Seasonal Travelling
Submitted: Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 at 19:54
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Member - Marc Luther B (WA)
Hi All
I hope this year brings great travels to all.
My curiousity causes this thread. I am wondering how many people here back track themselves in different seasons, to see the amazing differences that various seasons can bring to different areas.
I know a lot of people travel through the Kimberleys prior to the wet, but that is after months of sun and heat. Do people then go back to the same kind of areas just after the wet, and see the astonishing differences. If so it would be lovely to see the photographic differences.
I have noted, on many ocasions, the differences in flora, fauna and general landscape caused by the varying seasons, it is amazing.
Cheers
Reply By: Member - Marc Luther B (WA) - Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 at 21:19
Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 at 21:19
My bad, I should have specificed that I am extremely interested in how much difference oiccurs in areas that I don't know, like over east.
Cheers
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Reply By: Motherhen - Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 at 21:45
Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 at 21:45
Hi Marc
I just looked at photos of
Chinchilla region in Qld; unbelievable! Fairly dry when we were there last year.
Chinchilla from the air
Where's Sir Kev - may have his feet a tad wet.
Motherhen
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Follow Up By: Member - Marc Luther B (WA) - Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 00:56
Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 00:56
Hi MH
I do apologise to those suffering through flooding, it was not that variety of wet to which I was referring. Let's just hope they have enough potable
water after everything subsides to be okay.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:09
Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:09
Yes Marc, and while we are feeling the pinch here in our driest ever year, we can still get enough
water to drink. We won't have to evacuate our house, and dust is much easier to clean out than mud. I really do feel for those in the floods.
Our own state has some amazing highs and lows. Just in the coastal
Pilbara (where my son works) I have photos of the Fortescue and the Maitland bridges to the south of
Karratha and the Harding River dam in the dry, and have seen photos of them in flood - what a contrast. I have another photo (again not
mine) of the
Robe River in flood - just broken pieces of highway in a vast flowing area of
water. These damaging events are just part of the cyclonic climate that the north of our state is in. Then of course there is the recent flooding of the Gascoyne.
Mh
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Follow Up By: Member - Marc Luther B (WA) - Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:48
Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:48
Hi MH
We can truly relate to floods, as when Cyclone Rosita smashed into
Broome, we copped all the side rains. We were cut off from everything for 7 weeks, and had an Army Caribou drop essential supplies in. That was an interesting time.
Cheers
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Reply By: Member - Joe n Mel n kids (FNQ - Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 at 23:47
Saturday, Jan 01, 2011 at 23:47
hi Marc.... we worked at Coonida in
Kakadu for a few years, at that time it all used to close down for the wet, more and more people started to wake up to how wonderful it can be in the wet and now it is fully booked right through ....
Just to see the changes in the landscape, see the dry waterholes fill, waterfalls run and even when the wet is at it's peaak to get in a boat and go for a run up some of the what are ROADS in the dry ....
The
carpark at Yellow Waters is about 2m under the boat and you can get halfway up the road in the BOAT .....
To drift in and around the tops of the trees is simply fantastic and to sit and listen to the bird life... you can spend hours .....
To get on the quads every morning and chase, yes chase the crocs OUT of the campgroud at the lodge as the
water was lapping against the edge ...
By the way the total rainfall for
Doomadgee for Jan to Jan was 1.7m for 2010 ...
Thats wet...
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Follow Up By: Member - Marc Luther B (WA) - Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 00:59
Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 00:59
Hi Joe n Mel n Kids
I know what you mean, I recently went to
Kununurra again, and stayed at the Lakeside Lodge. WEnt for a walk on the foreshaw of the lake, heard a noise, turned around and a croc was looking at me. Fortunately a Johnsons, so no danger, but a tad startling at first.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Happy Frank - Monday, Jan 03, 2011 at 20:53
Monday, Jan 03, 2011 at 20:53
Amazing that that much rain is possible, we have had nearly 400 ml in 2010 and that is the best we have had for 10 years
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Reply By: Member - Alastair D (NSW) - Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:04
Sunday, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:04
Marc,
Way back in the early 80s I was travelling around Aus - dog, self in S3 Landrover. Ended up in the
Kimberley and loved it. Work in
Derby for a while and made good friends. Went south and then returned to
Derby late in the year so I could experience a northern wet. Incredible. The
Fitzroy river where it crossed the
Derby -
Broome road was just a series of
water holes. After the rain it was 40km wide across the flood plain. You have to see it to believe what can happen in a few days and then how the country changes as the
water soaks in and drains away.
Thanks for triggering some good old memories.
cheers
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