Starting to get real desperate here. Forget all the B/S about big storms and blowy low pressure systems in SE Queensland. We have had only 104mm since the Queens birthday weekend last June and 74mm of that fell in 20 mins on boxing day.
No snakes, no lizards, rabbits, bird numbers down, haven't seen a deer all summer and the skippies are starving. Planted out 160 mahogany trees (from seeds I got from Bakes) and only got about 30 left.

They are still dying despite every effort to water them at least once a week. Yesterday I put a thermometer in the soil 75mm deep and it indicated 57 deg C at 4.20pm in the afternoon. That is enough to cook the roots.

Temperatures of 36-38 deg C started 3rd October 05 and have continued relentlessly ever since for 5 months now.

When the rains do come, it will take a couple of years to build the game animal numbers up again

Nice to see your positive outlook Eric, you can still shoot at targets while you're waiting.

Damn dry here.

Family we are close to are selling up. 1,500 acres @ $1,050 an acre so they hope to get rid of the debt. And the husband (roughly my age at 52) wants go contract harvesting with a big header (a green machine) but I worry about the family.

Been friends for years.

Yeah Baw
Bad down here aswell no rain ive been here for 30 years last 4 real bad dams nearly dry...they say the drought has brocken....but fuk me we all know better next 30 well you tell me????????????????????????????i think we r in for really bad times some times im wish i never had kids....they are harsh words but who knows


P.S im from the middle of victoria....better times ahead ............i hope


Cheers
Steve

We've had quite good rains considering the summers are always petty dry. 38 mm a couple of weeks ago. Rain forecast for Sunday which might not be so good.

I'm off to Goodooga in May. It was as dry as a witches tit last year, although we still got 66 pigs. They have had stuff all rain so I imagine it must look like the surface of the moon now. That bloody cotton farm upstream hogs all the water so the Culgoa never floods anymore.

Last I heard they weren't predicting an el nino for this year so hopefully you'll get something soon .Seems like much of the East has been in drought for the best part of 10 years . Must seem worse when you're living there .
Been wet here this summer and the coolest for 50 years .
We've never had much game here so that hasn't changed much . RCD seems to be into the rabbits again .

They're predicting "el nina" (the one that brings wet, aren't they? the BOM)

Anyway, it rained here last night at last. 50 points over 5 hours. Very nice.

Sorry. BOM. Bureau of Meterology. I still carn't spell.