Carves
06-10-2012, 08:35 AM
Was going to head off to Keepit Dam to see if it was leaking after the little ground tremble the other night ..... but it seemed pointless and I couldn't be bothered ... :D
So I went Yowie hunting in the Pillaga instead ........... another pointless exercise ... :smiley-laughing021:
First stop ... an old homestead - resumed by National Parks. House was bulldozed over as usual .... but there was a bit of stuff to still have a poke around ...
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-07b.jpg..
Shoulda changed the oil while I was there ... ;)
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-12b.jpg
Typical driving conditions for the area ...
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-15b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-16b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-18b.jpg
Have seen places like this in american movies .... tourists cars hidden in lonely spots and all the tourists hanging on meat hooks in the shed ....
Ooops ... Time to go ... I can hear banjoes ... :p .. :D
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-19b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-20b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-22b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-23b.jpg
Poor little jeep ...
All lonely and abandoned in the aussie scrub ....... for all of 5min :rolleyes:
... If you listen carefully you can hear it whimpering ... :D
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-31b.jpg
I hate us human beings sometimes ... :mad:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-32b.jpg
Old wooden causeway ... just about gone ...
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-33b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-37b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-38b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-41b.jpg
This was nearly a whoopsy ... whole place is a quagmire waiting to happen after a bit of rain ... The more you play in it - the deeper you go ... some patches are a bit like quicksand - no bottom to it.
Noooo .... big knobby tyres and difflocks dont help ... they just help you sink out of sight quicker ... :smiley-scared002:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-42b.jpg
Under ....
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-43b.jpg
... and over ................................................ nahhhh ... not really .. :D
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-44b.jpg
Wildlife tracks ... our furry grasshopper ... and a bush chook.
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-24b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-47b.jpg
Nuther causeway ...
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-48b.jpg
Double creek crossing .... Which explains the 400yards of road ... not drawn on the map .. :rolleyes:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-54b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-55b.jpg
Why do the buggers never put these signs - at the, start, of the roads I use :confused: .. :mad: .. :smiley-laughing021:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-56b.jpg
Move over Skippy ... coming thru ... Silly little sod - shoulda bolted into the scrub with his mum.
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-60b.jpg
.... and at one stage - I thought I'd staked a sidewall ... or popped a vacuum hose ...
.... but it was just the XJ giving a sigh of relief .. :D
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-62b.jpg
... must remember the gauze cover for the grille next time ... :bang:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-63b.jpg
ohhhh yeah ....... Brasscatz - Stop Googling !!! ..... :p
Bush Chooks ..... are Emu's .. :D
sighhhhhhh :rolleyes: ..... bush is scrub / chooks are chickens .... :D:D
So I went Yowie hunting in the Pillaga instead ........... another pointless exercise ... :smiley-laughing021:
First stop ... an old homestead - resumed by National Parks. House was bulldozed over as usual .... but there was a bit of stuff to still have a poke around ...
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-07b.jpg..
Shoulda changed the oil while I was there ... ;)
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-12b.jpg
Typical driving conditions for the area ...
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-15b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-16b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-18b.jpg
Have seen places like this in american movies .... tourists cars hidden in lonely spots and all the tourists hanging on meat hooks in the shed ....
Ooops ... Time to go ... I can hear banjoes ... :p .. :D
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-19b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-20b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-22b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-23b.jpg
Poor little jeep ...
All lonely and abandoned in the aussie scrub ....... for all of 5min :rolleyes:
... If you listen carefully you can hear it whimpering ... :D
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-31b.jpg
I hate us human beings sometimes ... :mad:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-32b.jpg
Old wooden causeway ... just about gone ...
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-33b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-37b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-38b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-41b.jpg
This was nearly a whoopsy ... whole place is a quagmire waiting to happen after a bit of rain ... The more you play in it - the deeper you go ... some patches are a bit like quicksand - no bottom to it.
Noooo .... big knobby tyres and difflocks dont help ... they just help you sink out of sight quicker ... :smiley-scared002:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-42b.jpg
Under ....
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-43b.jpg
... and over ................................................ nahhhh ... not really .. :D
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-44b.jpg
Wildlife tracks ... our furry grasshopper ... and a bush chook.
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-24b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-47b.jpg
Nuther causeway ...
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-48b.jpg
Double creek crossing .... Which explains the 400yards of road ... not drawn on the map .. :rolleyes:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-54b.jpg
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-55b.jpg
Why do the buggers never put these signs - at the, start, of the roads I use :confused: .. :mad: .. :smiley-laughing021:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-56b.jpg
Move over Skippy ... coming thru ... Silly little sod - shoulda bolted into the scrub with his mum.
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-60b.jpg
.... and at one stage - I thought I'd staked a sidewall ... or popped a vacuum hose ...
.... but it was just the XJ giving a sigh of relief .. :D
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-62b.jpg
... must remember the gauze cover for the grille next time ... :bang:
http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n629/carves-oz/Trip%20Pics/Pillaga%20-%20Nth/100612-63b.jpg
ohhhh yeah ....... Brasscatz - Stop Googling !!! ..... :p
Bush Chooks ..... are Emu's .. :D
sighhhhhhh :rolleyes: ..... bush is scrub / chooks are chickens .... :D:D