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Post by humpyboy on Sept 25, 2011 21:41:35 GMT 10
And I tried so hard
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Post by Don Ricardo on Sept 25, 2011 22:39:54 GMT 10
Hi all, I've got no idea of the location for Sutcac's photo...despite trying quite hard to work it out using his hint. And I was too slow responding to the only location I've known so far (the Noojee trestle bridge). But...I do want to say thanks to ATOG for starting this thread. I'm enjoying the pics and learning a fair bit along the way. The info about the Cougal spiral was a real eye opener. Don Ricardo
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Post by atouchofglass on Sept 26, 2011 5:42:56 GMT 10
Hey DR Glad to see you enjoy the thread. ;D ;D Started the same one on Classic Caravans in March and it has 45 pages already ;D Its a great subject cause everyone gets to show where they have been. And We all see places to holiday in this fantastic Island/Continent of ours. As for Sutcacs photo...... I do remember it being posted on one of his travels in recent months...... Might be worth a look through some of his older posts. ;D ;D Cheers Atog
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Post by sheppo on Sept 26, 2011 8:37:57 GMT 10
How about Stanthorpe in sunny QLD. Sheppo
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Post by sutcac on Sept 26, 2011 10:15:12 GMT 10
Hi there Sheppo.............not Stanthorpe......... ...appealing place to visit though !!
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Post by sheppo on Sept 26, 2011 11:02:44 GMT 10
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Post by sutcac on Sept 26, 2011 11:30:37 GMT 10
Hi there sheppo...............not pin point accurate ..............but close enough for me !.............actually looking south over the Burnett River towards the orange growing capital of Qld, Gayandah...........Mundubbera being only a short distance upstream from here........... ....well done using the clues !!!!!!
Your turn now!!
Cheers Sutcac
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Post by sharpie on Sept 26, 2011 20:23:26 GMT 10
Come on don't leave us in suspense, how about a few more clues.
Sharpie.
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Post by sheppo on Sept 26, 2011 20:48:37 GMT 10
:)Ok sharpie, This bloke was a bit of a rough Diamond, He had every thing on track down to a T. Sheppo
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Post by sheppo on Sept 26, 2011 22:00:31 GMT 10
;D ;D Seems how things have slowed up. ; Well you don't have to dig too deep, Bertha when your living next door to Alice. Specially if your tracking straight. Sheppo
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Post by Don Ricardo on Sept 27, 2011 0:14:56 GMT 10
G'day Sheppo, You've posed a toughie... Martin Kleinig was born in Ebenezer, SA on 28 may 1895 of German born parents, and his mum was Augusta Bertha Schrapel. He died at the age of 30 which sounds like the result of misadventure, but where does that get me? Not too far... Maybe the girl involved was Alice??? I started off thinking about Len Beadell who created the Gunbarrel Highway, but he was born in West Penant Hills, NSW (not remote enough), doesn't appear to have any SA German links, and I don't know what kind of truck he drove... Then I thought about Tom Kruse and his mail run. Kruse had German parents, and was born in Waterloo, SA, which is not really remote either. He may have had a sister who ran off with a boy from another German family, and Ebenezer is only about 40 miles from Waterloo... But Kruse drove a Leyland Badger. Then there is Len Tuit who opened up the tourist trade around Alice Springs, and drove from Adelaide to Alice Springs in a Diamond T when the road was pretty rough or maybe non-existent... All of them are Australian legends... Hang on, I think I've got it! Kurt Johannsen had a road train with a Diamond T prime mover called Bertha, which is now in a transport museum in Alice Springs. He was born at Deep Wells Station in the NT in 1915, so I'm thinking that the photos show the old house at the Deep Wells Station. How am I going? Don Ricardo
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Post by sheppo on Sept 27, 2011 8:05:43 GMT 10
;D ;D ;D ;D Absolutely correct, well worked out, mind you the clues made it easy. i guess no one else has been out there. a bit of advise to those who are planning to go around the big block..DON'T BUY SOMETHING FANCY otherwise you won't find stuff like this. Deep Well is 80k south of Alice down a sandy track that runs beside the old Ghan line, you go past some untouched aboriginal paintings and burial sites also bits of rolling stock and railway infrastructure, even got some of the old wire insulators from the overland telegraph line from down that way. Len Beadell only drove a landrover, i have his complete set of books he has written, he's my hero, if you get the chance to read his books do so they come packaged in a replica tin shed. WELL DONE DON Sheppo
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Post by Roehm3108 on Sept 27, 2011 19:32:01 GMT 10
Well done DR. I spent an hour or so trying to figure it out before the clues were added and came up against a blank wall. Wouldn't have worked it out even with the the extra clues.
Ray
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Post by humpty2 on Sept 27, 2011 20:19:42 GMT 10
OK I know its a bit late, but I checked out some pics from my box brownie and came up with this one.............I don't know if the moderators can move it around....like back to page 1 with Rays snapshot.
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Post by sheppo on Sept 27, 2011 20:22:58 GMT 10
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Post by Roehm3108 on Sept 27, 2011 21:34:53 GMT 10
Boy Humpty, we stood at almost the same spot to take that pic!! Ray
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Post by DND380 on Sept 27, 2011 21:42:23 GMT 10
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Post by Roehm3108 on Sept 27, 2011 21:46:50 GMT 10
OK, so now we can play "spot the difference" ;D
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Post by Don Ricardo on Sept 27, 2011 21:53:55 GMT 10
Thanks Sheppo, ...mind you the clues made it easy... Easy? I don't know about that. Like Bobandjacqui and Roehm, I spent quite a lot of time searching to come up with the answer. I followed a few false leads. However, I did put 'Diamond' and 'T' together and figured - eventually - that 'Alice' referred to Alice Springs and worked from there. Without your clever clues I would have got nowhere. And I would particularly like to thank my lovely assistant Miss Google in her beautiful Brownlow frock for revealing all (or almost all). ;D ;D ;D (You may need to be a Victorian to understand the last comment. Now onto my contribution. I thought I'd follow ATOG's lead with this photo: As the saying goes: Where is it? Don Ricardo
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Post by Don Ricardo on Sept 27, 2011 22:09:22 GMT 10
G'day Humpty,
Nice photo of the Noojee trestle. Exactly what year did you take it? Did you say 1915? Wow, I didn't know you were that old! You've obviously looked after the photos you took with your box brownie. ;D ;D ;D
Don Ricardo
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Post by humpty2 on Sept 28, 2011 9:58:31 GMT 10
You are right on top of it DR....Mum& Dad made history ;D
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Post by sheppo on Sept 28, 2011 13:36:31 GMT 10
pretty sure i know this spot but as i've had a go i will let someone else name it, I will say that it's not in the N.T. ;D ;D. Sheppo
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Post by millsy on Sept 28, 2011 13:49:54 GMT 10
Those hills in the background sure look the hills north west of the Monster Copper Mine at Burra, SA. Not too far from where I used to live at Manoora. Manoora being only about 5km from where I just discovered a few posts ago that Tom Kruse came from!
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Post by Don Ricardo on Sept 28, 2011 21:21:36 GMT 10
Well done Millsy, you are correct. The photo does indeed show the Burra Burra Mine where copper was mined in Burra, South Australia, not far from where both Tom Kruse and Martin Kleinig were born as it happens. The chimney is Peacock's Chimney. Helps when you've lived in the district, eh? A little bit of history for those interested... Copper ore was discovered in Burra in June 1845, and the mine opened in September 1845. They didn't muck around in those days! Until 1860 the mine was the largest metal mine in Australia. From 1845 to 1870 the mine was underground but from 1871 until 1877 became an open cut. It was closed in 1877 when the price of copper dropped, then reopened from 1971 to 1981. A couple of shots of the mine I took a few years ago with my box brownie... The mine in 1869 before it commenced as an open cut mine, with the chimney in the background: Another photo taken - I think - after open cut mining commenced, with the chimney again visible: (Source: Both photos - www.burrahistory.info/BurraMining.htm ) Apparently the chimney was later moved from the position you see in these photos to the position it is in today. If Millsy hadn't been so quick on the uptake I was going to provide the following photo as a clue: I reckon this derelict house near Burra must be just about the most photographed building in Australia. It has appeared in more calendars and coffee table books than you can shake a stick at. My photos of the house and the mine were taken in 2000. Over to you now Millsy. Don Ricardo
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Post by millsy on Sept 28, 2011 21:56:06 GMT 10
Yes Don, it has been a while since I lived near Burra, but revisited the Monster mine with some 4x4 mates about 18 months ago. And also slept in the car there one night on the way through, a few months later. We left Manoora in '89. That cottage looks familiar too. I am thinking it might be not too far form Porter's Lagoon, the salt lake about 15km south of Burra. I have fond memories of all these places from flying my old wooden vintage glider, often at heights just above the ridge tops, both just north of Burra, and just south of the Lagoon. These being en-route, early in the day (about 12.00 noon - early for cross country glider flying) or late afternoons, when the thermals were weak and not very high. Launch point was from the Barossa Valley Gliding Club, east of Truro, heading out to places like Peterborough, Orroroo, or Quorn. And speaking of salt lakes, here's one about 3000km from Burra! I must admit I only came close to this amazing place. These pics were taken off the tourist info billboard as I stopped at the closest town, about 50km from the lake, last December. Next time I happen to be passing by that way I will definitely make the effort to go off the bitumen to have a look.
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