New member from Tasmania. (Australia)

[Richard M]

Hi chaps/chapesses,

Just joined, I'm in Southern Tasmania (Island State of SE tip of Australia); we're about 15km south of Hobart, the State Capital.

I kept bees for 2 seasons when I lived in the bush, 15 yrs ago but since moving to the burbs, I had to drop it. My brother in law & me acquired 2 hives (started with nucs) last January, the height of summer here, which we keep at his place as it's out in the bush; we had sworn to our better halves that 2 hives was it, the absolute limit, no more!

So last week, we collected our first swarm - so that makes 3 already - I suspect this might not end well!

I'm quite excited now, our established hives are rocketing along, the blackberries (brambles) are just coming in, with Prickly Box to follow, extracting mid Jan at this stage, then on the ute (truck) and a 150km+ drive to the South West rainforests near Lake Pedder, for a spell on the Leatherwood until we go fetch them back in March/April. I've been told to stack them 8 supers high when we take them, so hoping it will be good.

Well we're on the treadmill now.

So can anyone point me in the direction of the Downunder section?

[Richard M]

OK. Found it.  :roll:

[BeeMaster2]

Richard, welcome to beemaster. I hope your wife has a short memory.  :-D
Once you start bringing in the honey and selling it she may forget your promise.
Jim

[GSF]

Welcome

[Richard M]

I hope your wife has a short memory.  :-D

Yeah right. Of course she does.

[thewhiterhino]

Welcome to the forum from Colorful Colorado Richard.

[Richard M]

Welcome to the forum from Colorful Colorado Richard.

Is that near Southpark?  ;)

Always wanted to go there (Colorado, not Southpark) since reading Michener's Centennial about 30 years ago.

I  notice that someone on here has TAS as his/her avatar.

As possibly the only Tasmanian on here, I think I'll have to appropriate that for myself.

[thewhiterhino]

I am about 50 miles from Southpark. Sometimes I go that way to avoid going through Denver when going to I-70.  :)

[jayj200]

welcome from Fl

[Richard M]

I am about 50 miles from Southpark. Sometimes I go that way to avoid going through Denver when going to I-70.  :)

How's the fat kid and the one in the parka?

[thewhiterhino]

I am about 50 miles from Southpark. Sometimes I go that way to avoid going through Denver when going to I-70.  :)

How's the fat kid and the one in the parka?

I am not familiar with what you are speaking of. :?

[jayj200]

Ferguson and NY

[Richard M]

I am about 50 miles from Southpark. Sometimes I go that way to avoid going through Denver when going to I-70.  :)

How's the fat kid and the one in the parka?

I am not familiar with what you are speaking of. :?

Cartman & Kenny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_Park_characters

[thewhiterhino]

Cartman & Kenny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_Park_characters

Thanks for the education on south park the TV series.
I have never heard of it as I seldom watch much TV.
Surely I'm not the only one on the forum that hadn't heard of it. :shock:

[GentryClan]

Welcome!

[Richard M]

Cartman & Kenny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_Park_characters

Thanks for the education on south park the TV series.
I have never heard of it as I seldom watch much TV.
Surely I'm not the only one on the forum that hadn't heard of it. :shock:

Hate to say this but I reckon you could be.  :-D

[Michael Bush]

>Always wanted to go there (Colorado, not Southpark) since reading Michener's Centennial about 30 years ago.

I lived in Western Nebraska on the North Platte at the time the mini-series came out which prompted me to read the book.  He wrote it about the South Platte, but it's just as applicable to the North Platte valley.  From the Indians to the sugar beets, from the Germans to the Japanese.  We were on the Oregon trail.  You could drive 10 miles form my house and see the wagon ruts going through the pass at Scotts Bluff...

[Richard M]

>Always wanted to go there (Colorado, not Southpark) since reading Michener's Centennial about 30 years ago.

I lived in Western Nebraska on the North Platte at the time the mini-series came out which prompted me to read the book.  He wrote it about the South Platte, but it's just as applicable to the North Platte valley.  From the Indians to the sugar beets, from the Germans to the Japanese.  We were on the Oregon trail.  You could drive 10 miles form my house and see the wagon ruts going through the pass at Scotts Bluff...

One of the most inspiring books I've ever read, it honestly made me feel I'd been born in the wrong century, (although I imagine that rality would bit pretty quickly) it sounds like incredible country; I've read heaps of Michener's books - I loved all the ones that followed settlement of America, Alaska, Texas, Hawaii, particularly liked Chesapeake. 

The Centennial miniseries wasn't bad either.

What's the fishing like in the Platte rivers? It must be an incredible thing to know you're sat at the head of a river that could take you all the way to New Orleans. It would be pretty cool, if you had the time, to chuck a four stroke OB on the back of a small boat and follow the river all the way down.