Driest may on record and the driest June to date.

But it is actually raining at the present here in the Wimmera near Horsham. Get a couple of inches and we could get a good season

There will be new Landcruisers in many garages if it keeps up.

Seriously though, a couple of inches now with follow up rain could rescue the season.

I wish it would stop fuckin raining here,farm is a big shit hole.

since the start of april it has been as wet as i can remember


and as if we havn't had enough already , look's like rusa hunting this weekend is out to with this on the way

TP,

I like the NZ site.

But on the other note, it is so dry here that there most likely won't be a channel run to fill the home dams on most farms. Means fewer showers etc for the farm kids and no gardens, of course. When the drought of '81 bit, many of our farm kids said stuff this area and moved to Melbourne or Adelaide.

Storages in our catchment area are standing at just on 4% of capacity. Most dams are dry. Thats why, I guess, there have been so few ducks. We shot less than 80 when in a "normal" year, we'd shoot 5 times that number.

There are swamps here that are dry now for the first time since I have been here (27 years) and the old locals reckon the Sawpit Swamp has beenj drier than they can remember.

So I guess I hope your rain comes here SOON.

Because it is so dry, the rabbits are thicker that I have seen.

Farmers are talking about resowing paddocks that were done 8 weeks ago because they came up then the frost stuffed them.

I must check out where Tauranga is. I hope I get over there with me new mate from here. He is a Kimi but has taken out Australian citizenship. Good bloke.

Sorry, Madness, missed your map.

JUST send the bloody water over here.

Please!

Wonder why you are getting it so wet and it is missing us completely.

Our locals at present!!!

Had to turn the wipers on coming home tonight for a wet mist, we really need a cyclone or two to come in.

Dry as a bone here after a overly wet early autumn. Not looking good. Cold frosty nights with most recent nights being around 0 eg C to several at -3 deg C.

Rain forecast for today however which will hopefully happen. Much needed.

The duck season is now over with the usual late autumn rains being missed, next to no ducks migrated into the area. For once I did not drive to a swamp so this season was 'duckless'.

It`s been `raining` here for the last 2.5 days, if we`ve had 15 mm we`d be lucky.

Never mind GBB - at least when it's not raining you can get off the bitumen without getting stuck. Too bad if you want to grow anything other than dust though ...

Dry as a Nun's....here as well

Crabs are still about, went out to Shoal Bay yesterday, got 3 muddies. Could've got more but two of our pots had been checked by someone else

And more good news......I've got my cast net action going great guns, even managed to get some mullet

We've got 75 points so far. Stopped drizzling last night and sun is half out. Your right, jimbob, it won't stop access to Jack's sand dunes!

Not a good sign . Wet as a shag in NZ and dry as the proverbial nun's here .
Same thing in 2002 when I was in NZ in July . All the fronts passed below us and popped up in NZ .
Hope we don't get a repeat of our 1 in 100 year drought again after only 4 years .Especially on top of a frost event that wiped 50% off our crop yields last year .
We'll all be rooned (said Hanrahan) .