Posted 22nd February 2014 to the Fiordland Advocate
I have to say I had never heard of the Stone Frog at Lynwood mentioned in the last Advocte.
Years ago I got the job of finding story material for Havoc and Newsboy in our region..
They had made a big deal out of the Stone Turtle on Mount Titiroa and I pointed out there was also a Stone Frog (aka five Finger Rock) above the Burwood Mavora Turnoff on the edge of the Takatimu Mountains and another One in the Earl Mountains watching over the Eglinton Valley visible from the Boyd Creek Car Park..
But the Shows Producer was really Interested In the “Big Bad Rabbit” rock formation above Roxburgh that the Late Helen MacGibbon of Manapouri documented on film.
A Giant Stone Rabbit with a Hollow interior used by Shepards as a Bivy. But asking around Roxburgh It was as if it never existed. So Havoc and Newsboy settled for another Turtle.
This Turtle (also with a Bivy) is atop a Hill by the Fraser’s Dam in Earnscleugh Station at the time Suspected to be the exact Most Inland Point in New Zealand.. But in the end they diverted to the bright lights of Wanaka to film another “Dig” at the town of Gore instead. Anyway it transpired in my research there are quite a few stone amphibians in the hills and some have strange folklore attached but this time one got a
Paint Job!
I have to say I had never heard of the Stone Frog at Lynwood mentioned in the last Advocte.
Years ago I got the job of finding story material for Havoc and Newsboy in our region..
They had made a big deal out of the Stone Turtle on Mount Titiroa and I pointed out there was also a Stone Frog (aka five Finger Rock) above the Burwood Mavora Turnoff on the edge of the Takatimu Mountains and another One in the Earl Mountains watching over the Eglinton Valley visible from the Boyd Creek Car Park..
But the Shows Producer was really Interested In the “Big Bad Rabbit” rock formation above Roxburgh that the Late Helen MacGibbon of Manapouri documented on film.
A Giant Stone Rabbit with a Hollow interior used by Shepards as a Bivy. But asking around Roxburgh It was as if it never existed. So Havoc and Newsboy settled for another Turtle.
This Turtle (also with a Bivy) is atop a Hill by the Fraser’s Dam in Earnscleugh Station at the time Suspected to be the exact Most Inland Point in New Zealand.. But in the end they diverted to the bright lights of Wanaka to film another “Dig” at the town of Gore instead. Anyway it transpired in my research there are quite a few stone amphibians in the hills and some have strange folklore attached but this time one got a
Paint Job!
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