Thursday, 27 March 2025

Car club, first events for 2025

A waterfall with a rainbow

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Dangars Falls March 2025

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We have been on a couple of club events this year.

Now we are both retired we can join in the mid-week run.

The first was to the Wollomombi store to the east of Armidale and then a stop at the Wollomombi falls.

Just a bit of a flow, but wasn't that about to change!

A high angle view of a canyon with Wollomombi Falls in the background

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Then the second run was a trip to Dorrigo.

A group of people standing in a line

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The Hastings river club drove up the mountain to meet us at the top of the hill.

 

The cows are very happy with lots of grass as we have had sooooo much rain. Mooooo.

Dorrigo had a ridiculous amount of rain due to the tail end of cyclone Alfred.

Both clubs were invited for morning tea at a home in Dorrigo with the most spectacular views.

A large window with a view of a green field

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A fence in a field

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On a clear day you can see the sea.

They say at night you can see the glow from the towns on the coast.

A fence in a field with trees in the background

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The climates different from Armidale because of some of the beautiful plants that don't do well at home.


 

A tree with flowers in front of it

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After a picnic lunch we stopped at Dangars falls. 

Not danger falls as some cheeky person had put on a sign. 

Although a few stupid people have died here usually doing stupid things.

 


The water is flowing well due to all the rain. With a rainbow.

Bonus, we saw a bearded dragon.

A lizard standing on a log

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The Cortina was going great until there was a sudden overwhelming smell of petrol. 

We had burst a fuel line near the Inces road intersection, about half a km from Armidale on the Waterfall way…(close enough to call a taxi, which was my first suggestion…)

Graham and Frosty got the Cortina going again, so made it home okay.

I hope it’s still going when we drive it to Dubbo next week.

A yellow post-it note with a red pin on it

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Saturday, 8 February 2025

The weather


All it does is rain. Not much summer this year.

And then we had hail.....



 Both V.Ws were damaged as well as the solar panels on the roof of the house.
Thank goodness for insurance, but we still had to pay the excess.

The roof of the deck now has holes but we were planning to replace it this year anyway.

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The willow tree is also dying.

Here it is in 2025


 and below in 2017.


 It started dying in the drought and then was 
battered by the hurricane a few years ago and has never fully recovered.