General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Wasn't this thread originally about Mel Gibson,half yankee,half Aussie? Not one of my favourite personalities,though over here they claim him as one of their own but like a lot of others he says he loves Australia,lives in the US and only visits when promoting their latest film or recording. As for scenery,you're right cab Rivington is nice,it was one the first places my wife and I re- visited in '96,we have a similar landscape where we live only on a bigger scale.Sad to say a vast area was destroyed in the January bushfires of 2003 but it is slowly recovering.