Yubby's outback adventures

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Funny enough Oz it was off the road.

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Dog walking.

So my shift up here is 80hrs over a week and a half, allowing me every 2nd weekend back in Brisvegas with my 3 princess's.

So when I am up here the weekend is not to be worked so I go and stay at my friends place in a town called Mooranbah.

My mate has a blue heelerd Dusty, and I regularly take him for some exercise on the local sports fields. This weekend just gone, we went out mid morning with the sky typically covered with a predatory instinct I thought they where a type of kite(bird) so half way through our exercise, I started to throw a tennis ball, in which dusty's main aim in life is to stop any ball from moving.

The last throw, Dusty took off in the wrong direction the ball landed only...

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To be swooped upon, and to be never seen again.

Dusty is still looking now.

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Amazing, there is water falling from the sky.

Is this snow?

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I get to drive back home tomorrow knowing I have an extra week with my girls

Hmmm Yubby's fathering adventures.

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Wether its the warmer weather or the decent drop of rain on the weekend...

Snakes are on the move again, almost used one as a speed bump this arvo.

[MissWinnie]

Ha ha! Good story re the tennis ball and the Kite, Yubby. Poor Dusty. I hope you got him a new ball.

Have a great week with your girls, bro, and hope you (and Australian wildlife) have a safe drive back home.

[yubbywelch]

Thanks sis, and will do.

Drive was great, hopefully the photo's I took come out.

So with my drive back, I had very close encounter with a Roo, but my thousands of hours of Mario Kart with my kids came in handy when I found myself on the opposite side of the road to miss the projectile.

Only 1/2 hour later Mario Karting skills were used again to miss a slow moving red shell that resembled an echidna.

3 hours down the road and a truck driver obviously didn't have the same time spent on the Nintendo when he collected 1 of 2 pink galah's.

The sad thing was, when the galah hit the side of the road his mate landed beside him ,and all I thought was "cmon bro; he just brushed you"

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I hate driving back up here after a holiday (3months to go, hopefully)

Easy safe drive, but driving to site Tuesday morning I almost found a slow moving speed bump.
A koala, first live one I've crossing a road.

Missed him though.

I found out today, that if you swerve to miss wildlife, and crash, insurance companies won't pay. So some blokes up here only slow down.

[MissWinnie]

The only wildlife I've ever hit is a rabbit. I did swerve to try and avoid it (but failed ). It was an isolated country road along which I was driving at night, but afterwards I got told off by various people for swerving, along with tales of really serious accidents and injuries caused by people doing the same thing. Really hard not to do though - just instinctively try not to hit animals - don't think about it ...