The cactus, sage, and mesquite would rip it to shreds, if it could move
through the sand.


"DSK" wrote in message
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"Flying Tadpole" wrote in message
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Yes, except the oil is washed up into the Triassic/JUrassic sandstones by
the Great Artesian Basin hot water (!) Most gas stays in the Permian.
Disgusting water quality, one of my headaches. Holes crumble in the coal,
that's the engineers' problem...

Also, COoper Basin is very dispersed--small oil targets, widely spread.
I'm running my little leggies off doing the environmental for most of
thje smaller companies. And it's mostly in a Park. Not to mention
Ramsar treaty wetlands of international importance. At least I see
water and can go for a canoe if there's time (not...) No sailable water
though. Must visti Burke & Wills graves instead of driving past all the
time...


jlrogers wrote:
We have less challanging environmental problems. Our problem is that
most of the easy oil and gas is gone. There's far more left than has
been harvested over the last hundred years, but the required technology
to get it has just been developed. That, along with new 3-D sismographic
software, coupled with a hundred years of logging data, has reduced the
risk greatly.

I can't see water (desert area) unless I go at least 300 miles from home.

At the risk of starting something that might lure you both away from
*real* sailing, check out one of these-

http://www.windisfun.com/buggyplan.html

http://www.kolius-sailing.com/Dinghies/blokart.htm

DSK