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Post by sutcac on Nov 1, 2011 13:06:23 GMT 10
Well done Don ............the mighty Murray at Wellington S.A. it is.............. ............over to you..................
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Post by Don Ricardo on Nov 1, 2011 18:39:21 GMT 10
So, I got it right Sutcac? Cool! Given my gentle little pokes at previous 'Where's this?' contributors, I thought I'd better post some info about the ferry, which is located on the Murray River at Wellington, down stream from Tailem Bend in the south-east corner of South Oz. According to this website the Wellington ferry was "Originally established as a private enterprise in 1839...and was a vital link on the Great Eastern Road to Victoria, being used by travellers, stock and the mail service...In 1849 the South Australian Government took over its operation and constructed a new ferry landing." "At least four Wellington punts have sunk during a crossing. Perhaps the most notable was in 1958 when the ferry sank with a truckload of cattle and three cars. The divers who later recovered the vehicles reported that there were other derelict punts on the river bottom." And here's a pic of the ferry landing when I was there in 1912: OK, so that's the Wellington ferry. Time for my photo! Given that Sutcac's photo had a vintage caravan component - on a vintage caravan forum, who'd a thought? ;D ;D ;D - I figured I'd keep the trend going. Where's this? Don Ricardo
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Post by millsy on Nov 2, 2011 12:44:10 GMT 10
Fisherman's Bay near Port Broughton, South South Australia?
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Post by Don Ricardo on Nov 2, 2011 14:25:35 GMT 10
Hi Millsy, Nope, not Port Broughton. Wrong state... Don Ricardo
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Post by stooy on Nov 3, 2011 9:13:39 GMT 10
I reckon its Mallacoota Victoria, In the foreshore caravan park prior to the roads getting sealed.
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Post by professorq29 on Nov 3, 2011 10:52:37 GMT 10
I'm going to break the thread here for a moment. Don't forget where you are! In this thread vintagecaravans.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=general08&thread=9082&post=72581 Sheppo mentioned Tasker's Caravan Park in Sydney. Does anyone know if it was at Carss Park near Blakehurst? The name rang a bell in my deep dark past. He's gone bush apparently and might answer when he gets some interwebs again. If it is its gone the way of a lot of CPs, to developers. professorq29
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Post by cobber on Nov 3, 2011 12:22:20 GMT 10
G'day Professor,
I've answered your question back in that other thread.
Cobber.
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Post by Don Ricardo on Nov 3, 2011 12:28:42 GMT 10
Hi Stooy, Congratulations - you are correct. The photo is of the Mallacoota inlet taken from the shire caravan park - in Victoria, but only just! I note the park is now known as the 'Mallacoota Foreshore Holiday Park'. The photo was taken in 1985 when we stayed there for a couple of weeks (or possibly 1987 when we camped there again). We arrived a week or so before Easter and - as can be seen from the photo - ours was one of only a few vans in the park. However, the park has over 600 sites, and by Good Friday I think every one of them was being used. It was an amazing transformation - from tranquility to bedlam! Our kids (then from 6 years old downwards) loved Mallacoota. They got a great thrill watching the abalone boats crash in and out of the turbulent entrance to the inlet, enjoyed watching the abalone crates being unloaded from the boats at the end of the day, and had lots of fun fishing off the pier (with a little bit of success). It's things like that that make for happy family memories! Your turn now, Stooy. Don Ricardo
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Post by stooy on Nov 3, 2011 14:40:13 GMT 10
Thanks, I was sure I knew it. We have been down there the last three summers and its always a lovely spot. I don't have any photos of the Don other than in the shed, so you will have to settle for a photo of the car which towed it for many years. Good Luck Stewart
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Post by stooy on Nov 3, 2011 15:43:26 GMT 10
Thanks Dave,
I have fixed it up.
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Post by Don Ricardo on Nov 3, 2011 16:08:38 GMT 10
Hi Stooy That's a pretty tough challenge you've given us. Not a lot of geographical points to help identify the location, although maybe I'm overlooking the obvious... Don't suppose you'd accept 'Ford Transit Minibus on a gravelly slope with hills behind' as an answer, would you? At least you can't say I've given a wrong answer! ;D ;D ;D Don Ricardo
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Post by cobber on Nov 3, 2011 16:43:08 GMT 10
I know ....I know ....I know....I looked before Stewart "fixed it up" ..... but I wasn't going to say anything ..... and anybody who comes up with the right answer now....... is going to be verrrry sus So I reckon you better give us another one Stooy ( and "fix it up before you post it cause oldfarts always looks at the "properties") Cobber.
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Post by stooy on Nov 3, 2011 18:51:15 GMT 10
Ok well given that one is pretty hard, here is another much easier one. I will be interested to see if anyone gets the first one... Cheers Stewart
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Post by humpyboy on Nov 3, 2011 20:35:43 GMT 10
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Post by millsy on Nov 3, 2011 21:01:34 GMT 10
stooy, yes, this is a lot easier! First one impossible.
It is on top of the hill near Broken Hill-the Living Desert sculptures. I took a Japanese tourist for a drive one weekend to show him a bit of the outback. He loved it!
After looking through a few art galeries in town we then went out to the Living Desert, and then arrived at the next spot just on sundown.
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Post by stooy on Nov 4, 2011 7:51:10 GMT 10
Millsy has it, so I believe you are up next.
The first one is Lake Eildon - Fraser national park down on the bank before the water was back up. I got out of the boat one night and saw the transit sitting at the top of the hill where we park the boat and thought it looked like a good photo.
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Post by millsy on Nov 4, 2011 21:49:25 GMT 10
This should also be an easy one. For some!
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Post by millsy on Nov 5, 2011 17:59:01 GMT 10
A little clue. This was the spot on the road where a well known actor parked his 'mean machine'. It's not too far from Broken Hill. Am looking for the name of the place next to the road, not quite in view in this snap.
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Post by millsy on Nov 5, 2011 19:22:02 GMT 10
I don't thnik it is a private road. I don't recall seeing any sign up tp that effect. You are certainly on the scent when you mention Mad Max. And I reckon another film, Cactus, had a scene shot near here - over the hill and another km or so down the bottom and around a corner to the right.
Now how good are your detective skills. Can you find the name of this spot? It has what sounds like an Aboriginal name to me.
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Post by Don Ricardo on Nov 5, 2011 21:34:14 GMT 10
Hi Millsy, I haven't seen the Mad Max films - is it OK to admit that, or should I be too ashamed to say that out aloud? Anyway, Google is a wonderful thing! How about Mundi Mundi Lookout? Don Ricardo
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Post by millsy on Nov 6, 2011 8:54:08 GMT 10
Well done Don. And I must admit, I am a Mad Max fan. When I took the Japanese teacher out to that lookout it was not because of Mad Max. I did not know that there was a scene shot there. But I always had fond memories of this place that I had visited 20 years earlier with my wife and baby son. A place where it seemed you were looking out into the middle of 'no-where'. Into the far outback. I thought he would enjoy the view. And then I just felt like taking a pic form the middle of the road for some unknown reason. As we were driving back to Adelaide I thought about the Mad Max films, and suddenly thought that place was a bit familiar. The first thing I did when I got home was put Mad Max 2 on and sure enough . . . I reckon I was standing right where he parked the Interceptor! For all us Mad Max fans it was so disappointing to hear that the Mad Max 4 film, due to be shot around Broken Hill this year, was canned. This was because the brown desert had been painted green due to all that rain! And I don't think they are waiting for the next drought! No doubt you found the name of the spot by watching this clip - www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLCmcV4gC_0 Your turn!
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Post by millsy on Nov 6, 2011 9:08:45 GMT 10
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Post by millsy on Nov 6, 2011 15:44:47 GMT 10
Hey you stirrer! I Googled Mundi Mundi Lookout and got a million hits! Isn't that good enough? And what makes you think it's a private road? Just because they wrecked all those vehicles making that film doesn't mean it had to be a private road does it? I was watching that second clip from a couple of posts back, and it looks like they might have even done the closing 'truck chase' around that same road. It really is amazing how they did it. Maybe it was all done with little model trucks and cars. But looks so real! I remember listening to one of the stunt drivers who worked on the movie. He made it sound like in those days in the Australian film industry, especially in that movie, there did not seem to be any OHSW rules. Apparently Hollywood was in awe of what they did to get their action sequences. Bur I reckon the only way they could have got that little kid to be balancing on the roof of that truck would have been in the studio. If I was his mother I certainly wouldn't have let him anywhere near Silverton, or Broken Hill for that matter! www.silverton.org.au/sights.htm
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Post by millsy on Nov 6, 2011 20:50:24 GMT 10
Thanks for that Dave. If I lived in Victoria I would no doubt watch out for some of those spots.
Until recently I was convinced that a lot of the scenes were shot in SA. One of the the opening scenes in the first film for instance, where the Night Rider and Mad Max come together at a Y junction looks just like Giles Corner. This is a Y junction, complete with all the gum trees as in the film, half way between Tarlee and Riverton. The start of the Barrier Highway to Broken Hill.
I used to live in the Riverton district in the seventies and eighties, and heading south into that Y junction was a real 'Mad Max' affair. You were sitting on 80 or 90 km/hr, didn't really want to slow down for such a gentle corner, but had to be looking over your right shoulder to check for merging traffic, plus make sure there was no car coming at you around the bend from the south.
Yesterday I happened to be up north collecting rocks for my science class. I noticed that coming around that same corner on my way home that they have added an extra merge lane now. Such a simple thing to do to make it a very safe merge now.
The lane continues for at least 300 metres south of the Y junction, so you have plenty of time to use your rear view mirrors, plus the mandatory check over the shoulder of course, before moving out onto the main road.
It makes you wonder why they could not have thought of that 50 years ago!
Don must have gone bush for the weekend!
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Post by Don Ricardo on Nov 6, 2011 21:28:02 GMT 10
Don must have gone bush for the weekend! Hi Millsy and Dave, Sorry for the delay! You're right Millsy I did go bush. Sort of! Spent the weekend at the Whittlesea Agricultural Show. A great event as usual. A little taste on another thread... But in the meantime, here's my contribution. Where's this? I think this will be pretty simple for some folk, and therefore I think it's not unreasonable to ask you not only what we're looking at, but also where we are looking from. Don Ricardo
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