Phew! Wot a Scorcher!

[Otterhound]

Shall I spin a yarn about my Australia trip in 2000 ?
I saw a recorded 118 in the shade while on the Oodnadatta Track .
Swamp cooler was in use at William Creek .
I believe that it was hotter at the Ayers Rock Resort . Couldn't even walk barefooted on white concrete without the telltale sizzle .
Bottom line is that we adjust/adapt . When in heat , eat less and drink more fluids is the rule .
I can recall similar days from childhood as far as the heat here .

[Silly Moustache]

Appalling news stories from Greece and Japan today.

[Brucebubs]

Originally Posted by Otterhound

Shall I spin a yarn about my Australia trip in 2000 ?
I saw a recorded 118 in the shade while on the Oodnadatta Track .
Swamp cooler was in use at William Creek .
I believe that it was hotter at the Ayers Rock Resort . Couldn't even walk barefooted on white concrete without the telltale sizzle .
Bottom line is that we adjust/adapt . When in heat , eat less and drink more fluids is the rule .
I can recall similar days from childhood as far as the heat here .

I drove from Coober Pedy across to William Creek after 2 days of rain in 1992 then down the Oodnadatta Track into the Flinders Ranges.
It wasn't hot but it was muddy.
I pulled an American girl out of the bog with my 'snatchem strap'.
She told us she 'loved the prairie here'.

[Otterhound]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

I drove from Coober Pedy across to William Creek after 2 days of rain in 1992 then down the Oodnadatta Track into the Flinders Ranges.
It wasn't hot but it was muddy.
I pulled an American girl out of the bog with my 'snatchem strap'.
She told us she 'loved the prairie here'.

I started in Adelaide , rode up throughout the Flinders and all the way up to Marla before getting on the bitumen . Beautiful area of stark and unabated nature . Turned east at the Three Ways and wound my way down to Sydney and eventually back to Melbourne .
All told , I covered 11,000 k of mostly outback .
While I was in your land , the parched red desert was teeming with green in many places because of the rains . Lower Lake Eyre had water in it . A day after leaving Uluru , the resort was closed because of flooding . It had actually recently rained at William Creek according to the station master .
Point being that I saw much of your outback as a lush green carpet . Something that doesn't happen every day and it was spectacular .
Hopefully , I will return some day .
Would love to ride the Bight out to Perth and then turn north ......

[JayBee1404]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

Appalling news stories from Greece and Japan today.

You're so right, Andy - the death-toll in the wildfires in Greece is now 80. Greece, including its wonderful islands, is a place I've visited on vacation many times, a place I love, and it's people epitomise the saying 'the salt of the Earth' AFAIC.

Very, very sad indeed.

[Silly Moustache]

Hi,tend to agree. One island holiday featured a column of black smoke as we went in to land. We sat on the beaches for a fortnight watching planes scooping up sea water and dropping it in the hills. Not sure which island now - possibly Samos, maybe Crete.

[Silly Moustache]

And it continues - high 80s to 90 degrees (F)

A small hope for some relief on Thursday when some light rain is feasible.

Stranger cats are coming into our house to shelter from the heat!