WELL MY FRIENDS I'VE POSTED THREE PAGES TONIGHT FINISHING MY FINAL TRIP. THIS IS MY SWAN SONG WITH STUMBLEUPON IT WOULD APPEAR THAT SU ORGANIZORS DON'T CARE AND WON'T LISTEN TO STUMBLERS GRIPES THEY'VE TAKEN WHAT WAS A GREAT CONCEPT AND TOTALLY FUCKED IT OVER THE LAST EIGHTEEN MONTHS OR SO I'VE SEEN MANY OLD TIME STUMBLERS GET FRUSTRATED AND LEAVE NOW I'M ONE TO DO THE SAME. I'LL BE BACK TO BROWSE FOR A LITTLE JUST TO KEEP AN EYE ON MY OLD SU MATES MOST OF MY GOOD FRIENDS KNOW HOW TO KEEP UP WITH ME IF ANYONE WANTS TO FOLLOW UP YTHE FRIENDSHIP DROP A LINE IN THE SU MAIL AND I'LL ANSWER ASAP. BUT A MENTION TO SOME SPECIAL STUMBLERS JUDEFA, SHE OF THE BITING WIT WHO CALLS A SPADE A FUCKIN SHOVEL AND MAKES NO APOLOGY FOR IT KEEP IT UP WENCH YOU'VE MADE MANY A DAY FOR ME, CRAZY RED 7 FIRST TIME I CHECKED THIS LITTLE TREASURE I THOUGHT A YANK DOING SOMETHING SIMILIAR TO ME HOW WRONG COULD I BE A WARM TALENTED LADY WHO WRITES WITH HUMOUR AND IS ONE OF LIFES STORY TELLERS WITH SENSE OF THE RIDICOULOUS THAT HOLDS NO EQUAL A ON OCCASION CAN BE AS DRY AS A CAMEL'S FART, MR PICKETT SU'S RESIDENT EDUCATOR ALTHOUGH I SELDOM COMPLETED ANY OF HIS HOMEWORK I ENJOYED AND LEARNT FROM HIS PAGES FOR THE SHORT TIME I HAD THE PLEASURE OF HIS FRIENDSHIP. THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHERS I COULD MENTION HERE WHO OVER THE COUPLE OF YEARS I HAD THE PLEASURE OF KNOWING THEM HELPED A BURNT OUT ILL EDUCATED OLD TRUCK DRIVER LEARN HOW TO USE COMPUTER AND ENTER A WHOLE NEW WORLD FOR THIS I THANK YPU AND BLESSINGS TO ALL Rod.
This group of sixteen photos were all taken as I drove the several hundred klms across the Hays Plains in southern NSW A lot of Australia is still drought affected and has been for the last ten years causing the worst dust storms in the states history the hays Plains are a flat dry region and provide ideal conditions for storms like this one.
One of the more remarkable things about the dust storm was the fact that it rained at the same time something that normally settles down the dust in this case irt had no effect at all.