Wednesday, April 20, 2011

MARSHALL'S WEIR - VIDEO


The latest video from John Evans whilst he documents the old water weirs of the Brindabella Mountains to the west of Canberra. John's blog has a compendium of the brindabella weirs showing the myriad of designs utilized on these mountain creeks, general info and provides accurate GPS notation of their locations...

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