END of the River Murray, Coorong & Lake Abert

For decades the management of the Murray River by successive governments has been questioned. Australia is a country where the majority of the population are living in major seaboard cities and politicians favour making decisions that pander to the percieved beneficial impact that will result in favourable poll results from these constituants. This does not make things work!.

The major water course in Australia is crucial to the survival of agricultural and urban industry and societies. It is a very simple matter in essence, "There is a finite amount of water available, don't over use it." There have been droughts in the past and there will be droughts in the future that will reduce the amount of water available. Recent figures have shown the Queensland water usage from the feeder basin to the Murray Darling River systems has been an astronomical increase in quantity.

Adelaide at the end of the system is a city that in the driest state of Australia, with out water will not continue to exist. Don't laugh that is a fact, cities in the past have been abandoned because water supplies were no longer available. just because humans have technology and all the mod cons of life does not change reality. NO WATER, NO LIFE CAN EXIST.

Conservation of water is the most practical fix for the problem and the hubub from industries like cotton and rice interests will fight for their survival. Then there are the more fanciful fixes put forward, water pipelines from Western Australia and Tasmania. The engineering skills and mecahanical capability does exist to make these reality, but will not fix the problem of water management just increase the water supply available. All these suggestions do is create an image of an upside down pyramid balancing on the point and teetering dangerously towards collapse with every breath from the winds of change.

Thankyou for your time and attention, Geoff

"GRAND FINAL" The Song for football released

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Artist Darren McCrae's song "GRAND FINAL" will be sung by the artist at the SANFL Grand Final in 2008. Darren Mccrae, Born in Broken Hill has pursed his creative passions of singing, songwriting and visual arts throughout his career. Along the way he has been a professional football player, forward scout and coach with SANFL (West Adelaide, North Adelaide Woodville-West Torrens), AFL (North Melbourne, Carlton) and country football league clubs. Also completing his apprecticeship as a Painter and Decorator/Signwriting at the Zinc Corporation [Broken Hill Mining}

Based at Tanunda, in the Barrossa Valley South Australia where he operates McCrae Gallery. The Gallery dsplays his current visual artistic works on canvas and sculptures.

Musically Darren has been inspired all along the journey by his mother Claire McCrae, classical singer (Order Of Australia)

Acting and singing on stage as a child in regional repertory/philharmonic productions, including THE MIKADO, THE KING AND I and later as an adult in HELLO DOLLY, along with being the lead vocal in many regional cover bands. After 15 years of songwriting and receiving guitar lessons Darren has started to professionally record his music. After being introduced to Simon Marshall an accomplished musician and producer at the Barrossa music store, with Simon's advice and a great appreciation of each others talents, the pair decided to take the compositions to the recording studio.


Thankyou for your time and attention, Geoff

AFL FINALS 2008 "Footyhead's" Post Game Comments WEEK 1

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Video - Whale watching at Robe 6/9/2008

The giant mammals of the ocean have fascinated people for years and since the moratorium on hunting of whales has been in place these gentle giants are returning to the shores of Australia. Over the past 5 years whales have been passing accross the entrance of Guichen Bay and occaisionally making brief forays into the Bay. On Saturday the 6th of September 4 whales came into the bay and spent 8 hours slowly moving around the shore line before going out to the open ocean as the sun set.

I took the video camera out and caught some footage of them. Unfortunately the camera did not have the focussing range to get the whales very clearly. The end result is the whales are blurred, lol they could be the Lochness monster, a school of salmon, but they are whales.



Thankyou for your time and attention, Geoff