Ya gotta love Tassie weather!

[el_draco (Rom)]

Walking around at my dark site yesterday in Freezer gear, wind howling, drizzle with a hint of sleet... Today, same spot, Tee shirt and shorts, warm sun gentle breeze. Bloody marvellous Richie! Ya just gotta love 4 seasons in one day!

[Tinderboxsky (Steve)]

Tell me about it!!! A group of us spent Friday and Saturday night at Waddamana for an observing weekend. Cloud all weekend with miraculous sunshine just in time to pack up this morning.

Steve.

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by Tinderboxsky

Tell me about it!!! A group of us spent Friday and Saturday night at Waddamana for an observing weekend. Cloud all weekend with miraculous sunshine just in time to pack up this morning.

Steve.

I figure you gotta live where you observe down here.... and thats what i am working on at the moment. Looks like a good evening coming north of the city.

[Tinderboxsky (Steve)]

Clouded out here in Tnderbox tonight. 😩

[pgc hunter]

Any climate south of the Great Divide is defective. 4-seasons-in-1-day is the optimist's way of saying "puke".

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by pgc hunter

Any climate south of the Great Divide is defective. 4-seasons-in-1-day is the optimist's way of saying "puke".

Rubbish. I endured 20+ years in Northern Vicsnoria and hated pretty much every second of it. Six months of insane stinking heat, dust and bloody cicadas droning at 3:00am, three months of freezing cold humid rubbish and three months gasping between the two.

I wouldn't live on the mainland again even if someone promised me a 2m professional scope on a dark site with all the bells and whistles.

[pgc hunter]

Originally Posted by el_draco

Rubbish. I endured 20+ years in Northern Vicsnoria and hated pretty much every second of it. Six months of insane stinking heat, dust and bloody cicadas droning at 3:00am,

Exaggeration. Six months of insane, stinking heat exists in the Kimberley and Pilbara.

three months of freezing cold humid rubbish and three months gasping between the two.

Sounds like a standard maritime winter in Tassie or Southern Vic.

I wouldn't live on the mainland again even if someone promised me a 2m professional scope on a dark site with all the bells and whistles.

Sure.

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by pgc hunter

Exaggeration. Six months of insane, stinking heat exists in the Kimberley and Pilbara.



Sounds like a standard maritime winter in Tassie or Southern Vic.



Sure.

Whatever you reckon.... Guess I must have imagined 20 years of my life...

[pgc hunter]

Well, I guess it depends on your definition of "insane,stinking" heat. 30C, 40C?

Yes, northern Vic gets hot in summer, but 6 months of "insane" heat... I'm sorry, but that is just hyperbole. Perhaps try a summer in Port Hedland or Kununurra and anywhere in between, then evaluate...

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by pgc hunter

Well, I guess it depends on your definition of "insane,stinking" heat. 30C, 40C?

Yes, northern Vic gets hot in summer, but 6 months of "insane" heat... I'm sorry, but that is just hyperbole. Perhaps try a summer in Port Hedland or Kununurra and anywhere in between, then evaluate...

Of course, I must have been deluded. I didn't watch the Eucalypts dying around the area during my last Summer there or find the chook pen full of dead and bloated chooks after one inspirational day.... Yes, I guess it does depend on your definition..., but, then again, I am sure you were there watching as I fried an egg on the footpath, just to prove the point.

Perhaps you need to experience the defective climate in Tasmania, which I have joyfully endured for over 20 years, to understand why it'll be a cold day in Hell before I move back over the ditch...

[Nath2099]

It would be one hell of a boring world if we were all exactly the same, would it not?

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by Nath2099

It would be one hell of a boring world if we were all exactly the same, would it not?

Absolutely! I love that I can get snow and beach in the same day!