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Theres actually lots of wildlife back there.. my property abuts a large conservation area. We have turkeys, whitetail deer, coyotes, foxes, lots of squirrels... I think my camera was more focused on beer that day! Lol. Summer can get into the high 90's, or can be 75... it can be 80% humidity or dry as can be. Thats the beauty of living in New England... if you don't like the weather, just wait...
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Hi Dave, was trying to figure out where in Oz it may relate to? Maybe Canberra or possibly Melbourne or anywhere in Tasmania except for the depth of snow as we never get 8 feet of snow in suburbia.
Sounds like an interesting place with loads of early US historical significance.
Our region is definitely the epicenter of US History. It's funny because growing up here, and travelling around the states a bit, New England obviously has the oldest architecture, cities and history in the states. At least as far as European colonists are concerned.. Then, I travelled to Ireland for a 10 day trip. Europe is f#@%$ing OLD!!! Some of the things I saw in Ireland made Boston look like a newborn... We do have beautiful beaches, mountains, lakes, rivers as well as bustling cities. I live about 40 min drive (on a good traffic day) North of Boston. Im about 11km west (metric system is so much easier) from the Atlantic, about 60km south of the beginning of the White Mountains... I have pretty much everything within an hours drive in any direction. I love it here. Id love to travel more though... lol.. time and money prevent that!
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Ahhh, money......lack of it presents so many obstacles.
Yes it does! My last sentence should have read, "Lack of time and money prevent that".. though it seems the point came across..lol
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They say here in Melbourne we have 4 seasons in a day, but the northern cities (Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane) seem to get smashed more by storms and floods than us, we just have to contend with the storms blowing up off the Southern Ocean over winter, or the dust storms blowing on from the Mallee on a hot northerly over summer.
Im mad... we've had barely any snow this year, after 8 ft last year... its the middle of March, and we have a winter storm warning for tomorrow into Monday! Expecting 6-8 inches of snow... ughhhh.!
In these parts the greenies would be blaming it on global warming when it is probably just part of the usual weather pattern cycles that have occurred may times over past decades.
Exactly. They're the same everywhere, apparently..
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Now that I've bought myself a new Digital Camera, I'll see if I can get some pics of around Darwin for you guys this coming fortnight, I need to go buy a bigger sim card for the camera first though, so stay tuned.
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We've wound up here for a while... Point Vernon, a part of Hervey Bay, 3 hours north of Brisbane.
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... we're about 5 streets back from the seafront, so not entirely dreadful!!
Urangan harbour from the floatplane...
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And to those people who reckon it gets cold in Australia, I present to you....
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Fletts Road Landing in 2006, South Otago, NZ; just up the road about a mile from our farm - that's a frozen waterfall/cataract!! Christ, it was cold!!
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Oh, yeah - it gets chilly down there and that wind is just mega! We moved to North Canterbury, then to Gisborne, then to the UK and then back to Australia simply becasue we got tired of being cold; northern hemisphere winters are much more savage than anything I've ever experienced in NZ ... and I've had hot water bottles freeze overnight in the bedroom in Ophir, Central Otago!!Quote:
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I love the South Island, Its a beautiful part of the world no doubt, but i really couldn't deal with the cold.
I've experienced the starting and dying cusps of a Northern European winter but never its peak, a fact of which I am extremely glad! When working in Finland i remarked to a colleague how cold i found their spring and he looked back at me and said "You should have been here for the winter, we had -35." Forget that!
One of my car club mates own a bus company up there in Hervey Bay
Its my favourite place to surf almost anywhere ,even with a crowd. Noosa that is I'm guessing
Wow! Beautiful part of the world. I remember staying at Cradle Mountain and saying to my wife, "I wonder how much snow you need to be snowed in" Next morning couldn't see the hire car it was a big white ball and guess what? we were snowed in!Quote:
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This photo was just a Frost..... However, the Backyard Snow Pic was taken by my Daughter to show me what it was like. I had been snowed out and was stuck in Town after a 12 hour Night Shift, unable to get home.Quote:
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Geez I hope that pony was white to start with :)Quote:
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Panorama of a recent sunset, spectacular time of the year.
The panorama does skew the image a lot but you get the idea.
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Fantastic Bill...big sky country
Not quite where I live, but rode there from home this morning... This is from the top of the Zig zags east of Perth looking back over the city.
Big effort, that's far too far to be dragged by the goolies :)
Not too far - only 40km from home. Just reminds me of how flat Perth is.
Ah, the old flat Perth theory. ;)
Hey Brendan, that shot makes the hills look bigger than when you are down on the flat parts of Perth.
If your ride was into the Adelaide hills that would be impressive as they are a lot steeper than that.
Plenty steep enough for me Waz... :).
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Even spent a year in Freo with the Navy at the tender age of 15. before returning to Nowra.
Spent quite a while in Canberra as wee, mostly weekends.... helping a mate with a fledgling transport business supplying 80% of the City's Victorian Beer.....
And me too.
Don't think I have ever ridden that far on a push bike. Top effort.
winter on the Gold Coast... morning bike ride again
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After all the rain on Friday it is still hard to believe we are less than 8 days away from the start of winter.
Nice shots Deddy, looks like somewhere near Southport?
yea Waz, Broadwater parklands
Just another day in paradise.
Its so hard for me, as a Western European, to grasp that this is what winter looks like in your country... I'm a bit jeaulous to be honest!
Had some Tasmanians in at work yesterday and they couldn't believe it either as what we were experiencing was about as good as it gets in Hobart in the middle of their summer.
It's hard to beat a qld winter isn't it waz
I've Finnish Colleagues that believe our winter doesn't actually qualify as winter. I've worked through a Finnish Spring, they may actually have a point.
These shots were taken earlier in the year from the bottom of Caloundra Headland looking back towards Golden Beach and the Glass House Mountains in the far background......
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Check out the Osprey in the 3rd shot.
awesome Waz! 4th one could be anywhere in the world. The Glass Houses are almost alien looking