We could understand it if we had been near the activity, but we are parked up in a beautiful little rural town (Clifton QLD) and, inside a large shed too!! While carrying out extensive modifications to our motor-home, we had all the shutters of the shed closed, to stop the raging winds from blowing everything around on the floor, and yet all this red dust is still to be found everywhere in the motor-home. The vacuum cleaner sucks it all up alright, but because the dust is so fine, it all gets blown out somewhere else! My Queen is not amused. And our little Toy Poodle, Sarina, used to be jet black, now she looks like Cadburys Milk Tray.
I have been trying to clean a motel swimming pool but the dust is that fine when you vacuum it out it just works its way through the sand filter and back in to the pool. frustrating!1 Still back on the road in the van tomorrow so not my worry any more.
how does that poem go, a land of flooding plains, of droughts so on and so forth, travel with acceptance, dirt is gods way of saying "look busy, I'm watching"
Very reminiscent of the arrival of a large part of the wimmera topsoil in Melbourne in 1967(?).
A recently migrated Pom had freshly painted, in white, all the window frames, gutters, bargeboards etc. on his new home and was standing back admiring his handiwork when the it arrived. By the ton.
It took him quite a while to summon up the courage to have another go at the painting. He had to use several layers of undercoat to ensure that the beige/red colour did not resurface through the top coat.
Welcome to Aussie. :D
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We had almost 2 weeks of dust in northern Qld. Not that huge red wall of real estate, but a pink film day in and day out. Add to that a thick cloud of smoke full of fine soot from bushfires all around Cairns. The skies were very murky, my eyes were sore during all of it, people had sore throats and lost their voices, some even got conjunctivitis. God knows what was in it other than flying soil, but it certainly made itself felt. The smoke is still here, but the dust has finally stopped. What an odd country we, the wierd mob, live in.
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Hi Nomads. Hi had to cut my trip short because of the red dust, I was in Black All QLD when it came in from the west, everything got covered in my van cloths, bed, food, I have the cleanest teeth in OZ, eating grit with every meal. Still cleaning the van then I'm off again.
hey frank good to know that you are "out and about" well done, how's the van behaving!
Hi Dave, good to see your still active on the forum.
The van looked after me very well the solar panels (4 x 80 watts) worked a treat never had to plug into 240v all the time I was out that was a total of 6 months.
When up in Outback QLD the fridge was running all day (useing around 3.5amps) because of the heat but I still had enough power to watch a DVD at night.
Over all very happy camper with the van.
Cheers Frank.
-- Edited by Valderi on Tuesday 6th of October 2009 09:38:10 AM
