History Picture - Where is it.

Reply By: Member - John - Monday, May 29, 2023 at 16:10

Reply By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Monday, May 29, 2023 at 18:06

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Reply By: Kenell - Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 18:40

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 18:40

The photo is nothing special but the subject tugs at the heart strings a bit. I will detail the inscription when the guessing is done.

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Follow Up By: Member - Mark (Tamworth NSW) - Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 19:07

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 19:07

No idea, but I will start the hunt to solicit some clues.
NSW somewhere ?
Thick regrowth vegetation, red soil, looks like Sorrel in the foreground.

Been to Carnarvon Gorge three times, going again in a couple of weeks, I was out when it was posted.

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 19:17

Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 19:17

No Mark - its in Vic. Its reasonably isolated and generally only visited by 4wd although a 2wd could get there.

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 07:01

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 07:01

Hi Kenell,

Can I have two guesses?

First is Tallbotville. I will wait on your response before posting my other answer.

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 08:22

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 08:22

You are in the right vicinity Macca but no cigar.

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Follow Up By: Member - Lloyd M - Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 09:53

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 09:53

Is it Dog's Grave ? If it is its had a few alterations since I last visited it.
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Follow Up By: Kenell - Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 10:23

Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 10:23

Correct - it is dog's grave that sits between Dargo and Omeo. Incidentally the photo is around 8 years old and there is or at least was a hut there now. I have attached the actual epitaph which is available online with a history explanation. Google Dog's Grave.

Over to you Lloyd for the next pic.

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Reply By: Member - McLaren3030 - Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 07:01

Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 07:01

How about this one.

Somewhere in the great outdoors

I will be AFK for a while, so if I may not reply unlit later today.

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 07:13

Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 07:13

Hi Macca

It’s going to be one of our major Outback highways.

With that type of vegetation, looks similar to the Tanami, but don’t recall those 2 large poles.

My other guess the Plenty, but again don’t recall those posts.

Sorry, I know I have not given the correct answer.

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 07:19

Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 07:19

Yes Stephen, you are in the correct part of the country.

It is an Iconic spot, so really need the exact location.

EDIT: The two poles did have something on them in the past.

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Follow Up By: Banjo (WA) - Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 08:09

Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 08:09

EDIT: The two poles did have something on them in the past.
I'm guessing it wasn't ice.

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Follow Up By: Member - John - Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 17:44

Thursday, Jun 01, 2023 at 17:44

The Eastern end of the Abandoned section of the Gunbarrel Highway?

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 06:56

Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 06:56

Hi John,

No, it is a bit further south than the Gunbarrel. Stephen had the correct road, but at over 400 kms long, need the exact spot.

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 08:21

Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 08:21

Is it the Tanami where it crosses the WA / NT border?

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 08:26

Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 08:26

If it’s south of the Gunbarrel, the closest main road would be the GCR…Great Central Road, but that’s well over 400 Km long?

Another clue?

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 17:22

Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 17:22

Well done Kenell, you got it. Some one has nicked the sign from that side of the road, leaving the posts. The sign just past my car is the Welcome to Halls Creek Shire sign.

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 18:04

Friday, Jun 02, 2023 at 18:04

This one is a little easier and will be obvious to anyone who has been there.

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Where is it

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:22

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:22

West McDonnell Ranges, possibly Red Bank Gorge?

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:51

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:51

Sorry Macca. Head east and a bit north.

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:55

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 07:55

Before I say a location, could you please tell me I am on the right track?

State : Queensland?

Location : north of Hughenden?

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 08:01

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 08:01

Qld it is.

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 08:44

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 08:44

Is it Cobbold Gorge?

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 09:17

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Correct - Cobbold Gorge it is.

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 09:22

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 09:22

Without hogging it, will give someone else, or even you to put up another photo to try and stump us.

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 11:57

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Good luck with this one then.

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Follow Up By: Member - John - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 13:03

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 13:03

Australia...............

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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 13:09

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 13:09

Cape York……………..or the Top End?

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 14:03

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 14:03

Certainly Australia - top end but not Cape York.

Further hint - South of CY - (yeah I know the whole of Oz is south of CY) and west.

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 14:40

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 14:40

Great photo Kenell and looks like it will take a few more hints.

Looks like somewhere where there are savanna woodlands and looks like local heavy rain and covered the area, why the mass of great wildflowers and the water that is still in place has not dried our yet.

Certainly not flooded floodplains, as all the areas up north that have the flooded floodplains have some form of paperbark trees, that cope with being flooded for a long time.

Any more hints……lol

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 18:08

Saturday, Jun 03, 2023 at 18:08

Does this assist?

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 07:34

Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 07:34

Lorella Springs?

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 08:12

Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 08:12

That'll be it. Lorella Springs it is.

My next hint was going to be - if you haven't been there yet you probably never will.

Anyway Macca - your serve.

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 08:39

Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 08:39

Well done Macca

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Reply By: Member - McLaren3030 - Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 13:02

Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 13:02

New Photo, this may be difficult if you have not been there.

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 13:20

Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 13:20

First hint Macca, is that a young Boab tree or Bottle Tree in the foreground?

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Follow Up By: Bob Y. - Qld - Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 17:59

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Was going to suggest Stretch Lagoon, Macca, but don’t recall any Boabs there when we did the CSR in 2019.

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 18:09

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Stephen & Bob,

Yes it is a Boab Tree.

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 18:16

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Thanks Macca, so that rules out Queensland.

Well the home of Boabs is the Kimberley and the section of the NT through to Katherine.

So now for the next hint please.

Is it in the NT or WA.?

My bet is WA ?

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 18:18

Sunday, Jun 04, 2023 at 18:18

Hi Stephen,

W.A.

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Follow Up By: Lewis C2 - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 04:41

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 06:37

Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 06:37

It looks like this picture might have been a bit too obscure. It was taken in the South East Kimberley region on W.A. a few kilometres west of Fitzroy Crossing. It is known as Lakeside Campground or Lake Ellendale, on Ellendale Station on the Great Northern Highway. No facilities, but a great place to camp and relax.

Over to someone else.

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Follow Up By: Kenell - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 07:44

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Good one Macca. I have been to the Kimberley a few times but can't recall that spot. Will check it out next time though.

In searching my albums I find its a fine line between obscurity and familiarity.

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Reply By: Peter_n_Margaret - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 11:07

Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 11:07

One to keep it going.

Where is this?

I reckon everyone here would have seen this open air picture theatre. It is still operating.
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Follow Up By: Nomadic Navara - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 13:21

Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 13:21

In Qld?

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Follow Up By: Peter_n_Margaret - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 15:21

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No, it is in SA. A feature in the main street of an iconic town that you would know but is rarely explored.
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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 15:57

Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 15:57

Iron Knob?

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Follow Up By: Member - Outback Gazz - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 16:09

Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 16:09

Hey Peter

There would be thousands of people on here who would have driven through or fuelled up in that town !

Ran my tours in and through there so I will say nothing :)

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 16:30

Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 16:30

I think it is on one of Australia’s iconic outback roads, but I will let someone else have a shot.

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Follow Up By: Member - Outback Gazz - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 17:49

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Hey Macca

I think you and I must have been politicians in a previous life - we seem to be good at passing the buck lol

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Follow Up By: Peter_n_Margaret - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 19:11

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Not Iron Knob Stephen. You have been there :)
The local school children make cup cakes and pop corn to sell. The next film to show will be "Grease".
It is a great community event in an iconic town on my favorite iconic track in Australia. You can not drive through this town without driving past this theatre,
We need a new pic. Who will give the answer?
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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:03

Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:03

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Tibooburra?

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Follow Up By: Peter_n_Margaret - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:13

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Not Tibooburra Allan. :(
Come to SA.
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Follow Up By: Peter_n_Margaret - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:18

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Another pic, again from the main street of this town that virtually everyone here would have driven past :)

Where are we?

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Follow Up By: Stephen L (Clare) SA - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:22

Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:22

Looks like some of the houses in Marree

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Follow Up By: JOHN C36 - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:26

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Oodnadatta outdoor picture theatre

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Follow Up By: Peter_n_Margaret - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:28

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Not Marree Stephen.
I find this quite incredible.
Another pic from the main street o this town.

Where are we?

It sometimes amases me how little we actually see in places we think we know.
Oodnadatta it is, John C36. Well done.....
Where will you take us?
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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:39

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Well Woomera, or rather Woomera West, had an outdoor theatre with bench seats like that but that was 65 years ago. So I very much doubt that was it or that they would still screen there!
Nup, got me beat, and I spent the first half of my life in SA.

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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:46

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Wait on…… John has nailed it….. Oodnadatta.

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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:49

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I may have got that in much earlier if this EO site was a little faster in loading!!!!!

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Reply By: JOHN C36 - Tuesday, Jun 06, 2023 at 20:52

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Simpson desert?

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Follow Up By: JOHN C36 - Wednesday, Jun 07, 2023 at 17:27

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Sorry Macca, it is not the Simpson Desert. You were closer when you suggested the CSR.

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Follow Up By: JOHN C36 - Wednesday, Jun 07, 2023 at 20:03

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Hema - Great Desert Tracks - North West map shows the location and the descriptive annotation.

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Follow Up By: JOHN C36 - Wednesday, Jun 07, 2023 at 22:00

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The location is in the second largest desert in Australia.

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Follow Up By: Member - McLaren3030 - Thursday, Jun 08, 2023 at 06:39

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Perhaps the Anne Beadell Highway in the Great Victoria Desert. As I haven’t yet travelled the ABH, the specific location of the tree and the lakes eludes me.

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Follow Up By: JOHN C36 - Thursday, Jun 08, 2023 at 08:45

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Another good suggestion but no cigar.

The largest deserts in Australia.

1.Great Victoria Desert. 348,750 square km.

2. Great Sandy Desert. 267,250 square km.

3.Tanami Desert. 184,500 square km.

4.Simpson Desert. 176,500 square km.

5. Gibson Desert. 156,000 square km.

The mystery location is in the Great Sandy Desert. The name of the location is ———————— Lakes.

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Follow Up By: JOHN C36 - Thursday, Jun 08, 2023 at 10:27

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The annotation on Hema’s map.

This extremely isolated spot is situated 5-7 hours drive east of the Wapet Rd. The access track is rough and becoming overgrown. Elegant white ghost gums provide a number of shady bush camp sites.

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Follow Up By: Peter_n_Margaret - Thursday, Jun 08, 2023 at 10:46

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Gwenneth Lakes.
Now that IS a remote spot!

Gwenneth Lakes, HEMA GDT.

I will start another thread to get it back to the top.
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Follow Up By: JOHN C36 - Thursday, Jun 08, 2023 at 11:32

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Well done Peter. It is a remote spot and quite beautiful thanks to all the ghost gums and lakes. I was attracted to the area by Hema’s description. I saw no other vehicles in the area or on the Wapet Road/Kidson Track/Nyangumarta Highway between Gary Junction Road and the Great Northern Highway.

This is the sign visible in my initial photo.