Re: Excitement in the Backyard!
Originally Posted by
summer
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Are they taking water samples .....or perhaps hunting for Mexicans.
No, I wish they would sample more. This is such an important estuary - the nursery for dolphins, water fowl, oysters, fish that we are trying to form a partnership to ensure more stewardship of the river.
Originally Posted by
Meg
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They have run aground and are having to be freed ...
Thankfully, they do all the saving around here! I was surprised that such a large ship was this far upriver. Winter tides can leave the place very shallow. They apparently knew what they were doing!
Originally Posted by
Silver Tabby
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We had an outbreak of the black helicopters here yesterday - a couple hovering over the two main roads and a couple over the shopping centre.
That's quite a sight! Do you think they were training?
Originally Posted by
Fruitcake
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Maintenance or repairs perhaps? Having its bottom scraped? Removing barnacles from its bottom?
(Both painful and embarrassing, and I should know).
Maybe the turbo-encabulator has been experiencing inverse reactive current fluctuations, causing transverse thrust on the epicyclic overdrive torque condenser units.
Either that or they are on a Jolly. Did the sailors bring a bucket and spade with them when they disembarked?
We had a visit from a
gert big yellow jellycoptor recently that landed in the local Rec (Recreation Ground/Park) a few hundred metres away. It was one of the local rescue jobbys. Heroes the lot of them.
Maintenance, yes, but not for the ship. You are getting closer.
Off topic, but you might want to see a doctor about that condition.
Nifty on the helicopter. Any guess what they were up to?