RCCBG News Notes 20 April 2026
Notes on the Run
Thank you to Stephen for holding the ship on course with the Bulletin and administration over the past 3 weeks. My visit to son Thomas in Darwin was a wonderful combination of granddaughter fun, fishing and cycling around Darwin’s extensive cycle tracks. I have to say that for a city of 150,000 or so they have many infrastructure projects like cycleways and shopping centres in far higher quality than Canberra. On the other hand 30 degree plus temperature is the hard part and humidity will suck your soul dry. But on a positive, I caught the Andrews’ family biggest Barramundi (98cm) from shore fishing on a crocodile creek, and survived a snake sleeping on the swimming pool gate stopping all who dared to enter.
Acting Chair Eric has been doing a stirling job with a range of interesting guest speakers and moving our community projects along.
Bill Ed.
Last week’s meeting
Past President Russel provided an interesting narrative of his adventure by QANTAS to Antarctica. The 14hour return flight from Sydney took him to 5000m over Antarctica with the opportunity to see wonderful sights and hear from retired CSIRO scientists on the highlights of Australia’s research in that mysterious land., We discussed the core being drilled from a huge ice flow – they have reached a depth of 2km and aiming for 3.5k m which will allow them to analyse the changes in weather patterns over the last 2 million years. Did you know the next Ice Age may only develop in decades not centuries, so we had better buy our parkas now.
It never rains down there and holds 90% of the world’s ice. If it all melted tomorrow world sea levels would rise 200ft. Not good for the beach house!
Here are some highlights of his presentation.
Thank you Russell for an excellent presentation.
Ed.
