O T a bit. That red dust has got into the blood now.

Hi All
I have spent a lot of my recent winters touring Country Australia, and love it.
The people, the land forms, the changing vegetation, the dust, the wildlife, birds and reptiles, the livestock, perhaps not the flys, even the gibber roads.
Just get back home and it is not long before the maps are out and the next trip is being planned.
What has happened now !.
We have an Australian born granddaughter, arrived this morning in as Country as it gets in Canberra.
Mother and daughter are fine, father and her 3yr old brother are ecstatic.
This Grandfather will recover in a while, probably about next winter.
To go from Brisbane, (my Oz base), through to the next ExplorOz gathering and then onto Canberra does not look that far if you use a postage stamp size map.
Went down to see them after the St George gathering and that that took only a few days.
Might even convince my wife that she should come along to next winter.
4 Rugby players
2 Netballers
now in the team.