Where's Lasseter's Reef???

G'day Doug
I'm sure if any of us were positive about the location, we sure as damn it wouldn't be on this Forum either.
He actually died at Irving Creek, about 90 miles West of Ayers Rock. There is a little monument (difficult to locate) about 100 yds up the Creek on the North side of Tjukururu Rd. We've been there and to his cave- a bit further to the West.
Maybe some day I'll stumble onto the reef (Dream,,Dream,,Dream)...

Read that book, if you could call it that. Had a few holes in the story I thought.
He battled his way east fromfrom the eastern Mcdonnell ranges for quite a few dayd to his Reef, which he recons he found, then further east for a day & half to the "outskirts of Boulia.
On his next trip he did the same . If it was only just west of Boulia, why waste all that time & chance of getting lost ?
Seemed strange
Vince

Equinox, whats the name of the book ?

Footy,

A Dead Man's Dream - Lasseter's Reef Found
by Angie Testa and Bill Decarli

Equinox, thanks. That must be the only book on the topic that I havent read.

Footlose,
Another one is"Lasseter.....In quest of gold" By Billy Marshall-Stoneking

Hairy, what's his angle, as opposed to the hundreds of other books ?

According to the back of the book....
"Billy Marshall-Stoneking is a poet, freelance film producer and writter. He lived for four years in the "Lasseter country" ,amoung the Pintupi people at Papunya Settlement in the Northern Territory, and was given access to information previously known only to the local Aborigines"
Ill send it to you if you want, Its falling apart a bit but its all there.
Cheers

Hairy, thanks for your kind offer, but my old and feeble mind has remembered the guys works. Whilst he obviously has merit in his fields, I'd be surprised if he's equipped to be able to sort out the facts from the local yarns :)) (and no, neither am I )

Hey dont feel bad!
I had to read the back of the book...couldnt even remember what it was about!!!
LOL

Mate, in the 60's a saw a convoy of vehicles in Sydney which were headed out to search for the reef. Signs everywhere, been hooked ever since. Read everything I could, poked around asking questions here and there. Checked a few likely places.
Now this is going to sound crazy, but it isn't the Gold that fascinates me, but the puzzle. Was the guy a dreamer and perpetuate his fantasy that he was prepared to die for; or a mis understood visionary?
An example
Around the Lake Christopher area AFAIK there's not supposed to be any gold, its the wrong type of country. The same to the south, sand hill and Mulga country.
But recently large exploration companies have discovered gold in seams under the ground, and are (or were) negotiating with the locals. So what does that prove?
Perhaps nothing. But perhaps it proves that you just can't be sure of much in that country :))
It is probably just a huge furphy. But for now it's an Australian mystery. And we're a pretty young country, so we can use all the mysteries we can come up with :))

Yeh it used to be quite common to see a group of 4wds heading out of Alice in search of the famous reef. Never saw them come back with much though.
Maybe Lasseter was just a burgler and didnt want anyone to know what he was up to!
LOL

Yea Vince
Just send $10 to my Post Box...oh, and by the way, I've got a second hand Harbour Bridge for sale !!! 75yrs old, but got a bit of life in it yet.

PS. Got ya whip antenna on yet--I'm good for a Selcall test when you're ready..

Yes, on & working a treat. Spoke to St Marys Base (TAS) with 5x5 which was great as I was in the drivway at home. What about 1930 tonight ?
Vince

Will call you Ch 2 tonite 1930...

And a few k's north of Pt Augusta too.

Thanks for those clues; I'm doing a search on google earth now.... I'll split it with you two.

Relatively little of Australia has been scanned by side scanning radar. It's a slow and very expensive exercise.
Lassiter staked his life on the story told by his dying mate IMHO he hadn't a clue in that country. The only twin peaks that fit the description are to the east of Alice near the old diggings.

Yep, that's one way of looking at it....on the other hand, if you take a positive approach much of his story adds up.

You are certainly right, everything about the story adds up.......... that is up until the part about the gold reef which mysteriously only dead men have seen:-)
Cheers Craig..........

Crackles, apparently that's not quite right according to some. e.g. Site Link
Must either be true or there's a lot of very public liars out there :)))

Lake Christopher,,,,,,,,,,Found it.

Hmmm,,,,,,,,I'll be passing through that way about Sept/Oct this year, hopefully. I might have a squizzy while I'm there,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Now where's that geo map,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Bilbo

Plenty of gold out that way according to some of the locals...but they don't like you looking for it !!

"Pom",

Because there's no gold left in NSW, but there's plenty of "NSWaliens" want to comer here to W.A. and steal ours!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

When the detecting season's "on" over here, it's worse than the "Rush of Grey Nomads" to Queensland!!

;)

Bilbo - "The stop 'em at the border, Hobbit"

the yella stuff, was properly yella cake,,, but don't tell johnny boy

Or maybe he found the gold at the top of that hill and did not want to let on so he played dumb and said his chronometer was out of wack etc etc?????? :-)