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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #450 on Mar 16, 2012, 6:57pm »

hehehehe

No, no, Dave, you got it fair and square

I should have looked on the map first. You put a pic up ::)

I have a lot of older pics on a disk still in Qld, so I'm a bit limited on supply here at the moment anyway.

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #451 on Mar 16, 2012, 7:42pm »

Have no idea where it may be but it looks very CROSS

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #452 on Mar 16, 2012, 8:25pm »

Mar 16, 2012, 5:18pm, olfarts wrote:

Sturt Hwy.

Yamba. SA

Well done Dave and Roehm,

Here's the untouched version of the photo:

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I figured that someone would get it fairly quickly, but it's a pretty distinctive landmark isn't it? The other interesting fact about it is that it is adjacent to a newly opened "one stop shop" facility which combines a quarantine station, a weighbridge and a truck stop. An officer at the quarantine station inspected the cabin and boot of our car and the caravan to make sure that we weren't carrying any contraband - in this case fruit and vegetables. One wit put up a comment on a blog: "No cavity searches, so its all go for smuggling bananas. Oranges too, if you are keen." :-/

I think it's years since there was a similar personal inspection of vehicles in Victoria and NSW? These days there's a drop box and an honour system instead. The South Aussies obviously take the protection of their agricultural districts seriously. Good on them!

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #453 on Mar 16, 2012, 9:30pm »

A bit of an aside regarding the fruit fly zone DR. On a trip I made from Qld to Port Pirie (yep to buy a VV - that's another story! - I'm not like MT

), I stayed overnight in Broken Hill and next morning bought some fruit there to take west. Thinking I was OK because the zone went from NSW across to SA, I bought up and didn't worry about hitting the inspection gate at the SA border. You guessed it, had to hand everything over, just because I crossed a state border yet was in the same exclusion zone. A bit rough I reckoned. I could even produce a docket to show I bought the stuff in the zone!!

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« Reply #454 on Mar 21, 2012, 5:23pm via the ProBoards Mobile App »

Hi Dave,

Is it...the Bethanga bridge over Lake Hume...inspiration for somebody's Bethanga caravan?

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #455 on Mar 22, 2012, 9:14pm »

Hi Dave,

Sounds like I'm becoming too predictable if people are starting to wager on my response to posts!

But still I'm glad I could do something useful for you.

A bit of a sad story behind the next photo which shows a relatively new building. Only trouble is that the builders got the foundations all screwed up, and the building is sinking into the ground at one end! So where's this?

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Oh, and by the way - that bit about the building sinking?

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #456 on Mar 23, 2012, 8:27am »

the sign above the information sign kind of gave it away- hawever a lovely & unusual building

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #457 on Mar 23, 2012, 8:27am »

ps i love this page. the farm chaple a while back really had me stummped!

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #458 on Mar 23, 2012, 9:13pm »

Mar 23, 2012, 8:27am, golfview wrote:

the sign above the information sign kind of gave it away- however a lovely & unusual building

Hi Dave and Golfview,

Oops! I had only looked at the photo on a small (mobile phone) screen and hadn't noticed that. Ahem, that's embarrassing... :-[

Oh well, some thing to double check next time!

And Dave, you are correct - as the photo shows. :-/

Funny thing is we couldn't buy a Berri orange juice in Berri, but we did have an orange juice produced in Sydney "from local and imported ingredients". I suspect it was only the water that was local.

Over to you Dave. Meanwhile I will see if I can come up with some pics of somewhere you haven't been - and remembered!

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #459 on Mar 24, 2012, 6:46pm »

West Wyalong, just outside the caravan park.

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #460 on Mar 24, 2012, 7:53pm »

he should have known the name of the caravan park

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #461 on Mar 25, 2012, 5:35pm »

Yep i'm back for a day, then gone again tomorrow for 3 weeks.
It looks like Granite island Victor Harhour Sth oz.

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #462 on Mar 25, 2012, 7:26pm »

Hey Dave did you walk out or take the horse drawn tram? i guess you went down to the Backstairs passage while you were there.
Ok this should hold you till i get to Lightning Ridge tomorrow night.
I,m sure most people will have travelled thru here but betcha never went exploring up here.

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #463 on Mar 25, 2012, 9:06pm »

Mar 25, 2012, 9:00pm, olfarts wrote:

We took the horse drawn tram,and sat up the top

Dave

When I was there some years back the wife and I walked it, we were a little younger then though

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #464 on Mar 26, 2012, 5:20pm »

Geez Dave i never thought yood get that so easily, on ya son!

Weather is great up here.

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #465 on Mar 26, 2012, 11:18pm »

Sweetheart the crocodile- in the museum and art gellery of the NT

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #466 on Mar 26, 2012, 11:23pm »

sorry, should have added Conacher St, Fannie Bay, Darwin NT 0820

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #467 on Mar 27, 2012, 3:16pm »

Not in person, but have heard about him through family who have seen him

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #468 on Mar 27, 2012, 9:40pm »

ok, here is my 1st try at uploading a photo.
See if you know where this is. i feel like i've picked an easier one from our collection.
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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #469 on Mar 27, 2012, 11:23pm »

Hi Golfview,

Kuranda Scenic Railway?

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #470 on Mar 28, 2012, 7:05pm »

Very good Don, should have posted my second choice of photo....... next time maybe

Yes it is Kuranda- taken on our honeymoon nearly 7 years ago

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #471 on Mar 30, 2012, 12:16am »

Hmmm looks like Kuranda to me

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Hi Golfview,

Kuranda will hold some special memories for you then. We had a memorable holiday there with our kids in 1996. Did you go on the Skyrail as well as the railway? Both are pretty spectacular.

OK everyone, on to the next test. Where's this?

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Hopefully this will provide a bit of a challenge! You are welcome to tell us not only where it is, but also what it is. I know the answer to the first question, but not the second.

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #473 on Mar 31, 2012, 9:39pm »

I reckon I saw something like this on the old Ghan line between Maree and Oodnadatta last year. If I remember correctly I think it was a desalination plant for the local artesian bore water, so that when the steam trains used the water their boilers did not rust out so quickly.

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Re: Where's this?
« Reply #474 on Apr 1, 2012, 9:34pm »

Mar 31, 2012, 9:39pm, millsy wrote:

G'day Millsy,

You may have seen something like this item between Marree and Oodnadatta, but that's not where this one is. Right state but wrong location.

The object is in a part of the state which has no natural water supply, so maybe your suggestion that it is part of a desalination plant is correct, although I thought that its surrounds suggested more of a processing plant for some mineral deposit (but that is just a guess).

My initial impression was that somebody had gone to a lot of trouble to ensure that their shed didn't get broken into by putting it way out of reach!

More thoughts on location?

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