Montezuma Falls

Our Hash House Harrier group(s) went to Queenstown for the weekend. Walked to Montezuma Falls on Saturday and Sunday morning we visited Nelson Falls, half an hour South of Queenstown. Here is the <slide show>.

Mount Jerusalem Expedition 09

Katherine's photos are <here>, and it has pictures of me!!!

Walls of Jerusalem

K and I went for a weekend away to the Walls of Jerusalem. We hiked for 3 days, and covered some terrain we had not seen before including Mount Jerusalem itself. The 360 degree view from the top is below. You might need to click on it to see the larger version.

The days were great. More photos to follow shortly! Watch this space!

Kelcey Tier

Not doing this every day anymore... But this is our figure eight walk (done today) as recorded by RunKeeper on the iPhone:
We ran into a big fat bluetongue lizard on the track and some other little lizzards...

Start Time: 3/21/09 12:18 pm
Elapsed Time 1:05:20
Distance 4.43 km
Avg Pace 14:45 / km
Avg Speed 4.07 km/h
Total Rise 147 m
Calories Burned 271

Spirit of the Sea

People sailing into Devonport are now greeted by The Spirit of the Sea... One day it will have lights at night and water flowing over it. Nice to see some more art popping up here and there!

Seal in the Mersey

K. called me at work and asked if I would go for a paddle after work. She mounted the roofracks and kayaks on the Lancer and drove to the river where I met her. Had a nice paddle into the sea, found some nice waves and on our return into the river, past the new Spirit of the Sea feature, K spotted a big bull seal sitting on the rocks not far from us! It made a big fuss about us and ran off. Second time I have seen a seal in Devonport! Cool.

The Taste of the Harvest

As part of my Lions Club activities I was on the committee to organise 'The Taste'. Being just one of a team of people I don't think I did overly much, but the event went off without a Hitch... Well, Hitch showed up actually...

Thousands of people, a great sunny day and plenty of entertainment and food made the perfect recipe for a fantastic day out. 

And for the first time of my life I acted as MC for one of the stages - the Acoustic stage - and announced a few acts. I enjoyed that after I got the hang of it...

Maui Photos 2009

OK guys, here are 200+ photos... I tried to order them a bit, or at least not totally random!

Looking at these photos you can see that eating was a prime obsession this holiday, and yes, it certainly was our favourite part of the day!

Holiday in Hawaii

Click on these photos to see the whole thing!

As you may know we went to Maui to catch up with family. Now safely back home again and very busy as I have started a new job! Also got 1000s of photos from the trip to sort out. They will come here eventually.

On the way home we had to overnight in Honolulu, and I took these panoramas from the airport surrounds. We went for a geocache hunt, hence these interesting views. I drooled over the chrome displayed at the Harley Davidson showroom!

Hawaii

Photos from Maui, Hawaii, will be coming here soon.... well, early next month perhaps....

Bakers Beach

JR and Lauren, K and myself went for a paddle today from Port Sorell. We paddled around the head to Bakers Beach where we had a rest before battling the waves back around the Danger Marker. We stopped at Penguin Island where we had a re-group, and then we fought the outgoing tide back to the Jetty. It was a tough paddle back, the kind where when you stopped paddling you were sucked back! Great day again...

Vegemite

Oh, and every morning on the Eastcoast we feasted on Vegemite and toast!

And this is how it is spread, nice and patchy with butter on toast!

East Coast Photos

Scamander is about three hours drive East from Devonport. The beaches are white, the roads are dirt and the water is blue. The playgrounds north of Scamander are Bay of Fires and Mount William National Park. There are very few people there and the only phone reception, if you can get it, is with Telstra NextG... For the occasion I even got a Telstra SIM for my phone (so I can do my Geocaches with the N95 phone!).

Scamander Resort

We had 3 nights at the Scamander Resort on the East Coast of Tasmania. We took the kayaks with us. Needless to say we had a mass of photos...

All the photos are coming here soon!!

A Cameo appearance!

K. took this photo of me yesterday... For some reason I rarely put photos of myself on these blogs, so enjoy!

Port Sorell

Click on the pics for full view!

Rather warm today! I would guess it was in the thirties! So to complement my morning 'run' (a lot of walking) when it was still relatively cool, K and I decided to take the kayaks to Port Sorell.

It was like a tropical paradise today. The water was clear, the sky blue, and penguin island deserted except for the Shy Albatrosses, seagulls, pied oyster eaters and more birds...

No sea turtles here, but today we almost expected to see some!

Motorbike Adventures?

Maybe in a few years time... But I had an excellent ride on this Bandit 1200s, Oh What a Feeling! Susuki! This picture taken at Tammy's house in Ulverstone, not our own driveway :(. And yes, this bike is for sale in case there are any generous souls out there...

Mother Cummings Peak

It was really just a trip to Bunnings in Launceston when we decided to walk up Mother Cummings Peak. It was only 40 kilometers (each way) out of our way and we always wanted to do it.

It was a very pretty drive out there till you hit the logging coupes. But hey, if we don't log/rape our forests then some other country will do it - and chances are they do not have Bob Brown to control their damage to the environment. As long as I use paper and timber I guess I better not complain too loud - even though this is happening in my own backyard :(

The walk up is pretty steep, but not too hard. Plenty of rocks to clamber over. We only went to the cool rocky outcrop, located a geocache , ate left-over pizza from last night and raced down again. Bunnings here we come.

Plenty of flowers were out for us. Summer here is great. Today was actually a tad too warm.

The rest of the photos are <here>.

Tassie Trail Jan09

We had a great turnout for the inaugural (actually it is 'on demand') Tassie Trail from Sheffield to Latrobe. It was a splendid day and we had great company. Although it is 90% downhill, the few hills in the middle sure tested our stamina again.
Nurse Jan's pictures are <here>. My full-screen slideshow is <here>.


Jan's picture of my bike after going through a bit of mud...

Cradle Mountain without Dave

That's right, without Dave. Dave broke his leg at work, and the rest of us just went... It was a glorious day at Cradle. Despite the masses of tourists walking around Dove Lake we had a blast going up Hansons Peak and onto the Face Track, dowin into Lake Wilks.

Ian, Rebecca, Walter and Jan all took loads of photos so we could remind Dave of how perfect the day was. .. Truthfully, we all thought of him a lot and wished he was with us instead of in hospital! Here are the slides, or click <here> for the official slideshow.