Australia is so dry

Australia Immigration and Water Shortage by Bearman CartoonsToday will be the last in my series of cartoons about Australia.  That is unless I think of something else inspiring before Wednesday.  If you look up the driest countries in the world, Australia doesn’t even pop up anywhere in the top.  But when you talk continents, Australia is the driest inhabited continent.  The prize for overall driest continent would be Antarctica but only a few people who want to do tortuous research live there.

This joke is actually a homage to our tour guide in the Daintree Rainforest who came up with this joke saying we love people to immigrate but please bring your own water.

 

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84 responses to “Australia is so dry”

  1. Binky Avatar

    Australia is currently caught in a real heatwave with temperatures of 40C and over (100F+). I’m sure they would appreciate people bringing their own water supply.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Maybe they can do an Alaskan pipeline type thing for water instead of oil

      1. frigginloon Avatar

        We already have that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfields_Water_Supply_Scheme.

        The goldfields pipeline by C.Y.O’connor was built in 1896 and still operates today!!!! It was the first to use interlocking pipes designed by Mephan Ferguson.

        1. frigginloon Avatar

          OMG, I sound like a nerd 😯

          1. Bearman Avatar

            OMG YOU ARE A NERD

          2. Red Dwyer Avatar

            That should read, “Well informed resident.”

          3. Bearman Avatar

            No red…NERD is more fitting.

        2. Binky Avatar

          Quite a project! Though not quite from Alaska.

  2. Colleen Avatar

    When I was there it was be under 30 and be a hairdresser, or if you are over 30 you have to have a net worth of $1,000,000 or more. (I.E. bring your own MONEY!)

    1. Bearman Avatar

      So you can afford to bring your own money.

      I met a guy who was there as a waiter in Sydney. They told him if he moved to some small town to be a waiter, and stayed for 3 years, he could get citizenship.

      1. frigginloon Avatar

        Bahahahahhahaaha “small town” 😯 lucky if he would last a week. Our small towns are in the middle of nowhere’s nowhere.

        1. susi spice Avatar
          susi spice

          hhahahaa yeh maybe at a road house where your nearest neighbour is 250km away and its an hours drive down the gravel road to their front gate, which is another 45min 100km/hr drive to their front door haha.

          1. frigginloon Avatar

            Thanks, but my pizza is cold!!!!

          2. Bearman Avatar

            That sounds more like Costa Rica. At least most of the roads in Australia are in decent shape.

          3. Bearman Avatar

            Well except for anything near the Daintree.

        2. Bearman Avatar

          But this small town was Port Douglas. Not a bad place to end up.

  3. Tim Green Avatar

    I’ll just live off the beer!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      But only if you ship it in and not use their water to make it.

  4. Bo Lumpkim Avatar

    That might account for all of their dry humor.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Loon…did you heard this?

      1. frigginloon Avatar

        It’s true, what can I say

        1. Binky Avatar

          So what accounts for British humor, then? It’s usually soggy there.

          1. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

            So is most of their humor.

          2. Bearman Avatar

            What is wet humor?

          3. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

            I didn’t say wet. I said soggy. Kinda spongy with no real substance.

          4. Red Dwyer Avatar

            And so saturated you cannot even inject irony.

  5. lisleman Avatar

    It’s only dry in the middle. The edges are all wet.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Like a day old donut in a baggie.

      1. Bo Lumpkim Avatar

        It’s what’s for breakfast.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I thought Beef was what’s for dinner, breakfast and lunch?

          1. Red Dwyer Avatar

            No, no. That’s bacon.

          2. Bearman Avatar

            I don’t eat that stuff.

          3. Red Dwyer Avatar

            Beef or bacon or yes?

            I only like beef raw, so I do not eat it often. Bacon goes with everything.

        2. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

          I have a very versatile appetite. As a matter of fact I just tried a Kool-Aid pickle and I think they would do great on the open market.

  6. Michael Corley Avatar

    What if I bring some Fresca?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Does anyone drink Fresca anymore?

      1. susi spice Avatar
        susi spice

        is that the grapefruity type one?? i liked it! haha

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Kind of a Sprite knock off.

          1. Red Dwyer Avatar

            Yuck. Not Fresca. TAB.

          2. Bearman Avatar

            haha Does anyone drink TAB anymore?

          3. Red Dwyer Avatar

            I buy it by the twelve pack. Only way it is sold now. There are no distributors in SC, so I have a NC distributor who supplies a store here. And when Momma comes to visit she brings me a dozen or so 12-packs.

  7. duncanr Avatar

    Ah, water!

    The vagaries of the English language, eh?

    In Scotland, when we refer to a town or area of the country being ‘dry’ – we mean there are no pubs or shops where one can buy alcohol 😆

    1. Jande Avatar

      That’s what I thought he meant at first, too. lol Then I realised he meant it in the geological sense.

      1. Bearman Avatar

        No…water water.

        There are what we call “Dry Counties” in the states. Some places in the south that don’t allow the sale of alcohol. No wonder moonshine is still prevalent there.

  8. frigginloon Avatar

    The irony is they are trying to increase the population of a country that has no sustainability.

    1. Bo Lumpkim Avatar

      Just like the good old U.S.A.

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Not many do anymore.

  9. Deb Avatar

    I like a dry climate, but I sure do get thirsty in them.

    1. Bo Lumpkim Avatar

      The humidity stays so high here all you have to do is take a deep breath and you are not thirsty any more.

      1. Deb Avatar

        Sounds like here, but I have a feeling much more so where you are, Bo.

      2. Tony McGurk Avatar

        That’s what it was like when we lived in Brisbane

        1. Bearman Avatar

          It’s humid here but that only makes me MORE thirsty.

  10. J-Dotson Avatar

    Bearman did you happen to get to see any of the dust clouds that were shown coming in over the beaches while you were there?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      No. I stayed away from the beaches just so I didn’t get jelly fish attacked.

  11. spilledinkguy Avatar

    Sounds like that kangaroo is wishing he had been born a camel…
    🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Maybe he hides it in that big belly of his.

  12. Christy Birmingham Avatar

    I have heard Australia is also home to huge insects ewwwww lol

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Big ones. It also has something like 6 of the top 10 most poisonous animals/insects/reptiles.

  13. Comedy Plus Avatar

    That’s a lot of water to tote over. I’m not thinking I’d like paying that freight either. I’ll try to drink the beer. How about that.

    Have a terrific day. 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      How about wine?

  14. Jande Avatar

    I’ve been enjoying your cartoon travelog, Bearman. (yes I’ve been reading, just not having time to comment much)

    Did you pick up any of the Aussie accent while you were there?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      The only thing I picked up that I’ll have to ask Susi and Loon about is constantly saying

      “Yeah Yeah Yeah” really fast as if to say, I understand what you mean now shut up.

  15. Gruhn Avatar
    Gruhn

    It’s been very informative. Looks like its time for you to take a trip to another country for some more material!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I know. I should get paid to draw travel logs. Any hotel or tour company can contact me. I’d be happy to give you a send up

  16. JerryBenedict Avatar

    I suppose I could bring a snow lobe, but the water probably wouldn’t last too long!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Snow Lobe? Do you attach it to your ear? hahah

      1. JerryBenedict Avatar

        D’oh! the “g” on my computer is a little wonky sometimes! 😀

        1. Bearman Avatar
  17. Tony McGurk Avatar

    Yes we would appreciate immigrants brinngin some water. It’s been very dry & we’ve had some really bad bushfires even here in Tasmania. My lawns are brown & dead at the moment. I planted a tree in the front yard on the weekend & I had such a battle digging a hole. The ground was so hard.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      You need to let the dog pee in the same spot. It will soften it up.

      1. Tony McGurk Avatar

        Now why don’t I come up with these brilliant ideas.
        Dixie!!! Hey Dixie!!!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I do what I can.

  18. Harold P Bear Avatar

    If Antactica is so dry why does my fur keep getting wet when I lay in the snow???

  19. Bearman Avatar

    It is actually a desert but it is so cold that the snow stays on top of it. Very little precipitation each year.

    1. Tony McGurk Avatar

      Amazing to think of it that way.

    2. Bruce Penguin Avatar

      So we Penguins are actually desert dwellers??? We need to develop some white arctic camels

      1. Bearman Avatar

        Ride the polar bear

  20. Mark Stokes Avatar

    Hence the dry wit!

  21. Rent textbooks Avatar

    That was a good way to get people some knowledge and making it fun. i would have never know they are the driest continent

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Some knowledge you can pass on to your college readers!

  22. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    Maybe a few crates of Castlemaine xxxx will suffice
    or if it is a naughty bunch of immigrants then just
    the xxx equivelent will have to do 🙂 😉

    Great work Bearman…

    1. Bearman Avatar

      IN australia it is XXXX Beer not XXX

  23. DrFaust Avatar

    I live in melbourne and we’ve just (a year or so ago) come out of the biggest drought in recent history. Our water got down to 30% storage.

    The government got in a flap and spent several billion on pipelines and salt water converters then the rain fell and we are back up to 80%.