Unfortunately not, April through to November I'd live there...

Unfortunately not, April through to November I'd live there anyway. You can keep December to March.

I'm up there a lot and have a lot of friends in town. Also had a mate who has a fair amount of knowledge on the previous contractor. Just the wrong gear for the job from the outset. What an expensive exercise that would have been.

Let's hope they are building nice stockpile of product to ship over wet season as I think mining will slow right down to a crawl.

I fear another bad wet season this year, but at least they know what it can do and try to mitigate it.