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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: SteveandViv on July 12, 2014, 06:12:28 PM
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Crazy, rain in July is not normal. it's cold for here at 18c only got up to 24. Looks like a bit more next week as well so that should freshen things up a bit for those coming to visit.
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Send the rain here will ya, my yard is drier then a nu.....well let's just say it's dry ;)
As for cold... Got down to 2 degrees here last night, coldest temp recorded in Brisbane in a century apparently.
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Global Warming ??? see its happening . Trust Me lm From The Government & lm Here To Help YOU :cheers:
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Global Warming ??? see its happening . Trust Me lm From The Government & lm Here To Help YOU :cheers:
Bugga you speewa, you beat me to it ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Global Warming ??? see its happening . Trust Me lm From The Government & lm Here To Help YOU :cheers:
I take it, you have not been told today? ;D
Foo
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I take it, you have not been told today? ;D
Foo Earlier today l managed to Stuff Up 1 tea spoon of coffee with 1 tea spoon of sugar , milk & stirred ,
Don't start with Meeeee . SWOMBO is not impressed . So to you l say ARGO >:D ( Check the Movie )
>:D :cheers:
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ls it still raining in Broom , Noah . The BOM shows a certain moistness that we are used to at this time of year . But WTF is going on there . You will be up to your ears in stranded Nomads soon enough :cheers:
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Love the ad for the local fishing & hunting shop where they suggest global warming means more water for fishing!
Gotta say its looking magnificently green around here now.
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Rained most of last night. Had the wettest day on record up at Cape Leveque, 272mil - huge. I wonder who was there from here as it would have been very wet. We went out to a station last night for a piss up and it was quite a bit of fun on the way out ;D
We have just turned the heater on to take the edge off. It is 18c out and 24 in....
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Fotos?
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So its an early wet we managed to turn the heaters on a few months ago to take the edge off 8c or worse :cheers:
& the fog has rolled in ;D ;D
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After the -2 temps we've had, it was almost a heatwave here this morning... 5 degrees ;D
Hayesy and family are somewhere along the Gibb/Mitchell Plateau heading towards Broome and Cape Leveque, and I'm really wishing we could have gone with them about now, rain or not.
I think Letsgo (Chris and Kate) are up at Middle Lagoon now..?
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We've just had a fantastic fortnight on the Gibb, including Mitchell Falls, and the Cub Supermatic Off Road handled it superbly. We thought Broome would be a place to great to chill out, and the last few days it's been just that way - literally. And wet too.
On Saturday we set off on a full day excursion, starting with the bus trip up the Dampier Peninsular to Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm. While there, the very heavens opened and we had to use the sealed strip back at Lombardia to fly out to Talbot Bay on the seaplane. After a great barra lunch on the Horizontal Waterfall company's houseboats, we had several runs through the horizontal waterfall. (It's amazing what they can do with a boat with 900 hp bolted on the back!) Back on the houseboat for afternoon tea, we were advised that CASA had banned further flights that day because of poor visibility in Derby and Broome, so we were given free overnight accommodation in the air conditioned cabins on the houseboats, another great barra meal for dinner, and some free drinks. The crew of young people working on the houseboat base were superb and did everything they could to make our unplanned and unexpected overnight stay a pleasure rather than an inconvenience. The weather had improved by Sunday morning allowing the seaplanes to take all guests back to their accommodation in either Broome or Derby (and clean clothes and tooth brushes.)
A recommendation - if you make it to Broome, spend a little extra and do one of the Horizontal Waterfalls trips. (There are several options.) It's a great adventure, and from our experience, all staff members - booking clerks, drivers, pilots, boat drivers, houseboat staff, have very positive 'can-do' attitudes and really know how to treat guests well.
It's still cold in Broome, a bit of a shock to all travellers except northern European backpackers.
There's further rain forecast for later this week, so we'll probably forget about our plan to head up to Middle Lagoon, wait for the next weather event to pass through, and head south down the road for an hour or two to Barn Hill Station for a few days.
Broome's a really nice place and we feel we've been pretty fortunate, not just to experience some unseasonal weather, but to have an extended horizontal waterfalls jaunt, and to see the local phenomenon known as Stairway to the Moon over the last two nights. (Check it on Google.)
But I think nearly everyone will be pleased when the permanent blue skies return.
Travelman