Is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence ??????

so true, i remember going out to the chooks to fill the water and the hose broke, it was frozen solid, i remember working with a 30 foot scarry on a night shift and at around 3 am the frost set in and it was sandy soil and it started to turn up into little lumps of frozen blocks, you could see it for 12 months later ......
I found that the best times in Bremer was about 3 weeks in June, warm n sunny, no swell, heaps of fish and nice nights, sitting on flat rocks or at little boat, or even way out to steepy........ and fishing was a tad warmer with a liddle bit of port at ones side..
Cheers

Robin
If you like snow capped mountains, lush river forests and at tracks that rise at least 4000 feet then perhaps you should move to the South Island of New Zealand!

Hi Mark

Sounds nice but do they have any tracks up them like Bill Goat Bluff ,Blue rag or Mt Pinnabar and if they did could you then drive a few hours in the other direction and spend all day playing in the sand in places like the Big Dessert ?

Robin, did you see Vic Widman's article on tag along tours in New Zealand in Overland4x4 about three months ago? It answers your question.
Kevin

Interesting Robin,
We lived and worked in Leeton for a short time and part of it was we simply wanted to see the snow, we had never seen it, the place where i worked the supervisor was about 30 and had not been to the snow since he was a small kid and it was only a few hours drive away, he was asking how it was and what it was like, man he was excited to go to it and it was in his "back yard" all his life .......
Yep we all have what we want on our door steps yet want to drive right past it......
Strange peoples aint we hahah
Cheers
Joe

cold !!!!! it freezing up here, it was down to 11 last night.... man that is COLD ...
Hahaha
Sorry

if you go at this time of the year you can get spells of about 3 weeks that are simply awsome weather, no winds and warm sunny days... yes in June...

Us oldies always wondered if we would find a place as good as home (Cowaramup down south), came over the mountain into Cooktown, looked at each other & said this would be it IF we ever HAD to leave home. Haven't HAD to leave but still off camping - Cape Leveque last week & Derby this week. Cheers Heather & John

John L, as a Western Australian you will like this. My choice would be Kalbarri. I've never seen another sight quite as good as when you come over the hill just before the town when coming from the south with the sun shining.
Kevin

Hi "Tjukayirla" ..... we drifted south a few times, did Lake Cargelligo and Leeton for a winter, actually loved it, cool to see frost and snow, we came from Nyirripi up to Doomadgee, yep it gets cold there eh and yes the fun is looking for it and hope we never find it i guess...
Cheers guys

Hey "John L", love Cowaramup, it is a nice spot....
we went as far as Cow Bay last year and ran out of time, we wanted to get to cooktown, there is one thing a lot of people dont get to see is the wet season, the "bad" side of it, the whole north up there is awsome in the dry ..
We stayed at the Cow Bay hotel and got talking to the owner, he had fallen in love with the place and took over the pub, he could not stop talking about how hot it gets when raining and how it just rains and rains and rains, he did as most, thought it was great to see and feel the rain until a month passed and it was still raining and he was absolutly over it, he complained how everything was wet, could not go outside or sit outside, could not even dry anything, paint on cars get coated in mould ..... it was wetwetwetwet and then great a cyclone coming ...
We felt sorry but had to have a chuckle when we left to see his dream crumbling around him, he was over it big time eh, poor guy.
Cheers guys

hi all, you do get used to the continuous rain week after week in the wet. I have seen it tain for 6 - 7 weeks non stop. I have been in Cairns now for 50 years and I worked out years ago you take holiday from Dec to May.

Damien

thats why they built the pub at bremer ...... yes i remember the cold wind, i also remember camping with a tent in the park and i took an electric blanket, had the best sleep i think i have ever had hahaha
Hey i do hope you get some good rains this year for the farmers eh
Cheers guys

Thanks Joe n Mel, it is still raining here, so maybe this time the rain will penetrate a bit further into the wheat belt. Son rang a while ago, absolutely elated. He is only 50 kms away by road, a lot closer direct, but has had even less than us until today. He has water running into his dams - all were dry, including the ground water soak that has supplied the house and garden since Dad dug a well there when i was in primary school. He had already seeded crops including three leased properties and needed rain badly. Just after my last post, daughter came in and said the tank was overflowing - first time since while we were away in 2009. May winter continue.

Mh