Photos from Monty's Pass
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381960)
Rockingham, Australia
September 13, 2025 7:50pm CST
I’ve done a collage of photos taken in Monty’s Pass, a 30-metre tunnel at Elachbutting Rock near Beacon, Western Australia. I don’t know how the pass got its name.
A huge slab of granite has broken away from the main rock to form this tunnel. Neither of us got a good photo of the actual break but the new rockface is grey compared to the more weathered surfaces. A bit further on from the tunnel is a small grotto or ‘echo chamber’.
I’ll do another collage of other parts of the rock. There is a 6 kilometre drive around the rock and a track leads up to the top. I’ll have more photos from there later.
And I just read that a horse called Monty’s Pass won the 2003 Grand National. How ‘bout that?
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11 responses
@DaddyEvil (174336)
• United States
14 Sep
I'd be able to walk through the tunnel as long as nobody got in front of me and tried to keep me from reaching the end of it... (I always worry in tunnels that something will block the exit. I HATE driving through dark tunnels!)
I wonder if they were thinking of that tunnel when they named the horse?
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@DaddyEvil (174336)
• United States
14 Sep
@JudyEv I do okay in elevators as long as I can be against a wall. I have trouble in tall buildings if I can see out of them. I stay away from windows.
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@JudyEv (381960)
• Rockingham, Australia
14 Sep
@DaddyEvil We went in an outside elevator in Singapore and Vince was back against the wall too.
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@luisadannointed (11842)
• Philippines
18 Sep
You look like Dora the Explorer, you make me want to travel too.
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@JudyEv (381960)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Sep
We are heading off again soon so perhaps you'll be able to travel along too.
@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
14 Sep
These are wonderful.
Oh now a horse with that name won..cool!
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
14 Sep
Those photos I think have conveyed what you want us to know I find them unique
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@LeaPea2417 (40026)
• Toccoa, Georgia
14 Sep
Those are nice and interesting pictures.
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@Juliaacv (56180)
• Canada
14 Sep
That is a fairly long tunnel.
I did a quick search on the possibility of where Elachbutting Rock got its name, and apparently it loosely means that thing standing in Indigenous Australian. That makes sense given it has always been there and what else would you call it really?
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@Traceyjayne (11295)
• United Kingdom
14 Sep
Which came first ….the horse or the tunnel
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@LindaOHio (222280)
• United States
14 Sep
I'm with DE. Don't block my way out! Interesting about the horse's name.
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