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Old 22nd Apr 2014, 12:50
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Marree and Mundi Men

Does anyone know if these artworks are still visible from the air? Found quite a bit of info about the fact that they were disappearing and the need to save them couldn't find much more

Can't spot either of them at the listed coordinates on Google Earth, relatively recent images too.
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Old 22nd Apr 2014, 23:33
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from what i understand they are pretty much grown over now. recent rains, well, since 2010 have seen to that.
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Old 23rd Apr 2014, 06:36
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I flew over it in 2001 and the image was fading then. I'd be surprised if it was visible now after all the rain. If you really want to know ring Wrights Air at William Creek, they will know.
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Gone.... And green tape prevents restoration.
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green tape prevents restoration.
pssst they were never approved in the first place.

so follow the precedent their creators set. sneak out in the night with a grader with ripper tines and a gps and put them back in before anyone notices.
the darkness is your friend....

faaaark stop waiting for someone in australia to approve anything.
nobody in australia ever approves anything. ever.
it has been like that since they banned cracker night.
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"the darkness is your friend....

faaaark stop waiting for someone in australia to approve anything.
nobody in australia ever approves anything. ever.
it has been like that since they banned cracker night. "

Absolutely

And if you did go and ask for approval, it would take 5 years and then someone would find some whatsomacallitthingy that is very rare (BS ) that then requires a 5 year environmental study to tell you it's not so rare
but you can't do it anyway
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Old 24th Apr 2014, 00:25
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Ye olde saying: "if you want sh*t done, seek forgiveness, not permission."
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im at Marree now, you could do it in broad daylight, and still never get caught... cant see very far over the horizon from the few roads around here.

even the Lake Eyre Yacht club has green tape issues, cant launch a boat from the shores apparently.. cant sail on its waters, but if you launch in a river feeding the lake, and sail into it, they cant do anything about it, and being a national park, the legal definition of a national park is " an area of land, to be preserved for recreation." its just that the national parks seam to think it means they own it, and treat it as if it is their personal land and not to be trespassed.
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Thanks for the response guys. And if anyone feels like restoring said artworks before july i'd happily buy them a beer... well slab. actually make that a whole damn pallet.
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a whole pallet you say? hmmm.
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Old 24th Apr 2014, 14:33
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I just looked it up, I see what you mean re access. Not just the National Parks people but Native title holders putting pressure on to stop access.

Funny how if it is "conservation orientated" you can get access easily
by vehicle, boat or aircraft
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Glyophosate Wonderful stuff and the effect would last for a really long time as does away with the root system as well as the foliage.
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How fares the older 'Readymix' sign engraved into the Earth out by Caiguna?

I saw it last around early '82. It had been there 'a while' then....
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Old 25th Apr 2014, 06:43
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faaaark stop waiting for someone in australia to approve anything.
nobody in australia ever approves anything. ever.
it has been like that since they banned cracker night.
You just have to go to the Northern Territory where cracker night is not banned to see why it is everywhere else, letterbox's blown up everywhere, horses running round the streets, dogs going beserk and every year kids presenting at hospital for blast injuries, and that's just in Alice Springs. They really know how to have a good time in the Territory.
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The readymix sign at Caiguna was still just visible about ten years ago. You had to know where to look.

Yes was in Alice for cracker night last year. Sounded like a war zone come dusk. Great fun. Got death stares from the mrs when I went into a shop to buy some fireworks to set off with the kids. They loved it!
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Both firearms and crackers are handy and enjoyable things in the hands of responsible people.
The basic problem is, there aren't enough responsible people - and there's very often little oversight of who has adequate responsibility to possess either item.
Crackers were banned in W.A. when I was a teenager, and that was nearly 50 yrs ago.
We don't miss the sizeable numbers of terrified and burnt dogs, who had crackers tied to their tails for "fun".
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Once heard a story from a doctor mate of mine who works in the emergency ward.

Poor girl turned up with burnt private parts because she'd launched a cracker out of her clacka! Wanted to impress a potential new beau.

Not sure I'd be too impressed by a girl with those sort of brains.
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Might have been more than one.

Definitely happened to a bloke two years ago. Love the cops comment.

Buttocks burnt as cracker stunt backfires - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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"Hold my beer and watch this."
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'Stupid is as stupid does!'

What is really bad is that these people are capable of both breeding and voting!

'Readymix' sign engraved into the Earth out by Caiguna?
Don't recall seeing that one Griffo, and I used to cruise around that area occasionally back in the mid 80's. Whereabouts exactly?
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