September 16, 2024 • 6 mins
Disaster talks about what is measured as the barometer for the mood in Queenstown and how this is an accurate reflection of the current vibe of the town.
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Thanks to ib Rural, we catch up the Grant Disaster
Master each and every week here on the muster. He
is of course based at Lake Klosperend Station on the
edges of Lake Locket, Tippo in central Otago is a
dog trailing corresponding and just generally central to Tago corresponding
as well, and catches up once again on a Tuesday.
Good afternoon, grunt.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good afternoon, Good after learn everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
How's everything in the basin today? A little bit cooler?
ID imagine that is.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Crappy that last Tuesday when we spoke. To be perfectly honest,
things haven't changed very much. It's yeah, we had a good,
quite a nice day on Saturday. It was quite warm.
The sun came out at Floto bits again on then
on Sunday with all the snow right down and pretty
(00:58):
pretty miserable. Yesterday it's a bit of snow in the morning,
but a nice day and the snow snow disappeared back
up the holes a little bit. And today it's it
started off all right, but cold as anything. And I've
just been over to air Town to shift the hogits.
I've only got a couple more breaks there, perhaps a
week on the on the on the crop, and it
(01:19):
was snowing over there and really cold and a real
cold southerly coming up through from down to the Kingston end.
And as I'm sitting here on my way home, I
just pulled over to talk to you, I can see
the regrettables and you can hardly see them with all
the crap coming up from Kingston again out to Mount
Nicholas and out towards Masmur and Tian out looks a
bit fine, it looks a bit better, but yeah, that
(01:41):
we've been getting a bit of crap from that direction
as well. So yeah, the life of a traveling salesman
was never easy, was it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, they're regrettables. That's hardly a slogan for touris in
New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Not too many not too many terrorists listen to the
show probably, but no, it's like just coming through Queenstown before,
it was really quiet, not a lot of not a
lot of traffic. Ground had a really good run through,
and as I've you heard me say before, it's pretty
good indication of how busy town is by how many
people are kid of at the old Ferry Burger and
(02:13):
not many there that at all, So a few cars
parked at the bottom of Coronet Peak, people up there skiing.
I guess for the scars. And I've never been on
the skis, but I've been on a few clip of slopes,
but I've never been on the skis. But however, I
think that you know, there's there's really good snow for
the people that are wanting to ski, but just not
the people around because everyone's back to work and school
(02:34):
holidays aren't here, what have you. But you know, it's
other years where we do get quite a bit of
snow in the spring and it's normally that wet snow
which breaks a few branches off the off the trees
and what have you. So it's just, yeah, this just
seems pretty relentless. And you know, we've got water. I
said last week. You know, there's a lot of water
(02:55):
around the place. And the actual there's a gravel road
goes in the boat Laff, which is a public road,
just goes through quite a bit of closer to the
back there, and either side of the road the water
has just been gushing down and it's just like if
you went into the water table, you wouldn't get out.
And I said, that's what happened to a car yesterday
that the you know, you have the frost well, the
(03:17):
frosts well and truly out of the ground, and now
the springs are there and there's a little car, a
little terrace car was bottled in the spring in the
middle of the gravel road. So there's there's a greater
needs come through at some stage. But there's that much
water going everywhere. It's hard, you know, it's hard to know,
but yeah, it's just so wet and yes, and you
don't want to pull off. It's just holes everywhere and
(03:38):
water just coming out of a hell as far.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
As Queenstown, is it a bit of a rarity for
it to be so quiet at this time of year?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Probably not really, it's you know, it's back into that
what needs to say, the fringe season that's skiing is
all but finished. In a normal spring, it probably well,
is there a normal spring, Probably.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Not here to find that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, in the springs you don't get snow. Everybody's bugging off,
But no, I think it's just that there was there's
been a lot of tourists around and I don't think
there's anything to do with skin, but they're just not
around at the moment they could have got washed away.
Of course, I took a soil temperature over over there
down there this morning and it's just on six degrees
(04:23):
the soil temperature. I don't know what is that out
of mog Lake. I'm heading out there shortly, but you
know it's when the sun is out, it's fine. But yeah,
the chill factors bit worse. The last couple of days
it's been really really cold compared to the rest of
the time. I think.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now, of course, you lamb a bit later than everybody
else out there, grunt. You've just opened the gates for
the girls to come down off the hills.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, well you've heard me say it. Normally, you know,
I would be feeding Barley and Bayleors. We sort of
do that. A month after sharing well just about a
month now and the news it's still been on the
on the hill blocks and as I said that, quite
big hall blocks. And I've been well scattered, scattered out
and looking all right. So I opened a couple of
gates yesterday that come down onto by the road where
it goes through. And yeah, the few the bottom onnes
(05:10):
has come out, but there's still a lot of them
are really high up the two days came straight off
their block because they've been putting out on a couple
of times, but they've come down when the SAIDs all
the traffic come out of the said they shot down
pretty good. So it could be a new way of mustering.
Actually get the track and the vaileage out and head away.
So but anyway, the next dage hues, I'll gather them up,
probably tomorrow, and we'll give them a bit of a
(05:33):
vaileage I think for the next four or five days.
It's sort of one thing about this country. It gets
really wet, but it it does try trains reasonably quick,
so you know the few paddocks that we've got are yeah,
it trains not too bad. So probably put them on,
give them a bit of baylage for four or five days.
(05:53):
Hopefully town is coming up on Tuesday. We'll put all
the user on the conveyor and give them their inoculations
and then it will be time to spread them out.
So took about the normal time he would do it.
But it's not normally just as wet. But in saying
that the place is looking probably it's looking quite green.
Only where that's because the snow's disappeared, which well it
(06:14):
hasn't all disappeared, but there's certainly been a little bit
of a little bit of growth, so we need a
bit more. But it's you know, it's certainly got the moisture.
And I just said to something the other day. In
three months time and we will be probably crying out
for rain. But to imagine at this stage handy good.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Only Grant better leave it there. Always appreciate your time, stay.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Dry, okay, take care, Grant.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
McMaster Every Tuesday thanks to Batman and the team at
ab Rural, met McCrae fans and mycer reader. He's up
next for your Tuesday
Thanks to ib Rural, we catch up the Grant Disaster
Master each and every week here on the muster. He
is of course based at Lake Klosperend Station on the
edges of Lake Locket, Tippo in central Otago is a
dog trailing corresponding and just generally central to Tago corresponding
as well, and catches up once again on a Tuesday.
Good afternoon, grunt.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good afternoon, Good after learn everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
How's everything in the basin today? A little bit cooler?
ID imagine that is.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Crappy that last Tuesday when we spoke. To be perfectly honest,
things haven't changed very much. It's yeah, we had a good,
quite a nice day on Saturday. It was quite warm.
The sun came out at Floto bits again on then
on Sunday with all the snow right down and pretty
(00:58):
pretty miserable. Yesterday it's a bit of snow in the morning,
but a nice day and the snow snow disappeared back
up the holes a little bit. And today it's it
started off all right, but cold as anything. And I've
just been over to air Town to shift the hogits.
I've only got a couple more breaks there, perhaps a
week on the on the on the crop, and it
(01:19):
was snowing over there and really cold and a real
cold southerly coming up through from down to the Kingston end.
And as I'm sitting here on my way home, I
just pulled over to talk to you, I can see
the regrettables and you can hardly see them with all
the crap coming up from Kingston again out to Mount
Nicholas and out towards Masmur and Tian out looks a
bit fine, it looks a bit better, but yeah, that
(01:41):
we've been getting a bit of crap from that direction
as well. So yeah, the life of a traveling salesman
was never easy, was it.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, they're regrettables. That's hardly a slogan for touris in
New Zealand.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Not too many not too many terrorists listen to the
show probably, but no, it's like just coming through Queenstown before,
it was really quiet, not a lot of not a
lot of traffic. Ground had a really good run through,
and as I've you heard me say before, it's pretty
good indication of how busy town is by how many
people are kid of at the old Ferry Burger and
(02:13):
not many there that at all, So a few cars
parked at the bottom of Coronet Peak, people up there skiing.
I guess for the scars. And I've never been on
the skis, but I've been on a few clip of slopes,
but I've never been on the skis. But however, I
think that you know, there's there's really good snow for
the people that are wanting to ski, but just not
the people around because everyone's back to work and school
(02:34):
holidays aren't here, what have you. But you know, it's
other years where we do get quite a bit of
snow in the spring and it's normally that wet snow
which breaks a few branches off the off the trees
and what have you. So it's just, yeah, this just
seems pretty relentless. And you know, we've got water. I
said last week. You know, there's a lot of water
(02:55):
around the place. And the actual there's a gravel road
goes in the boat Laff, which is a public road,
just goes through quite a bit of closer to the
back there, and either side of the road the water
has just been gushing down and it's just like if
you went into the water table, you wouldn't get out.
And I said, that's what happened to a car yesterday
that the you know, you have the frost well, the
(03:17):
frosts well and truly out of the ground, and now
the springs are there and there's a little car, a
little terrace car was bottled in the spring in the
middle of the gravel road. So there's there's a greater
needs come through at some stage. But there's that much
water going everywhere. It's hard, you know, it's hard to know,
but yeah, it's just so wet and yes, and you
don't want to pull off. It's just holes everywhere and
(03:38):
water just coming out of a hell as far.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
As Queenstown, is it a bit of a rarity for
it to be so quiet at this time of year?
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Probably not really, it's you know, it's back into that
what needs to say, the fringe season that's skiing is
all but finished. In a normal spring, it probably well,
is there a normal spring, Probably.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Not here to find that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yeah, in the springs you don't get snow. Everybody's bugging off,
But no, I think it's just that there was there's
been a lot of tourists around and I don't think
there's anything to do with skin, but they're just not
around at the moment they could have got washed away.
Of course, I took a soil temperature over over there
down there this morning and it's just on six degrees
(04:23):
the soil temperature. I don't know what is that out
of mog Lake. I'm heading out there shortly, but you
know it's when the sun is out, it's fine. But yeah,
the chill factors bit worse. The last couple of days
it's been really really cold compared to the rest of
the time. I think.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Now, of course, you lamb a bit later than everybody
else out there, grunt. You've just opened the gates for
the girls to come down off the hills.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, well you've heard me say it. Normally, you know,
I would be feeding Barley and Bayleors. We sort of
do that. A month after sharing well just about a
month now and the news it's still been on the
on the hill blocks and as I said that, quite
big hall blocks. And I've been well scattered, scattered out
and looking all right. So I opened a couple of
gates yesterday that come down onto by the road where
it goes through. And yeah, the few the bottom onnes
(05:10):
has come out, but there's still a lot of them
are really high up the two days came straight off
their block because they've been putting out on a couple
of times, but they've come down when the SAIDs all
the traffic come out of the said they shot down
pretty good. So it could be a new way of mustering.
Actually get the track and the vaileage out and head away.
So but anyway, the next dage hues, I'll gather them up,
probably tomorrow, and we'll give them a bit of a
(05:33):
vaileage I think for the next four or five days.
It's sort of one thing about this country. It gets
really wet, but it it does try trains reasonably quick,
so you know the few paddocks that we've got are yeah,
it trains not too bad. So probably put them on,
give them a bit of baylage for four or five days.
(05:53):
Hopefully town is coming up on Tuesday. We'll put all
the user on the conveyor and give them their inoculations
and then it will be time to spread them out.
So took about the normal time he would do it.
But it's not normally just as wet. But in saying
that the place is looking probably it's looking quite green.
Only where that's because the snow's disappeared, which well it
(06:14):
hasn't all disappeared, but there's certainly been a little bit
of a little bit of growth, so we need a
bit more. But it's you know, it's certainly got the moisture.
And I just said to something the other day. In
three months time and we will be probably crying out
for rain. But to imagine at this stage handy good.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Only Grant better leave it there. Always appreciate your time, stay.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Dry, okay, take care, Grant.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
McMaster Every Tuesday thanks to Batman and the team at
ab Rural, met McCrae fans and mycer reader. He's up
next for your Tuesday
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