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Bad Day For Surfing at Lennox Head

9 June 2010 Australian Climate

If you journey south from Brisbane, taking the coastal route, you’ll go past Surfers Paradise after about an hour and a quarter on the road. Keep going and after about two and a half hours you’d be at Byron Bay. Well, just a wee tad past there is a small seaside town called Lennox Head. [...]

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Australian Tornadoes: The Most Destructive Ever!

22 February 2010 Australian Climate
twister

Last week I did the best I could to explain humidity and I also showed you where humidity goes when it gets a full. I appreciate I may not be using the correct meteorological terms here, but the end result is the same. Stage one: become hot and sweaty. Stage two: buckets of rain. If [...]

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The Australian Art of “Pottering in the Garden”

7 December 2009 Australian Climate
gardening

Sun, sea, sand, glorious clear blue skies, beaches, barbecues, beers, beautiful weather, swimming pools, fun, it’s what Australia is all about! But not this weekend. Without wanting to sound like a whingeing Pom, I am about to sound like a whingeing Pom. Living in a subtropical climate has many benefits, a few of which I [...]

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And the Best Country in the World to Live in is…

Norway 6 October 2009 Life in Australia

Now, if you think you are suffering from déjà vu and you feel you have read this before, well, you almost have. I have previously written about the best city in the world to live, but today it is about countries. So, which is the best country in the world to live? Image courtesy of [...]

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The Australian Climate: El Nino and La Nina

24 August 2009 Australian Climate
Australian climate

Whilst I have no intention of turning this blog into The Weather Channel, there is only one subject to talk about today. Why? Because we are still in winter and this is what happened in Brisbane today….. And to save anyone straining their eyes……. I think even the Australians have been astonished by the speed [...]

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Australia Is a Big Country

3 July 2009 Australian Climate
Winter Sky

I have mentioned that before haven’t I? Not that I really need to, because of all of the interesting facts about Australia, I’d imagine there are three that just about everybody knows. It’s big. It’s hot. It’s got beautiful beaches. In today’s post, I am going to tear apart all of those preconceived notions and [...]

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The Meter Maids of Surfers Paradise – An Update

5 March 2009 Australian Climate

I made a post about the parking space trick a short while ago in which I mentioned the Meter Maids of Surfers Paradise.  I didn’t have a photo of any of them at the time, but I did promise you I would get one.  Well, today we went to Surfers Paradise to chill out.  And, [...]

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An Australian Story By A. Whacka

18 February 2009 Australian Climate

I recently mentioned the Australians’ penchant for shortening words and ending them with “o”. You probably think this is laziness and slang. Here are some more examples in a short story. Perhaps you and a relo (relative) decide to go to the bottle-o (liquor shop, off license). But when you get there you realise you [...]

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