Reply With QuoteYou could ask 'outbacksecrets.com'. They may have some info.
Wizard
SupporterA few years ago we wanted to visit Dr Becker's grave.At the nearest information centre we were told that the grave was on private land owned by a madman that would greet us at the gate with a shotgun. I wonder if anybody else has had a similar experience in recent times or managed to visit the grave? .W.
Master
You could ask 'outbacksecrets.com'. They may have some info.
Wizard
SupporterI checked that site before I posted the question. Unfortunately the author of that article visited the grave in 1987 . .W.Originally Posted by russ55
ChatterBox
SupporterHello,
I have never visited the Becker gravesite, so can't help you there I am afraid.
Some years ago when I was working in Western NSW and travelling along the Darling between Dareton and Menindi a colleague and I visited a few of the sites that he had painted or sketched en-route north. We had copies of the sketches from the Mitchell Library (?) and found a few helpful locals along the way (e.g. Pooncarie pub) who helped narrow down the search a fair bit.
Considering that Becker is supposed to have often sketched from memory at night after work had finished the detail is remarkable - in a few cases individual trees are still standing that are identifiable from the sketches.
Anyway, good luck with your search. Let us know how you get on with the landholder - diplomacy is a subtle skill and most people can be brought across with good handling I am sure.
Cheers,
Wizard
SupporterWe visited Mutawintji nat.park a couple of years ago and managed to find the spot from where he did one of his sketches. .W.
ChatterBox
SupporterHello again.
Pleased you did that - it's a pleasant feeling knowing that you are standing or sitting in the exact spot that someone famous occupied at some time or other. Especially anything linked to the Burke and Wills adventure.
At one of the Becker sites near Pooncarie you can determine from the perspective of the gully lines and a couple of trees almost to the metre of where he would have done his preliminary sketching. In another case near the Nxai Pan in Botswana a couple of years back I was able to pretty much work out where Thomas Baines the explorer-artist of Livingstone's era was sitting when he sketched his famous baobab trees.
Makes it all the more interesting.
Cheers,
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