Nature
Border Ranges
With Salsa safely in the back seat, we took off with the whole day to explore any territory we liked between Susanne’s at Lynches Creek, and Mt Tamborine which was our destination for the day. We headed straight in the the Border Ranges as we had just spent 3 days at the base of the…
Read MoreAnother trip, another road….
A quick trip up to Qld for the weekend mid March, stopped in Casino for a coffee break and found this curious situation with the magpies – and a simple and entertaining solution! I didn’t have enough time to constantly stop while on the way back to Bellingen, but the road from Rathdowney, to Woodenbong, Casino,…
Read MoreMy New Camera…..
Ok- It’s a Canon 5D Mark II with 3 ‘L’ Series professional lenses – 16 – 35, 24 – 70, and a 70 – 200, and a groovy bag to carry it all in! So here are some of my first ‘action’ shots with the 70-200. It is a huge heavy lens and quite a…
Read MoreOh My God I DID IT !!!
Yep, the Angourie weekend was the tipping point…………after months of research and hesitation, I finally bought a professional camera again – not telling how much I spent – but it would make any pro photographer REAL JEALOUS (and photographically minded friends!!!) hehehe… When I first held it in my hand I knew I had done…
Read MoreAngourie
Wow – I never appreciated it when we went on holidays as kids and stayed in a little fibro shack at Angourie, south of Yamba. I am amazed at how beautiful the beaches are, and it has grown up in 25 years too – the fibro shack is gone – I did look for it,…
Read MoreJohn’s Garden
Here is the amazing front garden where I am staying in Bellingen – Organic, Bio Dynamic, Edible…….I took all these pics in half an hour or so….think I should get back into photography!
Read MoreHammock Heaven
The unrelenting summer with it’s high humidity is wearing me down…..but a trip out to Never Never Creek in ‘The Promised Land’ was a fantastic experience – pity it rained not long after I managed to string the hammock up!!
Read MoreGypsy Trip Out West
Eelco and I decided to have a few days off and head up to Queensland along the New England Highway – definitely the long way home – and the most beautiful. Due to far too many ‘kodak moments” we were still in the Dorrigo mountains 50 – 100 km away from our starting point by…
Read MoreAustralia Day
The weather is unbelievably hot – unbearable for me…..so I convince Johna nd Eelco to drive up into the mountains to find a cooler spot to do some work. Dorrigo is 30km away and 762 mt above sea level – thought it would do the trick! We arrived just as the Australia Day festivities were…
Read MoreLoaded up and on my way….
Finally on my way to Bellingen in ernest- taking the scenic route again……after breakfast on the Gold Coast and a visit to the farm, I ended up in Ballendean for the night. I highly recommend the Ballendean Lodge Bed and Breakfast – fantastic food, hospitality, room and views….. Just south of Ballendean I had to turn…
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