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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby north-north-west » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 8:35 pm

I'm probably way off base, but I can only think of two places I've been that have scrub like that over rocks like that: the Tasman Peninsula and the Apsley Gorge walk.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby bauera » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 8:51 pm

You are on the way, Scavenger
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby north-north-west » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 8:58 pm

Great, now I have to decide which park, and exactly where. :roll:
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby flyfisher » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 9:10 pm

St Patrick's Head from the Irish Town road

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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby bauera » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 9:14 pm

not Patricks head. follow scavenger's lead
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby north-north-west » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 9:21 pm

I'm thinking somewhere near Waterfall Bluff, and that rocky crag is Clemes Peak?
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby bauera » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 9:31 pm

Well done, scavenger. I have another from the same trip with water in the foreground, but that would have been too easy.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby north-north-west » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 9:42 pm

This if fun. Now I have a lovely warm gooey feeling because I've finally got one. :D

Now the tricky bit, finding one of my own that might keep everyone guessing for a millisecond or two . . .
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby north-north-west » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 9:52 pm

Actually, I probably shouldn't have done that, because I'm likely to be away until Monday night . . .
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby bauera » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 10:15 pm

How about a hint? Is it Douglas-Apsley region, looking south?
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby north-north-west » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 10:20 pm

Nope. Further west.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby eggs » Thu 25 Jun, 2009 10:27 pm

Great photo scavenger
Did you come up from the campground and do a short walk?

If you are worried about it hanging around - can I suggest Seagers Lookout in the Mt Field Nat Park?
You can see the Snowy Range and Mt Anne in the distance.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby eggs » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 8:45 am

scavenger seems to have indicated that [Edit: she] will back next Monday.

As a result, I would like to suggest that we can continue to discuss [Edit her] photo,
but anyone should feel free to start another one to keep it going.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby tasadam » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 9:32 am

Hey Eggs, if you know it, I say go for it. I certainly don't recognise it.
Be a shame for this game to sit stagnant over the weekend!
(In other words, how will we cope without it!)
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby Taurë-rana » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 10:16 am

eggs wrote:scavenger seems to have indicated that he will back next Monday.
As a result, I would like to suggest that we can continue to discuss his photo,
but anyone should feel free to start another one to keep it going.


Eggs, you might want to take a look at this discussion: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2339&start=0 :lol:

Back to the topic, I feel totally left out of this game - I just can't remember what the view from anywhere looks like in enough detail. It's just making me frustrated not to be able to go out and remind myself.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby eggs » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 10:38 am

Devon Annie
I am totally unaware of the gender of scavenger - after all - this is a genderless site :lol:

The game is a bit of an obsession - checking through photos and trying to interpret what a different angle would look like compared to the one I have.
And when I say photos, its not just mine, but lots & lots of pics others have put on this site and on other web pages.

It is important not to be frustrated - its not worth it. Just enjoy as best we can.
I am not sure when I will get back to Tas again - but I have a hobby of planning trips & then shifting up and down the priority list.
Of course, if I do actually get over there, it all changes anyway - if not the weather (I try to avoid the bad stuff), then as in last trip when when of our group fell out of a bunk and put his arm through a window. :cry:

Tasadam - it would have been nice to get some second opinions, but I have driven up to Lake Dobson a few times, and was aware of Seagers Lookout close to the road, but I have not been up there.
Having recognised Mt Anne, it clicked that the photo is over the valley the road comes up, and the maps confirm the large, gently rolling ridgeline along the edge of the highlands there. So I am pretty confident it is right, although to be picky, it is probably from the track to Seagers Lookout rather than the actual spot.

I guess scavengers penalty for leaving us in the lurch is to correct the answer when he gets back.

So a really easy one to restart
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby Taurë-rana » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 11:39 am

I should have put some emoticons in my last comment, I sound a bit too serious :roll: I was really laughing at myself and my extremely bad memory :lol:
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby Taurë-rana » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 11:44 am

However, I did actually recognise that photo - Hansons Peak and Twisted Lakes from um... somewhere south of them, maybe near the track junction?
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby eggs » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 11:52 am

It is from the track as it comes up to the south side of the Twisted Lakes after passing around the back of Hanson's Peak and before the junction.
You can see this is a great vantage spot to look over the lakes with the round shape of Hanson's Peak behind and Cradle on the left.
And the fagus was the cream on the cake.

Edit - I should just add that this track around the back of Hanson's peak is seen as a bad weather alternative for either the Marion's Lookout track or Hanson's Peak, but this is the 2nd time I have carried packs this way in fine weather. It is worth seeing in good weather - a very pretty place. But yes the route is a little more "difficult" than just going over Hanson's - a bit more up/down and winding around.

Well devon annie - its now over to you
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby Taurë-rana » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 12:41 pm

:shock: Now I've got to find a photo!
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby Taurë-rana » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 1:05 pm

This shouldn't be too hard.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby johnw » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 1:24 pm

Devon Annie wrote:This shouldn't be too hard.

Even I can get that one :wink: . From Cynthia Bay looking towards Mt Olympus. If I'm correct I'll have to pass on posting a pic for now unless it can wait until tonight.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby kramster » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 1:42 pm

Or is it Shadow Lake... looking towards Mt Olympus? :?
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby Taurë-rana » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 1:47 pm

Close, but the Lake is not Shadow or St Clair.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby abowen » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 2:09 pm

Hi Devon Annie,
My guess is the beach at Lake Ina. If I am right, I don't have any photo's here to upload and would be happy to pass this on the next person with a photo on standby.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby stepbystep » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 2:16 pm

Are you being tricky, is it from St Clair Lagoon?
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby Taurë-rana » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 2:33 pm

No tricks, Andrew, who I'm guessing has been there, has got it so someone else will need to post a photo.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby kramster » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 2:38 pm

Ok... lets see if I can get in before the next person.

This one is not strictly "bushwalking"... but kinda neat nonetheless.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby Taurë-rana » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 2:44 pm

That looks an awful lot like the Spray Tunnel at Zeehan, which reminds me... a cautionary tale: on the "out" side of that tunnel is an old mine. Being prone to exploring interesting things, a friend and I wandered into this mine to take a look. After we'd gone in a little way, and he was ahead of me, I started to hear water running that hadn't been running before. it sounded like it was falling a long way. Directing my torch to the ground near my feet, I saw that a small hole had opened up at the side of the tunnel as we walked and the water that had been running down the tunnel was now falling into that. There have been a couple of times in my life when I have been really scared, and that was one of them :shock: I called my friend back and we both retreated very gingerly from the tunnel, very shaken at the thought of possibly falling through the floor to the next level below. It still gives me the shudders.
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Re: Game - "Where am I ?"

Postby stepbystep » Fri 26 Jun, 2009 2:44 pm

Oh, I think you're pushing the rules with that one.
I'm thinking Tunnel Hill on the Eastern Shore of Hobart or maybe off the Montezuma Falls track?
If you can post that shot, I can have two guesses :wink:
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