The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #102756   Message #2089682
Posted By: Rowan
28-Jun-07 - 11:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
Subject: RE: BS: Where do we Mudcatters live.
On ~150 acres of bush that's never been cleared, nor even grazed since 1980. There's a bit of creek (usually flowing at 3 teaspoons/month), a bit of tall Eucalypt forest (E. macrorrhyncha, E. melliodora, Angophora and a few others), a bit of tea tree (Leptospermum lanigerum) scrub, a bit of relict native pasture, a bit of rock (the contact zone between the granite batholith and the overlying metamorphosed sedimentary stuff), a bit of flat and a bit of steep. The top is at 1000m ASL and there's no part you can stand on and see all of it. Quite a few gliders and native birds (no currawongs, thankfully) and a resident mob of macropods (a couple of Swamp wallabies, a couple of of wallaroos and a variable number of the inevitable Eastern Greys) that clutter up the half kilometre of driveway before I hit the road to town (usually Armidale) about half an hour's drive away. Armidale is where the more famous (and original) UNE is located, has 25,000 people, a good Art Museum, and more decent entertainments than most Oz country towns twice its size.

Cheers, Rowan