Category Archives: Going walkabout

The school holidays are upon us and I normally take a day off here and there while Lisa is on leave.  It looks like we will have a proper wintery school holiday this year, and this mornings’ walk on the beach was cold and blustery.  Not that there was much of the beach to walkContinue reading “True colours”

It was close to ten years to the date that the three of us first stayed at the Mount Trio Bush Camp in the Stirling Ranges.  On that first visit, in the school holidays, the place felt deserted and in subsequent years word of mouth did its job and the place got busier and busier. Continue reading “Ten years on”

I’ve been told off once or twice before when I have included an image of something that some people have been less than comfortable with seeing without prior notice.  So this is an upfront warning that there is a bug or two in this one, including one of our eight legged friends.  Yesterday I handedContinue reading “Creepy crawlies”

Over this last couple of weeks I have inundated you with posts, however both Lisa and I will be back at work next week.  That means there will be less time for adventures and of course less posts coming through.  Being the last weekend of our holidays we headed back to Wellington National Park, withContinue reading “Fire and water”

Today Lisa was feeling much better but we didn’t head up to the forests, instead the poodles got a well-deserved beach walk.  During term time they get walked practically every day, but this holiday their walks have been less frequent.  So they were hankering to get down for a run.  Walking down towards the beachContinue reading “Heading to shore”

The theory was for Lisa and I to head up to Wellington National Park for a wander, overnight camp and then hit a second walk tomorrow.  But plans change.  It was not that we were put off by the fact that it had bucketed down the night before, the forecast from this morning onwards lookedContinue reading “Stuffed jalapenos”

All fired up after a couple of great walks and good number of orchids under my belt, I decided to test what the home turf had on offer.  So jumping over the back wall of our garden I trudged through the small reserve to see what I could find.  There were lots of Pink FairyContinue reading “Turf-n-surf”

Having lived in this area for close to fifteen years you would have thought we would have hunted out the local spots to go for a wander. However, there are still a few places left for us to explore, one being Wellington National Park. I have climbed here, way too many times, in fact itContinue reading “Counting steps”

While I realise this isn’t about climbing or snorkelling I didn’t feel there was any harm in diversifying the topics of my blog.  So after coming across my first orchid of the season down at Wilyabrup yesterday I thought Lisa and I should do something we haven’t done for a while and that was goContinue reading “Flower power”