Help!!! What To Do In Isa!!!!!!

[barnsey]

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OK - Not desperate but hey - SWMBO has decided she wants this new job in Mount Isa!!!!!!!
Me thinks well can't be too bad - there's bloody big barra in them thar rivers - mind you some bloody big crocs too.
Any of you guys out there up that way?
Have noted there's not too many places with a big double garage much less a decent garage/shed to put my workshop gear into - mind you who would want to be in a shed in that summer heat!!!!
Anyone out there got some ideas on where to go and contacts up that way to look up and bludge a bit of advice out of????
Looks like I'll have to leave the 20' Mustang cruiser here for the duration and buy a tinnie for the fishing - again anyone got some advice for the way to go up that way - the balding dome has got wrinkles just thinking about it!!!

[Rocker]

Barnsey,

Back in the early 70's, I spent 2 1/2 years doing geological fieldwork up in the Lawn Hill region, based in the Isa. So I am afraid any info I might be able to give you is obsolete by now. In those days I lived in a house whose walls consisted of two layers of fibro with no insulation in between. The inner layer would get so hot in summer that you could not bear to rest your hand on it. The house had evaporative ducted a/c, but it was still uncomfortably hot until I eventually managed to get the company to get a proper a/c unit. I am just waiting now to see when I shall contract mesothelioma, since I had to cut a hole in the wall and install it myself.

Anyway, my advice would be to make sure you get a well-insulated house with efficient a/c, since it can be unbearably hot in summer. Back in the 70's there was not a lot to do, other than swimming and sailing on Lakes Mandora and Julius, and fishing in the Gregory River. Of course there are rodeos, and the camel races at Boulia, and if you hanker for the ocean you can always drive 600 miles to Townsville. At least it is all bitumen now - in my day, about half the distance was on dirt.

Fortunately, most of the time the prevailing SE winds carry the fumes from the smelter away from town, but if the wind is in the wrong direction, you can get a nasty dose of SO2.

I think you will probably find a couple of years in the Isa an interesting and worthwhile experience, but I would not plan on spending much longer there than that. I would think that woodwork would only be feasible in the winter, unless you have an air-conditioned workshop. And you had better take your stock of timber with you, since you won't find much up there.

Rocker

[Ivan in Oz]

I understand there is a strong water skiing lot up there.

It'd be good for Clinker built Speed Boat


Ivan in Oz
WAS Count, but some spelt it incorrectly :eek: accidently :confused:

[Christopha]

They've got a BUNNINGS with nice staff................

[nik]

hold on a second there christopha, the words bunnings and nice staff don't go togeather in the same sentence. I hope this nice staff thing doesn't catch on at other bunnings stores. I've gotten quite used to being talked to like a piece of sh*t.