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Look up Windham Bay Alaska. A tunnel was blasted to deviate the river so the river bed itself could be mined for gold. In the winter this tunnel freezes. In the spring the build up is so strong that when it finally releases it sounds like a cannon being fired. I had the privilege of working as a construction contractor for 4 years at the only lodge in the bay. I remodeled the lodge and all the surrounding guest cabins. It’s a great place and holds a special spot in my ❤.

Probably makes a great bat-cave 😂

Soon as seeing the video title & opening map, I knew it was Pound Bend, 20+ years ago it was one of our old regular swimming/exploring places at Warrandyte. Chances are you'll be the only people there. The entrance is deceptively calm but be warned, the deep water & undertow like current leading into the tunnel will drown a weak swimmer (I'd of drowned there once if not for a mate diving in to pull me back to shore after seeing me in distress & going under). Water inside the tunnel is usually a few inches deep but fast flowing, it's certifiably lethal when the water is a few feet deep. The current is very strong, its roof is jagged, under foot is hazardously sharp & slippery. Those who died either got stuck & drowned, or suffered head trauma from hitting the roof & then drowned. The exit to the tunnel is quite the opposite, during Summer, from morning till dusk it's common to see over 100 people swimming or sunbathing in the calm areas. Or getting blasted by the rapids. Hope one day you do Victoria mine, Black Flats, or Forth Hill. They have interesting histories and legends. Especially Black Flats mine, exploring that hole was at the high end of extreme for us with only a few of us going in there. It's the one mine that we'd tell friends up-top: "If we're not back in an hour, don't shout down the hole, go run for help." Black Flats only surviving entrance was filled with logs as a final deterrent, inside was never the same twice, as dust & pebble size to suitcase size rock unsettling fell from the ceiling. Floors would shift to reveal long lost blocked tunnels with rubbish & broken tools left by the miners over a century before!! I absolutely loved those days of youth exploring mines, plus was skinny enough back then to squirm like a fish through any heavy cage doors into areas strictly closed to access.

It means it’s 50 times larger than the one the wiped out the Dinosaurs.

I’ve kayaked through this during a school camp!

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My cousin and I walked through tunnel each way back in the seventies.

there's two similar tunnels further upstream at McMahon's Creek (Little Peninsula Tunnel & Big Peninsula Tunnel)

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Well done video bro Oz 👏

Well done video bro Oz 👏

Well done video bro Oz 👏

There's another one on the Thompson River near Walhalla. Horseshoe bend tunnel

Parents still live on the northern edge of pound bend, many summers spent floating down river, crawling up the tunnel, avoiding sharp rocks and tiger snakes before floating back home, love the place

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There was a bucket line sluice just North of the railway crossing at Allendale road, Diamond Creek. Next to the creek covered in blackberries. Pretty sure it would have been removed since the walking path has been upgraded. Have most of the creeks been dredged?

Grew up in Warrandyte.. spent time here in the 70's

Big rocks are ready to shed on entrance with a stiff breeze

To this 80 year old that sand and round stones the round stones got that way during the volcano eruption was very hot and the sand rubbed on the rocks and made them smooth. go any place in the Adirondack mountains and dig a hole and you will see smooth rocks

Anyone using Wikipedia is on shaky ground.

They did the same in Lerderderg, but tunneled by hand , but very little information surrounds it.

Its possible that the company made a serious profit and just wound up when the job was done. The fact that it is difficult to find any record of actual income suggests to me that the company did rather a lot better than it let on, perhaps even not teling shareholders beyond letting them have their stake back.. I like a good conspiricy theory Thanks for sharing

Beechworth the tunnel runs from lake sambel underneath the town centre and comes out in the gorge behind the old Beechworth hospital It wasn't cut as a diversion though, it was cut as an underground sluice, for the hydraulic mining around where the lake is now.

I took my inflatable Lilo through the tunnel as a kid in the 70's. Lots of fun, thar area was a great place to grow up in.

Visited the old Gold mining Township Tanjil location on the Tanjil River in the 1980's before it was submerged by the Blue Rock Dam. They diverted the river there also..

Know the area well.. When I got interested in fossicking in the 1970's I did some panning and suction dredging in Anderson Crk in the 1980's..

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I always knew we had a big hole in Australia -but now we have two. Ha Ha Ha!

I've been through it and survived. I floated through it on a lilo as well, back in the day. Getting back was the hard part.

There is another tunnel like this in Walhalla

Another on the Yarra out Reefton

There is another one on the Howqua River, south of Merrijig, (near Mansfield) in the Victorian Alpine area 😮 The location is called "Tunnel Spur."

Yep, similar to the Bendoc/Delegate River tunnel. Bonang Road. 180' bend in the river so they(Chinese) cut from one side to the other. 5-6 foot wide by memory. Still flows strongly. It'd be pretty cool seeing it in flood.

can you collect pumice in sunbury and where? a few bags would be nice, as it's quite expensive (bought it) from the few suppliers that sell it.

Very similar to "The Tunnel" cutting the Lerderderg River near Blackwood Victoria, access via the Gribble track.

As a kid we would float through the tunnel on Lilows and tire tubes, I can understand it being blocked up wasn't the safest activity lol

Excellent presentation. Thank you for your efforts :)

Sofala NSW there the division worked

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The asteroid was going 44,640mph absolutely insane

Near where I live, Brisbane, has a great amount of volcanic structures from past volcanos e.g. The Glasshouse Mountains, Main Range, Focal Peak, and the Tweed Volcano.

I love your videos, I’m originally from Victoria and find it very interesting about what I thought were just hills. I now live in Wagga Wagga NSW and live on the side of a small hill called Willans Hill, would it be possible that it may be an ancient volcano, there are lots of rocks in the area that look volcanic.

Victoria is one stressed state

Vulcanism; Live Long and Prosper. 🖖

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These unfortunately were done by a local guy I went to school with. Sorry. There are a lot of real carvings around the place though.

In Australia Pharaohs who dont play by the rules and known as Un-pharaohs