For some reason I am unable to load a photo - but I will try and paint a mental picture of a most beautiful place I have just been to - it is the Cawnpore Range, between Boulia and Winton here in Qld. From flat grasslands interspersed with low bushes, you start to see flat topped hills,(mesas) the area is between Hamilton ruins and Middleton Hotel. These hills are spectacular - you could think you are in Arizona, truly. We travelled along till we came to a lookout, which we climbed up to, reading the information about the area, it is a catchment area which ultimately flows into Lake Eyre - the area is about 476,000 square kilometres - and the Diamintina section is THREE TIMES LARGER THAN ENGLAND!!!!!!

From the lookout we saw a track that went up one of the nearby flat topped hills - we walked up, climbing the last 10 feet or so - the view was absolutely GOBSTOPPING!!!!!! There is no other word for it - stunning, The mesas, shrubs, Mitchell grass and distant mountains - it is absolutely awe inspiring and something not to be missed if you are in this area.

When I get to more regular reception, I will attempt to upload some photos.

 

Sounds fantastic Julie... its on my ever-increasing list!

what size (kb) pics are you both trying to upload?    

Wombat - don't think it is the size of the pics - but intermittent internet connections out here on the mobile stick - even with the aerial -
And - Oma you are not crazy - had posted the same thing on "magic places" - but no-one seemed to read it, so put it in general .

Cupie wrote:

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 Are these what we call "Jump Ups"?

 

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 According to Google it would appear so Cupie.

 

 

Cheers,

Sheba.

Interesting, my photos wont load either.  Might be out of download availabiliy

 

We were there twelve months ago - today!  Tried to take the van up the lookout - bad mistake, instead camped about 100 metres west, about 50 metres off the road, amongst the mesas. Magic spot

 

Magic

you must be travelling in the opposite direction to what we were, we went to the Middleton first.

Just testing the upload pics

OK guys, just tried to upload a 1MB pic = did not upload

same pic 50% smaller 326kb = loaded as normal

it has to be the size of the pics you are trying to upload

-- Edited by _wombat_ on Thursday 23rd of August 2012 09:49:57 AM

I have intermittent problems with loading pictures - doesn't matter what I do sometimes they just won't load. Billeeeeeee has the same problem.

Ok - have resized picture - will try and load it up now

-- Edited by jules47 on Saturday 25th of August 2012 08:11:55 PM

Well that worked, sort of - bett than no picture anyway!

Womby - what I did was take a photo that I had on my desktop, went to "open microsoft picture manager" I think - resize - save - it changed from the large to the smaller size and it uploaded - not very technical explanation, but was just playing around and found that this worked.

I don't have the MS Office  either.

I use the free Libre Office suite for Word processor, spreadsheets, 'Power Point' & database etc purposes.  Then for my browser I use Mozilla and for mail I use Windows LIve Mail.  I suppose I'm just too tight to pay for the relatively expensive MS products where there is a suitable freebe. 

For Picture resizing I use the free Prish image resizer.  Once installed you just R click on the image & select image resizer & then choose the size that you want.  A resized copy is placed in a 'resized' sub folder.  Easy peasy & free too.

 

cheers .. G