And it burned, burned, burned, that ring of fire........

Ratmick · Post by **Ratmick** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:46 pm

mrmina wrote:i'll have a well done koala please

Apparently they taste like shite (well, so I have been told, I wouldn't know)

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mick_dundee · Post by **mick_dundee** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:09 pm

Given that all tey eat is gum leaves can't imagne they would be terribly palatable. Read a bit about what Koories used to eat and never read anything about Koalas either.. so chances are, if they don't eat em they must taste like shit

Mizz ZZR · Post by **Mizz ZZR** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:15 pm

Have you been into the chilli again Marty?

Seriously though, everyone start prayin that the Whitfield pub gets saved!!! Otherwise, where the hell else are we gonna go for lunch??? Hope the smoke kills off some of the bloody flys.

Hope everyone's houses are safe too. Funny, but my house is built upon land that the Ash Wednesday fires burnt through, back when it was all horse paddocks.

Gosling1 · Post by **Gosling1** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:51 pm

That NASA photo is unreal !!

- So much smoke haze, its bad enough up here at the moment, I can imagine how bad it must be out Whitfield / Mansfield way...

You can easily see the huge blackened areas around the western side of the ACT in that shot, and it still looks like shit out in the mountains...

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:23 pm

Ratmick wrote:
mrmina wrote:i'll have a well done koala please
Apparently they taste like shite (well, so I have been told, I wouldn't know) .

thats would be normal on the menu in macedon

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:47 pm

Sad news boys and girls!!!

The man from snowy rivers hut got burned to the ground today!

Embers flew across clear ground and ignited it.

Ratmick · Post by **Ratmick** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:10 pm

mrmina wrote:
Ratmick wrote:
mrmina wrote:i'll have a well done koala please
Apparently they taste like shite (well, so I have been told, I wouldn't know) .
thats would be normal on the menu in macedon

Yep, lucky I don't live there eh?

javaman · Post by **javaman** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:59 am

This is between Cann river and bairnsdale yesterday as we were driving. very eerie. I wonder how safe it would be to take a closer look

mfzx6r · Post by **mfzx6r** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:04 pm

smokes bad today .

Benno · Post by **Benno** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:19 pm

Yeah, it was fine this morning, but it's gradually come across the airport today. Hope it doesnt get any thicker, or we'll have no traffic airside due to poor visibility

javaman · Post by **javaman** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:40 pm

Benno wrote:Yeah, it was fine this morning, but it's gradually come across the airport today. Hope it doesnt get any thicker, or we'll have no traffic airside due to poor visibility

poor visibility as in camera visibility ?

mrmina · Post by **mrmina** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:47 pm

it was a shocker this morning.

Strika · Post by **Strika** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:15 pm

Coming over the westgate bridge at 7.30 this morning, the smoke had already obscured the city

, and the Sun through the smoke took on this colour of which I have never seen before

. It was like a chalky or pastel pinkish redish colour! Most unusual and almost a little post apocolyptic in it's effect!! I expected my skin to start peeling any second!

mike-s · Post by **mike-s** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 8:55 pm

looks similar to the pics in sydney a few years ago.