Nice ride out to Culgoora Road this morning. #cycling #narrabri #Biketooter
Today’s Bike Ride
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Today’s Bike Ride
Nice weather for riding this morning. My body was not very co-operative, so I didn’t do the full 40 km, but close enough. I went along Mount Kaputar Road to Morris’ hill. #narrabri #cycling #Narrabri #Biketooter
Today’s Bike Ride
Great ride this morning along Jacks Creek and Gun Club Roads #cycling #Narrabri #Biketooter
My Biking Year
I ended the year having ridden 5922 km in 2023. This is my best year ever in terms of bike riding. I rode a total of 11.3 days.
Today’s Bike Ride
Another beautiful morning! A nice ride to Haire Drive. #cycling #Narrabri #Biketooter
Short Sharp Shower
That was a short sharp shower! A peak rainfall rate of nearly 200 mm/hr. A good thing it only lasted a couple of minutes or we would have been floating away! ☔
Narrabri Special Activation Precinct
I went to an exhibition yesterday for the Narrabri Special Activation Precinct.
Apart from a couple of maps, it wasn’t much of an exhibition. That’s because the plan is at a very early stage as yet.
Basically, the plan is for the State Government to build up an industrial area on the Yarrie Lake Road, just out of town. Building on the already established plans for the Inland Rail project, the Northern NSW Inland Port and the Narrabri Gas Project, the Special Activation Precinct is aiming to attract businesses that could see potential in setting up industrial capacity in the area. We already have heard that there is a proposal for a fertiliser factory utilising the gas there.
Narrabri is well located as a midway point between Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane so there is great potential there, especially with the rail link.
Governments are generally not very good at picking winners in business, but this project seems to be aimed at letting people know of opportunities and encouraging investment by business at both the national and global levels.
There are also Special Activation Projects at Moree (Agriculture), Parkes (Transport), and several other regional centres.
Foggy Morning
We had a real pea-souper this morning following yesterday’s rain. Time to grab the camera and brave the cold weather.
Butterfly Paradise
The return to good rainfall after a couple of years of drought has certainly inspired the local butterflies to get breeding. It is like being in one of those tropical butterfly farms in our garden.
Although the white ones are most prolific at the moment there are others as well. At one stage I found myself in a swarm of maybe 100 butterflies all fluttering by me.
It Begins
The view from across the road tonight.
For the last few months, there have been plans to upgrade the level crossing. But Roads and Maritime Services insisted that the Newell Highway be kept open, so a side track had to be constructed.
The work was ready to go in January, but got stopped by the torrential rain that flooded the site. Then they aimed for 4 am March 31, and in the meantime constructed the most expensive 4 day road I have ever seen.
We were evacuated to a motel as the work is 24 hours a day, but when we returned home this morning we discovered that there was still nothing happening as the rain yesterday again left the site too wet.
Tonight they have made a start. However RMS have expresses dissatisfaction with the signs and markings on the side track and may or may not sign off on it at 7 am tomorrow. If the RMS fail to proceed then the work is postponed until some future date.
Meanwhile if you are wondering where your bugs have gone to, we may have them here.
New Life Narrabri 