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[EoinC]

Koolan Island - 1970, Wandi bringing Cockatoo residents to Koolan back beach for Yampi Gift Day.

Koolan Island - 1968 Looking down onto ship and Yampi Sound. (Quite unbelievable I'm standing on the 550ft leavel taking photo, today the quarry floor is below sea level.) All the conveyors and wharf have gone.

Photo of tidal flats taken out window of the Pioneer airacraft flying to Koolan from Derby.

Wandi landing craft bring a barge along side a State Ship to unload supplies for Koolan.

In the Koolan spirit...
Some pic's from Koolan, surrounding islands, and areas around Derby back in the 1980's (including careening our old carvel-planked yacht, and island hopping on our little 16' Hydracat (ex-Cockatoo Island):

 

[EoinC]

...and...

 

[EoinC]

...Koolan and the Buccaneer Archipelago constitute a magnificent part of Australia...

 

[casper]

A pic that was taken 15 years ago on my first winter Victorian High Country snow camp. The winter snow camp has become a tradition and I've done it every winter since...

 

[Solid Luck]

Picking pine mushies around Creswick.
I don't remember anything after eating after eating them...lol

 

[Hawkear]

Gina and I are spending a week at Bright on the Ovens river at the start of Victoria’s High country snowfields. The area is noted for its gold but unfortunately prospecting is not allowed.
The picture is of the dredge hole at Harrietville just 20ks up the Alpine highway from Bright.
It’s a wonderful spot and made me think that mining doesn’t necessarily destroy things but can create things of beauty and usefulness. People, kids and dogs were having a wow of a time in an old dredge hole. Governments would probably spend millions of dollars for a facility like this anywhere near suburbia.
Anyway off to Reedy Creek, Eldorado tomorrow for a bit of river sluicing with my new river sluice, then a few trips up into the mountains to escape a bit of heat forecast over the following days.

 

[GDR]

When you've put in a hard day, maybe even had a very bad day, the story of a Queensland drover called Deafy Coleman can put things in perspective:

RENOWNED QUEENSLAND DROVING FEAT

The story was told some twenty years ago of the great droving feat of Coleman ("Deafy" as he was known to his mates) in earlier times. Coleman trailed many a big mob over drought-stricken plains and swollen streams.

One of Coleman's biggest feats, and the one that brought him fame, began in 1901 when he left Clermont (central Queensland) with five thousand ewes. A big drought was at its pinnacle at the time, and Coleman's instructions were to keep the sheep alive.

For nearly ten years Deafy wandered around southern and western Queensland, during which period lambing and shearing went on as usual, the old sheep were sold, and the younger ones continued the pilgrimage. Over the years Deafy's mob then became known in many districts as the 'Israelites' looking for the Promised Land.

During the travelling a distance of five thousand miles was traversed, and when the good times came in 1909 the flock, all fats, product of those he started with, were delivered to a meat works buyer.

During the long trail almost nineteen thousand were at one time in Deafy's charge. Of this number, ten thousand were handed over at the final delivery, one thousand were killed for rations, seven thousand sold, and the balance 'fell by the way side.'

This was Coleman's biggest job, and the story was often told at camp firesides by old hands of western Queensland.

 

[Hawkear]

Pictures of the Horn, the highest peak on the Buffalo plateau, Victoria. Rising to 1723 meters (1.07 miles) above sea level.
You can drive fairly close to the base of the Horn but you do need climb the last few hundred meters to the top which was a bit of a challenge for a couple of 78 year olds.
I was asking Gina do we really want to climb that?
Getting closer and starting to worry. Thats a viewing platform right on top.View back over the Buffalo plateau. Yes, we made it to the top, a mile high!
The Buffalo National park covers 310 square Km mostly composed of a huge granite mass. When looking at this vast expanse of granite which is formed at depth one wonders also at the huge amount of overlaying rock that must have been weathered away together with any gold reefs that they would have contained..

 

[Gassman]

guess....

 

[kiwifred]

 

[Mackka]

Pictures of the Horn, the highest peak on the Buffalo plateau, Victoria. Rising to 1723 meters (1.07 miles) above sea level.
You can drive fairly close to the base of the Horn but you do need climb the last few hundred meters to the top which was a bit of a challenge for a couple of 78 year olds.
View attachment 13035I was asking Gina do we really want to climb that?
View attachment 13036Getting closer and starting to worry. Thats a viewing platform right on top.View attachment 13038View back over the Buffalo plateau. Yes, we made it to the top, a mile high!
The Buffalo National park covers 310 square Km mostly composed of a huge granite mass. When looking at this vast expanse of granite which is formed at depth one wonders also at the huge amount of overlaying rock that must have been weathered away together with any gold reefs that they would have contained..

Just Beautiful Hawkear and excellent achievement for your ages. well done.

 

[Northeast]

Yes, we made it to the top, a mile high!

You joined the Mile High Club - well done

 

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[Capertee gold]

Being stalked on the turon River

 

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[Hawkear]

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Trying to work out from where this picture was painted. Guessing that is Mt Buninyong in the distance. That would suggest it is looking South. My guess is the artist would then have been near the fire station on Bakery Hill.

 

[kiwifred]

 

[Northeast]

Sunset 2 nights ago…



Tea tonight…



Goldfields WA