Wake n Bake, Nothing Better!

Gryphonn

Gryphonn

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Hey folks.

It's around 7:30pm Easter Sunday here. We have the Good Friday holiday, then Saturday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday for our Easter break. The kids have an extra four days holiday and go back to school after next weekend.

We're currently camped on the banks of the mighty Fitzroy River, just downstream from the city of Rockhampton. I'll post a Google Earth link maybe. If you want to check it out on Google Earth, find Rockhampton QLD Australia. Then follow the river downstream. Just downstream the river bends East. We're camped on the South bank about half way along the straight after the bend.

It's a beautiful clear night. Hardly a mosquito about and there is a soft glow from Rockhampton, but still dark enough to appreciate the stars. I'll set the tripod up and take a few pics.
 
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korvette1977 said:
Hey Gryf

Cheers ,, I got a bowl lit for ya ..
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Sweet bloke. I'll do the same on this side of the pond for you (or down under I guess from your perspective)

'Sweet' is an aussie term, like bonzer, cool, OK, or even, in the vein of a popular Queensland beer, 'Good as Gold'.

Pics coming in five minutes or so...we're just listening to mmmm...mmm...mmm...mmm by Crash Test dummies
 
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Here ya go Vette and all. This was taken about twenty minutes ago. The mysterious figures are my daughter moving around with the light...Ph03nix sitting by the fire...and the shadowy figure to the bottom right is our dog Jack. You can see the river kind of reflecting the glow and the city glow in the background. I just threw this up without any adjustments, so please forgive the quality.
 
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korvette1977 said:
what are you guys sleeping in ? Tents

what do you do for food ? with no fridge it must be trying
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Nah, s'all good Vette. We can have a cooler if we need one. We got lucky a week or so back. My bro' in law threw out an 800 watt inverter (12 - 240V). I grabbed it out of the dump trailer and checked it out. It works fine. But, we have a small box trailer with all our food needs. We use powdered milk, a gas cooker. We have also been spending a few nights with our most respected and favourite nephew, 'Macca'. He and his most precious partner cum wife (I'll call her) "T", and their little boy "B". I am going to introduce Macca to Rollitup and I hope you folks will give him a good hello. They are truly staunch people whom I would entrust my life with.

Anyway, the inverter charges the 'puter, and the phone...funnily enough, we get better broadband down river from Maccas place, and he is closer to town...go figure. But I haven't been game to run it with the engine off, even though my bro in law said they could run a TV and a fridge with for two hours on one standard 12V car battery before the low battery cut-off kicked in and shut it off. I have a big arse battery in St Jimmy (the land Cruiser), but I'd hate to get stuck with a flat one in a big arse deisel engined wagon...
 
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korvette1977

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How You getting Money ?
You gotta have funds to survive ..
Im glad you guys are safe and all is well..

you planting any weed in your travels ?
 
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Ooops. I also meant to say that St Jimmy sleeps three comfortably. Two adults can sleep in the back with the seats down...one child in the front seats. The front is a 'two third' style seat that works as a bed when you jam a cushion down in the gap between the seats...but we have tents too if we need them.
bongsmiliebongsmilie
...oh, and we are well supplied at present, so I'll choof a few more billies for you Vette. Say hi to your best friend for me too...*waves to China*
 
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korvette1977

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Will do Bro,, She is sleeping but will read this when she gets up...

How long do you plan to be ""Roughing it "" ?
or is this a new way of life ..?

No bathrooms ? No showers ? Bro Build a hut or something ..Find a cave , Move in .
 
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korvette1977 said:
How You getting Money ?
You gotta have funds to survive ..
Im glad you guys are safe and all is well..

you planting any weed in your travels ?
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Well, to be honest, when all said and done, our country has a *brilliant* welfare system. I am currently on a sickness payment due to my depression that I've mentioned before. Ph03nix is in a similar position, but on what's termed a PSP program. We get payed XX amount per fortnight. It's enough to eat relatively healthily, and pay for fuel. However, it wouldn't pay for a 3 bedroom house rental here, and pay for food and electricity etc etc.

Back where we were, in the bush, we could afford to have food and a house and fuel. But here, it's just sucks you dry...sorry to be a downer, but this city sucks the life out of you...

...any closer than here and you can actually feel the negative vibes that the place emanates...and I'm a pretty rational sort of bloke.

Planting? Well, of course not (in case it may incriminate me ;-) ). Of course, if I had happened to have planted thirty or so experiments in various places, it could be advantageous for me to back track in the next few months...:blsmoke::mrgreen:
 
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korvette1977 said:
Will do Bro,, She is sleeping but will read this when she gets up...

How long do you plan to be ""Roughing it "" ?
or is this a new way of life ..?

No bathrooms ? No showers ? Bro Build a hut or something ..Find a cave , Move in .
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Oh certainly not that rough Vette. We shower every night...or second night, depending on how far from civilization we are. Even so, we have a 'camp shower' if we need to use it. Once this court battle is done, we'll have a home base and be able to travel proper like. But seriously, we are fully self sufficient in St Jimmy. You'd be surprised.
 
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korvette1977

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Well hopefully when you backtrack you made a map..

Well I dont know too much about The land down under , But I hope that you guys stay safe and healthy ... Do what ya can with what you have , Something will come around for you guys ..
 
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korvette1977 said:
Well hopefully when you backtrack you made a map..

Well I dont know too much about The land down under , But I hope that you guys stay safe and healthy ... Do what ya can with what you have , Something will come around for you guys ..
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Thanks vette. We have a home, but it's now 550km South of us while we're doing this court thing. But we have good friends in town we can stay with...it's just that we really don't like getting into other peoples' spaces...and we are actually more comfortable living in St Jimmy than sleeping in someone else' house. It's our safe place I guess. Easy getaway and stuff.
 
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I hate to smoke and run, Ph03nix and my daughter need me to be by the fire, and I need to grab some more wood. It's a beautiful night (about 26C) and not a cloud in the sky. The moon is up and I should be out appreciating it. No offense gang, but I need a billy and a sit down...I might even brew a coffee.

I might post another pic later though bongsmilie
 
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