Floodwaters

Hey guys, I will borrow a digital camera and take before and during shots of the water coming up into town, well, lower level of the caravan park - that's where we tie the boats and windsurfers up! IF it gets any higher than that we will all have to camp up the water tower. Just joking.
As for you Eskimo - come up and get your own Yellowbelly! A & J the place should be looking wonderful at Easter (bring your tennis racquets for the Annual Tennis Tournament on Easter Saturday) - then you'll whinge because you thought you were coming to the Desert. Fishing & water reports Saturday.

whens easter...i might take you up on that offer if i can get the missus to do the fishing...
sssshh but she only likes sleepnig out under the stars....no less than 2 and no more than 5...
will have a hard task in front to get her to go or should i say come!!

tennis ? cant fish but i try hard at it! Wow! am I cute
If yer ain't fishing, Yer ain't livin
Richard

Don't mind a spot of tennis and I reckon that after watching Andy Roddick demolish Taylor Dent I have a few new tips on how to play. Hat a hit with my ten year old on Sunday - great fun....
If you get some good shots (photo's not tennis!), I would love to seem them if they are on email. If you click on my picture of the car in the water,at the bottom of that written list is my email address. Is it safe from those spider thingys David talks about in there??
Andrew2001 Landcruiser 100S Turbo Diesel
"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing"

Hey Mr Mo, Easter starts Friday 9th April - tennis is on the Saturday. Fish could still be biting. Plenty of stars out here.

Mr Mo

You should be sending us some fish. Big hole in the ice - stick down your pole and whammo....2001 Landcruiser 100S Turbo Diesel
"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing"

i'm protecting my habitat by not catching them...
missus says i cant fish!!!!Wow! am I cute
If yer ain't fishing, Yer ain't livin
Richard

Jeez - that's a fantastic thing to do - I must be the worlds greatest habitat protector when I am fishing...... in fact, I have fed the buggers heaps of pilchards and whitebait and squid.2001 Landcruiser 100S Turbo Diesel
"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing"

Surely you can't play tennis when it's been 47C2001 Landcruiser 100S Turbo Diesel
"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing"

hey andrew you didnt say what your young bloke beat you by when you had a hit with him
ps thats why the locals win there used to 47c temps

steveimagine a 03 gu 4.2tdin the picture
as i am having trouble sizing the picture

Hi Gob - I was out having a bit of a bowl and bat playing cricket with my 5 and 10 year old boys today. Bloody hot too here in Melbourne - I reckon it was nearly 30 and I was sweating like a pig. 5 year old bowled one at my body, I ducked out of the way and it knocked over my stumps, then the 10 year old yorked me. Too hot for cricket so tennis when it is 47 is just unbelievable. And our tennis scoreline - can't remember!! lol I reckon that we will make it up there, the five of us, at Easter in our car and we are trying to get camper...
Andrew2001 Landcruiser 100S Turbo Diesel
"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing"

Hi everyone - yes you can play tennis when it's 47 but at night it's usually about 39 and the humidity may only be 21%. Difference between the dry heat and that moist coastal heat. The time is not 5:30 p.m. and the temp is still 47 - bit more humid today and stormy clouds about. You have to go play tennis because you fell like a caged lion stuck in the house all the time - or you go check the river heights or swimming at Pelican Point or fishing. Last night's fishing report - pre-lamb dinner drinks were at the fish hole - more small black/boney bream. Was almost too much for the "bloke" when one of the Elders (female) fishing just upstream pulled in a 6 pound Yellowbelly, then another one. Thank goodness for the lamb dinner, cause we didn't get any BIG fish.
River is running nicely over the old causeway today - not that anyone cares today, the grapes in the wine with the lamb dinner were OFF and all crook as chooks today. The 5:30 a.m. fishing trip was abandoned.
Ridgy, will certainly start taking some photos and putting them up. One of the biggest worries is that officials tend to forget about Birdsville and by the time the waters gets here it has cleared everywhere else - that's fine but with the River 4 klms east of Birdsville there is always the problem that out of staters can get all the way to the eastern side of the River and be unable to get through. No-one here knows they are there and they probably have not enough fuel to go back and you can't go around. It's an interesting problem.

Hey Oskar, our two chocolate puppies say hello to the real Oskar. Good to hear from you - thought you would be having an adventure this weekend not at home playing on the keyboard. Now, 2005 is going to be very interesting. Not sure when Easter is next year but Anzac Day is going to be bigger here than usual - the SA Vietnam Veterans are coming up to run the Parade again (they did in 99) and VV's from all over Australia appear. We now have our lovely especially dedicated Park. A few days later - the May Long Weekend (Qld holiday only) will be the start of the 2nd Cattle Drive from Birdsville to Marree. Quite a few of us (local people) are hoping to do the first stage of this trip, some of us in wagons. I think though you have to stick to the Easter holidays?? Yes?? Anyway over that May weekend no doubt there will be Bronco Branding and hopefully a big concert and other festivities. Something to think about. Keep in touch.