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G’day 

It’s not expected to make landfall so we are pretty safe. Everyone’s hoping that it will brush past and dump some rain on us in the south east. It’s pretty dry

It’s had a big effect on the swells they are huge! The surfers at Surfers paradise are loving it but you average Terry the tourist is spewing as the beaches are closed.

Me I was off to Bribie Island camping in a coupla weeks but a mate who lives up there said forget it ......the erosions pretty bad. Give it a few weeks and the sand will be back.... natures good at healing itself.

C

 

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G’day 

Well, cyclones are like that. It’s changed direction again! A real possibility to cross the coast. And by the weekend

Its a cat 3 Now the longer it stays at sea the stronger it gets once it crosses land it losses its intensity. So bring it on now! before it gets to strong. 

We could do with the rain and definitly needs to be cooler we haven’t a day under 30C or a night under 20C for some 40 days now.

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Gday

To give you some idea of distance here. It’s 1500 km from Brisbane to Melbourne where Jo lives. Cape York where the cyclone is, 2200 km from Brisbane.

Our Hope is that the cyclone will pass though the Cape York to get to sea again in the Gulf of Capentaria where it will gain strength ( and rain) then cross the coast and loss strength and become a “low system” again and head south through western Qld and into nth west NSW. 

South west Qld didn’t get those flooding rains like the Nth in fact it hasn’t rained there in 8 years. Hard to believe but that’s the reality of living in a country of droughts and flooding rains.

C

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Ok nearest town for me Melbourne, in the smallest mainland state, bottom right hand side....then CBdave is Brisbane (or BrisVegas) which is kind of the widest part of mainland Australia on the right side (east coast) ..... The cyclone called Trev is hanging round the top at the big pointy bit. 

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28 minutes ago, reciprocity said:

It sounds like Canada. Visitors don't understand that it takes 8 days of driving 10 hours a day in a car to cross the country from east to west (7,098 km). 

 

 

Yeah cept instead of ice and snow in the middle of our country we have dessert and a giant rock and no real mountains to speak of and add distance... so Gold coast to Carnavron about 5,100km.... and 54hrs of driving time. Don't worry Reci we get the distance thing.... an you guys have Quebec... we have South Australia..... you guys have New Foundland .... We have Tassie....twinning yet opposite.

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About 8 hours is on the money @Doreensfree .... just depends which way you got and where you stop... lots of good wineries between Canberra and Melbourne ;) .... and how could you not stop at the Ettamooga Pub..... and then you could come through Kelly County, stoping at Glenrowan.... or Gundagai and the dog on the tucker box..... so much to see which way will you come.... lol.

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Depends which way ya drive... but between 660km  & 730km.... just depends if you go the flat way or the bumpy mountain way.

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I love this book and read it many years ago,  don't know about the movie

but, the book, Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson,

is v. beautiful and gave me a sense of the beauty and vastness of Australia.

 

 

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6 hours ago, notsmokinjo said:

in the middle of our country we have dessert and a giant rock

 

You have dessert in the middle of your country? That's a long drive just for your after dinner treat! lol

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