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Hi folks, first and foremost, I apologize if there's a section for introductions, but I didn't find it, so I decided to post my introduction here. To make it short enough for someone to read, I'd start by saying that I am an IT student and come from lowlands of Slovakia, Central Europe. As most of you probably know, it's not a very good climate for palms, subtropicals and tropicals generally. That's never stopped me though. I love nature, always have, and studying palms led me to this web site and its wonderful community. Current situation in the good old Europe and my region is however difficult enough to make me think about relocating somewhere with more stable laws, society and climate, which would probably be Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, where I would like to live and work at the university. Therefore my palm knowledge might be quite useful one day not so far in the future. If there is someone from Brisbane area (or Australia in general) willing to PM me and maybe discuss the life in Brisbane (Australia), fauna, flora...I would appreciate his/her assistance a lot. In the meantime, I probably won't be contributing to discussions (there's certain lack of practical knowledge that I could share with you), but I'm surely looking forward to reading about your experience. Cheers and have a nice weather! Jack

Welcome to Palmtalk Jack, Ed

Or from Semi-Polar Wisconsin!! Welcome to the forum. If you move to Brisbane, good luck, and ...LUCKY!! I WISH I COULD MOVE TO A WARMER CLIMATE ...

Jack! Welcome to the mob, and you will be at home. Australia, from what I hear, is a hard place to immigrate to, but, well worth it. (I've thought about it myself a time or two.) So, what plants do you now have? As you'll see or have seen, being in Europe doesn't stop a lot of people here, including Verena (Germany) and all the people from Holland, France, etc.

Well, I did catch this one. A peacock bass, tucurane açu, the best sport fish in Amazonia. Not that it has anything to do with the future weather in Darwin though. My bet is that it will be colder not warmer in 2030, but that is just my bet. There is no way anyone knows what the climate will be like anyway. But you can still go fishing. dk

Yikes..........it would be exciting to have got wet catching that one. Teresa

This thread only just now attracted my attention. It should not have been allowed to remain here, since the very first post by Rafael mentions an international plant shipment without a phytosanitary certificate. The IPS, needless to say, does not condone illegal plant shipments and any mention of this type of activity will result in the thread being deleted. I'm leaving this thread here for the simple reason that I want this to be known. Future threads WILL be deleted.

that is a beautiful dolphfin fish! Where was that caught? .........nice size and must have been fun to catch.