That’s Freedom

08/02/2025

One of our favourite places in our travels ❤️
We were joined by our great friends to enjoy the wonderful beaches and scenery of the mid north coast of NSW

26/01/2025

Oi oi oi - 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

26/01/2025

Happy Australia 🇦🇺 day
Gotta love Australia 🇦🇺
Gotta love your family ❤️

26/01/2025

Day one of my new paddle board and burst at the seam whilst sitting in the sun ☀️
Not impressed I had loads more “fall offs” in me

25/01/2025

Damn straight 🇦🇺🐄🐑🌾

Today, we celebrate the heart of Australia – our farmers.

On this Australia Day, we want to shine a light on the incredible men and women who work tirelessly to put food on our tables, clothes on our backs, and keep our rural communities thriving.

Their resilience, dedication, and love for the land make them the backbone of our nation.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the people who make Australia the place we’re so proud to call home.

25/01/2025

Did someone say triple j hottest 100 ❤️🎯🤛🇦🇺

24/01/2025

☕️🌅☀️

23/01/2025

Let the packing begin for Australia 🇦🇺 day weekend trip. We love our sunburnt country and land of sweeping plains and let’s hope there’s not flooding rains.

29/12/2024

Life’s journey wouldn’t be the same
Without you in the frame
Even though you’re quite the shy type
You’re certainly worth all the hype

Always welcoming the idea of travel
Be it on sand , bitumen or gravel
The most amazing partner in life
The ultimate rhyme would be to call you my wife
But don’t need that as you are so dependable
Your selflessness is commendable

Happy birthday old girl
I’m sure ‘25 will be a burl ❤️🤗🥳

24/12/2024

11/12/2024

Some useful information we found shared by a friend. Worth a read🤓

That bite of summer has well and truly come early this year and with that heat, comes snakes.
This article was written by Rob Timmings
Rob runs a medical/nursing education business Teaching nurses, doctors and paramedics. It’s well worth the read


3000 bites are reported annually.
300-500 hospitalisations
2-3 deaths annually.

Average time to death is 12 hours. The urban myth that you are bitten in the yard and die before you can walk from your chook pen back to the house is a load of rubbish.

While not new, the management of snake bite (like a flood/fire evacuation plan or CPR) should be refreshed each season.

Let’s start with a
Basic overview.

There are five genus of snakes that will harm us (seriously)
Browns, Blacks, Adders, Tigers and Taipans.

All snake venom is made up of huge proteins (like egg white). When bitten, a snake injects some venom into the meat of your limb (NOT into your blood).

This venom can not be absorbed into the blood stream from the bite site.

It travels in a fluid transport system in your body called the lymphatic system (not the blood stream).

Now this fluid (lymph) is moved differently to blood.
Your heart pumps blood around, so even when you are lying dead still, your blood still circulates around the body. Lymph fluid is different. It moves around with physical muscle movement like bending your arm, bending knees, wriggling fingers and toes, walking/exercise etc.

Now here is the thing. Lymph fluid becomes blood after these lymph vessels converge to form one of two large vessels (lymphatic trunks)which are connected to veins at the base of the neck.

Back to the snake bite site.
When bitten, the venom has been injected into this lymph fluid (which makes up the bulk of the water in your tissues).

The only way that the venom can get into your blood stream is to be moved from the bite site in the lymphatic vessels. The only way to do this is to physically move the limbs that were bitten.

Stay still!!! Venom can’t move if the victim doesn’t move.
Stay still!!

Remember people are not bitten into their blood stream.

In the 1980s a technique called Pressure immobilisation bandaging was developed to further re**rd venom movement. It completely stops venom /lymph transport toward the blood stream.

A firm roll bandage is applied directly over the bite site (don’t wash the area).

Technique:
Three steps: keep them still
Step 1
Apply a bandage over the bite site, to an area about 10cm above and below the bite.
Step 2:
Then using another elastic roller bandage, apply a firm wrap from Fingers/toes all the way to the armpit/groin.

The bandage needs to be firm, but not so tight that it causes fingers or toes to turn purple or white. About the tension of a sprain bandage.

Step 3:
Splint the limb so the patient can’t walk or bend the limb.

Do nots:
Do not cut, incise or suck the venom.
Do not EVER use a tourniquet
Don’t remove the shirt or pants - just bandage over the top of clothing.
Remember movement (like wriggling out of a shirt or pants) causes venom movement.

DO NOT try to catch, kill or identify the snake!!! This is important.

In hospital we NO LONGER NEED to know the type of snake; it doesn’t change treatment.

5 years ago we would do a test on the bite, blood or urine to identify the snake so the correct anti venom can be used.
BUT NOW...
we don’t do this. Our new Antivenom neutralises the venoms of all the 5 listed snake genus, so it doesn’t matter what snake bit the patient.

Read that again- one injection for all snakes!
Polyvalent is our one shot wonder, stocked in all hospitals, so most hospitals no longer stock specific Antivenins.

Australian snakes tend to have 3 main effects in differing degrees.

Bleeding - internally and bruising.
Muscles paralysed causing difficulty talking, moving & breathing.
Pain
In some snakes severe muscle pain in the limb, and days later the bite site can break down forming a nasty wound.

Allergy to snakes is rarer than winning lotto twice.

Final tips: not all bitten people are envenomated and only those starting to show symptoms above are given antivenom.

Did I mention to stay still.
~Rob Timmings
Kingston/Robe Health Advisory

11/12/2024

Enjoyed our recent stay at Sharp Park, River Bend Country Bush Camping. Very affordable with powered and non powered sites.

🎯 Fire 🔥 pits supplied
🎯 Flushing toilets (clean)
🎯 lush grassy areas
🎯 sell ice 🧊
🎯 Eftpos available
🎯 swimming 🏊‍♂️ holes on running creek
🎯 Platypus
🎯 6 minutes from Canungra township
🎯 mobile phone reception
🎯 dog 🐕 friendly (on leash)
🎯 suitable for all camping options

Recommend by us

05/12/2024

25/10/2024

Saturday mornings done right
❤️🐕🚶‍♂️🤗

20/10/2024

Someone’s gotta do it….
Rocky River road absolutely stunning 🔥👍🐂🏕️

16/10/2024

So sad that this had to be cancelled but the sun will come up tomorrow.

Our merchandise to help struggling farmers still available at www.thatsfreedom.com.au 🐂🤗❤️🇦🇺