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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1375 on: December 31, 2017, 08:56:56 am »

I bet the skipper got an ear bending over the cottages
How about this one? And what's the significance of the craters in the face of the mountain?
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1376 on: January 06, 2018, 01:45:20 am »


Clue please...   {:-{
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1377 on: January 06, 2018, 01:53:27 am »

Townsville in northern Queensland  :-X....................
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1378 on: January 06, 2018, 01:55:38 am »

118 kilometres north of Brisbane[/size]
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1379 on: January 06, 2018, 08:26:57 am »



the question is, has it got anything to do with maritime theme which was the theme of the thread I set up yonks ago. <:( O0


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rules are simple..guess where and then put your own place with a nautical theme for the next person to guess"

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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1380 on: January 06, 2018, 08:29:32 am »

Yes
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1381 on: January 06, 2018, 12:06:16 pm »

A rum place perhaps?

Would have most displeased if it had been Townsville.

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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1382 on: January 06, 2018, 03:48:26 pm »


A rum place perhaps?

Would have most displeased if it had been Townsville.

LB


is that a subtle clue as to head lands close to Bundaberg, QLD,  Jon.
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1383 on: January 06, 2018, 04:36:04 pm »

Could be Neil, 'yer never know do 'yer.

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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1384 on: January 06, 2018, 04:52:07 pm »

had a trip round that distillery with a mate once.......had to find a hotel to stay in for a night till we'd sobered up and could ride our bikes back to Murwillumbah and the trip back down to Canberra............the sweetest nectar I had tasted to that date..........wonderful, lol...........mind you the ride wasn't too sweet, lol.
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1385 on: January 06, 2018, 05:20:32 pm »

Mount Coolum? The columns of hard magma formed the cracks but not sure of a nautical link.
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1386 on: January 06, 2018, 10:29:16 pm »


Mount Coolum? The columns of hard magma formed the cracks but not sure of a nautical link.


your guess as good as mine Tombsy
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1387 on: January 06, 2018, 10:57:06 pm »

Ok, Mt Coolum it is. The nautical link. During the second world war, much to the displeasure of the local tribe of aboriginals who own the mountain, the The Royal Australian Navy used it as target practice and blew great chunks out of the rock. The navy have since apologised for  their act of desecration.


I happen to live at the top of the close
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1388 on: January 06, 2018, 10:59:20 pm »

Well Geoff...folk from down South well know Coolabah Wines O0, but cannot find Mount Coolum on Google  %)

Come to think of it......the closest to the Equator that I have ventured was on an evening dinner cruise of the Brisbane River :kiss:.....and that ain't near your Mount Coolum land 

Derek

PS...for Neil.....Coolabah Wines are far nicer than that Sugary Syrup pigs piddle <*< from up Bundy way
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1389 on: January 06, 2018, 11:08:18 pm »

Goodness Geoff....after reading this, clearly the place must exist if our RAN Gunnary Department found it  :-X

At a similar time during early WWII, the Navy of the USA offered to use the eastern shoreline of NSW just north of Coalcliff as gunnery practice and blow  <*< all of the rocky coastline away for use as an improved train railway between Wollongong & Sydney

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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1390 on: January 06, 2018, 11:27:22 pm »

I would love to know how Brian found the correct answer as the picture has never been posted on the www before. The 118 k from Brissy was very precise though.
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1391 on: January 06, 2018, 11:28:09 pm »


Ok, Mt Coolum it is. The nautical link. During the second world war, much to the displeasure of the local tribe of aboriginals who own the mountain, the The Royal Australian Navy used it as target practice and blew great chunks out of the rock. The navy have since apologised for  their act of desecration.


I happen to live at the top of the close


a very tenuous link there if I might say so.........at least a picture with water in and a bullnose shark up the river could have passed for nautical, but a rock with chunks out of it.................well.......ya gotta have quite an imagination for that one matey. lol............oh well....................over to you Tombsy........pick a guddun............preferably with some watter in at least,  {-) {-) {-) %% %% %% %%
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1392 on: January 06, 2018, 11:32:21 pm »

I have to say Neil that I was merely treading in the footsteps of our illustrious Admin with his Wisbech clue :-)) :D :D :D
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1393 on: January 06, 2018, 11:36:28 pm »

Just downloaded GOOGLE for Northerners.....

So OK, here it is just confirm the address & we will be over for a BBQ tonight  :P ...with a box of Chateaux de Cardboard 
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1394 on: January 06, 2018, 11:39:08 pm »



Derek

PS...for Neil.....Coolabah Wines are far nicer than that Sugary Syrup pigs piddle <*< from up Bundy way
don't normally like rum Derek, but I do like liqueurs and especially Quantreau and Grand Marnier......... and Bundaberg is very close to a sweet sickly liqueur...


as for Coolabah wines.........are you pulling my pinkey blue............I've heard of hunter valley and Barossa and Clare valley wines I used to go to at Easter time with my mates who lived in Adelaide to do the tours...............but never heard of Coolabah..........anywhere near Penfolds..........That was like paint stripper years ago, but certainly improved considerably in recent years.
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1395 on: January 06, 2018, 11:44:46 pm »

Coolabah wines are what we call Cask Wines. A sort of foil bladder full of wine packaged in a cardboard box, usually cheap, but some are ok...ish
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1396 on: January 06, 2018, 11:53:07 pm »

Yes Neil.....things have changed....Chateaux de Cardboard  wines are available at all liquor outlets for ~~$2.00 per litre

Many varieties...reds, pinks, whites although all still some are  :P OK, some probably would make good paint stripper

Geoff being a man from the far Northern Coolum reaches would probably prefer his Chateaux de Cardboard as a 2017 vintage chilled Pin Wah-de Gree {-)
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1397 on: January 06, 2018, 11:56:16 pm »

More likely Chateaux Dunny mate ok2
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1398 on: January 07, 2018, 12:02:22 am »


Coolabah wines are what we call Cask Wines. A sort of foil bladder full of wine packaged in a cardboard box, usually cheap, but some are ok...ish


They were the ones we'd take to Batemans Bay for a beach party and bbq..........and once finished we could blow them back up and use as a pillow,  %% %% %% %) :o
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Re: Where in the world?
« Reply #1399 on: January 07, 2018, 01:16:38 am »

The 118km was the ticket then I just played tourist on Google :), okay hope it’s not too easy.
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