28/12/2025
Living off grid is- I have to say the best life ! - but it is so challenging as well! Nature always shows her power and the February monsoon that hit us in February 2025 - well she really showed us her power! We had 5metres of rain non stop, we lost our water pump generator, no water for 2.5 weeks and completely cut off from the world - we could not even get to the helicopter drop offs in the early stages. We were lucky we always stock up food wise especially for wet season - we had eggs (thanks girls - but even then we were running out of food for the chooks) but we had no sun ! The generator batteries were drained and we struggled powere wise with our groups to the cabins ! This upgrade is a godsend and will make life a little easier 🙂 thank you James BarraSolar:) also our tiny community - support to each other was amazing - the surrounding cattle station was hit hard - no roads (still ongoing) we all saw the true amazing human spirit of lending a hand , being there for each other - come out in force thank you Jen and Garry Scott - the key words for this year were Resilience Community xx I would tag if I could xx THANK YOU - thanks to Holly Newman, Townsville Enterprise, Charters council, Robbie Katter party, for being our voice, QRIDA for this great opportunity xx
