Apart from pet (or feral) dogs and cats about the biggest carnivorous wild animals on mainland Australia are a bandicoots, and they just eat grubs, so nah, no scary wild critters here.
If that's the suitcase, it has crossed the railroad and the road or just the road?
On memory the pumpkin print in the quilt is a place mat. I recall having purchased a set I believe are the same if not very similar from a home linen party many years ago. Im talking 90's and well before the internet was common place or even in Australia. It was a home based linen party but for the life of me cant remember the name but pretty sure they dont operate anymore. I certainly recognise the pumpkin print as related to those place mats though. Was very popular around 20+ years ago. Hope this helps.
I layered the image of the black recycle bin we discussed the other day on top of the street view image for comparison. The street view image is a totally different shape and IMO is definitely a black suitcase.
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Okay I think I figured out what the two cairn things are.
They are marking the approach to (from Wynarka direction) a turn off/track that crosses the railway and goes toward the farm behind.
It's not so easy to see from ground level, which would be a good reason you would want a marker to know when to throw out the anchors.
A mates farm has a similarly hidden entrance, he has reflectors nailed to a tree for this exact purpose.
If you stop this video at the 12 second mark, you can see the cairn to the left and the turnoff/track to the right, with the tent protecting the crime scene smack dab in the middle. At the 32 second mark you get a clear view of the track and railway crossing.
https://youtu.be/E93f-rCXVH4
Edit: That is if they are not actually marking Angel
What kind of material were the place mats? Could the pumpkin piece have been cut from a place mat?
Just have to add..... until very recently I had never heard of Geocaching.....someone brought it up recently and this hobby would have seen many of people who would have been Geo-caching within the very area the suitcase was found.... and might have moved the suitcase a few metres from its original spot to where it was found...
I layered the image of the black recycle bin we discussed the other day on top of the street view image for comparison. The street view image is a totally different shape and IMO is definitely a black suitcase.
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Wo you can say the bag was definitely not sitting there the whole time and was placed there recently like witnesses say. That is a good find!This object is approximately 1.3kms from Wynarka. The small cairn I'm using as a reference is about 1.5kmspictured in 2014https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-35...xzUSqk-A!2e0!5s20140901T000000!7i13312!8i6656Seems to be replacing this cairn pictured in 2010https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-35...bdXbtBZw!2e0!5s20100201T000000!7i13312!8i6656The aftermath of a fire about 50 meters further west of the cairn in the 2010 capture.https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-35...JMvDMcJA!2e0!5s20100201T000000!7i13312!8i6656I've spent a lot of time going "suitcase...old tire...suitcase...old tire..etc."I'm only estimating the distances, I'm not sure how to do measurements in street view. I've been noting the position and going back to map view to do measurements.
I hadn't heard of Geocaching until this week too Puggle, it sounds like fun so I signed up and my little family are going geo-caching this weekendThere aren't that many around directly where I live, but the ones that are there look like they are in fun/tricky to get to/interesting/in the bush kind of ones
I was surprised to see the amount of people that had either found the caches around here, or looked but didn't find (in the comments on the geocaching website), it seems it's a popular activity, I think I'm going to like it.
Wow, great spotting! Looks like a suitcase to me:
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I wish we had a local that could just drive up and see if whatever it is is still sitting there, and the object Shauno captured on his GoPro.
Do we have an artist onboard, or a mathematician who could tell us the measurement of the black object that looks like a suitcase?