chezgo wrote:

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............. while my friends were taking pictures of the hundreds of ****atoos that frequent the gum trees ............

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Surely, the web designers have made a ginormous ****-up with the censoring software.
It's time to get away from these infantile antics and treat the vernacular language with the respect it deserves.
Imagine trying to post certain passages from Shakespeare or Chaucer on this silly site.

 

doesnt matter, if you wish to write ****atoo then do it this way c.o.c.k.atoo

ask me anything about my backyard go on I dare ya!!!!

-- Edited by dave06 on Monday 30th of March 2009 02:59:17 PM

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we do it all the time, people travel hundreds of kilometres to see what we have in our back yard, you live in a beautifull part odf australia as do we all but we just dont see it or bother to go and have a look

talking about fishing, the dragon and I have been talking about trying "fly fishing" we are reasonably keen fisherfolk anyway but have never tried this "fly" caper, any tips???????

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Good on ya, great sport . advice start cheap and work up, get someone to show you the finer art of casting and your in like flynn.  It's arm action not wrist as it appears .  A good site to explore is
www.sportsfish.com.au/forum/Default.asp   they have  forum dedicated to fly fishing. The best part of fly rodding is making the flies,  it looks difficult but really a snap for a GN's with time on their hands
The best fly fishing is to fly in fly out rather that tramp in over hills and creek beds for hours to find a pool holding fish , getting to weak for that SH@@ now  . Have Fun

-- Edited by Wombat 280 on Monday 30th of March 2009 03:57:41 PM

granny i can proudly answer any of those queries and more I am proud to say, love australia and have no intention of travelling overseas, why would I when we have everything here and no chance of being shot, kidnapped or blown up, except maybe in sydley

Ah!!! fly fishing all in the arm they tell me, ten o,clock, two o,clock, stiff wrist and let the line out on the forward 2 o,clock part, seems a long time to wait though, four hours between the drawback and the let go, but I guess it's all patience

seen a bloke tie a fly with various thingys and great patience, took an inanimate object, threw it in the water and fooled a very smart fish, I thought " I could fool a fish, well maybe"

anyway had a look on ebay and they have everything there for the budding fishy person, so we will see

Only tip I can give ya is "Don't fall asleep between 10 & two"or else ya line will fall to the ground,and that is not the objective.Hey Wombat,I'm sure Sh@@ is spelt with one @.Otherwise,it would sound like s.h.a.t a.t. Hee Hee!, sorry couldn't help myself.


I had a chance to go to NZ when I was 15 and asked my dad what he thought.His reply was "Its no good going somewhere if ya don't know where ya from to start with.Suffice to say,I traveled good old OZ for 30 yrs before settling down and finally visiting NZ,this time around it was with me lovely Kiwi missus,she showed me "Her,backyard".Couldn't agree with Cruising Granny any moore



Glenn.

Want me to go all over that I written on Sapphire, most people come here and stay on the bitumen cause they have a motorhome and are scared to damage it,
Cant blame em as the cost is pretty high, and some of the tracks you dont take anything that has an average road clearance,
the average high ace ,or mercedes or coaster wont take these roads here,but if any Nomad comes give me a call




















i have

I agree but it's very difficult to be an ambassadore/tour guide in Canberra, everyone tars us innocent citizens with the same brush as we all tar our lovable politicians with. Agreed our Chief Minister is a really nice rougue, generous to a T, always out and about ready to help the passers by with sugestions as to what to do etc in the National Capital, yeah he even fuels the pigs up and gets them ready to fly.......

It is easier now to see the real ACT as after the fires they did move all the boulders put across the fire trails though some scenic spots you now have to walk to because it's greener that way.

Of course the main interest in the ACT seems to be Pollie Spotting at the airport to see who arrives, who gets interviewed by Mark Riley and who leaves (and with whom) though the arrivals area can be interesting at times watching to see who races up to greet a Pollie after another taxpayer funded fact finding mission and to see who waits to see who rushes up before rushing up themselves. Canberra is a city of intrigue, almost as bad as Casablanca.....

Canberra, mmmm, isn't that where they mow the roof of that really big monument to the over-paid, unrealistic, non-thinkers of this country?
I only went there to see the War Memorial and National Museum, both worthy of a lengthy visit.
I spent 2 months in NZ with my Maori ex partner in the mid 70's. That was in the days we didn't need a passport or visa to come and/or go. It's a beautiful country, and I regret not getting over to Chatham Islands which is my ex partner's home territory. We did the train from Auckland to Christchurch which was very interesting, and really rough on narrow guage.
As you all know I'm not finished with this country yet. I think I need to go down the middle next via Kakadu.
I'm not touching that fly issue again you blokes. It was fun tho'.
Cheers Granny

dave06 wrote:

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we do it all the time, people travel hundreds of kilometres to see what we have in our back yard, you live in a beautifull part odf australia as do we all but we just dont see it or bother to go and have a look

talking about fishing, the dragon and I have been talking about trying "fly fishing" we are reasonably keen fisherfolk anyway but have never tried this "fly" caper, any tips???????

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Good luck with the fly fishing Dave it looks too complicated for me. My hubby thinks Im nuts because I fish with lures instead of bait but it works so maybe the fish are not as smart as we think they are. would you eat a piece of rubber if it was put on your plate. And its true granny and dave we do have a great backyard. And Basil I did have plans of going to Morocco and Casablanca only because thats where the airport is until I got online to smart traveller and the whole watch out for the thieves, they dont like westerners and its a high risk for terrorism, no aussie embassy in the country put me off so I will never know if Casablanca is intriguing but my main objective was to go to Fez.  then as I looked at other countries in the world and it was hard to find one without a travel warning so now I am content with doing my exploring in our backyard. chezgo

 

well as you all know we have travelled extensively all throughout this fantastic land for better than 30 years and have not finished yet by a long shot, victoria is one of my favorite spots, keep going back (just in the final squirmings of booking a houseboat out of echuca for a week), love the central and highlands, still a lot more exploring in there for me, the blue mountains but a bit close to sydley for me but they are amazing

once the flinders gets hold of you then its a bit like the kimberleys, you will be "drawn" forever more back to their beauty and general "spirit of place" as well as having the feeling of "space and timelessness"

I love the desert country, gibb river road, kimberleys. top of the mighty cooper between tibooburra and longreach, Tassie will forever hold a special place in my "soul" it's part of me

the rainforests of cairns and the tip of cape york, the sunsets off broome, the stairway to heaven, the way the bungle bungles change colour as the day progresses, bird life in kakadu just after the wet, the red dust of the inland, the sandunes, big red, the untouched beauty of kangaroo island,

oh bugger it, I love all of aust. cant pick an extra special place, how can words express what the eyes cant explain, I love it, I'll take it all, wrap er up.

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Basil Faulty wrote:

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dave06 wrote:

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I do a lot of that now granny, standing around flicking my fly, just got to learn a new tecnique

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Yeah, thats all I do these days, flick my fly....

 

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It's benign, I hope.

The prostatitis, I mean.

 

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Yeah and my new GP has put me on some new little blue pills to shrink it so that I don't have to go 27 times a night.

 

yep i agree with you Basil, the fish itself, I dont find all that appetising but the thought of a power struggle between me and a big trout or salmon with very light gear I find very tempting, to be able to take a feather or a bit of fur, wind it around a hook and tempt the fish into taking it , all the while standing in the middle of a mountain stream somewhere in the Tassie highlands, well sort of has an appeal, man against beast I guess, primevil instinct ROARRRR!! er!! sorry bout that!! got a bit carried away there for a minute

these things grow to enormous lengths, 2 foot and better, imagine that on a 9lb fly line in the middle of nowhere in some beautifull wilderness, sun glinting off pristine water, birds singing, bugs bugging fantastic

I was the same before my first big Barra until I realised that the things are so stupid that they go for a bit of tinfoil, caught a biggy up in the kimberleys with a peice off a sunshine powdered milk tin inner lid wrapped around a hook, they grab it like theres no tomorrow, big yellowtails are the same they will bight anything that shines

thrill of the chase I suppose

much the same as with me and steam, I will chase the things anywhere, trains, paddlewheelers, tractors even stationary engines, I love them all, born out of my time I think

oh!! bloody hell Basil you sure know how to kill a mans daydream, I was sitting here in my office leaning back on the chair thinking about the relaxation and oh! the serenity, smell the serenity, when along comes bloody Basil and his uncommon sense and knocks my "daydreamin chair out from under me, THANKS MATE, I'll just return to "normallity" shall I, how the hell I get through the rest of today now I dont know......., freezing private parts indeed!! Hmmmmphhhhhh!!!