Has Anyone Seen this in the Simpson?

Hi Allan

Yes she was hand made from sheet metal and was riveted together with hundreds of copper rivets, what that cost alone would have been a lot of money. The copper rivets were the same type, as used in saddle making.

Cheers



Stephen

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Hmmmm Stephen,

Sounds like an amateur build, possibly from a station or like where saddles may have been made....... interesting?

Perhaps you can tell me 'on the quiet' where it is. Going Simpson in early Sept.
Hay river via Warburton Track if open.

Hi Allan

Send me $10,000 and I will tell you were you can go.......lol

...........It's all taken care off, so hope you can find it.



Cheers



Stephen

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I suppose you want it in small bills too. Thanks a lot... really. lol

For sure, $20 notes be just fine.....lol

The list location that I told you about goes back to the late 1880's, so you see why I have put it in the 100 year old plus time frame.



Cheers



Stephen

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Are they still issuing Twenties?

MM sent. Where are you off to next?

My immediate thoughts too Peter, based on the general look of the pic background . . . makes sense as it is probably the only real flowing creek one would use such a dinghy.
Eyre Ck is mighty wide though if including flood plains to either side, but most likely on the main channel is the best place to start looking.

Stephen, Adria Downs might know about it (if it IS on Eyre Ck), and any possible known history.
My recollections of reading up on early 'inland sea' explorers was they mainly carried wooden boats, in pieces, so this is most likely into the oil exploration era.

My guess it would be perhaps associated with the company Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG) or other such, as a means to get supplies across a flooded Eyre Ck.

Hi Peter

Full marks and how long ago did you see it. To me it would be great to get the Birsdville history group involved and have it brought back to its former glory and put on display in the Vistitor Centre.

Hi Les

The CGG were doing their Simpson surveys in the early 1960's and the area where is is located is avery long way from their survey routes.

The build of the dingy goes back at least 100 years and at least 60 - 80 years before they were in the Simpson.



Cheers




Stephen

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What Les ?????

"Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG)" exploring the Simpson in 1963 would cobble together a boat using copper rivets?

Hmmmm, yeah, righto!

Who knows Allan ?
I think who ever took it there didn't knock it up on site, they would have brought it in ready to float.

I have to admit that I have not seen it, but 6 of us went for a long walk and one of the party saw the boat and photographed it. It is definitely the same one.
I missed seeing it by about 10m.
That was on 11th June this year, just 5 weeks ago.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

Hi Peter

That is a similar time when George and Sally were out there.

You did not happen to be there with them?

It can be a very small world at times.


Cheers


Stephen

I don't think I know George and Sally Stephen.
No one else was there while we were there (3 days from recollection).
We were 2 OKAs, a Canter and a 79 Series.

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

Hi Peter

Thanks for that, but you would not George and his vehicle.

I bet you were kicking yourself for not seeing it, but that gives you another excuse to go there again.


Cheers



Stephen

Eighty, I do think Bob managed to get permission to come back via the normally off limits Madigan camps 23 and 24, but the usual exit out down from camp 22 follows Eyre Ck bypass right onto the QAA line :)

Bit of a pity to not go that way, but getting to see camps 23 and 24 is a good thing for sure.

G'day Les,

sorry for the delay in replying. We've been poking around the Alice Springs area lately and we're back in the Community now.

Bob should be back home now. He did get permission to travel through to Camps 23 and 24. It would have been a good trip and he can tick that one off his list.
Next year he's planning to get over to WA and drive the Canning Stock Route.

I might get to meet you one day. Bob keeps calling me Les and he reckons it's your fault.

See you later,
Steve.

Hi Nacho

I do not think so. The Marree man was made in the mid 1990's and the dingy is in a very remote, out of the way place in the Simpson Desert and around a hundreds years older that the Marree Man



Cheers




Stephen

Clearly I should have added LOL !!!!!

Hi Phil

It sure was a great find, but only wish I was there to see it.

We have been to the location 3 times over the years and I never know it was there.

But to your answer, sorry but a very long way from there.




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Stephen

Haha.... bugger!!
So what's left, the Macumba maybe or the Hale or the Plenty Rivers? Pretty dry. .... maybe the Hay River but nobody would be silly enough to cart a steel boat to Lake Caroline to catch a few Shield Shrimp.

Ha ha, still not those one Phil, but anywhere out there is great.



Cheers




Stephen