The Queen’s secret loo? Hunting for a hidden royal relic in the Snowy Mountains

The Canberra Times

Join Tim the Yowie Man as a long-lost ‘royal’ toilet near Scammells Lookout is rediscovered, reigniting intrigue over Queen Elizabeth II’s 1963 visit to the Snowy Mountains.

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00:00Welcome to Scammell's Lookout, one of the more spectacular yet remote lookouts in

00:11the Snowy Mountains. In 1963 the Snowy Mountains Authority brought the Queen

00:16here for a bit of a look around. Now apart from the spectacular view and a

00:21lookout, they prepared something else just for the Queen. It's a little bit of a

00:26secret and it's hidden way beyond the end of the car park here, but today I'm

00:31going to share it with you. Come with me.

00:37At the end of the car park you can see here where the pavers finish, but then some of

00:41the pavers continue here into the bush. I wonder where?

00:57Well I've walked about 50 metres up the path from the car park. It looks

01:02overgrown, but believe it or not, underneath here is still paved. We're on a

01:11paved path, but where exactly does that paved path lead to? That's what we're

01:16going to find out.

01:19Don't worry, we're getting closer.

01:24Well I bet you thought I was going to take you to somewhere befitting of the

01:29Queen. Well I am. It's the Queen's loo, a flushing loo here in the middle of

01:36nowhere.

01:39Well unfortunately it's locked, but there are some windows around the side which

01:52we're going to have a peek in.

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