Travel No Go

Still up at Anabranch North Queensland. Travel has been a no go. We are normally in Northern NSW.

Bushfires, heatwaves, droughts, now floods, more on the way. The South East corner of Queensland no better.

It seems like the whole of Australia is burning. Even the Nullarbor hwy has been closed due to bushfires.

This is the first time spending the whole of the summer period up in the tropics, compared to the South, it has been good. No droughts, no flooding, but we do get the heatwaves pushing 42°C.

At the start of our stay all of the vegitation was burnt by the hot sun baron ground with green trees.

But now it has started to rain everything is greening up again. I am using the whipper snipper as the grass is so long we loose sight of our dog in the grass.

Jools our dog has found his own cool place under the truck.

We have just acquired a new evaporative cooler, which does the job of cooling us down. We tested it in 46°C temp and it stops us from sweating, even though in 10 minutes you could fry an egg on the ground.

It's lucky we can pump up water from the water hole.