Thread: Defender now quite secondhand...

How big is the property ? It looks very nice, ya lucky sod !

Originally Posted by solmanic

There is also a koala colony living along the route which, seeing as how the road runs along the ridgeline, allows easy viewing of them curled up in the tree branches down the slope.

4wd'ing and lunch! You've been holding out! :P

77 acres all up but most of it is inpenetrable forest. Lots of figs and vines with enormous scattered hoop pines throughout. The track in and the house itself is right on one corner of the property. I'm thinking of selling our carbon credits .

Many farmers up the Brisbane Valley have over time sold off large chunks of their land to city folk realising that they could still run their cattle since the townies would generally have no intention of fencing. The yard around the house is fenced to keep the wallabies out. Before it was fenced we would periodically get up there and find every stick of grass pulled out by the roots. There is an automated watering system which fills a couple of birdbaths so there is always an abundance of birdlife hanging around.

Here's another shot of the house which gives a better idea of the siting. The verandahs to the left are cantilevered off the hill with the lower one about 3m off the ground. There's two 9,000l water tanks up to the right in the bush which are both full at the moment.

Fantastic part of the world. I am GREEN. (Not the political shade, the envious one!)

We'll be above the 26th parrallel around early June, can't wait.

JC

It certanily looks like a great place and you are very lucky to have something like that.

Originally Posted by solmanic

The place looks delightful, solmanic. I'm intrigued by the rain gauge - how does that work? You can make a phone call to it?

I'll give you a hand to clear track any time you need some help up there.

PS - It was a pity we couldn't make the Good Friday drive - glad you all had a good day out.

The rain gauge reader uses a voice synthesiser chip. My father is a mad-keen engineer and he designed this magic answering machine box that takes the digital rain-gauge readout and speaks it three times when the phone is answered. We periodically reset it and keep track of the rain totals whenever there is a wet spell.

I have been encouraging him to put a full-on webcam and weather station up there so we can just log-on to check it out.

Originally Posted by solmanic

The rain gauge reader uses a voice synthesiser chip. My father is a mad-keen engineer and he designed this ....

Wow! That's neat.