For those of you who wonder why we cant hunt your round - here is your answer. It's called The Wet season for a good reason!!

Floods 2007

Looks like you got an inch or two of rain

How long would it take for the water to go down,so the pig can leave the bridge??

Matt, is that the Arnhem Hiway?

Yes mate - Arnhem Hwy...

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Originally posted by TOP_PREDATOR:
Looks like you got an inch or two of rain

How long would it take for the water to go down,so the pig can leave the bridge??

Ahem, centimeters not inches.

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Originally posted by Fjold:

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Originally posted by TOP_PREDATOR:
Looks like you got an inch or two of rain

How long would it take for the water to go down,so the pig can leave the bridge??

Ahem, centimeters not inches.

Ahem feet not centimetres...there is that much rain in the top end of Oz in "the wet" that its how many feet fell for the year....

i was just thinking about the trip to southland i was talking to the property owner who told me the yearly rain fall was around 1 mtr
we had that last week!!!!
greg
ps that pig is in trouble come may

I thought you Aussies were a tough bunch. Can't you just put one of those snorkel things on your ute and chug through?

Isn't someone going to raise some money to rescue that poor piggy? If there were a dolphin, seal or whale in the US with a scratch on it all of Hollywood would be out in their Zodiacs rescuing it.

How long does this last? Is it this deep every year? Amazing!

I wonder whether our hero Johnny Howard could work out a way to get some of that water down here.

It is the driest on record here in Murtoa and dams that have never been dry are. The Wimmera R was supposed to never dry out in certain places but it has.

The roos were all bunched up in big mobs until very recently when their main river water dried up. Now are drinking (furtively?) @ farmers water trough's that many are instralling and carting water to.

The lake here in Murtoa is dry and you can walk across it for the first time since before WW2.

No ducks around of course. No quail. but the cockies tell me there are heaps of foxes around, even during the day.


Now, will Johnnies spend $500,000,000 on getting water here? But I guess its not as important as taking away and crushing our semi autos in front of us. No lives to be saved, hey what old chum! Or was that no votes from the lefties

Our system @ last is being piped too. Bad for the wildlife in the swamps that relied on runoff but good if it means we don't run out of water like this in future.

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I thought you Aussies were a tough bunch. Can't you just put one of those snorkel things on your ute and chug through?

seems all to often i am pulling a tourist out of the shit coz they were driving a 4WD and didnt think they could get stuck

that water will be running off the flood plains for a month or so but the major flooding subsides when the tide gos out, we have a 7 mtr tide. so when its in it floods when its out then its suprising how quick it will drain.

gbb come take as much as you want

greg

Rained so much on friday night that one could kayak down the roads on the RAAF base. The water was going through the front gate like a set of rapids.

That pig doesn't look very well - perhaps he needs some oink-ment.

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Originally posted by shakari:
That pig doesn't look very well - perhaps he needs some oink-ment.

Aside from being soaking wet and udderly exhausted, I'd say he looks perfectly swine.

Just looks like a fantastic place to live !!

Good photos Matt!

Appearently the NT holds a lot of surprises. (Especially for us foreigners!)

I noticed right off that nearly all the vehicles on the rental lots in Darwin had snorkel kits. (Quite a novelty for an American to see a Mercedes sedan with a snorkel)

So on our drive up to Gan Gan for Buffalo we're running along at a nice clip and I start seeing these long white posts off to the edge of the grade. About 4 k or so we rapidly pass a sign that says Ford 100 m. and that's about the time the road disappeared! Luckily the concrete apron allowed the tires to grind themselves flat while absorbing much of the speed and we slipped into the 30 cm deep stream with little more than a big splash. After we got all the luggage off the dash we proceeded out the other side and I noticed numbers way up the long white poles which extended for several kilometers up the road.

From then on I understood that the white poles mean "ford ahead" in the dry season and deep trouble in the wet season!

We put close to 5000 K on the Landcruiser that trip and I can't wait to come back.



I also hope to get the full story up on my web page soon

Hi Mike!

Ah... the joys of the Central Arnhem 'Highway'!! They are actually SLOWLY fixing all of those dips.
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Early one morning three of us were driving in to Gove, doing a 'pretty good speed' when, without any warning, we found ourselves airborne and the truck came to a crashing halt in 2 foot of water in an excavation in the middle of the road, about SIX FOOT DEEP.

We were dumfounded!! There was an excavator parked off in the bush but NOT ONE single sign to warn of the hazzard. We winched our way out unharmed and continued on. On the way back the road workers were all over the job site (they were putting in a big square concrete culvert) with numerous signs and barricades and detours now. I guess they dug the hole the nght before and figured no one would be along the road later that night, so didnt bother to sign it.

We just waved and smiled, no point getting upset in the tropics - I'm sure they could see our wheel-tracks - just another day in the Northern Territory!!

PS. I love the photo of your buffalo - it is a BIG classic bull.

Matt I have a set of not much used waders I could lend you. A "bit" of water never hurt anyone!

I think BP told me that story about ending up in that ditch in the middle of the road. He was more than a little bit upset and took it personally. We drove past it as well on the way out to Gan Gan.

Bloody dangerous if you ask me.

I think the water in the 6 foot hole was there to "cushion" your drop.

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Originally posted by madabula:

Excellent. A nice wide "sweeper". A great trophy.