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Katie Woolf spoke with Rod & Rifle TackleWorld Katherine Trent De With and Karen from Katherine on the Katherine River · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 2: Join the conversation with Katie Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: You are our eyes and ears in the territory mixed
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  Speaker 1: one oh four point nine.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you've been keeping an eye already ear on
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  Speaker 3: the news, you would know that in Catherine at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: they've certainly been contending with quite a bit of wet
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  Speaker 3: weather to the point where it was looking like the
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  Speaker 3: river was potentially or the bridge was going to go over.
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  Speaker 3: It hasn't happened for quite some time. Joining us on
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  Speaker 3: the line, Well, a couple of our our mates in Catherine.
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  Speaker 3: I've got Trent from Rod and Rifle Tackle World in Catherine.
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  Speaker 3: How are you Trent?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Katy? How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good mate, long time no speak. How are things
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  Speaker 3: going with this wet weather?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's absolutely awesome. It reminds me of the days
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  Speaker 1: growing up here going to school. This is what it
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  Speaker 1: used to be. The bridge used to get sixteen for
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  Speaker 1: a week or two every single year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it stopped for a while there for
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  Speaker 3: quite a few years, hasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a long time, Like I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven eight was the last time it
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  Speaker 1: was around the high But even previous to that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't quite do what it used to do, But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, hopefully this is a sign of the times ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Am I going to see this river sit at sixteen
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  Speaker 1: meters for a couple of week every wet season?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? How close?
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  Speaker 2: So?
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  Speaker 3: I mean were you all sort of keeping an eye
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  Speaker 3: on it over the weekend wondering if it was going
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  Speaker 3: to go.
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  Speaker 1: Over n Not at all. It's a standard thing, like
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  Speaker 1: maybe like for people who are a bit new to
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  Speaker 1: the town, it's a pretty daunting thing because if you've
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  Speaker 1: ever seen the cast And River with no water in it,
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  Speaker 1: when it's at zero and then it's at sixteen, it's
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  Speaker 1: quite frightening how much water there is. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: being here for so long, it's just the standard thing.
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  Speaker 1: The river gets the sixteen. If it was a low
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  Speaker 1: sitting over top of the gorge and the gorge was
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  Speaker 1: still rising, then it becomes a concern as soon as
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  Speaker 1: the gorge starts to fall, not long after the bridge falls.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, no concern about flooding.
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  Speaker 3: No. Is there a bit of a buzz around town now?
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  Speaker 3: People pretty happy that there's been so much rain and
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  Speaker 3: you've got a proper wet season.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I've never seen so many people in the railway
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  Speaker 1: bridge here in town before. It's unreal. I had the
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  Speaker 1: line up to get a park the other day to
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  Speaker 1: go for a walk out there.
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  Speaker 3: That's when you know it's exciting and people are pumped.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I tell you, if somebody out a little coffee
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  Speaker 1: stall on that bridge at the moment, they'd be making
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  Speaker 1: a killing because there's people everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I reckon there would be. Oh mate, are they
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  Speaker 3: We're going to catch up with the bureau after eleven,
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  Speaker 3: But are you guys anticipating a bit more wet weather?
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  Speaker 1: They are talking like, yeah, we're going to see some
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  Speaker 1: rain through till Wednesday. It's still raining here now, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not pouring rain. It's just little squalls coming through
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  Speaker 1: and it's enough to hold the river up, which is
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  Speaker 1: exactly what we want. When it's up at this height,
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  Speaker 1: we get a good recharge of the water tables and
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  Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff that it's amazing. It's good
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  Speaker 1: for fishing, good for the tourism industry. It's just an
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  Speaker 1: all round positive that we haven't had down here for
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  Speaker 1: five or six years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is wonderful to hear Trent. How's everything else?
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  Speaker 3: Going in Catherine.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, oh so good. Yeah, no, we poking long down here.
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  Speaker 1: It's green, it's wet, it's damp. It's exactly what we
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  Speaker 1: expect out of a.
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  Speaker 3: Good on your mate. Always good to catch up. We'll
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  Speaker 3: talk to you again in the near future. Good on
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  Speaker 3: your Trent. Thank you. That was Trent there from Rod
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  Speaker 3: and Rifle Tackle World and joining us as well on
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  Speaker 3: the line right now from from Catherine, we have got Karen.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Karen, Good morning Katie. How's everyone feeling in
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  Speaker 3: Catherine pumped about the wet weather.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's wetness, damp, has Trent said. And it's
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  Speaker 2: lovely to see everything so green. But obviously we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a pretty good Bush five season so this.
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  Speaker 3: Year to Yeah, and that's a that's a good part
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  Speaker 3: about it, isn't it. It just sort of it means that
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  Speaker 3: you know that you obviously you have have everything's nice
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  Speaker 3: and green and cools things down a little.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, although only one Gorge road which is under minor floodler.
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  Speaker 2: So I've been water watching for about four days now
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  Speaker 2: and the water, the water got right up to the
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  Speaker 2: edge of the road like from our brand and we
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  Speaker 2: could have struck a fishing line across the across the
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  Speaker 2: road and gone fishing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Does that make you a bit anxious?
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  Speaker 2: Heyce, We've been the house twelve years and this is
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  Speaker 2: the height we've been the water. But it's given us
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  Speaker 2: an idea of how Hype needs to get at the
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  Speaker 2: gorge and how Hyph needs to get in town before
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  Speaker 2: we need to worry because we are in a major
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  Speaker 2: flood area. So I now know, fifteen and a half
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  Speaker 2: in town still rising, a gorgeous time to stop happening.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. And you know is that what
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  Speaker 3: you do? You would just start packing your gear up?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. Top half of our block is flood three,
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  Speaker 2: the bottom half is major flood.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Goodness me, Karen. I used to work for the
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  Speaker 3: Northern Territory Police in their media unit, and many years
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  Speaker 3: ago they sent me to Catherine when the river had
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  Speaker 3: flooded and I actually had to catch a boat with
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  Speaker 3: the water police across the Catherine Bridge basically because it
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  Speaker 3: was so inundated. So it certainly happened before, hasn't that.
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  Speaker 2: I was here in ninety eight, Yeah, aware of what
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  Speaker 2: the effects are. So I suppose that a treads people
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  Speaker 2: who are new to town, they might get nervous that
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  Speaker 2: people who are here in ninety eight know what can
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  Speaker 2: really happen and how devastating. Yeah, it can be, and
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  Speaker 2: it was hugely devastating at ninety eight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's type Karen that it's just a nice wet season,
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  Speaker 3: plenty of rain, but no flooding.
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  Speaker 2: That'd be yeah, obviously that would be nice. Yeah, wondering
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  Speaker 2: where I live on probably the lowest probably the lowest
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  Speaker 2: point in town.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, let us know how things are tracking, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll keep in contact with you. We always love having
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  Speaker 3: a chat with you. Karen. Thank you for having a
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  Speaker 3: chat with me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got that video I sent you this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll make sure we if we can, we'll try
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  Speaker 3: and pop that up online so people are able to
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  Speaker 3: see just how much water is around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's funny though you think of all the places
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  Speaker 2: around Australia and drought the amount of water here. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know it's a waste of water.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bit it's sad when you think of it
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  Speaker 3: like that, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Karen, lovely to talk to you this morning. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you for having a chat with me.
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  Speaker 2: Thank thank you,