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 Return to top of page · Post #: 16 · Written at 6:59:53 PM on 5 February 2023.
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A block like that would do me nicely. Even though there are access rights on that plot for neighbouring properties, that doesn't bother me as it is still big enough to camp on, leave neighbours to pass by and also not be disturbed by them. The main gate has three padlocks on it and I am assuming only one is for the owner of that plot.

There are plenty of similar places like that out there and one will come along at a 'fire sale' in the next couple of years. I can almost smell it.


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 17 · Written at 7:21:09 PM on 5 February 2023.
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"Buy land. They ain't making any more of it."

Looks like it's off grid. Phone coverage?

Guess it depends how much you want to be un-contactable!


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 18 · Written at 9:57:57 PM on 5 February 2023.
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I have a satellite phone for emergencies which is right for the area as it is brown snake central. One thing I didn't check a couple of months ago when I drove past that place was phone reception. There are a lot of blackspots though. At Hill End, a 30 minute drive from there, the Optus 4G is five bars, Telstra 4G is 1 at best and none in the camp grounds. Hard to belive but true.


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 19 · Written at 5:16:38 PM on 6 February 2023.
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QUOTE: the area as it is brown snake central


That's the impression I got when viewing gallery, though not sure which side of the Dividing Range Browns like best in eastern Aust? The creek would enhance their habitat.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 20 · Written at 8:02:19 PM on 6 February 2023.
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Now just because Brownies like to bite first & ask questions later, need not put you off. I have a photo of two bruises on my arm where a Black failed to penetrate a silk weave shirt, which is normal, albeit it may have hit the camera strap which is 50mm webbing. A Tiger was also unhappy with being run over by the farm bike & left two rip marks in my leg as it was being dragged backwards by the lugs of the tyre that grabbed it.

All part of life on the farm. A Blue Tongue Lizard, a 6ft Goanna & a few raptors do help maintain a balance. Other entertainment, is sporting shooting of Indian Myna's, feral animals & destructive cats & foxes. Male rabbits are stew; Female Casserole.

The Government looks after your sporting interest by having reserves called National, or State Parks, full of weeds and the new native species of Foxes, Deer, Pigs, & Wild dogs.

Why live in a matchbox in the city, when you can have this. I have a creek.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 21 · Written at 8:34:10 PM on 6 February 2023.
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Brown snakes like both sides of the range. In addition, in the higher country there are tiger snakes. Not as aggressive as a brownie but will still give one problems if one doesn't give them room. Out west, tiger snakes aren't present though, they like the colder areas better.

In this time of La Nina, there's plenty of meeses and frogs - snake food.


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 22 · Written at 10:26:37 AM on 11 February 2023.
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On the subject of wildlife, where I live adjacent to Garigal National Park the bush turkey population is flourishing. This seems to have happened as a result of a council fox eradication program.

Those turkeys are utterly fearless! One of them bailed up my dog on my daughter's driveway! Dog could have easily taken out the turkey but the turkey obviously didn't think so....


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 23 · Written at 9:36:51 PM on 12 February 2023.
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Bush turkeys are everywhere on the lower North Shore now. At one time they were interesting and a lot rarer but now they are just a pain in the clacker.

I camped at Hill End this weekend and in more than 40 years of camping there, I've never seen a feral pig in town. On Friday night as I turned right from the main street onto Warrys Road to enter the camp ground, a pig waddled across the road with a seemingly predetermined purpose and it wasn't of the domestic variety, although not that large. It was about as tall as an alsatian.

With the years of seemingly endless rain, populations of all sorts of animals have grown to the point where they are going to be a nuisance. Feral pigs don't usually want to co-mingle with people, even though they are prepared to attack when startled or when someone gets close to their piglets. So it is concerning that this one seemed oblivious to its location.

Two weeks ago I was camping at Adaminaby in the Snowy Mountains. Howls from packs of wild dogs could be heard on Night 2, when the sky was clear and the moon fully visible.


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 24 · Written at 6:14:41 AM on 17 February 2023.
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Wild turkey must taste better than factory birds; you could pick them off with a crossbow.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 25 · Written at 7:59:04 PM on 17 February 2023.
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Wild Turkey does taste good! Especially the Rare Breed version. Whoa


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 26 · Written at 8:07:34 PM on 17 February 2023.
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Not so loud---- you may get the Green Gestapo breathing down your neck.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 27 · Written at 8:32:17 PM on 17 February 2023.
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Here's something that shouldn't be said then... I was camping at Hill End, NSW last weekend and had a few drams by a big campfire, sending all that smoke and CO2 into the air. But... it beats being eaten by mozzies and nipped by horse flies.


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A valve a day keeps the transistor away...

 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 28 · Written at 9:03:13 AM on 18 February 2023.
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Yep, given time even the humble campfire will be banned by the mob who jet off to climate conferences for energy-guzzling holidays.


 
 Return to top of page · Post #: 29 · Written at 11:22:52 AM on 18 February 2023.
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Re the bush Turkeys, a few years ago I dropped into my Sister's place at Hornsby in Sydney.
Come and see the Turkey nest in the front yard, she said.
We pulled into the driveway at the side of the front yard and could not quite grasp what had happened.
We expected to be shown a pile of twigs and leaves in a corner.

The Turkey nest WAS the front yard!
It looked like Flower Power had dumped 100 yards of compost over the whole front.
Just think of a normal suburban block width (less driveway) filled from 2 foot high to 6 feet high in the centre from the front fence to the house.
I am not exaggerating, and we have photos to prove it!
I asked how many turkeys are there, maybe a whole flock?
Nup, just two setting up house and ceaselessly dragging in anything loose from the surrounding bush.
She had to set up corrugated sheets to funnel the Turkey(s) off the gardens and only onto to the nest area.
They got a fierce if she tried to shoo them out first off so just let them go not believing how bad it could get.
She's a bit of a "naturalist".
BAD MOVE.

The nesting cycle completed, we presume Mum and Dad turkey hatched out the bubs and then departed for someone else's front yard!!
Why in the front yard, when there is 10,000 acres of National Park next door?
Dunno, I did not do Turkey phycology at school so don't have a clue.

Any one for Turkey sandwiches?

Fred.


 
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