Pick This Place

Damn,........
That was quick

Ha! Just noticed it's a pic I had already uploaded to Places a while back...... Doh !
Might have to choose more carefully.
Cheers,

Was there three weeks ago. Dam nearly empty. Still a great spot to camp.
Cheers

pmk - could you also please open the webpage for this Place - Niagara Dam and enter a description (note there are two place markers for this spot - one is the campsite, and the other is the nature reserve. There is also a place marker for the dump point.

Hi Michelle,
My pic was already in there,
Thanks

Hi Stephen

Looks similar to the stone wall dams in the Gawler Ranges, but can't single it out
Probably wrong though.
Paul

Hi Paul,

Well you are correct with the state of South Australia, but not the Gawler Ranges.

Another hint....you have to detour to see this and is over 2 kilometres from a main track

def looks like the stone work used in outback SA - looks like Strangeways?

Many Hundreds of kilometres from the Oodnadatta Track, sorry Michelle

Yes I forgot to look at the surrounding countryside - nowhere near as remote as Oodnadatta....!

further west

Is this Wurarga?

Sorry Michelle, no

Near Minnipa?
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

Hi Peter,

Well north of Minnipa

Looks like it is getting most people stumped.

I have taken 1 other EO Member there, so he will not be allowed to give away the answer.

Here are some more clews to its location.......

It is just north of the Stations old dump site....


Keep Guessing......looks like I am on a winner here.

This won't take me long going through all your blog xxx ! looking for photos to match LOL :))

Ha Ha

Yes keep looking Nick, it is in one of them, but not sure if I mentioned the location.

That granite looks like part of the Gawler Craton formation, so maybe Lake Everard Station?
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

Lake Everard Area ?

Hi Peter and Paul,

You are now getting close, but not close enough.....it is north west of Lake Everard

hahah..... I got it !!! ....what do i win
i messaged you with answer

I was actually at Lois and Nalara Rocks a couple of weeks ago, but I did not see the dam wall.:(
Must be one of the dams/tanks just east of the dog fence.
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

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Sorry Peter, not there, but Nick has an announce to make, but does he know what station it is on.

Well found Nick

Well found Nick, persistence has paid off.

Are you now going to keep everyone guessing, or are you going to tell them what you found.


Well done mate


Stephen

kychering hill .>
Malbooma station ?

Now to work on Michelle's photo :)))
shes not giving away much LOL

Well there you go !
Have only ever travelled to the east at the top of Googs Track at Malbooma, looks like next time I need to look a little to the west.
That was a good one !
Cheers

Well won Nick, the Fredo Frog is in the mail......if only I knew your postal address......lol

And for those of you that still have no idea where Malbooma Station is, it is on the Trans Access line road, a major public access road that takes hundreds of tourists each year to and from Googs Track, back through Kingooya and then a hop, skip and jump to the Stuart Highway and Glendambo

It is great country out there, red sand, mulga for a perfect campfire and of course, granite outscrps.

Thanks everyone for trying to find this special, out of the way location.


Stephen

Good one Stephen - now to ensure we get this photo and the info/description and any other photos of the Place into Places - to do this I've already opened your photo and clicked the Advanced tab and entered the Place name so the photo will now appear on the Malbooma Station Place page. As you've been there - and clearly not many of us have, can you put in the Place description. Click Description and you'll see in the INFO panel there is an EDIT button, click this and just type your words. Thanks!

Hi Michelle

Somewhere in Western Australia?

May as well get the state correct first..



Cheers


Stephen

Plenty highway?

Tanami Rd ?

No hints at this early stage of the game sorry, keep guessing.

Just South of Curtain Springs, Mt Connor? Been a few years since I was there...probably wrong..

The country looks very much like my old stomping ground , central Aust , low scrub red sand & stony pillars beautiful rangers but i cant say seen is familia ....
i'll take a guess say old stuart hwy south of alice

On the way out to Chambers Pillar?

Ok so I've given you all day but sadly no one is right yet. Stephen L is closest as he has the right State which is WA. I'll give you all two clues - the location is north of Tropic of Capricorn and the place is featured in one of our Trek Notes...

Munjina Road, Michelle?

Bob

Kidson Track

Sorry Bob no its not.

Hi Michell

Is it the Puntawarri Track

Accessible by caravan in dry weather!

ok folks,its time to reveal...this is the Shay Gap Road! Also known as Boreline Road. Its accessible almost opposite 80 mile beach and heads to Nullagine. See our Trek Note - East Pilbara Diversion. Shay Gap itself was a mining community and the region is spectacular, this pic taken a long time ago but is the view heading south as you approach the range that is the actual gap. Its just a big quiet gravel road we loved it.

Thanks, Michelle - that's a very picturesque view. I've never been along the Boreline Rd.
I was last at Shay Gap in mid-Feb 1994, when the place shut down, and they auctioned off all the remnant mine equipment, buildings, and spare parts.
There were hundreds of people at the auction, and it was around 43-44 degrees every day!
I came in from the South, via Marble Bar, and camped on the banks of the De Grey, near Muccanoo Pool. There were people camped everywhere there was a clear space!
When I was camped on the riverbank, the most intense, the most violent, and the most frightening electrical storm I have ever endured, came right over the top of me!
I've coped with a lot of storms - but this one was exceptional, with massive lightning strikes running into dozens every minute, and most within a few hundred metres of me!
I'm not afraid to admit, that I cowered in the back of the 80 series, like a rabbit in a warren with a fox at the entrance, for what seemed like eternity! I sure was glad when that storm dissipated after a couple of hours!

Cheers, Ron.

Boreline Road! Should have known that. It’s a favourite.
All being well I will be heading north up that road to the Kimberley two weeks tomorrow,

A few more photos of the spectacular Shay Gap region:

Thanks for posting the better photos John and Ron what a GREAT story! I too would cowered but probably cried too. Not a fan of noisy electrical storms. Lots of iron ore in the ground I suspect!?