Cracker of a week indeed Bunyip..

28,Looks like the Highs are back for a while though maybe not quite as intense as before..

Spent Thursday and Friday out at the Reef, caught a few fish and the Missus caught the biggest Spanish and Trout so now I have to listen to that for a while to come....like every time we talk about fishing or even eat fish...

Overnight wind dropped off to one of the calmest and glassy nights I have spent at sea in 20 years..You could pretty much see the reflection of the Milky way on the sea-surface...it was almost eery...

As for Clyde, SM...He is a well known local croc and from my experience most crocs dont seem too fussed about attacking while they are on land, in fact if you startle a sunbaking croc, in my experience, they always turn and head for the water.....same as if you drive up on a croc sunbaking while in a tinny, they always launch into the water and focus on trying to escape....I have a feeling they feel quite vulnerable while on land and their first instict is to reach the safety of the water where they are in their element..

Although please dont take my advice as gospel and try and pat a sleeping Croc....that might not end too well...

And Dormant I will have to start attacking these trees this week i hope though its going to feel mighty painful to chop a bearing fruit tree back to a stump...but I know it has to be done..I barely harvest any of the fruit being so high up..

Yeah Scott, those dead flat conditions are amazing. It makes it even better when you catch a few nice fish.

On the crocodiles, they definitely are more timid when on land. I just hope the guy wouldn't have been fishing knee deep if Clyde was hiding in the water.

Fruit trees, gave them up when I flattened my first little ones with my boat trailer. I really regret not growing them now.

YTD: 2066mm

aannd the weather is back to [censored]again..high pressure and associated ridging and wind and a few showers overnight and early morning showers..

The 10 day charts show its here for a while..

Is your painting outside Dormant..?..If so have you tried using a pressure washer..I have used mine to strip peeling paint reasonably successfully before and a lot easier then scraping...

8mm here in the last 14 days. Couple of showers around this morning. It still feels quite cool at night for late August. Replaced the old faded outdoor thermometer with one of those Max-Min types. Will now have something to check in the morning with the oncoming dry weather.

Coat of paint for the house here too Dormant. Nice and steady with the brush this time.

YTD: 2069mm

Bunyip looks like you are surging ahead for second golden gumboot in a row with only babinda in contention against you tully is miles behind. I reckon you can break 5m this year with 4 months to go.....

Hard to say but yes looks like 5m is possible this year.
Hope we don't get a real hot dry couple of months to end the year, I still need to
put in an irrigation main for my gardens but just not ready yet.

Just nice too see the sun and walk around without sinking or slipping .

Might even get the boat in Friday

Cheers

Yep you picked it SM...

Bit of drizzle yesterday getting slightly heavier overnight and this morning till getting quite heavy right now..

BOM shows about 30mm so far down this way..not sure here as I knocked over the gauge whilst dropping a bamboo yesterday...

It took 2 of us 8 hours each over 2 days to drop, cut up and cart away the bloody thing ..todays back pain is certainly worth it though as the huge increase in light and air-flow around the shack is lovely...

Did you make it out on the water bunyip..?

and how did you go on the moss and mould scraping Dormant..?...I have been using Quatsan for a few years now on shadecloth, sheds, besser blocks and even fibro and glass..its seems to also kill the mould and green slime spores and stops regrowth for a year or so...it will kill light moss cover but not for as long and the product loses potency when stored so you need a fresh batch each year..

https://northernchemicals.com.au/products/quatsan-multi-purpose-disinfectant?variant=39563002839211

Has anyone got a better solution to kill moss that also doesnt poison the ground..?

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Looks promising, Scott, we sure have a lot of slippery pavers and at our age we don't need new hips if we can help it.

Painting has come to a stop, of course, but at least I know which leaks I've fixed with this much rain. Partner is hoping the latest road closing event gets drenched but I doubt it'll be more than drizzle.

I have some bauhinia trees to haul away behind the ride-on to keep the house clear of brush and drying logs, if/when things really get dry.

Lol, keep up the good work, dear.

Just about blow a dog off its chain down here this week...

Went for a spin down the river in the tinny yesterday to give the wwoofers a closeup croc-spotting experience and the waves were certainly standing up on the Hull Heads bar..it looked pretty white out wide as well....as well as a nice 4 plus metre model sunning itself we also saw one on the surface in the middle of the river which kept approaching us as we sat by watching us...he was very curious and totally unafraid of us or the boat..he spent 10-15 minutes swimming around the boat sometimes submerging but always popping back up again..havent seen one that bold before in the daylight in that river....the 2 wwoofers were both excited and a little scared..

A couple of very light showers around that barely register in the gauge.

Just finished 6 out of the past 7 days doing 4 hrs a day on the bamboo's ..was almost going to call Dormant to bring the ride-on down to haul the culms away...lol...so sick of chainsawing and
loading up the ute and then unloading and chucking it in a couple of big piles over in the bush...my frenchie offsiders enthusiasm and energy was seriously waning today as was mine..good to get that job out of the way..

certainly a lot more light and airlow around now so hopefully the mould problem lessens somewhat...I dont like the idea of having to move to the drier climates of Chillagoe or Cairns to escape the mould situation..

and got bit by the first Marchfly of the season today...

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So over this wind. Clean up around the yard and down comes the next lot.

The tally just keeps climbing with good falls (for this time of year) each morning this last week.
seems longer but the good bits have been so short they get forgotten. :)

No Scott missed the break the Mrs is just so busy with work and Uni that we couldn't get out, think I'm
good enough to go on my own again now so next chance I'm going with or without her lol


Cheers