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Whether you have been here before or not.. WELCOME! I'm
not much of a photographer but I enjoy taking photos that [to me] seem unusual or interesting. Sometimes I think they are funny, sometimes strange and sometimes R rated. In any case you are encouraged to put comments in the visitors book. I hope I can make you smile or even giggle a bit.
At the "Stockmans Challenge" in Cloncurry. The aim was
to
chase that poor terrified calf to make it run three circles. If I had
also got him to run between some red posts (out of site to the right) I would
have got some extra points. The horse was just not up to
it.
&
They gave me a second chance but by this time the horse was too tired.
Embarassing! this young chick (Jaimie Kreisch - an
expert)
showed me how it's done in a minute or so.
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At Porcupine Gorge we had a site in "Pyramid Camping
Ground". It was a hell of a lot better than Hughenden's RV Friendly area. At
Hughenden, on the day we arrived, we had clouds of dust stirred up by the "juveniles" who were working
in the adjoining showground. The dust was so bad we packed up
our sleeping
bag and moved under another tree about 72 klms to the north - called
Porcupine Gorge, pictured.
A feature of Porcupine Gorge is this pyramid carved out by millions of years of erosion by the Porcupine Creek. No, it's not a quarry! The camp ground was obviously named because of this little bit of rock.
From the lookout beside the camping area the view to the
left is .. .. .. breath taking.
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And to the right is just as good. One of our hikes was
to the foot of that pyramid shape in the distance.
OK Connie, we have to go up there. You go first and I'll
catch you if you fall back down.
This is one of the layers that you can see as you climb
down into the gorge. The layers from top to bottom are Mudstone,
Conglomerate, Dark sandstone, White sandstone (I guess that's the one pictured).
These sediments were deposited by ancient rivers during the period between 5
million and 280 million years ago. Further below them is Conglomerate deposited
by glaciers, Schists and Gneiss Metamorphics formed 500 million years ago. Hell!
that's before I was born.
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This pic was taken when we finally got to the foot of
the pyramid -
to prove we did it.
There is still some water trickling along the stream but
it has been raging torrents in ancient times -
but not this week as far as I know.
&
The 11 klm walk back up out of the gorge was horrendous. This
is one of the easier stretches. I couldn't use the camera in the difficult
parts - mainly because I kept passing out.
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