"Spot the Spot"

[fishnut Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close fishnut]

Anything around Esperance wins in my books - beautiful!

perhaps not so easy?



and of course, with the Prado in the frame... and some dirt :wink:

[muzza Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close muzza]

well

That's a new one to me....but my guess is that it is the Burtville Hotel Arch..some 20k out of Laverton.

[fishnut Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close fishnut]

right goldfields, wrong end...

[fishnut Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close fishnut]

move south west

[muzza Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close muzza]

well

the trees had me fooled...but I see it must be Mt Palmer, out of Yellowdine......

[Rainman Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Rainman]

Getting off the topic a bit, but we arrived late one night at Mt Palmer in 2005 and found a 100 series sitting beside the old pub arches. It was still there when we got up in the morning, keys in the ignition, mobile phone in its cradle, half drunk can of beer on the roof, doors unlocked.

After a quick search around the area, we found no one about so took off the the abandoned mine site. One of our party picked up a CDMA signal so phoned the police who sent out two vehicles to the site. We then took off for two weeks travelling the goldfields and left them to it.

When we got back to Perth one of my mates rang the Coolgardie police to find out what had happened. Seems a mine worker had gone out to hang himself, but couldnt find a suitable tree so he wandered off into the bush and was found staggering around several days later. He was taken off to be assessed at a mental institution.

The horrifying thing was we all had our kids with us, and if he had found the right sort of tree we all could have woken up to a rather grissly sight right on our doorstep.

[Rainman Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Rainman]

Getting off the topic a bit, but we arrived late one night at Mt Palmer in 2005 and found a 100 series sitting beside the old pub arches. It was still there when we got up in the morning, keys in the ignition, mobile phone in its cradle, half drunk can of beer on the roof, doors unlocked.

After a quick search around the area, we found no one about so took off the the abandoned mine site. One of our party picked up a CDMA signal so phoned the police who sent out two vehicles to the site. We then took off for two weeks travelling the goldfields and left them to it.

When we got back to Perth one of my mates rang the Coolgardie police to find out what had happened. Seems a mine worker had gone out to hang himself, but couldnt find a suitable tree so he wandered off into the bush and was found staggering around several days later. He was taken off to be assessed at a mental institution.

The horrifying thing was we all had our kids with us, and if he had found the right sort of tree we all could have woken up to a rather grissly sight right on our doorstep.

[fishnut Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close fishnut]

spot on Muzza. A great spot for a night, only 12 km from the highway, and best explored on foot - out of the Prado :shock: . As you walk around you realise just how big the place must have been.

From the Shire of Yilgarn website...
The Mt Palmer goldmine operated from 1934 to 1944 and was not only genuine but a very rich strike. The deBernales group exercised the option and formed a company known as the "Yellowdine Gold Development Ltd" to work the area. During 1937 Mt Palmer was worked continuously, employing 130 men. Due to prosperity of the mine and number of men employed, bringing with them families, the townsite was surveyed and the first auction of land was held in March 1935. A total of 67 blocks in all were eventually sold. Many of the streets were named after local identities, buildings soon went up and although most were of hessian, tin or canvas, the town boasted boarding houses, bakeries, a saveloy shop, butchers, patent medicine shop.

All that remains of "the most pretentious two-storey hotel" built in the Goldfields at the time is the brick archway. The hotel was famous for its very long bar and two storeys. The bricks were eventually carted to Kalgoorlie and built into the first chain store in the field. The building is now the Bankwest Bank in Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie.

sad story rainman - poor bugger.

over to you Muzza...

[muzza Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close muzza]

hmm.....moving East

Hmmm....moving east so as not to keep this thread trapped in the West...c'mon you guys over East hop in.....

This thread is great as it is bringing up pics of top spots far and wide which I might not see otherwise....

Name the beach campground.......

[joey Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close joey]

THATS GOT TO BE THE DAINTREE

[muzza Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close muzza]

very good

very good, can you name the beach campground though.....

[Chippy Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chippy]

That headland looks a bit like Newell Beach ... but there's a few headlands out that way

Cheers
Chippy

[zookcubr Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close zookcubr]

Good to see its headed over to the otherside of OZ, hopefully it will start heading South so I can guess one of them, although its great to see what I havn't seen yet.

[muzza Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close muzza]

well

Well, Daintree it is , but there aren't that many beach camping grounds....can we have a name and then a winner?

Daintree is too easy........which beach?

[lofty Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close lofty]

Re: well

Well, Daintree it is , but there aren't that many beach camping grounds....can we have a name and then a winner?

Daintree is too easy........which beach?

.............um........the big flat one...........the one with the sign about the stingers..................you know the one...............lotsa trees........somewhere up in the Daintree............its....its....ahrgh man!!........help me please!!!

NFI :twisted: sorry couldn't resist :twisted: