Well we are finally moving on tomorrow morning (Saturday). Kath and I have really enjoyed our stay here at Murray Upper and appreciated the hospitality accorded us by the Hughes family. Kath is finding it very difficult to leave her new grand son, but everyone needs to get their life back in order.
We have been working pretty hard on a number of tasks from changing the guttering on the house that was damaged by cyclone Yasi to helping with the mustering, and drafting of the cattle, including branding and castrating of the weaners, to helping replace the shed roof over the last week. Kath has been working in the garden and it is looking good.
I know I have said it before but every day up here you see the damage done by Yasi and the farmers are still recovering from that and the work they had planned has fallen behind. An indication of this is the fact that the sugar cane harvesting is only starting after next weekend, June 28, when it normally starts immediately after the Queens Birthday weekend. The main reason for this is that the sugar mill was damaged by the cyclone and there is a rush to complete repairs.
It is amazing that there are many jobs advertised for jobs like cane haulers, which involved driving cane from the paddock to the cane tram depot, 20 weeks work, very tempting I must say.
I think I have the Spot organised and if you click on the following link and go to the link it brings up you can see where we have been over the last 30 days, I think. I will monitor this to see whether it is working OK and if it doesn't I will save the tracks and put them on another site.
http://whitlowaussietravels.blogspot.com
I will not get political here but I think the government banning live exports completely was a knee jerk reaction and really needed some more thought and investigation.
Tomorrow we are heading to Charters Towers and then on to Mt Isa on Tuesday.
More later, stay tuned.
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