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Submitted: Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 18:58

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Road conditions information for:

Member - Peter & Clara O (VIC)

Road and river depth of height at crossings conditions for Borroloola to Hells Gate now and anticipated in a months time.

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Reply By: Member - Joe n Mel n kids (FNQ - Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 19:42

Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 19:42

all "second hand" info meaning very simply that it is from others that we have asked .......
The "robinson river" is 600mm deep with reasonablly steep entrys, the Calvert is fine at about 300mm, the road has some bad patches but it can vary day to day as cattel are being trucked out in roadtrains, if you dont like BIG trucks then DONT bother travelling on it ... you can get fuel at Hells Gate and Doomadgee ...... there has been croc sightings at some of the crossings, with a large one resident at Suprise Creek....

And on the 16 of Aug there will be 37.4mm of rain at the calvert and levels will rise to 622mm deep and flow at a rate of 5m a sec, the Robinson will have 76.4mm of rain and rise to 754mm deep, corrigations at Doomadgee end will be 45mm deep as 254 cars and 32 trucks will have traveled over it, it will have had one maintenance grade on the 4th Aug....... 672 cattle will have crossed the road, 145 roos, 95 horses, 27 pigs, 15 buffs, 47 emus, 68 dingos, 4578 mice, 1322 bush rats and 876 owls will land on or cross the road from now and up to that date ..

Cheers
Joe

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Follow Up By: Member - Toyocrusa (NSW) - Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 20:08

Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 20:08

And we thought Stephen L had a good information source.LOL. Bob.

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Follow Up By: Wilgadene - Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 20:15

Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 20:15

Absolute gold, and very accurate, Luv it ,LOL. No offence meant to Peter and Clara, I just needed a good laugh.

Cheers and happy travels to all

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Follow Up By: Member - Joe n Mel n kids (FNQ - Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 21:25

Tuesday, Jul 19, 2011 at 21:25

yes no offence meant at all .... (smiles)
The top part is todays info, bottom is me very peed off with work and i should not take it out on you travellers eh, call in and have a coffee and chokky cake on us and a yarn ....
Cheers Joe (Doomadgee Roadhouse) ....

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Follow Up By: Member - Noel K (NT) - Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:40

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:40

Mmmm... I see the dingo figures are down on last year's and the emu figures are up. What's going on there, something to do with the 876 howls maybe?

Noel K.

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