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Post by whollygoats on Apr 13, 2019 23:33:35 GMT
So, there are basically four, or maybe five, of us?
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Post by Moose on Apr 14, 2019 1:08:23 GMT
I think there are more who pop in from time to time
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Post by tangent on Apr 14, 2019 5:30:45 GMT
That could be taken two ways I don't agree
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 14, 2019 11:55:21 GMT
We have lost some members that used to be regulars. But then we have people like Mari and Claudia with new lil bubbas who are going to be very busy with that.
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Post by Mari on Apr 14, 2019 18:52:36 GMT
I'm still here, just not posting a lot since I'm here on my tablet rather than the laptop (impossible to handle with 1 hand).
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 15, 2019 9:45:52 GMT
One more week until our honeymoon, so I will be absent for nearly two weeks at that point.
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Post by Kye on Apr 15, 2019 10:42:38 GMT
Oh cool! Remind me where you're going?
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Post by JoeP on Apr 15, 2019 11:03:24 GMT
Better do lots of posting before then to make up!
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Post by Mari on Apr 15, 2019 12:50:28 GMT
One more week until our honeymoon, so I will be absent for nearly two weeks at that point. Oh, such a nice thing to be looking forward to.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 15, 2019 22:43:09 GMT
In the end we're going to Hamilton Island (one of the Whitsunday Islands) and to Port Douglas. Both are in Queensland. We will have sailing and snorkeling and eat lots of seafood. And hopefully avoid the deadly cassowaries! Hamilton Island www.hamiltonisland.com.au/destinationThere are no cars on the island but there is an airport and we can fly direct from Melbourne. Port Douglas www.visitportdouglasdaintree.com/destinationsOur very first holiday together was here.
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Post by Kye on Apr 16, 2019 1:29:12 GMT
Lovely! Have fun!
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Post by tangent on Apr 16, 2019 12:00:15 GMT
Nice
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Post by Mari on Apr 16, 2019 12:43:47 GMT
Enjoy!
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 16, 2019 14:06:43 GMT
I tend to visit in bursts these days. Less active than I once was, but more than a short while back where I managed to not visit in many weeks.
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Post by Elis on Apr 26, 2019 8:02:34 GMT
We spent Easter at my parents' and met lots of friends and relatives, so there was no time for posting here. Malcolm and his little cousin were cute together.
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Post by JoeP on Apr 26, 2019 8:37:07 GMT
Malcolm and his little cousin were cute together.
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 4, 2019 23:33:31 GMT
I'm back from honeymoon so can post regular again!
DG had his first Aussie snake encounter so he can officially become a citizen now. Plus we saw a reef shark in the Great Barrier Reef. We also saw green tree frogs, and a cassowary!! Did you all hear about the man that got killed the other day by a cassowary? It was in the US. He fell over and cassowary killed him. He bred them. Plus we saw the most gorgeous butterflies - there were so many and they were beautiful blue ones, green ones and these black and white translucent ones. And of course a few kangaroos even on Hamilton island. Kind of funny to see them in the tropics on a resort island just nibbling at the grass of the lawn. I did notice the staff cleaning up kangaroo poo early in the mornings.
Our weather was not the greatest. I think we only had 3 sunny days, the rest was rain and drizzle. But it never dropped below about 21 degrees on Hamilton Island and don't think it got below 24 degrees in Port Douglas so we were always warm.
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Post by JoeP on May 5, 2019 11:21:38 GMT
I did hear about that cassowary attack ... as I commented somewhere, it's basically a dinosaur and it's Australian ... of course it's going to try to kill you.
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 5, 2019 22:52:42 GMT
Yes, it is a dinosaur. The Daintree rain-forest, where it lives, is the oldest in the world and I was reading that it's older than the dinosaurs. So stands to reason that any dinosaur relic would still live there.
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 5, 2019 22:54:40 GMT
Oh, I also found out about the Gympie Gympie tree. I knew we had killer trees (gum trees) but didn't realise we also had these stinging trees which are so painful apparently that they are called the suicide tree.
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Post by Moose on May 6, 2019 3:40:40 GMT
I vaguely recall having read about those though I could not have named them.
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Post by Kye on May 6, 2019 11:27:48 GMT
There's a plant called Giant Hogweed which grows in my area (in the country though not the city) which can cause serious burns if you come in contact with the sap.
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Post by JoeP on May 6, 2019 11:57:40 GMT
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Post by Kye on May 6, 2019 12:42:41 GMT
Yeah --that's the one!
(Ugly song, btw)
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Post by Elis on May 8, 2019 7:43:57 GMT
Fascinating to read about all the nasty plants and birds.
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Post by Mari on May 8, 2019 12:54:00 GMT
Seriously? Even the plants and trees in Australia try to kill you? Why would anyone want to go there?!
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Post by whollygoats on May 8, 2019 13:57:15 GMT
Well, the original reason was that it was a penal colony. There was no desire to go there. None at all.
I guess the rest who followed just had penal envy?
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 9, 2019 9:42:06 GMT
Well, the original reason was that it was a penal colony. There was no desire to go there. None at all. I guess the rest who followed just had penal envy? There were already people living here for 60 000 years before the Brits and their penal colonies. Australia's erasure and treatment of indigenous people is pretty terrible. As for why anybody would want to live here...well that's our best kept secret.
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Post by whollygoats on May 9, 2019 13:48:36 GMT
They had no desire to go there at all. They were already there.
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Post by raspberrybullets on May 10, 2019 9:00:24 GMT
But they had to get here first.
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