Saturday, Jan 31, 2009 at 16:58
Sorry have been busy at school and Bob Y. has flown north.
Let's see as of about an hour ago the height here is 6.7m and we are into the third flood. Just did the levels for Roseberth Stn for 3:00 pm and it is 5.55 m and rising slowly there.
Dick Smith flew in yesterday in a very nice jet for a sticky beak - had Macca from Australia All Over with him as
well. There is a twin engine plane flying around today up and down the river having a look as
well, right now.
Haven't spoken to Clifton Hills yet but we think the water should be near there now - certainly into Goyders LAgoon - it stretches now from Elderslie, above
WInton, into South Australia. Not bad really for a little puddle with no rain worth mentioning down this end.
Sir Kev, we were to leave next Thursday - but that's out and with more rain up north our other escape route has closed off as
well!
We had a supply truck from the east,
Quilpie and
Brisbane on the 19th December and one from
Adelaide about two weeks ago - unfortunately it didn't bring the dry goods order for the Store!
Fresh milk and F & V are run out - only a few horses running on the common, no cattle, what a shame! (That's a joke).
Now, one thing I haven't told you this week is what happens when you travel on a closed road - in this case two closed roads.
We 'heard' (as you do on the bush telegraph) there was a ute in trouble on the
Windorah road. The next day I saw the ute - not sure if it was towed in but it 'had been' a new Nissan ute and it 'fell' into a hole. The engine is pushed back towards the cab, the chassis is broken, the cab is bent and it is a complete write off - can't tell what colour it should be because of the mud.
This vehicle came up the
Birdsville Track (closed) they had lunch at the Pub then headed out on the
Windorah Road (closed) - with BIG signs. I haven't taken a photo of it purposely (because people would think I'm picking on Nissans) but that night about 9:30 pm one of the guys was flown out on RFDS with a 'sore neck' and yesterday the other guy got a lift out with Dick Smith on his jet. Am I jealous - am I what! Unbelievable.
I wonder if the owner has insurance and I wonder what he will tell his insurance company about what happened, and will the insurance company ring and verify it?
I will take some photos of the sandhill at the back of the airport though because it is entirely covered in vegetation and hard to believe it's a sandhill. The other bit of news is that the Georgina/Eyre Creek is absolutely running a banker and if you watch the rainfall you will note that it just keeps raining from Urandangi and points north - this water all has to come down this way - certainly to the west of
Birdsville and
Bedourie.
Check out the Mulligan River as
well - by the looks of the radar there should be some rain/water over/in the
Hay River today as
well.
The water coming south in the Georgina/Eyre Creek is causing some concern at Muncoonie - quite a lot. So that should make for some interesting crossings into the Simpson for a while. Eyre Creek - where we cross going into the SD can be 14 sandhills wide - and 14 large water courses, or more.
That's enough news for now - time to turn the last of the Christmas ham into pea and ham soup (that'll feed us for a day or two).
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