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We’ve had Rain for 3 days Straight

As the tile implies, up here on the Capricorn Coast we’ve been getting rain for approximately 3 days straight. There were exceptions when we weren’t getting any rain for 1/2 an hour or so, but it was always overcast and misty.

Hardly any work has been done on the roadworks since before we went down the Gold Coast for our Christmas holidays, with the exception of some work on the new big bridge, which you will see a photo of. They have also broken up a section of the temporary road that was built, presumably to stop people hooning on it.

Below are some photos.

Lots of Rain #1
You can see how full of water this section near our place is. Because the water can’t go anywhere it is overflowing towards the top of the pic.

Lots of Rain #2
Just a macro of the overflowing water. The grass has been overpowered and subdued :)

Lots of Rain #3
This is what our dam looked like yesterday. Today (sunday) it has gone down noticabley because of the overflow that we dug a few years ago.

Lots of Rain #4
This is basically the only roadworks activity since Christmas, so far. They have gotten rid of the steep access path that was used to go down under the concrete, and piled up a lot of dirt in preparation for the road.

Lots of Rain #5
Two boys on quads were having a great time spinning their wheels and causing erosion on the tracks. In the picture above you can just see the two quads in the upper left corner.

[tags]roadworks, adelaide park, woodbury, rain, bridge, creek, water[/tags]

ABC NewsRadio comes to Rockhampton

ABC Newsradio logoA few nights ago I was tuning around the FM band on my radion and found a new station on 105.5 FM. To my surprise it was broadcasting the BBC world service, to which I often listen to on 9740 KHz on the shortwave band. But the BBC on this FM station was heaps better quality.

Now this morning, I turned it on again to find that it wasn’t the BBC any more. Then I heard the announcer say that I was listening to ABC Newsradio. So as soon as I connected to the net today I looked up the Newsradio website and found a link to a listing of new frequencies. It seems that in April 2007 Senator Helen Coonan, the former Liberal Federal Communications Minister had announced a rollout of about 70 new frequencies over the next 3 years.

Rockhampton had the luck to be included in the first rollout and sure enough, it was listed under the frequency 105.5 FM.

I guess the strange thing about the rollout is that I didn’t see or hear anything about it in the media. Did you? It probably goes to show just how few people are really interested in hearing non-stop news. I know that I will be an avid listener though :)

Corio Bay : The Outlet of Waterpark Creek

Yesterday we had lunch at the Rydges Homestead like we often do, but this time we continued driving up to Corio Bay, which is the outlet for Waterpark Creek to meet the ocean. We took a kite along, I think it is called a delta, but it didn’t work properly (kept wizzing around in circles). I didn’t enjoy our last visit (about 2 and half year ago) to Corio Bay very much, because there were heaps of sandflies and we went for a really long walk. This time we couldn’t go for a walk because the outlet had changed direction, but there was still plenty of bities around.

You can get a good idea of what Corio Bay looks like by going to Google Maps.

I must warn you however, if you do attempt to go up there be prepared for a fairly bumpy drive as the road isn’t very well maintained.

Corio Bay #1
A view looking across the channel to a headland. I would love to live up there and own a boat so I could explore everywhere, however I don’t think I could get an internet connection very easily :-(

Corio Bay #2
One of the many 4wd’s that enjoy using the beach to drive on.

Corio Bay #3
These signs contain information on the does and don’t at Corio Bay.

Corio Bay #4
The main track used to get on the sand.

Corio Bay #5
This row of posts partly protects the area to the right from being driven on by naughty 4wd’ers.

[tags]travel, waterpark, creek, corio, bay, rydges, sand, beach[/tags]