Video: John Forrest Marked Trees - Carnegie Station
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Hi all,
When
John Forrest went across the deserts in 1874 he left his mark as he went.
He blazed trees with his initial, and the number of the
camp from
Geraldton.
Recently, I and others (guess who) went to revisit the trees where he had blazed the numbers 50, 51 and 52.
We started at
Mount Moore.
Note that the pole now sticking out of the cairn closely resembles the pole lying next to the cairn in a picture in 1974.
The tree F-50 was down on the flat - I spent an hour looking for it.
We also saw a geological feature:
Slikenside, where two
rock masses slide against one another.
Amazing.
Slikenside
and found a
rockhole:
This RH had not been serviced for a while.
Rockhole
We went along a Mustering Track - straight past F-51 (see vid).
F-52 we had been to before though how Wells and others found this again is really amazing.
I have created
places here:
John Forrest Tree F-50 - WAJohn Forrest Tree F-51 - WAJohn Forrest Tree F-52 - WA
Cheers
Alan