Wet Dry season

mmmm, I have to order a jacket this morning. It won't affect the cane harvest up here, the mill may never fire a shot in anger again over here, but thats another story.....
Cheers Andrew

I had heard they were thinking of shutting it. Be hard on the cane farmers.
Have they still got crops standing?

If the globe is warming how come it's so bloody cold!!!
Dave....

Yep, crops still standing, the Korean owners want to dismantle it and take it to Indonesia, mainly for the cheaper labour and they have a need for its electricity generation over there. They have offered it for sale to the farmers co-op and I think marybourough sugar as partners, but aparently they want a bit much for it. Its a bit of a chicken and egg thing, some say they need a lot more land for sugar production to make the mill profitable, and worth upgrading etc, the state gov is reluctant to kick stage 2 off, there is more reliable money in sandlewood at the moment etc etc.

On top of that, the sugarcane can be harder to get rid of than it is to grow!

Hopefully it will all work out, but a mate who is a cane farmer isn't in the best of positions at the moment, but he is better than some in the area as he has other crops as well, and he is of course in a better position than many who have no water in other regions.

Cheers Andrew

Hi Andrew, What happened to the idea of using the sugar cane waste material for electricity generation ?

Gday Kiwi

They have been doing that a bit in the past, but it seems the korean owners can make more money our out of doing this in indonesia. Argyle is looking like increasing its generator capacity to power the underground development, as the co generation from sugar may not be available, the hydro hasn't got the capacity, and other posibilities like extra hydro and tidal seem headed for the too hard basket.

Cheers Andrew

I hope that doesn't mean the end of Canefire Rum as well !!!!!

Gday Sarg

I think Canefire Rum is a swan valley company now, and I's say will have no trouble continuing without Ord Valley sugar. I'm not even sure if they use it anyway, but will gladly be corrected. The Hoochery up here may be a different story though, but they may even be able to process their own sugar??

Cheers
Andrew

Gday Willem

If the Peterborough you are talking about is the one in SW victoria, I have experienced the cold down there (A few trips down along the coast in a previous life 20 years ago........)

Cheers ANdrew

No mate. Peterborough between Port Augusta and Broken Hill

Cheers

mmmmm, totally different type of cold I suspect, I may even have my wires crossed a little on the name, a few brain cells gone missing since I was a Mexican.

Cheers Andrew

This weather site tells all...
:// Site Link

Which weather site? - last night the ExplorOz rain radars were showing serious rain all over the top area of the Kimberley. Today Damian is coordinating the heaps of road closed reports that arrived first thing.

Even the rain radars now are showing it is still raining a little.

Live Radar image from the Weather pages on ExplorOz.

Hi Andrew
Have been using the Elders weather map since you introduced me to it a few weeks ago in another post. A nice site which is well laid out.

Still heading up your way early August and will contact you as I have promised re some finer details.
I'm starting to stress out as not enough time to do all the things before we head off on 20th July.
Thanks
PeteS

Fredd,

I think you have looked at the Averages information - the averages are not current to the minute as they are averages over the time period shown on the report Kununurra is average from 1986 - 2006 showing 1mm average - looks like currently way over average. Enjoy.

Andrew,

Thanks for the link - I have access to all the data shown on that report and will work our reports to show some more of the information that is available on that page.

Please always let us know what you would like to see on the pages on ExplorOz we are always extenting the information and trying to provide a total service so if we are missing stuff that you like then let us know - we build the site based mainly on feedback.

No worries David

My wife must take the credit for the elders weather site, I used to just use the BOM site, but the Elders site seems to have all I want linked to the one page..

Gday PeteS, Looking forward to catching up....spoke to Bilbo the other day, I hope he isn't stuck somewhere up here, Although I don't think there has been enough rain for that, but enough for people to have the moral conflict between fun and wrecking tracks!

Cheers Andrew

Gday Nick, I suppose you don't want to hear about the 3 days camping at Cape Dommett with 3 mates and the boat, or the 16 pound jewie, or the oysters, or the painted cray caught in a crab pot......

Got down to 13 degrees overnight, cold for here.

Cheers Andrew

Check it out on the Weather pages on ExplorOz see Kununurra here Site Link and navigate the the stations that suit where you are going.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye on it over the next couple of weeks. It doesn't however tell me how things have been over the last couple of weeks so if anyone can tell me if streams levels are high or not it would be appreciated .