The Lodge
My favourite cafe in Bellingen is slightly off the main strip on the top end of town, overlooking the rich green pastures and river across to the Dorrigo Ranges. A historical landmark ‘ The Lodge 241’ was a 3 storey Masonic Temple built in1912, now a privately owned award winning restaurant and cafe and serving…
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 MoreRaw!
I didn’t think this would ever be my thing…..but wow! The Raw Food Retreat….On the first day we cooked….oops – no cooking!! Ummmm….we put together a fantastic dinner of pizza – on a base of dehydrated something another – fabulous! Also crackers ad dips with heaps of flavour!. On the second day we stated the…
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 MoreStreet Music
Bellingen is full of musicians…….every Sunday ‘John’ and friends play Irish flute, mandolin and guitar on the street at Guru Foods – a fabulous eclectic,organic vegetarian restaurant in town.
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 MoreYes I Do Work Too…
But not in a regular office……… Serious business meeting in our uptown ‘boardroom’ – The Gelato Bar And here is my private office – (location secret) And here is what we have been working on……..(Yes I do work too!!)
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