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Here are some small tidbits that some of you may find interesting.
As you officially enter Oak Park, via Oak Park Rd, you pass through a gate at the property boundary. This gate was typically kept open in the past, but it is now closed (not locked), and has "please close the gate' written on some pink tape wrapped around it - this is new.
There is a sign just beyond the gate that reads:
Oak Park Road
No Tresspassing
Private Road
No Access
At some stage, someone had written on this sign:
An expletive expressing disagreement, above 'No Trespassing'
'Public!', above 'Private Road'
and 'Full', above 'No Access'
These words have recently been scribbled out, with some additions made to the top of the sign, written in texta:
'Smile your[sic] on Camera'
and 'shut the gate'
At the sign, there is a fork in the road. Going left takes you down through the Oak Park property, eventually to Tiverton Outstation. Continuing right eventually takes you to the Oak Park homestead. You can't see the homestead from this point. It is still some kilometres away, over a small ridge.
A large area of land southeast of Oak Park is wholly owned by a mining company called Magnetite Mines. They've conducted a lot of research on two picturesque, neighbouring areas called Iron Peak and Razorback - for the purposes of Iron Ore mining. They haven't commenced mining operations there as yet, as they are seeking further investment, but there are occasionally employees out there surveying, maintaining roads and so on. None of these employees would ever need to travel close to the Oak Park homestead, as they access the potential mining area via Sturt Vale Rd (in other words, from the other direction). If you're on the land owned by the mining company and you start driving towards any of the surrounding station properties, you are met by a sign that says employees and visitors of Magnetite Mines cannot travel any further without prior approval, listing a phone number below that.
Directly south of Oak Park is a conservation park called Pualco Range, containing numerous large hills with rocky peaks. Visitation of this conservation park is very low. There are no facilities there. In fact, most maps do not actually tell you how to get there as the required roads are not marked or signposted. When I visit, there are sometimes fallen branches and growth over the tracks and little or no signs that the tracks have been used in some time. If you climb the tallest peak on the northern edge of the park, near a copper mine ruin called Wheal Motley, you get an excellent view of the surrounding area. From here, you can see multiple station homesteads in the distance - including Oak Park some 7km away, and others. In fact, you can see so far that even Tattawuppa Hill is clearly visible on the horizon, which is beyond Yunta, from that point. Surprisingly, at the top of this peak, you can also pick up 5G Telstra phone reception (from the Yunta tower). Parts of this conservation park have been searched in the efforts to locate Gus.
On the northern edge of Pualco Range Conservation Park is a chained and padlocked gate. The track beyond this gate leads to the Oak Park homestead. I don't recall if this gate has always been locked or if the chain is a new addition.
I hope some of you find this interesting. I also have many recent photos from the area, but I'm not sure that I should share them here.
As you officially enter Oak Park, via Oak Park Rd, you pass through a gate at the property boundary. This gate was typically kept open in the past, but it is now closed (not locked), and has "please close the gate' written on some pink tape wrapped around it - this is new.
There is a sign just beyond the gate that reads:
Oak Park Road
No Tresspassing
Private Road
No Access
At some stage, someone had written on this sign:
An expletive expressing disagreement, above 'No Trespassing'
'Public!', above 'Private Road'
and 'Full', above 'No Access'
These words have recently been scribbled out, with some additions made to the top of the sign, written in texta:
'Smile your[sic] on Camera'
and 'shut the gate'
At the sign, there is a fork in the road. Going left takes you down through the Oak Park property, eventually to Tiverton Outstation. Continuing right eventually takes you to the Oak Park homestead. You can't see the homestead from this point. It is still some kilometres away, over a small ridge.
A large area of land southeast of Oak Park is wholly owned by a mining company called Magnetite Mines. They've conducted a lot of research on two picturesque, neighbouring areas called Iron Peak and Razorback - for the purposes of Iron Ore mining. They haven't commenced mining operations there as yet, as they are seeking further investment, but there are occasionally employees out there surveying, maintaining roads and so on. None of these employees would ever need to travel close to the Oak Park homestead, as they access the potential mining area via Sturt Vale Rd (in other words, from the other direction). If you're on the land owned by the mining company and you start driving towards any of the surrounding station properties, you are met by a sign that says employees and visitors of Magnetite Mines cannot travel any further without prior approval, listing a phone number below that.
Directly south of Oak Park is a conservation park called Pualco Range, containing numerous large hills with rocky peaks. Visitation of this conservation park is very low. There are no facilities there. In fact, most maps do not actually tell you how to get there as the required roads are not marked or signposted. When I visit, there are sometimes fallen branches and growth over the tracks and little or no signs that the tracks have been used in some time. If you climb the tallest peak on the northern edge of the park, near a copper mine ruin called Wheal Motley, you get an excellent view of the surrounding area. From here, you can see multiple station homesteads in the distance - including Oak Park some 7km away, and others. In fact, you can see so far that even Tattawuppa Hill is clearly visible on the horizon, which is beyond Yunta, from that point. Surprisingly, at the top of this peak, you can also pick up 5G Telstra phone reception (from the Yunta tower). Parts of this conservation park have been searched in the efforts to locate Gus.
On the northern edge of Pualco Range Conservation Park is a chained and padlocked gate. The track beyond this gate leads to the Oak Park homestead. I don't recall if this gate has always been locked or if the chain is a new addition.
I hope some of you find this interesting. I also have many recent photos from the area, but I'm not sure that I should share them here.
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