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G'Day Mates

He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2004 in General Discussion
I am sitting in an internet dry cleaners on Darling Harbor in Sydney. Tuesday morning here, and I have found Starbucks, and the fly fishing shop. Probably no hope of finding a gun shop here, so I won't try. Off to the Aquarium and a bit of touristing, before heading to Darwin in the Northern Territory to chase crocodiles.

Best to all, He Dog
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have fun, Dale! Don't play any Roy Horn stunts with the crocs!

    "There is nothing lower than the human race - except the french." (Mark Twain) ". . . And liberals." (me)
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  • the loveable rat...the loveable rat... Member Posts: 969 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    what do they flyfish for there in sydney?
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,939 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've been lucky enough to have been to Australia six times, I'm sitting here in Pensacola and I must say I'm jealous!

    R/

    Dave
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    How different the world would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. - Henry Miller
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Give Hermanns Guns a call....

    Hermann's Sporting Guns
    D.L. No. 404-511-40F ABN. 98007304369.
    Ph +61 (03) 56681940 Fax +61 (03) 56682549
    P.O. Box 359 Mirboo North, Vic, Australia, 3871


    ....maybe bring back one of those fine engraved Merkels.
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  • bigt7mmbigt7mm Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by the loveable rat...
    what do they flyfish for there in sydney?



    Great Whites,of course. Australian for Bonefish...[;)]

    Have fun down under HeDog.
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  • HangfireHangfire Member Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have fun...Be safe....Watch out for Steve!!!!

    Love them Pre-64's!!!!-Bob
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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    And they use dynamite to get Blow-fish ??!!?? [:D]

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    Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
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  • concealedG36concealedG36 Member Posts: 3,566 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ask them and I bet they tell you that FOSTERS is not Australian for beer! [:0]

    G36



    Gun Control Disarms Victims, NOT CriminalsThe 2nd Amendment; America's Original Homeland Security
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  • bigt7mmbigt7mm Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    [:D]
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    "crocodile He-Dog"Hmmmm.....might look good on a theater marquee.[:D]





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  • JustCJustC Member Posts: 16,056 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now thats [8D]!! I hope to see a good bit of that place some day. I DO HOPE MANY MANY MANY PIC'S WILL BE MAILED BACK[?][:D]

    Check in when ya can Mate,..Hey, come to think of it ya already got a good outback name,..G'day He dog,.....G'day Mick[8D]

    why chase the game when the bullet can get em from here?....
    Got Balistics?
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  • MuffinmanMuffinman Member Posts: 418 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Did you get to see the Motorcycle races at Phillip Island race track. It's a big two week show.
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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    If you ask any african..
    He will say they drink "Lions"-beer and pi$$ Fosters.

    Actually Fosters is quite good...

    If you get the chance - buy a beer called "Big Barrel". [:p]
    THAT is quality stuff.!!!


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    Don't do anything that I've allready done - That'd be just plain STOOOOOOPID.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Make sure the crocks don't chase you. [;)]

    The gene pool needs chlorine.
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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    Zip down a couple of these.. you'll enjoy it. [:)]
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,939 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I usually drink Black Swan or Cascade brand of beers when I'm there. I even went on a tour of the Black Swan brewery once when I was in Perth, that was a day to remember.

    R/

    Dave
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    How different the world would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician. - Henry Miller
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Tell "Donk" hello and watchout for those wild "Dingo's".....
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Up at sparrow f@rt (sunrise), and had a dingo's breaky (a whizz and a look around). These Aussies are fairly civilized folks, they have Starbucks and internet cafes, at least in Sydney. Fly fishing here would be prohibitively expensive. The rods are dominated by the American makers, Sage, Winston, Redington etc. Reels are all Asian made. An Orvis Battenkill like mine would cost over $400 here, nearly four times the US price. Flies are $2.95 each, again over three times what I pay at home, even more than twice as much as the few patterns I buy from England. There is some trount fishing south and west of Sydney, though most of the fishing here is saltwater, including fly fishing. Serious angler can go to Tasmania or to New Zealand (about the same distance either way) for very different kinds of fly fishing. Both have trount, rainbows, and browns, but the streams are different. New Zealand has world class streams, and attracts well healed fly fishermen out to bag trophy streams and bragging rights about having fished there, and some pretty good trout too. Tazzie has a little more laid back small mountain stream fishing. Not time for fishing for me, as I will mostly be in the Northern Territory, and I don't have anything heavy enough for berramundi. Off to the Royal botanic garden today to look at the plant collection and see if I can find the flying foxes roosting there. This is all work you understand. I will try to post some pictures with JustC's help after I get back and have a reader available. It is really a great place so far, parrots flying around and interesting stuff a biologist likes. Off to the top end this evening, will try to catch a croc for everyone. Cheers, He Dog
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  • captkirk3@dslextreme.comcaptkirk3@dslextreme.com Member Posts: 3,804
    edited November -1
    Hope You went to STAR CASINO for Dinner....Sydneys best....Good Old Darling Harbor...You must be refering to the Aguarium over to Bondi Beach...Spent a whole month in OZ back in 99....Next Time We meet....I'll have to drag out the Photo Album and let you see what Rose and I did and where We went...I spent my Birthday in The Alice on 28 October...Fond memories for sure....Hope You and Fran have the Greatest and Bestest Time in Oz.........Captain Kirk

    Captain Kirk, Tech Staff<P><BR>

    Before I forget....Got Friends all over OZ...You need help or have any problems....Give me a Shout and I'll send you some Phone Numbers and Address's.....
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