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Drug traffickers jailed over failed plot to smuggle cocaine from PNG by plane

It was an elaborate drug plot that took two years to plan, but mere seconds to unravel. Loaded…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #Cocaine #drugsmugglers #drugs #flight #mareeba #PNG #PortMoresby
https://www.europesays.com/australia/51813/

https://www.europesays.com/2666836/ How a rural Australian town welcomed Pope Leo XIV when he was Fr Robert Prevost #Augustine #AustralianTown #cairns #CatholicChurch #Dimbulah #FarNorthQueensland #mareeba #Pope #PopeLeo #PopeLeoXIV #RobertGreenup #RobertPrevost #SpanishClub #StThomasOfVillanova #StatoDellaCittàDelVaticano #StatusCivitatisVaticanae #Vatican #VaticanCity #VaticanCityState #Vaticano

There's Bob #Katter. We may do things hslf-arsed in #Mareeba, but we do them big too.

Some of the floats in the #Mareeba #Rodeo procession are just people in unadorned cars. Cars on a main street! The folly of it all!

We've got it all at the #Mareeba #Rodeo

We own the streets #Mareeba

Well then, predictions for Cyclone Jasper are getting more precise. Right now, modelling shows an almost direct hit with Cairns and Mareeba on Wednesday, category kind-of-scary.

I still expect it to divert, probably to the south, but that's based on what the last few did, not science. I am slightly more nervous than I was this morning.
#CycloneJasper #Cairns #cyclone #Mareeba

I've been a bit preoccupied with the whole single-parent thing, I haven't spent much time in the back yard. It's so dry out there that even the weeds are dying, and the grass is crunchy underfoot.
Once, late October was the beginning of the storm season in #Mareeba, building up through to the end of the year when the monsoon starts to swing around. Not any more, we probably won't see any real rain til February.

Faintly but fat rainbow looming beyond the valley in #Mareeba

Bushfires about my town. Two friends directly impacted but safe enough. The fires here are dangerous, but nothing like the monster blazes they get down south.

I'm in town, I'm fine.

#Mareeba #Bushfire

My son found a bowerbird bower a few blocks from home. I think it's a Great Bowerbird (that's its name, not my opinion).

This is not a nest. It is a Tinder profile that uses Instagram filters. The male builds this tunnel, and carefully arranges pale grey bits and pieces in an exact pattern, bigger at the front, smaller near the tunnel, shiny out the back. Then he stands in it. The foreshortening makes him look huge and sexy.

#birds #WildOz #wildlife #FNQ #mareeba

It's rodeo time in my little town, one of the bigger rodeos on the circuit, I'm told. And all the shops are done up rodeo style. I went to the optometrist and thought I'd walked into the wrong shop. They have the best display in my limited opinion:

#cows #dog #rodeo #Mareeba

Big storm forming, and this looks almost like a tornado forming (but probably isn't)
#sky #Mareeba #storm

The #sky looks kind of okay over #Mareeba right now.