Thursday

November 28, 2019

Tocumwal Blowhole

The blowhole is a deep hole on a granite outcrop only 5kms from our farm. 
Unlike coastal blowholes it doesn’t blow out water but it has been known to gurgle and bubble at certain times of the year.  

Local Indigenous, the Ulupna and Bangarang people, believed the blowhole was connected to the Murray River, 10kms away, by an underground stream through which a native spirit would travel.

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8 comments:

  1. Evi Erlinda28 November 2019 at 17:33

    Beautiful!
    Glad to know about it.

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  2. Anonymous28 November 2019 at 18:13

    Quite plausible that the blowhole is connected to the Murray. Perhaps when the Murray is in flood (will that ever happen again?) the blowhole might gurgle.

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  3. Elephant's Child28 November 2019 at 19:03

    I hadn't heard of the Tocumwal Blowhole. I do hope that it gurgles and bubbles again soon.

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  4. Marie Smith29 November 2019 at 00:30

    Fascinating!

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  5. Rhodesia29 November 2019 at 03:53

    Interesting post Hope all is well Diane

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  6. Helen29 November 2019 at 07:29

    Another clever capture. A perfect hole in igneous rock. I wonder what occurred when the magna was cooling to lead to this formation.

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  7. Ruth Hiebert29 November 2019 at 07:32

    That's interesting. Seems that it could also be a danger, should animals or people get too close.

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  8. Rose2 December 2019 at 10:59

    I have never heard of a blowhole...another thing learned through blogging. So glad you showed it.

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