Golden Boomerang Landcare: AUSTRALIA back a while:-
Twenty minute motor bike:
One
member has designed a simple but effective
addition to a pushbike for...POWER... The conversion took about twenty
minutes: Remove the
motor from your mower: Acquire a spare set of mountain bike front
falks: Bolt a
rollerblade wheel to the mower motor: Attach same to the bmx
falks>Attach this assembly
just above the rear axle of the pushbike to be converted: Attach a
trampoline spring
behind the seat to pull the driving rollerblade wheel onto the back
tyre: Organise the
throttle cable onto the handlebars: Be careful not to ground loop:
You'll be off: (this
machine has been ridden from Orange to Bathurst several Times) STAY TUNED FOR MORE INNOVATIVE
DESIGNS FROM THIS MEMBER Unusual-gadgets.
UNICyclists OZ
AUSTRALIA's Welcome.
Members bring friendship to immigrants so called illegal, at a detention centre set in suburban Sydney: It's home for some for years while waiting for their individual pleas to be answered:. Local residents are in an uproar. They're not permitted to visit neighbouring detainees and say they're being caged like wild animals: It's harsh, they say, that stressed people fleeing what sounds like horror are being accommodated like this by us: They've only two washing machines to share between about two hundred people. What a nightmare. Australia says it spends what sounds like billions of dollars on world aid and thruppence halfpenny on issues of importance at Home: Will any government ever release their GRIP ON OUR THROATS? Australia's government's Ideas seems nasty, mean, and NO Good: ABC News report
Busy digging serrated tussock....the plants are in flower...easy to see...and easy to dig with the ground wet after lots of rain: Volunteers are keen to remove the lot: There's not a lot left...today could see the last of it:
Stage
lights added to... 300 fairy lights have
been attached to the outline of the building.
Turon Heights [trail view from Capertee]
Warrie
view from Sunny Corner Road
Turon Springs...
Natural re-generation growing ON--------->>>
With no sheep & cattle BUSH & Native grasses REGENERATE ---------->>>>>>>>>
Park fence underway:
Cutting slot, for stay...
Erection of a seven strand plane wire electric stock control fence is under way: The ground is great for digging.... it's soft after the rain: There's plenty of holes to GO>>>so don't miss out!.... This fence will divide Palmer's Oakey creek and a bush regeneration area away from farm live stock: It will provide habitat, plus an environmental stepping stone between Winburndale Nature Reserve close by, and The Wollomai National Park just to the east of The Great Divide: Work is mostly being done during weekends:
MEANDERING Swails...
Tip's transforming....Work finally started restoring the tip to a recycle depot: New towing vehicles made the task possible: A trailer transfers stored trash to the council tip: WE NOW HAVE OUR OWN KEY TO THE SUNNY CORNER TIP: Work's thankful and completing matters requiring urgent attention....The place looks great....Mountain coastal & inland members continue to drum up more ACTION:
The Cars that ate Paris JUNK Storage & Re-cycling depot -------------------->>>>>>>>>>>
Sharing Ideas & Abilities...
Backpackers
visit for New Year Party:
Two girls wisited with one of our roving buskers for the new year celebrations. One from Switzerland the other from Japan seemed to enjoy gold panning & other Landcare activities. We all camped on the hill new years eve, to party & see the twenty first millennium's Sunrise:
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Mistletoe big hit in city:
Mistletoe seemed popular, aroused much interest, and raised a few bob in Sutherland Shire: A more concerted effort in many areas might see substantial amounts of money collected in future years...
GO Picnicking --------->>>>> Head for TURON SPRINGS. >>>> MAP earthfix@yahoo.com