Post by Wally1 on Apr 21, 2008 14:28:05 GMT 10
I spent the last week end in my old stamping ground athough I didnt do much stamping.
Apart from catching up on local news and finding that friends from way back have moved on, I tried out water from the new supply from a bore sunk near the town.
At least we know now that tourists etc have not been washing themselves it as they did in the spring that suppled the water to the town for the past 100 odd years.
The new water is delicious and next time I go North I will take drums to bring back a supply of fresh water. I am no lover of chlorinated flourinated water.
I slept out but no cat came along to check me over while asleep.
I was able to watch a most brilliant moon and see the illuminated vapour trails as jets passed over.
The Southern Cross, my guiding star for so many years as I drove those countless thousands of miles, then kms, over open desert country, as a professional hunter, is still there
the breeze in the trees was something to remember.
What delighted me most was to be told that yellow footed rock wallabies have re populated Parachilna Gorge.
In the 50 odd years that I have been in the North of SA , I have watched the demise of the rabbits, then feral donkeys and goats.
Parks annd Willdlife have kept up a constant war on foxes and feral cats.
I was familiar wiith the littlle yellow footts 50 years ago, not knowing that they were extinct, in the far north of the Flinders. There were other odd pockets of them , and now they have airly well repopulated the Flinders.
As well as seeing the return of the wallebies I watched the revegitation of the mountain sides with native pine. The regroth that I watched turn the hillsides green are now quite big trees and the revegitation is still spreading.
At least we can bbe assured that these treees will not be cut down for mine props or boiler fuel, dont need this to suck liquified uranium up a bore hole,
So other means will have to be found and has been found to devastate the country.
My warnings 10 years ago about leaching, which were ignored, are bearing fruit and warnings have been made about polluted underground water, it had to come. ( The Honeymoon leach mine)
A mob who were exploring in the Arkaroola Gammons NP offended and were bade begone, and the present minister stated that there will be no mining in the Gammons.
We will see, money talks and the mining crowds seem to have plenty of it.
A mining mob anticipated exporting Iron ore through Port Lincoln, seem to have been nipped in the bud so the latest idea is to send it North by train and send it from Darwin.
At least that should see the Darwin line turn in some profit, and if Darwin gets doused in red dust well at least it saves Pt Lincoln.
Regards Wally
Apart from catching up on local news and finding that friends from way back have moved on, I tried out water from the new supply from a bore sunk near the town.
At least we know now that tourists etc have not been washing themselves it as they did in the spring that suppled the water to the town for the past 100 odd years.
The new water is delicious and next time I go North I will take drums to bring back a supply of fresh water. I am no lover of chlorinated flourinated water.
I slept out but no cat came along to check me over while asleep.
I was able to watch a most brilliant moon and see the illuminated vapour trails as jets passed over.
The Southern Cross, my guiding star for so many years as I drove those countless thousands of miles, then kms, over open desert country, as a professional hunter, is still there
the breeze in the trees was something to remember.
What delighted me most was to be told that yellow footed rock wallabies have re populated Parachilna Gorge.
In the 50 odd years that I have been in the North of SA , I have watched the demise of the rabbits, then feral donkeys and goats.
Parks annd Willdlife have kept up a constant war on foxes and feral cats.
I was familiar wiith the littlle yellow footts 50 years ago, not knowing that they were extinct, in the far north of the Flinders. There were other odd pockets of them , and now they have airly well repopulated the Flinders.
As well as seeing the return of the wallebies I watched the revegitation of the mountain sides with native pine. The regroth that I watched turn the hillsides green are now quite big trees and the revegitation is still spreading.
At least we can bbe assured that these treees will not be cut down for mine props or boiler fuel, dont need this to suck liquified uranium up a bore hole,
So other means will have to be found and has been found to devastate the country.
My warnings 10 years ago about leaching, which were ignored, are bearing fruit and warnings have been made about polluted underground water, it had to come. ( The Honeymoon leach mine)
A mob who were exploring in the Arkaroola Gammons NP offended and were bade begone, and the present minister stated that there will be no mining in the Gammons.
We will see, money talks and the mining crowds seem to have plenty of it.
A mining mob anticipated exporting Iron ore through Port Lincoln, seem to have been nipped in the bud so the latest idea is to send it North by train and send it from Darwin.
At least that should see the Darwin line turn in some profit, and if Darwin gets doused in red dust well at least it saves Pt Lincoln.
Regards Wally
