Big Red Bash
Submitted: Saturday, Jun 29, 2019 at 08:58
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Kanga1
Hi all, we've been looking all over the web for the last couple of weeks now for info on the state of the
Birdsville track, trying to decide whether to turn left or go straight ahead when we roll off the ferry in
Melbourne on Wednesday morning. If the
Birdsville track is badly corrugated, we'll head up through
Quilpie. Does anyone have any first hand Intel on the
Birdsville track?
Cheers, Kanga.
Reply By: Peter_n_Margaret - Saturday, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:00
Saturday, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:00
From Peter & Sandra yesterday. They are currently in
Birdsville.
"The
Birdsville Track was in general in poor condition, certainly nowhere
near as good as I remember from the past, the clay cap has been worn
away and the goolies are sticking out of the deck now so very rough
pretty much all the way to Mungeranie except for one 5k section which
has just been redone.
From Mungeranie to
Birdsville was generally in better shape but still
lots of worn away clay cap with the goolies sticking up.
We had a look at the site for the Big Red Bash and it will be a massive
dust bowl for those attending, the whole swale has been graded flat and
the wind was just blowing the powder around, wonderful place to be for
the 9000+ attending!"
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome
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Follow Up By: rumpig - Saturday, Jun 29, 2019 at 11:09
Saturday, Jun 29, 2019 at 11:09
With 9000 people camped there, it won’t have a lot of bare ground for the dust to be whipped up you’d have to think....lol
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Follow Up By: Peter_n_Margaret - Saturday, Jun 29, 2019 at 20:01
Saturday, Jun 29, 2019 at 20:01
Another report this evening from Peter & Sandra (who are in an OKA).
"A bloke came and talked to us late this afternoon, he had come up from Maree too and reckoned like me that the track was in worse condition that in the past, he was driving a lifted Hiace with a rear locker and AT tyres, said at times he was trundling along at 40kph. We sat on 60-75 and slowed down to much less for the dips that were chopped out with lots of rocks sticking up."
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome
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Follow Up By: Candace S. - Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 at 11:31
Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 at 11:31
I've heard of Goonies, but what are goolies? :)
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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:40
Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:40
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Candace, goolies are a type of cricket bowl that Shane Warne was especially good at. No wait.... that was googlies.
Ahh, how can I put this delicately? ..... Um, "goolies" are small rounded stones about the size of an egg and likened to errr, so-called part of a male anatomy.
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Follow Up By: Member - ACD 1 - Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 at 20:10
Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 at 20:10
Geez Allan
You either eat small eggs or ... You've got big Ummm "goolies"
Cheers
Anthony
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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 at 21:06
Sunday, Jun 30, 2019 at 21:06
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Ahrr Anthony, I reckoned the parity was close enough for Candace.
Besides, there are eggs and eggs.
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Follow Up By: Candace S. - Monday, Jul 01, 2019 at 00:04
Monday, Jul 01, 2019 at 00:04
LOL! :) Okay, thanks.
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Follow Up By: Jarse - Monday, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:44
Monday, Jul 01, 2019 at 05:44
Trust me, there’s plenty of dust in the
campground to make it uncomfortable. I initially thought the people wearing dust masks around looked silly. They were obviously BRB veterans and were
well prepared.
There’s a constant fine fog of dust being kicked around during the day, that gets into everything.
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Follow Up By: Ron N - Tuesday, Jul 02, 2019 at 00:14
Tuesday, Jul 02, 2019 at 00:14
Candace, "Goolies" is a word "borrowed" from the Hindi language, which is used by the people of Northern India.
As the English were the rulers of India for nearly a century, starting from 1858, numerous Hindi words (or corruptions of the Hindi word) made it into the English language - as used by the peoples of the U.K., and the peoples of the colonies of the U.K, from the 1850's onwards.
American English has apparently never "picked up" these "borrowed words" from Hindi, I guess because of the lack of contact between the Northern Indian people, and Americans in general.
Hindi words that have become part of British English slang
Cheers, Ron.
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Follow Up By: Allan B (Sunshine Coast) - Tuesday, Jul 02, 2019 at 07:01
Tuesday, Jul 02, 2019 at 07:01
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Well, there you go..... Ya learn something new each day. Thanks Ron.
And I thought it was all down to Warnie! lol
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