willedoo Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Street view images - guess where? Hint: can get a bit cold in winter (no, not Tasmania). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Looks like The Territory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted May 16, 2020 Author Share Posted May 16, 2020 (edited) It does, but it's Santa Cruz Province in Argentina, on about the same latitude as the Falklands. Amazing how so much country around the world looks like Australia. Comparing these two, top photo is Argentina, bottom photo is the Eyre Highway just out of Port Augusta. And this photo in Siberia could easily be mistaken for the Darling Downs in Queensland. Edited May 16, 2020 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 I was quite surprised to see how much of Spain looks like rural Australia. Little wonder the Spanish missionaries settled in quite well at New Norcia in 1846, when it was still "Tiger country". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 In Broken Hill I had friends from Rajahstan. When I eventually went there it was just like Broken Hill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted May 16, 2020 Author Share Posted May 16, 2020 Another place was Burma, back in the mid 80's. We were driving through the dry plains in the centre where there were eucalyptus plantations. Between the dry country and the gum trees, you could swear you were in Australia. Amazing how the smell of a gum tree can make you homesick when you've been away for a fair while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted May 16, 2020 Author Share Posted May 16, 2020 New Norcia Had to look that one up; it's quite a story. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 (edited) Edited May 17, 2020 by Guest 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Something went wrong here. I only intended one photo and then couldn't put in text, my stuffing around added 2 m ore. That was on the Stuart Highway I think. On the same trip I was walking in the Olgas and the Roulettes came and did a display overhead. Must have been practice for the display they did later that day over The Alice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Shopped innit? No shadow. . Nev 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted May 17, 2020 Share Posted May 17, 2020 Shopped innit? No shadow. . No disturbance of the grass by propwash. Sunlight glinting off the wing root. It's a long way from Montana to the Stuart Hwy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Would I do such a thing? I once had a one man photo exhibition titled "The camera never LIES" Every photo created in the darkroom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Yeah. I used to say, "Trust me. I'm with the Government." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 Another Google Maps screen grab. It could be mistaken for the drive into Cunnamulla, but it's the Eurasian Steppe just east of Volgograd (Stalingrad). The reason I was looking at it is that I'm reading Antony Beevor's book 'Stalingrad' and he was describing the view of the Steppe the Germans got when they reached the higher west bank of the Volga. If you photoshopped some kangaroos into the photo you wouldn't know the difference from some of our inland country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 You would. That blacktop is in pretty good nick. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 ....for a Queensland Outback road...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 There are only two types of Qld road. Rough and roadworks. The roadworks go on for months at a time, often with nothing happening except the speed restrictions. I think even the police are fed up with them as they don't seem to book people for speeding when nothing is happening. Fancy 40kph for a backhoe working about 1m off the side of the road. A piece of machinery beside the road for aver a month and not used, someone has money to burn. At least it keeps the unemployment down, there are more working the stop go signs than there are building the roads. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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