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Post by millard1399 on Apr 24, 2011 23:10:26 GMT 10
Yes! Traralgon!! Gees, I was beginning to think I was the only person that knew it was there! And did you notice I slotted another cryptic clue into my last post?? "...and you will have gon a little too far." Geddit? gon as in Traral gon. Obviously I'm making it toooo easy for you people! bobt, you'll have to go back there one day on the 4th Sunday of the month, and enjoy the "Gippsland Model Engineer's Society" set-up, in Newman Park, Traralgon. [www.gmes.org.au] Over to you for the next exciting puzzle, bobt. ;D
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Post by bobt on Apr 25, 2011 15:41:26 GMT 10
geez Al... I can hardly be proud of my achievement. Ten minutes with map in hand and google, I found it... You did all but tell us out right. Club is back there the 2nd week in August. We will be in Qld, so we miss it again. Try this.. ;D Needless to say it is not in my back yard. We stopped for lunch at this place. Plenty of room to park the car and caravan. ;D
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Post by shaneandsimoen on Apr 25, 2011 20:33:05 GMT 10
Hello bobt,
we've been away for 11 day caravaning in Warrnambool Vic, for school holidays and Easter with our four kids end extras, think I've got a few more gray hair ;D ;D ;D , nice town is Warrnambool,
Anyway would you photo be the lookout in Albury NSW.
Shane
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Post by bobt on Apr 25, 2011 21:23:33 GMT 10
hi shane
your a brave lad...going away with the kids during school hols.. my days of that are well over..
Warnambool is a mighty nice place to stay.
Albury ... Nope
Lookout .. yep
NSW .. yep..
just how many lookouts are in NSW?
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Post by millard1399 on Apr 26, 2011 21:18:42 GMT 10
G'day bobt, I think this thread seems to have run out of puff. I was thinking your photo might have had something to do with the Marcus Clark cross on the Blue Mountains, but I googled it and the original cross in no longer erected, and there's no replacement been put up. So that leaves me guessing a bit longer. The cross in the right foreground is significant, and must be a memorial for something that happened in that spot. But what?? Hmmm...quite a large town showing. Large area of flat country. A cross in the foreground at the lookout. Gotta be west of the Great Dividing Range, yes? And the lookout is on the western side of the Range itself, yes? (How am I doing so far?? ) Can't see any cryptic clues in your post, so that's no help. Time to bring Clue No.2 into play, bobt. cheers, Al.
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Post by philouise on Apr 26, 2011 21:21:04 GMT 10
Hi Bobt. Is that a photo of Tamworth Phil.
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Post by millard1399 on Apr 26, 2011 21:32:41 GMT 10
Son of a gun, Phil, I think you might be right!! Following your tip-off, I googled Tamworth lookout photos, and there it is! The cross in the foreground! But since you are a northerner in NSW, this is too easy for you to just name the location. You have to also say what the cross is in the foreground for. (because I honestly don't know, but I'm curious! ) cheers, Al.
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Post by bobt on Apr 26, 2011 22:47:48 GMT 10
Sorry Al. Don't remember what the cross was about. Phil.. ya correct. ;D It is looking over Tamworth from Oxley Lookout. Your turn. bobt
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Post by philouise on Apr 27, 2011 16:45:03 GMT 10
Isn't the google image search remarkable. I couldn't exactly match the mini train to any and even the lookout was slightly different but had the same hills in the background. So here's a photo i took of some "escapees". I hope it's not too easy for everyone to guess "where is it" Cheers. Phil.
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Post by kiwijim on Apr 27, 2011 18:17:35 GMT 10
Howdy Phil, Been there, Seen that, Port Arthur, Tassie ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D kiwijim
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Post by millard1399 on Apr 27, 2011 19:49:21 GMT 10
I visited Port Arthur only a few short months before the awful shooting incident all those years ago. Sat at the tables outside the cafe and had a milkshake, the very same tables he sat at a few months later.
When the news broke of the event, it really put the wind up me. I thought how lucky we were, and how unlucky the victims were, to have innocently been there on the day he decided to wreak havoc.
I went back for another visit about 10 years ago, after all the changes had taken place at the entry area. It was still an eerie feeling to go to the spot where the cafe once stood.
Love Tassie, but the name of Port Arthur still makes me stop and think about how life is influenced by "being in the right place at the right time" (...or being in the wrong place...).
Al.
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Post by kiwijim on Apr 27, 2011 20:23:48 GMT 10
G'day Al, Yes it is a terrible place to visit, With the thoughts of that shooting in the back of our minds we didn't spend a great deal of time hanging around the entrance. There has been a monument erected to the memory of all those poor people who lost their life in the shooting, this is situated just inside the grounds, to the right of the entrance, inside one of the partly rebuilt buildings. The Missus said she had a very bad feeling all the time we were on the grounds and wouldn't go inside any of the derelict buildings. The gloom continued with us as we did the boat trip around the Island of the Dead, where many of the Prisoners and Staff were buried. I am certain we both felt a great relief as we drove away from this monument to harsh conditions, cruelty and Murder. AS I have said,....Been there, Seen that, and we both, never want to see it again. kiwijim
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Post by bobt on Apr 27, 2011 22:00:11 GMT 10
hmmm Now if I had been a little quicker I could have got one right without having to rely on tips and google.
Guys it was a prison... operating in times that values were different to that we accept today.
There would have been a lot of misery and suffering in its day. This behaviour continues today, in other countries some of them we think are great tourist spots....
and unfortunately again when for some unknown reason an individual chose to wreck havoc and take the lives of innocent people.
BUT........... In my past life I learnt to accept that everyone has a destiny sometimes it is fair and other times it is not, so make the most of what you have and enjoy life to your fullest..
Bad luck Phil... you picked a place we knew.. ;D
go gentle on us Jim...
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Post by kiwijim on Apr 27, 2011 22:30:49 GMT 10
Well said Bobt, In your past life, Hmmmmmmmm Is this your second or third visit. ;D ;D ;D O.K. Guys and Gals, here's a real easy one for you all. Where is this famous Pub ? ? ? A clue.....it's not the original, just a very good copy, and sorry you folk in the East, we are back in the West again......... Good luck all. ;D ;D kiwijim
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Post by millard1399 on Apr 27, 2011 22:43:06 GMT 10
Good grief! How many of these pubs ARE there?? I actually went to the one near Albury NSW back in 1973, on the way down to watch the Melbourne Cup. Bought a poster-size cartoon drawn by Ken Maynard, who at the time had his Ettamogah Pub cartoons published in the Australasian Post magazine. Still got that poster. And it's still rolled up in the wrapping paper from when I bought it. Maybe it's time I took it out and put it in a frame... Nah...in another two years it will be 40 years old. Might wait till it's 50. cheers, Al.
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Post by olfarts on Apr 27, 2011 23:40:03 GMT 10
Unfortunately that isn't the one at Albury,its the dodgy one up in Queensland.
Dave
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Post by olfarts on Apr 27, 2011 23:43:49 GMT 10
BTW,ask me about the truck up on the roof with "B F Panels" on the door and who made it.....even what "B F Panels" stands for.
Dave
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Post by kiwijim on Apr 28, 2011 7:31:38 GMT 10
Howdy Dave, Sorry, it's not the Dodge one in Q.LD Clue one was,......... we're back in the West, Clue Two,..... Drive a couple of hours out of Perth. "Come on" 3fifty1 you must have been there !! kiwijim
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2011 15:35:40 GMT 10
Sorry Kiwijim Have been struck down with the kids loogie haven't been online. And unfortunately nope I haven't been there, it's abit of a sad tale. Our car club went on a run to the Cunderdin replica about 4 yrs back, I was having terrible trouble with my newborn and colic, I was all ready and packed to go but on the morning we were due to leave the baby just did not want to play the game, so I decided to stay home and my partner went with our 2yr old.I cried and cried.They took plenty of video footage in the museum there which seems to have a great display about the Meckering earthquake.I've vowed to get back and check it out one day!!!! The weekend before easter we were in Dowerin and went for a drive to Meckering but didn't make the drive 20kms south to Cunderdin. We want to do the 3 day pipeline tour and I think Cunderdin is included so might get there then! There is also another at I think the Galleria in Morley not to good on my Perth outer suburbs but I've been to this one.
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Post by kiwijim on Apr 28, 2011 19:31:14 GMT 10
Howdy there 3 fifty1, We're might sorry to hear that your Young one stuck a spanner in the works, we hope things will improve for you so you can visit Cunderden real soon. It's a great little town with the old Pub on one side of the road and the Museum on the other, we spent a number of hours there a couple of years back, and Yes you will have to see the Earthquake room, it's unreal, it's in the center of the museum, just walk in and take a seat, there's a video running of the Meckering earthquake, near the end of the video and quiet un-expectedly the whole building starts to rock and roll, scared to hell out of the dear one, very realistic. it's all done with compressed air through rams on the back of the building, a really great show. Now, having the right answer...... Cunderden, the next shot is all yours. P.S. keep it easy for the Guys in the West ;D ;D ;D kiwijim
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2011 12:47:11 GMT 10
This is easy if you've been there!!! And also easy for those over the great barren land to image search first in best dressed.
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Post by olfarts on Apr 29, 2011 15:47:52 GMT 10
Had a few drinks with Sam Musca the licensee of the Esplanade Hotel at Albany WA over the years The site had/has been vacant for years. Dave
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2011 19:35:55 GMT 10
Yep that's the place So sad was a beautiful old place We used to like going there and having a beer on the verandah on a sunny day.Once again the corporates have taken over Here's an exert from an Albany blogger: Albany is now a town without a 5-star hotel because a property developer razed one and left an empty site surrounded by an empty fence. The local community has taken the fence as its own and "socked it to them". Sock It! is not just about socks on a fence. It is about public protest. It is about public art. About about a community taking control of something over which it has no control. About a collective sense of fun. About whatever it means to you as you hang your sock. About changing perceptions of what remains following an act of greed and stupidity. I read an article from a young girl who aparently started it all off and she had started her protest by hanging a crocheted rug and mens ties to show her protest was against the corporate world but the rug and ties were stolen so she changed to socks and found no one wanted to steal them, and it has just grown from there... So there's the story for the unknowing Your turn Dave.
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Post by olfarts on Apr 30, 2011 20:01:28 GMT 10
Got some fond memories of Fredrickstown or as its known now Albany.Sam and Joe Musca ran the "Nard hotel for many years,last time i saw them they had a motel on Albany Hwy. I worked at Cheynes Beach whaling for 12 months or so on the chaser Cheynes 3 before whaling was stopped down there. I have a photo of something interesting............ive just got to find it Dave
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Post by olfarts on Apr 30, 2011 21:14:39 GMT 10
Heres a doozy !! Any tell us who,where and why this was built and of course where it is?? Basically using the machinery pictured above,,,,,,,,,'cept the Val and the van of course Dave
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