Quote Originally Posted by johnboy View Post
Crikey!
We get six or seven feet of rain per year, whether we want it or not!
Seventy to eighty + inches!
But that's what ensures grass growth all year round, and when we're growing grass we can feed our cows, and they can produce milk and meat, and that's how we made a living and paid the bills.

The official designation for the bush* I cleared is: 'Tropical Rain Forest', and there were some extremely large trees in there!
Seven or eight feet through at the butt.
And why is it called 'rain forest'?
Because we get rain!
There's a cliché locally: "If you can see the mountain it's going to rain; if you can't see it it's already raining!"

* 'Bush' is a colloquial generic term meaning any large stand of indigenous trees...I think you call them 'woods' or 'forest' or 'copse'...
Yup,,but that's on your side of the hill.. We only get about half of that in Inglewood,Johnboy..The hill stops the other half..