DFB's Garage

I often slag off where I live, known nationally as the drug capital of Australia...................but like anything, there is a flip side. A 10-minute drive from town and you are passing through the countries peak fruit growing area, and at this time of the year that means a landscape of bare, skeletalized fruit trees. An extra 10 minutes' drive and you are presented with fields of cropping land. Another 20 minutes and you have rolling hills and paddocks full of sheep and cattle.

Considering the atrocious weather today, there was nothing else to do but get in a car and go for a drive. Too wet for the garage queens, so the Ranger it was. The wonderful Table Manners Podcast playing on the radio.







There is a hill not long after the above photos that tests even the most stout of engines. Needless to say, the Ranger at full throttle in 2nd gear struggled significantly. :lol













The photos don't do the landscape justice, the greenery is simply beautiful.

Now compare that to photos taken in the same location nearly 8 months ago at the start of summer...................









The roads couldn't have been wetter today, with plenty of pooled puddles caught in the farmland roads that I traveled along. The precipitation varied from a gentle shower to driving, heavy rain. The Ranger took it in its stripe, only getting a little flighty when ponding through large puddles. She also moves around on those baggy tyres, but then they really helped on the patchy surface and potholes.