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Originally Posted by AstralTraveller
I've been back a few times since (as a tourist) and generally had cloudy weather.
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Yep... Kaputar cops the cloud when there is a low parked off the east coast. very common in cyclone season - and I recall seeing a cloud chart somewhere showing November - Christmas is the worst possible time to go there. Precisely why the AAO wasn't sited there. The distance from both Sydney and Brisbane means its still protected from the light domes from Sydney and Brisbane, whereas the AAO is no longer.
What had us fooled was that the early years it was really good - and I'm thinking 1980 - 83 - thanks to a drought. The Kaputar park was burnt by bushfire in '83 and the drought ended in '84 with Narrabri flooded that year, from then on it was pretty dreadful...
The clearest time at Kaputar is I suspect April-May which is when I visited in subsequent years, though its getting cold at night then.