Hi all PDs.

Not knowing when you all celebrate I'm taking this advantage to wish you all a Happy and prosperous New Year.

All the Best for 2008 and Lang May Your Lums Reek :!:   (to all you aussies closet trekkies and others who don't know it means may you live long and prosper)

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How dare you sir! I will have you know I had a bath last November- 23rd to be precise! It was a cold miserable day.
Any way, a very good new year to you all. Regards, Walter.

Hi Bob and all of the PD`s,

all the best to all of you and allways a hand`s breadth water underneath the keel.

Kind regards Hans

Hello Seasons greetings from land of ice and snow north of the border. JG

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No boundaries, no borders, no countries, no continents.
Just good friends looking to the future.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

John.

Hello all, well said there John "No boundaries" then"Just good friends" what a great sentiment.

A guid new year to you and yours wherever they maybe

cheers

Jim

Happy New Year to all.
On New Year's eve I visited the http://www.echucamoama.com/webcam/index.html%20web%20cam%20and%20took%20the%20following%20shot[img][/img]
The following morning, New Year's Day I took this one from my front door

Regards,
Gerald

On New Year's Eve I drove to Echuca, photographing a Bunyip in an irrigation channel and collecting Jessie II to launch at Deep Creek Marina (Murray River 1630 km, between Torrumbarry and Echuca).
My group had dinner at Deep Creek Marina Hotel; the bar and the bistro look over lawns sloping to the marina berths, and I was moored at a floating jetty operated by the hotel for the benefit of houseboat people on the main river, who come in by tinnie to buy supplies or to eat at the bistro.
There are two large models in the bistro: PS Emmylou (on barrels) and PS Pevensey (on the rafters).
I didn't take a photo on New Year's Day, but the Murray banks through to Torrumbarry looked like the view taken at Echuca, and posted earlier in this thread.  I believe that the temperature was 41 deg C that day.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Happy New Year to you all down on the Murray. Roderick, did you take any pictures of the "Pevensey" Model?

PJ

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On New Year's Eve I drove to Echuca, photographing a Bunyip in an irrigation channel and collecting Jessie II to launch at Deep Creek Marina (Murray River 1630 km, between Torrumbarry and Echuca).
My group had dinner at Deep Creek Marina Hotel; the bar and the bistro look over lawns sloping to the marina berths, and I was moored at a floating jetty operated by the hotel for the benefit of houseboat people on the main river, who come in by tinnie to buy supplies or to eat at the bistro.
There are two large models in the bistro: PS Emmylou (on barrels) and PS Pevensey (on the rafters).
I didn't take a photo on New Year's Day, but the Murray banks through to Torrumbarry looked like the view taken at Echuca, and posted earlier in this thread. I believe that the temperature was 41 deg C that day.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor





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Deep Creek Marina Hotel: A model of PS Emmylou in the bistro. Mon.31.12.07. (Roderick Smith)  

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I took two of the PS Pevensey model in the rafters.
This view gives a sense of scale and location.

The models are made by Murray River Model Paddlesteamers, Robert Dingey.
Model paddlesteamers made to order, radio controlled or static or for display purposes.
41 Finlay Rd, Tongala Vic 3621
03 5859 1254
0428 996 120

I suspect that many of the models showing in photos of Echuca rallies (and Lake Goldsmith?), posted in other parts of Paddleducks forums, were from the same source.

Regards,
Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor