I'm currently camped 10m from the water of a beautiful lake which is, indirectly, fed by the Loddon River (Victoria). Given the amount of rain we have had recently I have been watching the lake for water rise like a hawk!
However the BOMs local river height measurements do have me a little worried:
But, it appears, the river level fell very quickly too so I can stop building the ark and chasing up two of all animals (Question: how does one sex wombats? Not much point in having a pair of gay male wombats).
I informed the BOM about two weeks past of the issue but they don't seem to have sorted it yet... I have much respect for the BOM but government employees do seem to move rather slowly :)
Whenarewethere said
03:46 PM Sep 17, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
I have much respect for the BOM but government employees do seem to move rather slowly :)
Because everything has to be signed off in heptakaidecagonruplicate!
86GTS said
04:15 PM Sep 17, 2022
We're currently camped by ourselves somewhere in Loddon Shire. With the current weather, now is not the time to be camped anywhere near a lake or river. We're getting our water from a pristine mountain spring in granite country.
Mike Harding said
05:31 PM Sep 17, 2022
86GTS wrote:
We're currently camped by ourselves somewhere in Loddon Shire. With the current weather, now is not the time to be camped anywhere near a lake or river. We're getting our water from a pristine mountain spring in granite country.
In the Loddon Shire it must be a very small mountain... six feet or so perhaps?
The lake is controlled and has actually dropped an inch or two so I suspect my socks will dry soon enough but I'll keep an eye on things in any event.
86GTS said
07:51 PM Sep 17, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
86GTS wrote:
We're currently camped by ourselves somewhere in Loddon Shire. With the current weather, now is not the time to be camped anywhere near a lake or river. We're getting our water from a pristine mountain spring in granite country.
In the Loddon Shire it must be a very small mountain... six feet or so perhaps?
The lake is controlled and has actually dropped an inch or two so I suspect my socks will dry soon enough but I'll keep an eye on things in any event.
Its a very small mountain, a wonderful place that you'll never experience.
watsea said
10:18 PM Sep 17, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
86GTS wrote:
We're currently camped by ourselves somewhere in Loddon Shire. With the current weather, now is not the time to be camped anywhere near a lake or river. We're getting our water from a pristine mountain spring in granite country.
In the Loddon Shire it must be a very small mountain... six feet or so perhaps?
The lake is controlled and has actually dropped an inch or two so I suspect my socks will dry soon enough but I'll keep an eye on things in any event.
There was news about rains in Victoria. Not sure how that rain affects your location.
Firstly, I tried to copy and paste a link to the article but didn't work.
Then found a better path to the article and i was able to copy and paste easily. See below.
-- Edited by watsea on Saturday 17th of September 2022 10:23:59 PM
-- Edited by watsea on Sunday 18th of September 2022 12:43:57 AM
Magnarc said
07:57 AM Sep 18, 2022
Mike, if all else fails there's always the scuba gear.
Just as a matter of interest, can Wombats swim???????
86GTS said
09:33 AM Sep 18, 2022
You seem to have an addiction to boggy, grey clay, redgum forest areas beside rivers, creeks & lakes.
Doesn't being in the same kind of habitat get monotonous sometimes?
There are plenty of out of the way spots to camp in solitude with a plentiful drinkable water supply away from redgum forest.
The one we're at currently has water from a spring like Mt Franklin bottled water.
We've been here for five days & haven't seen a soul, staying another two weeks.
Mike Harding said
10:40 AM Sep 18, 2022
>There was news about rains in Victoria. Not sure how that rain affects your location.
Thanks for that. We've had quite a bit of rain in NW Vic and the forecast if for up to another 30mm over Tues/Wed, the Murray River is now in "moderate flood" through much of Vic.
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>Just as a matter of interest, can Wombats swim?
I had to look it up, I've seen a kangaroo swimming but not a wombat:
>You seem to have an addiction to boggy, grey clay, redgum forest areas beside rivers, creeks & lakes. >Doesn't being in the same kind of habitat get monotonous sometimes?
Since I was stuck near Robinvale I've been up to NW of Mildura and into NSW for a few months and am now on sandy soil with ne'er a redgum in sight.
86GTS said
10:52 AM Sep 18, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
>There was news about rains in Victoria. Not sure how that rain affects your location.
Thanks for that. We've had quite a bit of rain in NW Vic and the forecast if for up to another 30mm over Tues/Wed, the Murray River is now in "moderate flood" through much of Vic.
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>Just as a matter of interest, can Wombats swim?
I had to look it up, I've seen a kangaroo swimming but not a wombat:
>You seem to have an addiction to boggy, grey clay, redgum forest areas beside rivers, creeks & lakes. >Doesn't being in the same kind of habitat get monotonous sometimes?
Since I was stuck near Robinvale I've been up to NW of Mildura and into NSW for a few monthrs and am now on sandy soil with ne'er a redgum in sight.
NW of Mildura on the Murray near Wentworth in all redgum habitat.
Anywhere near the Loddon River that is near water is Redgum habitat.
Do you know what a redgum actually looks like or does every tree look the same to you?
We've always wondered why Wombats do cube shaped poop?
-- Edited by 86GTS on Sunday 18th of September 2022 06:28:36 PM
Sarco Harris said
08:44 PM Sep 18, 2022
The problem with much of the spring water through central vic is the areas history of mining and the use of cyanide for a good period of time to separate the gold from the low grades of ore. This then leaches into the soils and hence the water tables. Eg. cyanide tanks are still well in evidence in several location through central vic.
The was not really much environmental concerns through the mid to late 1800 and even into the early 1900s.
Mike Harding said
06:50 AM Sep 19, 2022
86GTS wrote:
Do you know what a redgum actually looks like or does every tree look the same to you?
Yeah... they're red and gummy.
Possum3 said
09:32 AM Sep 19, 2022
86GTS wrote:
We've always wondered why Wombats do cube shaped poop?
They use scat to define territorial boundaries - square to prevent rolling away.
Reading this thread I have to ask myself what kind of idiot would camp anywhere near the Loddon River while it's in flood? For that matter why would anyone camp along the Murray River in Winter during a record rainfall year? Someone with a very low intelligence level. The SES are sick of people putting themselves at risk. We're expecting our third La Nina year in a row, stay away from riverine, low lying areas is my advice.
Mike Harding said
07:34 PM Sep 20, 2022
86GTS wrote:
Reading this thread I have to ask myself what kind of idiot would camp anywhere near the Loddon River while it's in flood?
Poppet! You're grumpy because I won't tell you where those orange bellied parrots are :)
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Watsea:
All good so far thank you, indeed the lake has dropped an inch or so although we have 20mm+ of rain forecast tomorrow and another 10mm+ next week but the lake is a controlled environment so we'll see how it goes, as you may imagine I watch its level closely. I note that a few people who have been visiting each summer for the past 200 (or something?) years are here so I guess they have good confidence.
86GTS said
07:43 PM Sep 20, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
86GTS wrote:
Reading this thread I have to ask myself what kind of idiot would camp anywhere near the Loddon River while it's in flood?
Poppet! You're grumpy because I won't tell you where those orange bellied parrots are :)
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Watsea:
All good so far thank you, indeed the lake has dropped an inch or so although we have 20mm+ of rain forecast tomorrow and another 10mm+ next week but the lake is a controlled environment so we'll see how it goes, as you may imagine I watch its level closely. I note that a few people who have been visiting each summer for the past 200 (or something?) years are here so I guess they have good confidence.
They aren't OBP's.
Mike Harding said
07:58 PM Sep 20, 2022
86GTS wrote:
They aren't OBP's.
You hang on to that thought poppet.
86GTS said
05:34 AM Sep 21, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
86GTS wrote:
They aren't OBP's.
You hang on to that thought poppet.
You wouldn't know what Redgum or an OBP looks like.
Maybe you should write a book, "The Travels Of A Complete Idiot".
Mike Harding said
06:31 AM Sep 21, 2022
86GTS wrote:
Mike Harding wrote:
86GTS wrote:
They aren't OBP's.
You hang on to that thought poppet.
You wouldn't know what Redgum or an OBP looks like.
Maybe you should write a book, "The Travels Of A Complete Idiot".
That comment is totally incorrect!
I'm not a complete idiot... bits of me are missing.
I'm currently camped 10m from the water of a beautiful lake which is, indirectly, fed by the Loddon River (Victoria). Given the amount of rain we have had recently I have been watching the lake for water rise like a hawk!
However the BOMs local river height measurements do have me a little worried:
80m river rise!
But, it appears, the river level fell very quickly too so I can stop building the ark and chasing up two of all animals (Question: how does one sex wombats? Not much point in having a pair of gay male wombats).
I informed the BOM about two weeks past of the issue but they don't seem to have sorted it yet... I have much respect for the BOM but government employees do seem to move rather slowly :)
Because everything has to be signed off in heptakaidecagonruplicate!
We're currently camped by ourselves somewhere in Loddon Shire.
With the current weather, now is not the time to be camped anywhere near a lake or river.
We're getting our water from a pristine mountain spring in granite country.
In the Loddon Shire it must be a very small mountain... six feet or so perhaps?
The lake is controlled and has actually dropped an inch or two so I suspect my socks will dry soon enough but I'll keep an eye on things in any event.
Its a very small mountain, a wonderful place that you'll never experience.
There was news about rains in Victoria. Not sure how that rain affects your location.
Firstly, I tried to copy and paste a link to the article but didn't work.
Then found a better path to the article and i was able to copy and paste easily. See below.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-16/rain-and-water-in-central-victoria/101448674
-- Edited by watsea on Saturday 17th of September 2022 10:23:59 PM
-- Edited by watsea on Sunday 18th of September 2022 12:43:57 AM
Mike, if all else fails there's always the scuba gear.
Just as a matter of interest, can Wombats swim???????
Doesn't being in the same kind of habitat get monotonous sometimes?
There are plenty of out of the way spots to camp in solitude with a plentiful drinkable water supply away from redgum forest.
The one we're at currently has water from a spring like Mt Franklin bottled water.
We've been here for five days & haven't seen a soul, staying another two weeks.
>There was news about rains in Victoria. Not sure how that rain affects your location.
Thanks for that. We've had quite a bit of rain in NW Vic and the forecast if for up to another 30mm over Tues/Wed, the Murray River is now in "moderate flood" through much of Vic.
-----
>Just as a matter of interest, can Wombats swim?
I had to look it up, I've seen a kangaroo swimming but not a wombat:
Wombat swimming
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>You seem to have an addiction to boggy, grey clay, redgum forest areas beside rivers, creeks & lakes.
>Doesn't being in the same kind of habitat get monotonous sometimes?
Since I was stuck near Robinvale I've been up to NW of Mildura and into NSW for a few months and am now on sandy soil with ne'er a redgum in sight.
NW of Mildura on the Murray near Wentworth in all redgum habitat.
Anywhere near the Loddon River that is near water is Redgum habitat.
Do you know what a redgum actually looks like or does every tree look the same to you?
We've always wondered why Wombats do cube shaped poop?
-- Edited by 86GTS on Sunday 18th of September 2022 06:28:36 PM
The was not really much environmental concerns through the mid to late 1800 and even into the early 1900s.
Yeah... they're red and gummy.
They use scat to define territorial boundaries - square to prevent rolling away.
Are at a lake between Kerang and Lake Boga
amp.abc.net.au/article/101454200
Poppet! You're grumpy because I won't tell you where those orange bellied parrots are :)
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Watsea:
All good so far thank you, indeed the lake has dropped an inch or so although we have 20mm+ of rain forecast tomorrow and another 10mm+ next week but the lake is a controlled environment so we'll see how it goes, as you may imagine I watch its level closely. I note that a few people who have been visiting each summer for the past 200 (or something?) years are here so I guess they have good confidence.
They aren't OBP's.
You hang on to that thought poppet.
You wouldn't know what Redgum or an OBP looks like.
Maybe you should write a book, "The Travels Of A Complete Idiot".
That comment is totally incorrect!
I'm not a complete idiot... bits of me are missing.