Metre-long cod belly up
UNFORTUNATELY, a 1.1m cod was found flouting belly up in the weeds by a visitor to our town this week.
It is hard to know what killed it as it was a bit smelly by the time I found out about it.
It just proves what a great asset our town lake is when you see what is in there.
No doubt he will have plenty of mates.Australia Day
OUR Australia Day breakfast was reasonably well attended with several dozen people turning up.
As well as our Mayor, Chris Bilkey, and our Australia Day ambassador Andrew Heslop, Moulamein scooped the pool this year with three presentations made.
Our footy coach Heath Moloney got the sportsperson of the year, not only for the time he puts into our Mighty Swans seniors but for what he does behind the scenes with our junior footy sides. Well done, Heath.
We also got the community group of the year will our Moulamein Community Development taking out that one for all the work they have done to get our Moulamein Heritage Village up and going.
The president, Drew Harris, excepted this one.
Our resident artist Ian Tully also excepted the award for the arts/cultural award for the South West Arts ACRE Project. Well done to all those involved.
Let’s keep punching above our weight, Moulamein, and keep nominating those organisations that deserve the recognition at these awards.
Bitterns
I HAVE stirred up a bit of interest with these Australasian Bitterns that I reckon I have on the rice.
There are only about 2500 left in the world.
They only live for a few years so that means that they have to get on the job really quick, or die out.
My new mate Linda finally got a half decent photo of one of these bloody things after all of my driving around trying my best to get a look at these rare birds.
Bugger. One decent photo and it appears that what I have been chasing is a Nankeen Night-heron.
They are commonly mistaken for a bittern and are a lot more common than the bittern.
Well at least my Southern Bell frog population will not get eaten by bitterns. We will keep looking.
Micro abattoir
I DO not know much about this project out on Gonn Road, but it seems to have stirred up a bit of interest.
There is a public meeting getting held tonight from 6pm to 8pm at the Barham Riverside reception centre. You have to register to have your say.
Go to www.murrayiver.nsw.gov.au or call 1300 087 004.
Bowls
DIVISION one was at home this week to our mates from Nyah.
This mob could put us out of the four. I yelled out as we started the game, “Remember what you are playing for Moulamein”.
Stupid thing to say as my bowl stopped halfway down the green.
“Remember what you are playing for, China”, our opposition skip, Brian, yelled out.
I thought to myself, “I like this bloke. He can hang s*** as well or even better than me”.
It was a good battle. Two rinks up. One down. Up overall.
This almost cements Division one’s spot in the final. Almost.
The cement is still wet as we have our mates from Lake Boga at home this week and they will be doing best to knock us off.
Division 4 took the long drive to our mates in Manangatang. They were on top a week ago and on a roll.
Unfortunately, the Mallee mob got the better of our team and we went two rinks down.
They were probably a bit p***ed off that I did not get dropped and they are still waiting for their feed of yabbies.
I think our Division four is still in the four hanging on by their fingernails.
Division 4 is at home this week to our mates from Lake Boga as well.
This should be a great day on the greens.
Come over for a look and a cold beer.Rice
THE rice heads are as big as I have ever seen, I think.
How well they fill will determine what the new record rice crop will be.
From the few I have been squeezing, there are still a few of the seeds empty.
The best head I have found so far is well over 20cm long.
This may not be the average, but it has a lot of friends out there around the same size.
Good challenge for you rice growers.
Let’s see who can find the biggest head in a year out of the box.
So far it must be over 20cm to get a look in.
Rain
THE rain they have been forecasting for a couple of weeks finally arrived with a lightning display that would rival Darwin in the wet season.
We got around the 37mm mark and that was about the average.
Plenty with more or less depending on which cloud you were under.
River levels
THE Edward is around 3700 megalitres at Moulamein and is still rising very slowly.
Our Eward will start to drop by the time you read this, but not by much.
