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Post by clem on Sept 6, 2013 11:29:29 GMT 10
Hehehehehe I had forgotten all about the word "fat" as was used when we were young, dING. I am sitting here laughing about what we used to mean when using the word, it had nothing to do with the edge bit of a pork chop eh! You have a very good memory for an ole codger dING.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 15:46:35 GMT 10
Well the last ride report has arrived Terry looked a little apprehensive this morning and the weather on the computer north of Mackay left something to be desired with rain scuds coming through at great speed I thought about a 350 km ride into strong wind and rain to set up a tent on a wet paddock and socialise in the rain and then a 700 km ride home. I admit I wimped out Not as keen as I once was so headed for Cairns and we got here at lunch time Terry is good and will now go and see his own quack to set his mind at rest.
Hearing about one of our normal ride mates a couple of weeks ago going to bed crook with "indigestion" and not waking up may also have played on his mind. RIP Wart. I will upload some photos now I am home and I will also start to edit and produce a video from the film I took Not today though Hot bath and nap had but a good night sleep in my own bed will be a blessing
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 16:48:00 GMT 10
Tara Campground Gayndah boozers On our way down And the ride home with Terry
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Post by Turtle on Sept 6, 2013 19:24:58 GMT 10
Good ya got home safe and Terry too. The weather was overcast and wet early in the day, but cleared as the day progressed. It will be wet again the morning but hope it dries a bit before I get on the bike.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2013 21:15:35 GMT 10
Glad youre home safe .. nice piccies too.. x
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2013 19:02:36 GMT 10
Here is the link to my Movie It is very bland due to leaving early but I have done what I could
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2013 19:24:21 GMT 10
Here is the link to my Movie It is very bland due to leaving early but I have done what I could I get so freakin excited!! All that open miles and miles of nothing and huge skies! You have no idea ... oh and the few furry things thrown in too... Amazing! xx
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Post by eldiablo on Sept 8, 2013 20:21:19 GMT 10
Here is the link to my Movie It is very bland due to leaving early but I have done what I could I get so freakin excited!! All that open miles and miles of nothing and huge skies! You have no idea ... oh and the few furry things thrown in too... Amazing! xx G'day Snowy, where do you live in the UK???
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2013 22:31:02 GMT 10
I get so freakin excited!! All that open miles and miles of nothing and huge skies! You have no idea ... oh and the few furry things thrown in too... Amazing! xx G'day Snowy, where do you live in the UK??? The Midlands Eldi, little backwater called Rugeley.. www.visitcannockchase.co.uk/Location.htm and have that on my doorstep x
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Post by wanderer on Sept 9, 2013 6:45:11 GMT 10
Thanks for the video Wauri, really enjoyed it. Felt like we was there.
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Post by clem on Sept 9, 2013 7:43:25 GMT 10
So pleased you have arrived home safe and sound Wauri, love the pics and I look forward to watching your vid a little later. I hope Terry gets a favourable report from his doctor. Cheers Wauri, Clem
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Post by eldiablo on Sept 9, 2013 13:54:34 GMT 10
It looks like a great recreational area near you. I have a son who lives at Buckhurst Hill near Essex. Australia is a broad brush with more snow than the Swiss,high rainfall tropics and dry deserts each climate being bigger than some countries. I have been on a cattle property that is as big as Belgum or Austria (or one of those I can't remember which) The property was called Dunbar Station. This is a cut and paste from the net about Dunbar Station .45s. Dunbar’s muster is about to begin. One of the few big Australian cattle properties still privately owned (by the McDonald family), Dunbar sprawls over 3000 square miles in the old money – almost 777,000 hectares – and runs around 35,000 head of Brahman cattle. The old Queenslander homestead – a massive two-storey structure painted green, cream and white – sits on verdant lawns, surrounded by bougainvillea, coconut palms, mangoes and Leichhardt trees. Raptors wheel in the air overhead, and the ‘Gulf Orchestra’ plays constantly all day; the caw of crows, a bowerbird chirruping as he courts, insects buzzing and droning, whir Actually words cannot describe these places and not many really have the privilege of experiencing it. The Blue Mountains behind Sydney have valleys so deep and across the West there is a fair dinkum Pink Lake. The sunrises and sunsets filter out some amazing colours in our arid areas and of course we have more than 10,000Ks of lovely golden sandy beaches. Also thousands of islands. But we do not have old buildings. Anyway it is all worth the experience and none of us will ever get to see it all.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2013 21:58:11 GMT 10
Thanks Eldi... it all sounds amazing. I do get over excited and have to keep calm over coming to your beautiful country. I have seen some wonderous photos etc over the net and TV, I couldnt keep a list of all the places and things I would like to see.. like you said - impossible. I will be watching some Whales tho, thats a certainty. And the light, you have such ambient beautiful light I am very envious of! Please do try and come to the meet next year, it would be great to meet you in person xx PS.. you can bring Bilgewater whatever he is called too
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Post by eldiablo on Sept 10, 2013 7:18:28 GMT 10
Thanks Eldi... it all sounds amazing. I do get over excited and have to keep calm over coming to your beautiful country. I have seen some wonderous photos etc over the net and TV, I couldnt keep a list of all the places and things I would like to see.. like you said - impossible. I will be watching some Whales tho, thats a certainty. And the light, you have such ambient beautiful light I am very envious of! Please do try and come to the meet next year, it would be great to meet you in person xx PS.. you can bring Bilgewater whatever he is called too Thanks Snowy We went to the Head of the Bite (turn left at the start of the Nullabor Plain heading West) to have a look at the whales. What happens is at the end of their migration up the coast they assemble there before they all head South to pig out on krill. They come in close real close to the shore and you can see them all across the bay doing their jumps etc. The day we were there was quite incredible, the weather was warm then a big cloud of mist came in and we could not see anything. We went back to our motorhome and had lunch and it all cleared again. They have walkways and viewing platforms. They are Southern Wright whales and they are big very big. Our best whale viewing tho was South Africa where they came into a rock wall "swimming area" at Camps Bay (part of Cape Town) we stayed at Camps Bay and we had been up the coast all day looking for whales and when we got back here they were. It was an unusual event set against a brilliant sunset. My daughter in law is a keen photographer and she took about ..... photos. A must do for tourists is Tangalooma which is a ferry ride from Brisbane so search Tangalooma and Moreton Island. My son with his new Polish wife did the tourist thing all the way up the coast and declared that Tangalooma and Moreton Island (on our doorstep) was the best experience by far. Do not miss it from the boat trip across and back with sightings of pods of dolphins that sometimes bow wave the boat to touching and feeding the wild dolphins at Tangalooma and all the other stuff it is a must do. We have booked a car space and taken kayaks over and camped for $10 per night in the national park on the beach or you can go for luxury accomodation.
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Post by dING on Sept 10, 2013 8:42:09 GMT 10
As Dorothy Mckeller said
MY COUNTRY
I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, Of rugged mountain ranges, of drought and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel sea, Her beauty and her terror, the wide brown land for me. Though earth holds many splendours, wherever I may die, I know to what brown country my homing thoughts will fly.
Core of my heart, my country, Land of the rainbow gold, For flood and fire and famine She pays us back three fold. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel sea, Her beauty and her terror, the wide brown land for me. Though earth holds many splendours, wherever I may die, I know to what brown country my homing thoughts will fly.
Dorothy McKeller
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2013 19:05:35 GMT 10
Thanks Eldi... it all sounds amazing. I do get over excited and have to keep calm over coming to your beautiful country. I have seen some wonderous photos etc over the net and TV, I couldnt keep a list of all the places and things I would like to see.. like you said - impossible. I will be watching some Whales tho, thats a certainty. And the light, you have such ambient beautiful light I am very envious of! Please do try and come to the meet next year, it would be great to meet you in person xx PS.. you can bring Bilgewater whatever he is called too Thanks Snowy We went to the Head of the Bite (turn left at the start of the Nullabor Plain heading West) to have a look at the whales. What happens is at the end of their migration up the coast they assemble there before they all head South to pig out on krill. They come in close real close to the shore and you can see them all across the bay doing their jumps etc. The day we were there was quite incredible, the weather was warm then a big cloud of mist came in and we could not see anything. We went back to our motorhome and had lunch and it all cleared again. They have walkways and viewing platforms. They are Southern Wright whales and they are big very big. Our best whale viewing tho was South Africa where they came into a rock wall "swimming area" at Camps Bay (part of Cape Town) we stayed at Camps Bay and we had been up the coast all day looking for whales and when we got back here they were. It was an unusual event set against a brilliant sunset. My daughter in law is a keen photographer and she took about ..... photos. A must do for tourists is Tangalooma which is a ferry ride from Brisbane so search Tangalooma and Moreton Island. My son with his new Polish wife did the tourist thing all the way up the coast and declared that Tangalooma and Moreton Island (on our doorstep) was the best experience by far. Do not miss it from the boat trip across and back with sightings of pods of dolphins that sometimes bow wave the boat to touching and feeding the wild dolphins at Tangalooma and all the other stuff it is a must do. We have booked a car space and taken kayaks over and camped for $10 per night in the national park on the beach or you can go for luxury accomodation. Thank you Eldi... I will see what my tour guide can arrange I think Hervey? Bay has been allocated for the whale experience.. I wont be leaving Aus without sightings, nopewont go home til I have xx
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Post by clem on Sept 13, 2013 19:00:41 GMT 10
Here is the link to my Movie It is very bland due to leaving early but I have done what I could Great to just have watched your movie Wauri, great stuff and how good was that when the sun was behind you and so watching your shadow while riding, I enjoyed that. Twisty roads are good as we know but those wide open spaces of the outback are brilliant too aren't they. Is terry okay? Cheers Wauri, Clem
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2013 19:06:49 GMT 10
Yep Clem He won the $1200 prize and got a clean bill of health Probably low blood pressure due to tiredness and temperature He is taking me out to dinner as a reward for nurse maiding him
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Post by clem on Sept 13, 2013 19:28:30 GMT 10
Yeah it's a big country alright Wauri, that's good news about terry, you will have a good thanksgiving dinner with him.
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