It's hot at Marble Bar.

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9 yrs ago

They say it will be well over 50C at Marble Bar in Western Australia today.

If there is one thing in your bucket list is to join the locals at the Marble Bar in the town pub. On a hot summers night it is a treat.

The marble bar is really jasperite, not marble at all. It is red a white stripes that positively glow when a bit of beer is sloshed over it's surface.

The barman, Larry the Lag, always has a great yarn to spin. And given encouragement the local stockmen have a great collection of bush ballads.

So I invite one and all to join me at the Marble Bar one night.

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PlanB

9 yrs ago

Same here where I am Foxy been great this week, was rather warm last week

Daisy

9 yrs ago

Sounds like I am the opposite to all of you who complain about the heat. I love warm weather and humidity. Would happily live in Darwin if my hubby would agree (but he won't). I hate the cold and would never live in Victoria or Tasmania. Give me warm days and balmy evenings forever. We live in a semi-tropical climate which becomes more tropical each year and we have no air conditioning. Don't want it and don't need it. The only time I have ever felt that I wouldn't survive without airconditioning was in Sydney one Boxing Day (maybe 2006, not sure) and the temperature went to 45 degrees. No humidity but the heat was so intense it shrivelled and burnt gardens. I was born in Sydney and didn't leave until I was 30 and I had never experienced heat like that ever before. There is no doubt that our climate is warming.

Sandi (SA)

9 yrs ago

Like you Robi, I love the heat too. You can always strip down for the heat but there is only so many clothes you can put on to be warm

We have air conditioning but never use it unless we have 5/6 days of intense heat. The problem is we live in a brick house and once they warm up they stay warm for days as our night time temps remain high too as we don't get any cooling breezes to help cool the house down.

Daisy

9 yrs ago

You live in SA don't you Sandi? so I imagine you have intense dry (non humid) heat and cold. Beautiful friendly people in your State :). The good thing about living in semi/or fully tropical climes is that the temperature never goes as high, but one has to like humidity. Our house is wood and was designed to capture cross breezes. The architecture really does work. I imagine brick would hold the heat but possibly warmer in your cold winters?

I thought the temp was pretty good for a brief half hour at 5am only 24 then the sun started to bite, a few days of over 35+ and I don't like the heat! Stop boasting Robi, hot winds blowing in from off the central deserts are no fun, I feel like a plum being turned into a prune!

Oscar, Marble Bar is certainly not somewhere I'd visit in the summer months, but I saw a doco the other day about the place and the folks seemed happy. I believe you have to have a certain affinity to the place to live there. Wouldn't mind spending a couple of days there and listening to some of their stories.

Having said all that, I have to say, I hate the heat and and right now feel worse than a prune Viv. Can't live my life indoors though hugging the A/C. Off to Melbourne in a couple of days and hoping for some rain!

Back aways I spent a bit of time drilling a little south of Marble Bar but further inland on the edge of the Little Sandy Desert. FIL was a drilling contractor so I sort of got roped into the business.

Interesting country, a bit dry and warm. Long days and hard work.

A few good stories from that time.

When the rig shuts down at end of day the ensuing silence is something else. Very still and quiet.

Good times.

The first beer at end of day tastes pretty damn good too !

Daisy

9 yrs ago

Viv, I don't think I would handle dry heat well. I love humid heat, the sauna effect :). While you might turn pruney, I turn into a mini fountain and get rid of all my toxins. But when it's cold you will not come across a bigger whiner than me.

Mini fountain Robi? I swear even my eyeballs are sweating! Most of the time the heat does not bother me lots of overhead fans and no A/C but the Fremantle Dr, has gone on holidays so not a breath of a sea breeze. Whoever heard of a breeze needing a holiday - all a capitalist plot to make us use air conditioning and electricity, may have to cave in and buy one and increase my carbon footprint - sigh.

Daisy

9 yrs ago

Viv, you win! I can't in all honesty say that my eyeballs have ever sweated. You are fountaining more than me. Or maybe you are more exquisitely tuned into your eyeballs at present? it being so soon after your op and all. We must be stoic and not let those capitalists win. Use mindfulness to embrace the sweat, enjoy the sweat, absolutely delight in the sweat. We will, we will, not surrender.......

Robi, Viv, you've made me laugh! I'm with you on this one Viv, my eyeballs are sweating too!

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