Enforced Holiday.

Freshies do bite, they're just not as aggressive as salties.
Doesn't make them placid, a hungry salty doesn't lack pluck! [biggrin]

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

Freshies do bite, they're just not as aggressive as salties.
Doesn't make them placid, a hungry salty doesn't lack pluck! [biggrin]

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Thanks Ian but I am still not moving House, well certainly not to up there Biggest problem here seems to be 2 legged sharks in Real Estate..

It'd be a very brave & of course a very stupid person who jumped into the drink just to check what breed were in residence. "Oh **** I only got one leg taken off so must be a Freshie, so that's ok Ian told me"[biggrin]

A bugger if one lost two though "Oh **** I can't stand up now so it must be a Salty."[biggrin]

I could actually hear you say that, btw.

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Originally Posted by DeanoH

IMO Doomadgee's a paradise on earth when compared to an absolute **** hole like Wadeye/Port Keats,

Deano :(

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Not sure if Doon has changed since early the 2000’s but I don’t remember it being a paradise

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Originally Posted by jonesfam

The Roadhouse got broken into again last night, that is 5 time during the 3 weeks I have been on leave.
That is also only 2 less times than the past 3.5 years during which I have had no leave but only 2 short (a few days) breaks.
If it is because they know I'm not there or what, I don't know? Bit annoying though, means the first few days I'm back will be sorting out security & discovering what was taken.

Re the Croc's, it's funny, the kids know exactly where they are & where/when they can swim.
Our kids ask to go down the river for a swim, we mention the Crocs & they usually say, she's right, they are on the other side up the top hole. Off they go &, so far, we always get them all back.[smilebigeye]
Jonesfam
BTW The 3 kids we have put into school in Cloncurry love it & don't want to go back to Doomadgee. They call themselves "Cloncurry Kids" now.

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I was going to ask how your family likes Cloncurry, but you beat me to it. It was very dry when we were there late last year, so it's good it's raining now.
We may have refuelled at your servo at Doom - is it on the outskirts? Seemed a good joint.
Main thing I remember about Doom is lots of 2 metre fences and feral dogs hanging around outside the supermarket.
Seemed to be posters for lots of Queensland Government services, so that's good.
Would be a tough posting for cops and ambos, I assume. If the cops crack down indiscriminately the whole town could rise up against them. They would have to get the local elders onside and try to use community pressure against the troublemakers, I guess. Is that right?
Two girls insult each other on Facebook and next thing the families are fighting in the streets.

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Two girls insult each other on Facebook and next thing the families are fighting in the streets.

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So the Wild West ain't finished yet? Sounds a bit like Dodge City.

Bring on the Cattle Barons from Stage right or should that be the Sheep Rustlers? [biggrin]

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Originally Posted by 4bee

So the Wild West ain't finished yet? Sounds a bit like Dodge City.

Bring on the Cattle Barons from Stage right or should that be the Sheep Rustlers? [biggrin]

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In the gulf it would be cattle duffers.

Of course it would, what was I thinking? All this talk of Crox has ****ed with my brain.

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In the gulf it would be cattle duffers.

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From fifty-five years ago, not all that far from the locality in question:-

The owner of one property is entertaining his next door neighbour to dinner (homesteads about 30 miles apart). They have had a few drinks and both getting a bit merry.

Visitor "Ya know, I,ve never eaten my own beef, always a few strays about for killers!"

Host "Well, you are eating some now!"

Raucous laughter all round....

It has been said of one well known Australian cattle baron that if the family was ever granted a coat of arms then their motto should be "Leave your cheque book at home and keep your branding iron hot."[bigwhistle]

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From fifty-five years ago, not all that far from the locality in question:-

The owner of one property is entertaining his next door neighbour to dinner (homesteads about 30 miles apart). They have had a few drinks and both getting a bit merry.

Visitor "Ya know, I,ve never eaten my own beef, always a few strays about for killers!"

Host "Well, you are eating some now!"

Raucous laughter all round....

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A deceased cousin of mine was an overland drover in the 50's when there were still big mobs on the overland. He reckoned the renowned drover, Matt Savage, would go ten miles off the stock route to lift a Vestey's bullock for the camp. Apparently Matt reckoned Vestey's had dudded him on a deal and were going to pay for it in instalments.