This tread is tainted, I accept that you don't think arson but?
In a rare turn of events, I'm inclined to agree with you, however, unlike food and Fourex, tainted threads can be restored to their former glory. I'm definitely over the bloody gum trees myself, and I'm sure you are too, so let's move on.
I have lost interest in the banter and perhaps one day some may spend time in Gympie and see the things I have seen.
Some may have already. Do you have any way of knowing whether this is the case?
Just passing through and drinking at the Freemason pub won't do it.
Won't do what, mate?
Although mentioning the Free reminds me of another story. Remember cyclone Wanda in 1974? I was having a few beers at the Freemason's, I think on the Friday, and someone came in and said the river was about to do a banker. We grabbed a few tinnies and wandered down to Nelson Park to have a look, and when we got there, big geysers of water were shooting up out of the storm drains and flooding the park. It was quite spectacular.
Either that night or the next, we went to the movies, but had to leave ½ way through the second film because the cinema was flooding. Can't remember what we saw.
Still, you get used to that sort of thing living in the sub-tropics, don't you?
And it certainly has its benefits,
One of the things I enjoyed particularly was going for a ride out to the co-op wharf at Tin Can Bay and swapping my uneaten ration packs for a few kilos of fresh prawns. The trawlermen reckoned they were just the ticket for a night or two on the briney, and I love prawns. What a sweet deal.
I was lucky enough to be doing a bit of work up there later on in my career, although I was actually living in Toowoomba at the time, and had the opportunity to go out overnight on one of the boats. Learned a few things, but mostly I learnt that in the water is not the place to be.
Never saw so many noah's in my life. And they were happily swimming behind the boat with an equal number of dolphins, waiting for the discards. Very scary.
Speaking of working back in Gympie. We used to quite often set up operations on an old airfield in Toolara State Forest. I think it must have been one of those strips left over from the second world war, because the actual runways were gignormous, especially for our little Pilatus Porters.
Were you aware of the old airfields in the area, Old Bob?
Another investigator, . . .
Where was the first one mentioned?
. . . Rex Gillroy has compiled a book or two on the subject, . . .
Which subject? You've brought up at least half a dozen of them.
I have not read his stuff but had info passed to me by one of his friends.
I think that might be causing problems. Perhaps you should at least read your sources before quoting them.
One thing you lot are very good at is barbed insults.
Possibly true enough, although the evidence for it isn't in this thread. I thought I was being fairly polite, for my own part.
Stone the crows, cobber, if we can't pull the piss out of each other what's the bloody point of bein' an Aussie?
