What this site needs.

Hey Willem,

You have changed your logon name! and photo.

Perhaps everyone with their own site could list it here or on a new thread. I used too have a lot in favorites but lost them all when the PC blew up.We have so little time to enjoy our land

David, you wouldn't be any good in the FBI....you've just blown my cover and it is not yet 24 hours since I went under-cover :-))) Now I will have to look for a new name.

Anyway, there was a thread a while back on websites. I think that when David and Michelle get back from holiday we should put it to them. The problem being that if it was established with a HTML link then the download usage on this website would shoot through the roof and the owners would want to be compensated for that. I have a link in my website to Exploroz.
Always going somewhere

Willem, its a bit hard retaining cover when you give out your website address. What's with all these photos of other trucks? Bring back the "old girl".

Smile, you're on ExplorOz
Rohan (Sydney - on the QLD side of the Harbour Bridge)

Why did you change your name & pic ?

Hi Fellas,

Its cold and its wet and I'm stuck indoors......whatever made me settle down here in the big freeze? Just like to change things around. I have a lot of photos but many of them are too large in size to post and I haven't figured out how to downsize them yet. I have been on Exploroz for nigh on 12 months and needed a name change. Nothing stays the same forever.............might change it again in the future.....not by deedpoll though :-)) There's a name that I really like...might use that one day....CADDIBARRAWIRRACANNA...the longest placename in SA. I've been there.........Willywags is my totem.

Always going somewhere

Good idea willy so I've changed mine also.

Now, does anyone know who Mad Dog Morgan Was?Hooroo

mad dog morgan was a bush ranger who operated out of victoria
i think serca 1880

Thanks Willem, I've had a bit of a look, good stuff a little bit of experiance there!!!

Browny

Well done Willem - you just took me back to my childhood.

"CADDIBARRAWIRRACANNA,
little lake with lovely name,
And the story woven 'round it,
from the Pickaninnnies came."

was a song we sung in primary school."Live today as if there may be no tomorrow"

Wombat

And well done to you Wombat. I didn't put 2 and 2 together (must have left kindy long before you), but now I remember that too.

Can anyone remember the rest of the lyrics?Smile, you're on ExplorOz
Rohan (Sydney - on the QLD side of the Harbour Bridge)

Don't you just love the internet (and Google). Ask and ye shall receive.

Carra Barra Wirra Canna

There's a lake in South Australia,
Little lake with lovely name,
And the story wound around it
From the picaninnies came.
Every night the native mothers
Croon this lovely lullaby,
Croon across the moonlit waters,
to the star up in the sky.
CHORUS
Carra Barra Wirra Canna,
Little star upon the lake,
Guide me through the hours of darkness,
Keep me safely till I wake.
Piccaninnies' heads are nodding,
Drowsy crooning fills the air,
Little eyes at last are closing,
And the boat of dreams is there.
Guide my boat across the waters,
Cross the waters still and deep,
Light me with your little candle,
Safely to the land of sleep.
CHORUS
"Live today as if there may be no tomorrow"

Wombat

Hi Wombat,

Thanks for that ditty.

Cadibarrawirracanna(as spelt in Hema Map) was my drawcard to Australia. At school I was OK in Geography and whilst learning about the salt lakes of Australia I saw the magical name of that lake. I am going there one day I said to the teacher. I don't think he believed me.

I came to Aus in 1968 but as things turned out I never got to the lake. Then in 1992, whilst taking a shortcut from Alice Springs to visit the rellies in Melbourne, we got stopped by floodwaters at Stuart Creek south of William Creek. We had to backtrack over Anna Creek Station to Coober Pedy.

On that road I saw the sign LAKE CADIBARRAWIRRACANNA 6km. I had to get there! We struggled down the very wet and muddy track to the lake. I had my photo taken sitting in the salty waters of the lake. One more dream realised.
Cheers,
Willie

Always going somewhere

Cool. Thanks Wombat. I tried Google but didn't find it - must have been spelling it uncorecktlee, or something.Smile, you're on ExplorOz
Rohan (Sydney - on the QLD side of the Harbour Bridge)

Willy Wonker/Willywag/Willie or Whonte/Whatever

I thought he was a bushranger.

BTW, its 10 degrees in the eastern 'burbs of AdelaideRick (S.A.) - ' It is better to travel hopefully than arrive'

Be nice , Rick............I just love confusing people.
Cheers,
Willie
Always going somewhere

Yep a bushranger. He used to hangout in no mans land, the disputed border territory between VIC/SA and hijack the gold shipments from the Vic goldfields travelling to Robe. I think the border dispute has never been settled.Hooroo

Believe it or not:

On April 11th, 1865, he was shot dead, with a bullet in the back, fired by John Wendlan, at Peechelba station, near Wangaratta. Morgan did not die straight away but his spine was bleep tered. When he finally died his head was cut off and tobacco pouches were made from his scrotum.

I think he is buried in Wangaratta Cemetry. I grew up between Wangaratta and Glenwrowan at the foot of the Warby Ranges. Anyone ever been to the Ned Kelly show in Glenrowan? That's a good laugh, and good area for the history buffs.

Yep a bushranger but I think Rick got in first. He used to hangout in no mans land, the disputed border territory between VIC/SA and hijack the gold shipments from the Vic goldfields travelling to Robe. I think the border dispute has never been settled.Hooroo