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Last edited by Hobastard; 08-01-2017 at 11:27 AM.
We've wound up here for a while... Point Vernon, a part of Hervey Bay, 3 hours north of Brisbane.
... we're about 5 streets back from the seafront, so not entirely dreadful!!
Urangan harbour from the floatplane...
And to those people who reckon it gets cold in Australia, I present to you....
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!!
"If it's Blues music in a bar and it helps people swallow their drink of choice, or it's a dance song and people get up off their chairs and shuffle their feet, or it's a Jazz tune and the Chardonnay tastes so much better... then it's all good."
- Marcel
Coldest day i've ever experienced in NZ was a summers day in Invercargill with a southerly ripping up out of the southern ocean. It took four tequila shots for me to even start to believe i would ever be warm again.Originally Posted by corsair
We've wound up here for a while... Point Vernon, a part of Hervey Bay, 3 hours north of Brisbane.
... we're about 5 streets back from the seafront, so not entirely dreadful!!
Urangan harbour from the floatplane...
And to those people who reckon it gets cold in Australia, I present to you....
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!!
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
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!!
"If it's Blues music in a bar and it helps people swallow their drink of choice, or it's a dance song and people get up off their chairs and shuffle their feet, or it's a Jazz tune and the Chardonnay tastes so much better... then it's all good."
- Marcel
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!
FrankenLab
Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
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
Last edited by JB RETRO; 08-01-2017 at 01:09 PM.
Builds to date
#1, 3 string box guitar
#2, GR-1SF, November guitar of the month 2016
#3, Charvel Surfcaster tribute scratch build. ( Completed )
#4, Pawn shop Strat ( Completed )
#5, Current build MM-1Q
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!
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.
Geez I hope that pony was white to start with
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