We decided to get up early and pop in to Charters Towers, 300km away, for some shopping. It’s been raining for a few days and just after we got through the last creek crossing the police closed it, so we can’t return home.
Now I’m sitting in a waterfront hotel in Townsville typing this, waiting for the creeks to go down…..
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
CrusaderRabbit
I will bet that you didn’t pay your Australian Carbon Tax and the Earth Goddess Gaia has rained on your little shopping trip!
Also, I’ll wager you didn’t have the witch doctor to do the traditional Queensland good weather dance before you departed.
I’ve been looking on the map of Australia and it would appear that Brisbane is just to your south a few hundred miles.
In the 1960s during the Vietnam War the U.S. Army Military Intelligence had a microbarograph station that could detect the Chinese and French nuclear tests near Brisbane.
My friends who were posted there had a very good tour…actually they had a vacation for a couple of years…Free Apartment…Free food…Free civilian clothes (top secret mission and all that rot).
But the booze and women were on them!
WAR IS HELL!
I didn’t know the Chinese and French carried out nuclear tests near Brisbane.
Sorry, couldn’t resist!
I asked for it!
Our good allies (ha!) the French were testing in the South Pacific and the Chicoms way up north.
The microbarograh could detect the azimuth of the blast and the size of the nuke being tested…of course you needed a cross DF on the azimuth to get the location, so the U.S. Army had microbargraph stations all over the world.
And excellent duty it was, as the in many places like Australia civilian clothes were required and furnished by a generous Uncle Sam.
BTW, the “cover story” for Brisbane was that the M.I. types were rich “Beach Boys” from the States checking out the surf and the beach bunnies.
It could be worse. Instead of a dry hotel the authorities could have put you into a leaky tent.
Have a beer :cheers or three. :cheers :cheers :cheers
And enjoy :whoop yourself! :popcorn :whoop :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers :cheers
“It could be worse. Instead of a dry hotel the authorities could have put you into a leaky tent”
it’ll be a cold day in hell before the “authorities” put us anywhere, Katie. We make our own choices about where to go and where to stay. And for how long.