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We left home on the 24th to find the road was closed behind us due to flooding but we were onroute to nsw and the sun was shining. The first weekend we spent in port macquarie monday we went to newcastle it was a little cloudy tuesday mudgee a weather warning was on the radio for 100mm for the next 3 days with the stars out that night 3 days is ok it will be gone by the weekend ;) wednesday we head for bathurst max temp 13 deg and it poored rain 3km's out of town and this was the last of the sun for us :roll: being assured that the event will run no matter what we camped and tried to look tuff on the hill :roll: The Grice family showed up for support on thursday. They were staying no matter what and ma and pa were in mudgee that night alls wet and cold but good a few drinks will make things better 8-)
Fridy morning arrives with the officials to say if you want to get out of bathurst go the hiway is about to close :shock: so we pack up and head for orange and we leave the Grices to travel in seach of sun but they tell us they only found more water and deeper,we sent ma and pa the message and have not seen them since :lol:.
We were accepted in the grafton hill climb the sun was out and we were off looking forward to getting dry 900km,s later we get to grafton windscreen wipers doing overtime still :roll: We spent sunday sliding round the track Lizzie manage to raise the crowd with a 360 demo :lol: only to get home to the hiway being shut behind us as we are on the edge of a tropical low.
Thanks for the support gricey's and ma and pa where ever you got too for the support :lol: and laugh


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Mon Mar 05, 2012 11:01 am
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Bit of a bugger that the weather was a wash out.
Good that you all got home safe though, or ar Ma and Pa still M.I.A

Knew Lizzie would run rings around them........ even if it was on the spot.

I'll pop up for a visit v soon

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:D Great to see two Tear Drops traveling the race circuit,numbers never clicked
till that photo 64 66,how about a few more or was the photographer back at studies,
Son of Gerry has started Uni again :D


Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:22 am
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Hey Greg, I guess you know I was with Ma and Pa on Friday night!!!

I mean to say did you really have to bring down your tropical rain with you ;) , it was good catching up with Ma and Pa. :D
HOWS THE CARAVAN :oops: Really Greg, the roof must clip down :lol: I thought the general idea was to sleep in the bed not have a shower :roll:
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The roof was down the clips needed to be adjusted tighter that was all. I never had it leak before but 900kms of heavy rain we have not done before :roll: But we are coming back for another go soon buy a raincoat :lol:


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I like your Space Shuttle transporter. I guess all that rain helped keep it cool on re-entry to QLD. 8-)


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Greg,
I should not make fun of you should I, with Marg and I taking off in 3 weeks on about a 10,000 klms holiday, I HOPE IT DOES NOT HAPPEN TO ME, our van is Pop Top also!!! Sorry Buddeee!!!!
When is your next trip into Gods Country? (dry hopefully.


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enjoy i hope you have better weather than we did ;) We should be passing your way in about 8 weeks again.


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Dave. Don't forget to stop over in albury. Gricey


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Gricey,
Gooday to both of you, thank you Gricey.
I certainly will when down your way, however this time we will be heading out through Broken Hill to Port Augusta then up the centre, back through western Queensland, with my brother and his wife in their caravan.
We will catch up.
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Lindsay Kahler is heading off in the same direction as we are, hopefully catch up with him "somewhere" in the NT ;) . Lindsay and Chris are going to the National Avan Meeting in Alice Springs, while that is on, I will be in Uluru for a week then heading North to Darwin, we might see them on the road between Darwin and 3 ways somewhere, that is if they don't decide to go bush somewhere on the way home.
2WEEKS AND 2.5 DAYS TO GO, BUT WE ARE NOT COUNTING :lol: :roll:

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Bring ya umbrellas it is pissin' down at the moment :shock:

I am sure the weather would have improved by the time you get here but the roads on the way up from Alice will still be flooded in some places.

Check this website prior to leaving mate:

http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/roadreport/o ... osures.jsp


Safe trip and call me if you want to catch up for a coffee or ale when you hit Darwin.....


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Nah we are the dryest country in the world :lol: must be friggen wet in the others :roll:. I havent seen the weather report today redback but hope your ok up there with that whirley wind. Stay safe and as Dave says keep your bellett safer.


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and u guys from NSW and QLD reckon us Vic's get all the rain....
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Bathurst in November is a safer bet too.... ;) ;) ;)


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Maybe we should build a de cell plant in darwin as it's probley never going to rain again . Don't think the nt government have caught on yet. :lol: gricey


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we have one in Vic doing nothing.......

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That's what I mean . Another complete waste of money. Gricey


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Sure will Neil, I will either email or ring you, I think you gave me your number.

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could do a deal...
buy a de sal plant and get a brand new 'north-south' pipeline thrown in for free!


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We are fine for water up here - our dam spills over EVERY year.

Our backup dam (Manton Dam) which we usually go wakeboarding at is closed at the moment cause someone saw a little lizard (croc) :(
and that only stops overflowing at the end of the dry.

We regularly have 200mm of rain overnight (24hours).

I enjoy the wet season up here but I LOVE the dry.......


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