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Sheba


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People do live there, and Trawlers lay up there in bad weather.  The area [ further north,] has a double-bunger name.



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I believe I have seen this view in passing quite a lot of years back now.

Its the defence hut is my thoughts I may of seen.

Portland Roads up on Cape York Qld. 



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Wujal wujal

 Sure I seen it, your hint helped



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Sorry Lorraine, not Wujal Wujal.    Ralph has it.   Portland Roads it is.

Where to now Ralph ? 



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Thank you Sheba.

1998 we were there, back a couple a months ago I was looking at paper photographs of that awesome Cape York trip and thinking I might scan them and make a slide show. One day.

 

OK, Where are we today?

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A heritage city I believe

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Bill B wrote:

A heritage city I believe

 Yes, old world a little.



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Radar, I believe you are in Queens Park Maryborough Q.

That is the band rotunda with the court house in the background.

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Hi Bill B, well done.

Queens Park, Maryborough Qld.

 

Where are taking us next?



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Where would this lady be found ?

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Bill B I am following this one with interest.

The lady must be a pioneer person, maybe a school teacher but have know idea where.



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She represents pioneering women

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Does she have something to do with the Land Army?

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JeffRae wrote:

Does she have something to do with the Land Army?




Don't know what happened with previous reply.

She represents pioneering women.

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Was she a teacher?

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Somewhere near the "Black Stump"? Perhaps she became the black stump as a result of an accident?

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JeffRae wrote:

Was she a teacher?




Not that I know. She isn't a specific person, as I said it is a memorial to the pioneering women of a certain area.

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BazzMann48 wrote:

Somewhere near the "Black Stump"? Perhaps she became the black stump as a result of an accident?




Nowhere near a blackstump biggrin

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Okay to pull this in. It is in Merriwagga. This memorial is next to the memorial of Mrs. Barbara Blain. In the area around Merriwagga you have the Black Stump Tank, the Black Stump Well and Swamp. The story of Mrs. Blain goes that her husband had left her to set up camp whilst he attended to the animals and whilst he was away Mrs. Blain's clothing caught on fire and she perished and her husband on returning thought her body looked like a black stump. The memorial pictured represents the hardships of pioneering times. Have not been there but will put it on my list for next we're down that way.



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Where to next Gayle ?

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Thanks Bill BDSCN1549.JPG.  Now to find a photo.  This is part of a mural and I took this photo recently.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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What's on the other side of the wall that they are looking at.......a Rodeo?
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The mural is painted on the side of a shop in the main street of this town.

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Mount Isa ?

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Way to far north Bill B. but in the right state.

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How about Alpha ?

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No, not Alpha. Keep on coming down. There is also a painted water tower in this town done by the same artists.

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Just a guess.

Tambo Qld.



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Still too high up.

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Augathella ?

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