Double Whammy!
I’m back!
After a looong down time with a fault on the telephone line AND a dodgy modem, all seems well with my internet connection again. Fingers crossed, just in case!
Christmas and welcoming in 2009 in the Tropics was lovely. And very warm. I hope all of you who celebrated in the depths of northern winter had just as gorgeous a time.
I’ve lots to catch up on, and look forward to seeing how everyone is getting on with beginnings of this fresh new year (and the maintenance-or-not, of resolutions!)
Here’s my New Year’s Day hangout, Clifton Beach.
Nice to look at, but be wary of the Irukandji stingers, who breed around Double Island (in the background). They float in to shore whenever there is a north easterly blowing. Get stung by one of these thumb nail sized jelly fish and it’s a stay in hospital with the morphine turned waaaay up.
That’s the Life Savers on their dingy doing net drags to see if the Irukandji and deadly Box Jellyfish are hanging aorund the beach. Even though they do these drags several times a day, you can never be certain of what’s in the water. Lots of sting victims already this year.
Still, it’s nice to hang out under the palms, especailly with a mango cocktail, but that’s another post…….
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i’ve missed your posts, welcome back, glad you sorted out the computer probs. happy new year (bit belated now). your holiday destination looks amazing, what a huge pity about the jelly fish thingies though. just not fair is it? mango cocktails are my fave. i love mango.
I was wondering where you had vanished to!
Nice to have you back. Glad you got your connection sorted out.
…and a very happy new year to you!
Thought you had headed over to Perth maybe…..the weather there - what ? 2 weeks of almost 40 every day, reminds me of March/April 2008 here in Adelaide - more than 2 weeks of 40 plus every day—–yuk—-heat and me do not get on…
Good to see you back, pity it wasnt a holiday that had kept you away….coloured cocktails sound good….
Cheers….Happy New Year!
About time you returned to the “real” world……… Hopefully the faults are all sorted out, at least until the next cyclone comes and mucks everything up for us all.
That beach looks lovely, even if the stingers make it impossible for swimming. And here the water is so warm at this time of the year it’s like getting into a hot salty bath anyway, not very refreshing.
I wonder why we don’t have palms on the beaches around Darwin? Must be something to do with the huge tides, they’s just get washed away before they had a chance to establish.
Welcome back. Computer problems are so frustrating and expensive. We have had probs too. Both BB’s and mine were playing up. BB took his to the local guru to get fixed but kept coming back with same “lock up” probs. So eventually guru said to replace mother board and hard drive. In the meantime visiting son in law talked BB into buying a new Apple Mac. and I inherited BB’s reconditioned model. So lets all hope we can settle down to blogging again.
Your local beach looks so idyllic what a shame you can’t swim at the moment, but a Mango Cocktail sounds like a good alternative.
Thanks everyone for visiting, your comments are certainly just the pick me up I need!
Fran, the “holiday” destination is just down the road from my house - which we’ll have been in exactly one year on Australia Day. Mangoes are literally rotting on the ground here, thousands and thousands of them. Mango trees about 3 storeys high are eveywhere here, even as street trees. I’ve used them inevrything from drinks to stir frys. I believe a mango overdose is almost upon us.
Doda, hope Hogmanay was good to you all!
Kim, yep, Perth is at it’s scorching best at the moment, BUT with no humidity it can be surprisingly more bearable than cooler temps here. I raise my cocktail glass to you you know!
Tazar, you’ve put the mocker on me - CYCLONE for Sunday maybe? With regards to plants on the beach here, you could plant a broom handle in the sand and it would sprout. I’ve NEVER encountered plant growth like up here. Triffids couldn’t keep up.
Diane, I hate pooter probs. Especially when it’s a combo problem like mine - two seperate faults in two different places were hard to sort out! Hope your new machine grows on you!