Crossing the ford

[il padrone]

Just last week a 13 yo boy went missing while swimming in Kakadu. They found 'bits' of him a few kms downstream the next day 

[peter jenkins]

Here's a novel by a chum that I edited; clicking the cover takes you to the description at iTunes. I was there, which is how I know about the taste of croc eggs.

Thanks Andre,

I will download and read.

There has been an interesting 4 part ABCTV doco on Kakadu recently and in one segment they covered a bloke who has a licence to collect fertile croc eggs for sale to crocodile farms.

He has a stout wire cage with a trap door in the floor. He stands in the cage while it's helicoptered in and dropped on to the nest while the crocs are absent. he undoes the trap door and collects the eggs, then the chopper returns to pick him up. He's suffered a few injuries when the croc has returned, including the loss of a hand that was successfully sewn back on but cost him a few months income. Also (I think?) an accident when the chopper and cage parted company.

BTW, I read Atrocity Week when it was released. I don't want to think how long ago that was!

Cheers,

pj

[Andre Jute]

He has a stout wire cage with a trap door in the floor. He stands in the cage while it's helicoptered in and dropped on to the nest while the crocs are absent. he undoes the trap door and collects the eggs, then the chopper returns to pick him up. He's suffered a few injuries when the croc has returned, including the loss of a hand that was successfully sewn back on but cost him a few months income. Also (I think?) an accident when the chopper and cage parted company.

Now you know why I want some fellow who won't be missed to stand between me and Mama Croc!

BTW, I read Atrocity Week when it was released. I don't want to think how long ago that was!

I'm not old enough.   CoolMain is publishing a complete new ebook edition of Andrew McCoy novels, except, that is, for ATROCITY WEEK. That would be just too harrowing to edit. I'm currently editing  CAIN'S COURAGE and having a lark, but nobody cares if South American Nazis get it in the neck.

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Does anybody remember the famous Raleigh advertisement of the fellow pedaling hell for leather across the savannah with a maned lion (most unrealistically -- it's the female that does the chasing) running him down?

[rualexander]

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Does anybody remember the famous Raleigh advertisement of the fellow pedaling hell for leather across the savannah with a maned lion (most unrealistically -- it's the female that does the chasing) running him down?

Only $550 for an original copy, http://postergroup.com/posters/10027/raleigh-bicycle-lion-chasing-man

There's a great collection of cycling images at this pinterest page http://gb.pinterest.com/Cyclemiles/ from the guy that runs the Cyclemiles online shop, where he also sells some bike related art http://www.cyclemiles.co.uk/

[Andre Jute]

Only $550 for an original copy, http://postergroup.com/posters/10027/raleigh-bicycle-lion-chasing-man

There's a great collection of cycling images at this pinterest page http://gb.pinterest.com/Cyclemiles/ from the guy that runs the Cyclemiles online shop, where he also sells some bike related art http://www.cyclemiles.co.uk/

Wow! Thanks for that reference. I’ll surface for air eventually...

[il padrone]

Hi Guys, thought I'd give you a taste of touring the real outback. Not yet been to most of this country myself, but I plan to do the big ride around Oz sometime in the next 5-10 years. Meantime Chris Rishworth has done a lot, and has a large collection of videos on youtube of his travels. He has a nice Koga Miyata, fully equipped with Rohloff and a belt-drive.

"In to the dust". He has some fun with the road-trains.

http://youtu.be/h8pz3sU6fGU

[jags]

fantastic video really enjoyed that,the weather here in ireland  is stormy  lots of rain and wind and cold oh to be in all that sunny weather.that guy certainly get about what a way to see your own country.

[peter jenkins]

oh to be in all that sunny weather

Hi Jags,

You'll hate me for this, but we had an overnight 200 KM Audax on the weekend. It was so cold at 1.00 AM that my teeth were chattering and I started to cramp because I was so tensed up against the cold.

The temperature had plunged to 15 Deg. Celsius!!

It's been hot for so many months here now that anything below about 18 C is decidedly nippy if you're out on the bike.

I'm off to the UK for 6 months in April. I hope you can lay on a decent summer for me.

Cheers,

pj

[jags]

PJ bring plenty of warm cloths you have been warned

[Andre Jute]

I'm off to the UK for 6 months in April. I hope you can lay on a decent summer for me.

That's good advice Jags gave you. When I first returned to the UK from Oz, I walked around in a sheepskin flying coat in what they laughably called their "summer", and April ain't the summer yet. There was a whole group of us in Cambridge with sheepskin coats in the socalled "summer"; we used to nod to each other affirmatively and mouth "Only mad dogs," and add, as we stopped our foreign cars (only mad dogs etc drove British cars in those years of Red Robbo's ascendancy in the union at British Motors) with the drivers' doors facing and wound down the windows 2cm max, "If only there were some midday sun to go out into."

[leftpoole]

That's good advice Jags gave you. When I first returned to the UK from Oz, I walked around in a sheepskin flying coat in what they laughably called their "summer", and April ain't the summer yet. There was a whole group of us in Cambridge with sheepskin coats in the socalled "summer"; we used to nod to each other affirmatively and mouth "Only mad dogs," and add, as we stopped our foreign cars (only mad dogs etc drove British cars in those years of Red Robbo's ascendancy in the union at British Motors) with the drivers' doors facing and wound down the windows 2cm max, "If only there were some midday sun to go out into."

I find your 'so called' comments rather offensive.
Summer in UK can be as hot as other rather more publicised warm places, I feel that just because UK has cold and wet for seemingly months of our winter that the other 'warm' placed persons forget that they too have freezing cold weather!
No offence intended , but think please before posting your 'so called' phrases.
John

[peter jenkins]

In the interests of balance:

Thanks Anto and Andre for the sound advice.

I have been to the UK a few times and know the weather can be unpredictable...

http://s572.photobucket.com/user/berlioz_bucket/media/DSCN0801_zps7fe553b4.jpg.html?sort=2&o=0

http://s572.photobucket.com/user/berlioz_bucket/media/85_zps2668a30c.jpg.html?sort=2&o=1

And to John,

The first 5 days of my LEJOG in 2006 were so hot I thought I would expire. It was in the mid 30's consistently. I've attached a photo of the beach at St. Ives to prove it. It rained and blew in true British style further north but then the last 3 days in Scotland were glorious. (t'other photo)

Cheers,

pj

[il padrone]

Looks great, that beach at St Ives, but you know the water temperature was probably just 12C 

[leftpoole]

In the interests of balance:

Thanks Anto and Andre for the sound advice.

I have been to the UK a few times and know the weather can be unpredictable...

http://s572.photobucket.com/user/berlioz_bucket/media/DSCN0801_zps7fe553b4.jpg.html?sort=2&o=0

http://s572.photobucket.com/user/berlioz_bucket/media/85_zps2668a30c.jpg.html?sort=2&o=1

And to John,

The first 5 days of my LEJOG in 2006 were so hot I thought I would expire. It was in the mid 30's consistently. I've attached a photo of the beach at St. Ives to prove it. It rained and blew in true British style further north but then the last 3 days in Scotland were glorious. (t'other photo)

Cheers,

pj

I am rather biased. I had an American Father. I went to USA in 1984 across the whole ot the West! It was too hot in California and too cold in St Paul!
I am also biased as I live in Christchurch (next to Bournemouth) on the South Coast with a lovely beach only 1 mile away!
John

[NZPeterG]

Hi All,
Why do you all live in a Ice Box?

Pete