???
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Tony » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 7:58 pm

anne3 wrote:Hi Tony....is your back facing the north ???


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

Postby anne3 » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 8:03 pm

This is a real stab in the dark.....Carruthers peak
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Tony » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 8:05 pm

anne3 wrote:This is a real stab in the dark.....Carruthers peak


Sorry not Carruthers peak.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 8:21 pm

Northcote? Lee? It has to be somewhere it that area . . .
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Tony » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 8:25 pm

north-north-west wrote:Northcote? Lee? It has to be somewhere it that area . . .


Hi NNW,

It is one of those mountains, which one.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Tony » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 8:49 pm

I am off to bed so I will hand it over to you north-north-west, I am standing on Mt Northcote.

Anne,

The mountain behind my back in the distance is Carruthers peak.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 9:40 pm

Wow, I actually got one right. Hmm, this will be interesting. I'll have to nominate Luvverboy as a proxy 'cause I'm about to go to bed. Victoria. Just name the nearest peak. For a bonus point, how near is it?

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By the way, Tony - and I hope you don't take this amiss - you look amazingly like Bob Brown in that photo.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Sun 27 Mar, 2011 10:42 pm

Mt Howitt on the right from about 2 km away?
I think it is the Cross Cut Saw on the left off that peak.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ILUVSWTAS » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 7:27 am

Sorry Eggs that is not the answer I have been given.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby Maelgwn » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 8:35 am

I wanna say Mount Speculation but I am far from convinced.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 9:00 am

Mt Magdala?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ILUVSWTAS » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 9:18 am

Neither of those match my magic words.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 10:00 am

Maybe you were given Big Hill?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ILUVSWTAS » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 10:11 am

I wish I hadnt deleted the msg she sent me now. Im starting to wonder if I am right (I have no idea about these Aus Mtns) as no that wasnt the words I was given.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 10:13 am

Well I guess we could work backwards - King Billy?
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby ILUVSWTAS » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 10:15 am

Yes! That's correct. Phew.......
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 10:26 am

Well this is a learning exercise - fascinating country.
And I was misreading the question - she wanted the nearest peak to her camp - not the nearest peak in view.
I wonder if she was camped out towards Picture Point?

Anyway - next one - from Victoria
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 1:16 pm

That's the arch down in the Point Nepean NP. Nice little walk it can be, too.

For the record, it was King Billy 1 (there are two of them, a nice little ridgetop section of the AAWT), and the camp was on a ledge just below the main ridge, perhaps a couple of hundred metres from the summit. A brilliant view, if a trifle windy that night. It was interesting seeing the answers creeping closer and closer, from Spec to Magdala . . .
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby eggs » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 1:29 pm

I will give it to you NNW - because I reckon there would only be one arch down there.
It appears to be just on the edge of Point Nepean and Mornington Pen NPs - with the nod given to Mornington Pen according to the Parks Vic site
Its called London Bridge - which is curious as there used to be another London Bridge in Vic.
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Re: Game: Where-is-it (Aussie)

Postby north-north-west » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 1:36 pm

That's right, I knew it had an official name, but couldn't for the life of me drag it out of my drug-addled brain. I tend to lump Mornington Pen & Pt Nepean into one big park. Actually, I think they officially are these days, but with the former name rather than the latter . . . And the other London Bridge was out on the Great Ocean Rd, until it collapsed some years back, stranding a bunch of people on the other side.

Right, let's see what I can dredge up. I really should do this on the other system, it has a much wider range. I'll stick with Victoria for now:

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

Postby johnw » Mon 28 Mar, 2011 1:38 pm

eggs wrote:I will give it to you NNW - because I reckon there would only be one arch down there.
Its called London Bridge - which is curious as there used to be another London Bridge in Vic.

Curses, I found one matching image that labeled this London Bridge, all other references showed a completely different formation (which collapsed apparently) so I assumed the other one was an error :roll:...
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