... And a Happy New Year to you all!

[Ian Price]

Wishing you all the very best in 2007.

:)

[kevin]

Happy New Year from UW.com also. 

It's new years day here and for the first time in recent memory, I slept right through it :)

[Adaz]

Happy new year for all, especially for Kevin, and thank You for your magnanimous help and support in 2006!

[kevin]

 Thanks.

    News Years Eve/Day is becoming an eventful day for some reason here.  It's either hot as hell, or stormy..  Yesterday was the latter.  We got 40 odd mill's (about an inch and 1/2) of rain dumped on us.  While last year New years eve was one of the the hottest on record. 

   Rain is good, we love rain atm, since we've in our 10th year of drought.   Water is becoming a big issue here. Locally we're down to 17% water storage.  Most reservoirs are empty.  One of Ballarats main attractions, lake Wendouree,  dried up a few months ago.   It's bizarre to drive past it now, looks like the moon surface.  Well, if the moon surface looked like the bottom of a lake :)

BEFORE

  Lake Pic
  Lake Pic
  Lake Pic
  Lake Pic
  Lake Pic
  Pics from http://www.travelvictoria.com.au/ballarat/photos/

  GILL'S BOATSHED & THE ' GOLDEN CITY ' PADDLE STEAMER



AFTER

http://www.abc.net.au/water/stories/s1584562.htm
http://www.adayin.com.au/australian_destinations/victoria/ballarat/lake_wendouree.htm

Our local paper had a great front cover of it a few months back.  Bone dry... 

[Adaz]

Oh, that was a very-very nice landscape before :((

[Big C.]

I wish you and yor familiy a happy new year too...

[kevin]

This was front page of the local paper today.... 

[Ian Price]

Wow! That is certainly a dramatic change in the environment :(