outback

Is that the original one from St Albans (washed away in abt 1889)? Haven't seen any images of that one to verify.

Scott Bird Hi ozbirdy, this one has had us stumped for a while. There have been suggestions that this may not be the Hawkesbury at all, so for now it remains a mystery. I will enter your suggestion into our database for our records. Hopefully one day we will be able to confidently identify it. :)

Looks more like landscape around Warragemba.

Another view of the 3-pier-wide bridge - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=15130

Possibly this one! www.flickr.com/photos/kipnewing/6201797841/in/set-7215762...

Adavale is located approximately 100 kilometres north east of Quilpie. The township was proclaimed on 3 December 1872 and by 1897 five hotels soothed the dusty throats of travellers and locals alike. The mail coach Cobb and Co stopped in the town on its way from Charleville via Cheepie to Windorah. The name Adavale has been said to derive from the horse and buggy days when in 1870 a Mr Stevens, who later became Member of Warrego 1879 to 1922 and State Treasurer, was out driving with his wife when the veil from her hat blew away. It is believed he called out 'there goes Ada's veil' hence the crossing was Ada's Veil Crossing and subsequently Adavale. Today Adavale is a much smaller township with a population of only twelve people. An Artesian bore supplies water and the town has rural power. The town is well worth a look as it is a town filled with history, stories and memories. The locals have done a marvellous job celebrating their history, culture and dry Outback humour. A mini museum, in the old butcher house, displays local relics from more than a century ago. Source: www.australianexplorer.com/adavale.htm#:~:text

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Good calls with the Fitzroy falls! It is amazing how different they look in almost every photo. Respect to Mr Hall for going out on a limb or rock shelf to get this photo. Recent photo with much more vegetation - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ianmh2011/13692313664] Earlier from other direction by John Paine (1833-1908), which shows where Mr Hall would have been -

That description in the Sydney Mail article wins The Purple Prose of the Year Award 1882 ! " ... Immediately it streams over the ledge it is divided into spray for which only feeble comparisons exist. Gossamer, lace, and down are alternately suggested as similarities, but neither conveys an adequate idea of the appearance of the fall as, swayed by the action of the breeze, it assumes the most fantastic forms. At a short distance it looks something like an undulating film of gossamer, then like a cloud of tiny feathers, until it changes into a ribbon of lace of constantly varying patterns. Millions of tiny spray drops fall gently downwards, and the imagination converts them into a shower of pearls while the clouds intercept the rays of the sun, and when these break forth again the visitor conceives himself to be gazing on a stream of diamond dust. ... ... " More if you can stand it - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/161922472

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] Ha! I never knew that!

Could also be Belmore falls. www.flickr.com/photos/kipnewing/4041717703/in/set-7215762...

On second thought it is Fitzroy, because you can see the lookout in the very top on the frame on this one, taken in 1925 www.flickr.com/photos/kipnewing/4041705091/in/set-7215762...