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tophet1
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Camels - Frustrated by the Weather
#193334 - 08/11/11 02:50 PM

With four days to go till we leave for our second Camel shooting trip I get word that rain furthur north has filled the water courses and made moving around the property almost impossible. Pig chasers have been bogged to the axles.

Its good for the grazier and has also put out some bush fires but the mosquitoes will increase and it looks like we may have to cancel.

I've put out a few adverts in local newspapers so we may find an alternative venue not affected by rain.

Frustrated +++

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500Nitro
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: tophet1]
#193335 - 08/11/11 02:52 PM

Not good for you but good for the farmers.

Wa talking to a bloke (farmer) a few hundred kms south
of you last night who said the seasons have been
pretty good all over.

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NitroX
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: 500Nitro]
#193337 - 08/11/11 03:20 PM

If the rain is also in pig country, it will mean better pig numbers too in the future.

But of course, messes up the current trip. Good luck.

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500Nitro
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: NitroX]
#193343 - 08/11/11 03:34 PM

The Pig Country up there has had a fair bit of rain
although one spot / area has had very little.

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Edited by 500Nitro (08/11/11 03:37 PM)

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tophet1
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: 500Nitro]
#193344 - 08/11/11 03:39 PM

Season has been very good. B-I-L got the the best crop (yield and quality) in the NW. We may still get to go. Fingers and toes crossed.

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Hunter_338
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: tophet1]
#193431 - 09/11/11 12:32 PM

Due to the rains over the last 12 months, I cancelled my camel trip this year in July.
When I called the station owner, they said the feed is very high and water everywhere with the good season, and that the camels & donkeys have spread out and into remote areas and they were not seeing any around!

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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: Hunter_338]
#193432 - 09/11/11 12:46 PM

Your weather mirrored ours, then. Record rain and for us, record low temps for the summer months. Hope it's a dry winter with little snow.

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tophet1
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: DarylS]
#193436 - 09/11/11 02:58 PM

Sorry to hear that Hunter 338. I hope you hadn't taken leave for that hunt.

Well no rain since last Saturday the 5th. Hopefully it will dry out in the 40 deg heat. With 1,200 squ kms of nothing (no water holes or creek lines, no fences, no roads) in the centre of the property I hope there will still be a reservoir of camels. There are large areas of gibber plain in the South and NW of the place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_pavement

If it drys out without more rain we are a goer. Stay tuned ...

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500Nitro
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: tophet1]
#193437 - 09/11/11 03:05 PM

Gibber plain - now that is one of the most desolate places I have ever been in my life, probably worse than Woomera rocket range and surrounding area which is very similar.

Sturt's Stony Desert is the other one.

Not much in those places, that's for sure.

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CHAPUISARMES
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: 500Nitro]
#193438 - 09/11/11 03:19 PM

Hi John,

That still doesn't sound the best to me, please take a Sat Phone as you may well need more than a Paramedic.....

Cheers Mate,

Jeff

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NitroX
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: CHAPUISARMES]
#193440 - 09/11/11 04:53 PM

JM

I've forgotten, what is the general area where you hunt, nothing specific, but is it like SW Qld, NW NSW, or something like that.

Puts an area to the terrain and weather you are speaking of.

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Hunter_338
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: tophet1]
#193454 - 09/11/11 06:59 PM

Quote:

Sorry to hear that Hunter 338. I hope you hadn't taken leave for that hunt.

all ok, rather leave it and go another time when there are a few around.

I saved my leave, looking at something else down the track!

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tophet1
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: Hunter_338]
#193455 - 09/11/11 09:24 PM

NitroX, 700km east of Alice Springs. Hunter 338, share plz.

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mikeh416Rigby
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: tophet1]
#193470 - 10/11/11 01:50 AM

Don't feel too bad lads: this year is shapeing up as the wettest on record here. So far, for the year, we're over 24 inches above normal for the amount of rain we've received. Saturday, a week ago, we got 8 inches of snow...a record for our area, for the month of October. Hundreds of thousands of homes lost their power, and thousands are still doing without it.

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blacks
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: mikeh416Rigby]
#193519 - 10/11/11 11:17 AM

John, I hope the rain stays away and you and the boys get to enjoy your hunt.

Besides, you have a lot of recoinassance to do!!

blacks

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Ripp
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: DarylS]
#193526 - 10/11/11 12:53 PM

Quote:

Your weather mirrored ours, then. Record rain and for us, record low temps for the summer months. Hope it's a dry winter with little snow.

Agree---and we can all hope..BUT, they (weather guru's) are calling for more of the same as last year...

Ripp

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tophet1
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: Ripp]
#193529 - 10/11/11 02:07 PM

Sounds like you blokes are suffering some of the planets cyclic changes too. Well they had small falls again last night .... aaaarrgghh.

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kamilaroi
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: tophet1]
#193530 - 10/11/11 03:33 PM

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NitroX, 700km east of Alice Springs. Hunter 338, share plz.

Upper channel country eh? Any mound springs?

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500Nitro
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: kamilaroi]
#193533 - 10/11/11 03:54 PM

Boulia and Diamantina country.

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Hunter_338
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: 500Nitro]
#193545 - 10/11/11 06:07 PM

South East of Alice!

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kamilaroi
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: 500Nitro]
#193552 - 10/11/11 07:48 PM

Quote:

Boulia and Diamantina country.

Yep, I wasn't trying to be bleeding obvious.

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500Nitro
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: kamilaroi]
#193554 - 10/11/11 07:56 PM

Quote:

Quote:

Boulia and Diamantina country.

Yep, I wasn't trying to be bleeding obvious.

700km East of Alice and "Boulia and Diamantina country"
are the same thing.

I think most people can use a map.

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kamilaroi
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: 500Nitro]
#193556 - 10/11/11 09:11 PM

^but not so much the wider audience.

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500Nitro
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: kamilaroi]
#193557 - 10/11/11 09:25 PM

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^but not so much the wider audience.

If they are thick as two short planks, maybe
but mate, honestly, do you really think people
are that stupid and can't figure out where
700kms east of Alice is on a map.

In any case, it is one hell of a big area and
there is game all over that area in parts.

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tophet1
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Re: Frustrating Weather [Re: 500Nitro]
#193596 - 11/11/11 02:58 PM

It's a goer. No more rain so we are off....

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