Hi  Paul,  picture of Popples Corner, border of QLD,SA & NT, Australia,
 is not in the original position because the survey chain had become worn
 so the links were not exactly 7.92" long or whatever they are (I cannot
 remember the exact length of the links) so the boundary was not exact.
 However they had agreed on a longitude, the other picture is exactly on
 the boundary of the NT and QLD.
         John Burey.



Hi   Paul,   I know you like seeing inland Australia, try looking up
www.abc.net.au/deluge   a story about the rain in inland Australia
during the past three years, yhey think Lake Eyre might even overflow
this time, which will be the first time since white man has been in
Australia. You might have to google it as I am not sure the address is
correct, it was on the ABC 1 TV tonight.
            Regards   John Burey.


That link did not work so this is a close as I could find.

http://blogs.abc.net.au/news/after-the-deluge/

One drawback to living in an area that has low population density
is the lack of tax money needed to build flood control infrastructure.

Weather is changing around the world and we are seeing some of it
in rainy So Cal this year. I am not saying it is caused by anything
man has done. I think it is just one of the many weather cycles the
world has gone through in the last million years.

We are getting a lot of rain this year but so far the river has not
gone up. Here are some old pictures from several years ago of flooding
in my back office when we were living in the hills. SZP was nearly wiped
out a couple of years ago. Tracy gets flooded out every now and then
too.

I'd like to spend some more time flying around in the outback.
It might be cheaper loading my RV4 in a container and shipping
it rather than rent. I find the outback fascinating.

Paul Lamar

Hi   Paul,   Yes we are getting a lot of rain the past couple of
years,but, I think it is natural cycles I wasn't aware you were getting
a lot of rain in Cal. Look up the La Nina  reports. The temperature of
the water in the eastern and western Pacific has a huge impact on
climate in Australia. The opposite is El Nino, which causes drought in
Australia. Most of the flooding affecting people is because people build
"in the stream" in the dry times.
    John Burey