June 25. Mail holding me up in Airlie. At least the weather is mild. Spruik in front of PO. Rain after lunch. Active bird life. Green lawn, green mangrove. Two cranes white and yellow building latest real estate wealth units. One bloke in town to do a few deals to cash up/in. The slogan here - North Queensland, get comfortable. Like a resource boom in the US state of Georgia! everyone's gone feral. Outrigger canoe blue/green lay on the sand. Tide out. Woodswallows and cyclists. So it comes down to this, either agree with me or you're wrong. Which can work [View Full Entry]

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June 22. Shortest day/longest night. In to Proserpine. Local coffee black at backpackers. Coffee workers/aubergine pickers no work too wet. Airlie raining not really cold but. Yacht club, I'm a member! Yachts aimless in low wind. Perfect for sit and write, who says climate doesn't affect behavior. Of course now we're even setting the temperature. 'Hot it up', come closer to the wind. Optimise distance made good. Airlie race week aug 10! Asia Cup soccer Bankok mid july. To go or not to go...? Email the bloggers find supporters on the web. Club email no go. Doomadji death officer walks free. [View Full Entry]

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June 21. Red-winged parrot, bright green head, green body. Rainy drive through the flatlands of Marlborough country. Mould on my mushrooms. I read the library lobby literature in Hervey, Gandhi, King and some unknown Japanese. Dissonance dominance duality. Every so often in history there is a moment to remember with pleasure. So let our new flag be one. Oz one, oz won. Precipitation by catalyst. We are basically a giant chemistry set. So let our lives be one. Life, love, can error be deleted? With an alcoholic, born-again ignoramus in Washington no wonder the world's a wreck. Stretched out m [View Full Entry]

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June 18. Grey birds with black faces - cuckoo-shrikes. Noosa Long Weekend talk at 'J' - Barie Cassidy, George Megalouganis, Matt Price - stars of political commentary constellation. Gave all stickers after consultations with assorted persons 'in charge'. Thanks to all of them for enabling the act. June 19. Headed north to try to get out of the cold. Gympie mailed flags to Jon in Merimbula. Got copy of article from last September. North of town used mushroom compost for sale stacked by road covered in mushrooms so I ate and collected. Hervey Bay saw car with sticker. Stopped at '7' [View Full Entry]

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June 11. Last walk then drive to Maleny. Longweekend crowd. On a dead tree by the Obi Obi river a black shouldered kite, off white. Oranges from my favorite tree in Maleny. Then the lookout from Caloundra past Mt Coolum to Noosa Head. Hell day, fair dinkum. A couple she's ozasian. They're Sydney. He's who can guess? They loved the 'Southern Cross and Boomerang'. He'd seen it in 'Manly Daily'. June 12. Warm sunshine. My first whale sighting for the northerly migration. June 13. Sailing Mooloolaba. Cool, fine. Island, Gneerings, finish abord 'State of the Ark'. All good. June 14. Wen [View Full Entry]

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June 7. Raiiiiiiiining. Up early butcherbird on wire piping echoed morning sonata in undercover park of concrete and tubing made me smile. Library scene Lucy helped me post Tathra beach shot on blog. GO TO GALLERY! Sticker dispersal getting frenetic. Multiple promises of 'sticking on'. Awesome, mystical and mellow spring to mind. 'Awesome' the lady from Wooloongong. Tewantin cool, deluge suspended. Blood booth and 'lest we forget'. Great fig trees. Still. June 8. To Mooloolaba to pick up letter that doesn't arrive. On to Woodford for festival of Aboriginal. Tremendous response. Islander w [View Full Entry]

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June 4. Going north to Noosa. Stops Coolum, Perigian. Hell day(colloq.). True! Sunshine Beach. More Israelis, just off duty from West Bank. Perfect path viewing blue, green, white set behind coastal greenery decorated flowers and berries red. Golden wattle. June 5. Tewantin on river. Spruik started slowly but went well. Saw TWO cars with stickers (well aged so they'd been on a while). Later quiet spot flew TWO flags. Car pulled over, got flag (from Wooloongong). Then on stroll encountered van with TWO stickers. Very powerful. Bloke got them a year ago. Van being hired by TWO Canadians dri [View Full Entry]

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June 1. What a day! Got 'Weekender' article. This was in the northern Sunshine Coast edition. Great photo. Spent an hour on internet and email. Went to library. More internet. Drove to Nambour. More internet, spruik good. Drove toward Maleny. Stopped to gather bamboo. Maleny spruik good. Show happening. Went in. Spruik. Country stuff, chooks. Dressage. Sideshow alley. Amusements. When leaving spoke to Maree with stall having flags. She loved SC&B. Got thirty stickers and TEN flags - four on bamboo poles. She does shows and fairs all around Queensland. As so often happens I'm feeling the need [View Full Entry]

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May 29. Immature butcherbird. Cool, cause I guessed it then found in book. Pleasant quiet day. Enjoying the sunshine. And the rain. Humidity must be 100%. May 30. Racing Mooloolaba on 'Spirit'. Beat to Gneerings mark through 110 degrees against current in light air long struggle. Slow downwind. Much discussion before, during and after race about correct way to finish. Some went port around and others went straight through. Race instructions favoured former, blue book the latter. Got $1.50 chips and albacore steak to cook on barby opposite shop. Uncooked $2, cooked $5.50. Had cucumber, cap [View Full Entry]

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May 28. Cotton Tree library good for email, stampingand perusal of world press. Seema 'Southern Cross and Boomerang' is to get a mention at the International Association of Vexillology in Berlin in August!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And if you can spell it you're an expert*%#@. On to Perigian Natpac a place so beautiful I walked back to the car to get pen and paper. Burnt out six montha ago. The regeneration is inspiring. Puffy grey white clouds hover over glade. Black branches succumbing to green. Surf russles, chirps chatter. Honeyeater black and grey face. Slash of sun on the wing. Gently swaying swamp [View Full Entry]

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