Beauty
Hiking in a Mother City
A “mother city”, you ask? The English word “metropolitan” is derived from two Greek words, “meter” meaning “mother” and “polis” meaning “city”, a “metropolis”. It also indicates a city from which others have been colonized, a parent state of a…
Rainy Seaside Retreat
Between 2nd and 6th of October 2023, Rebecca and I had an opportunity to do what has become our yearly tradition: a holiday to a seaside town. This time we chose Lakes Entrance, and rather than drive the car we…
Breaking a 20+ Year Drought
Over the Victorian Labour Day long weekend, I did my 1st overnight hiking camp in more than 20 years. A week or so before that I purchased a 65 litre hiking backpack, and some new hiking boots. What follows describes…
Apollo Bay Holiday
Between 5th and 16th September Rebecca had her study break, and I had annual leave booked. In the weeks, even months, leading up to those dates we didn’t know where we would go for our twice yearly holiday, but Rebecca…
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A Very Outdoor Month
Late March 2022 was the time of a “wife and me” holiday – the first such holiday after the last of our progeny departed the nest. The destination was Mitta Mitta, a place I had stayed at twice before. Mitta…
Merimbula Marital Moments
As parents, Rebecca and I haven’t had more than a few days at a time away together from our children that were still young enough to be living at home with us. Now that Eliana is 16 years old, and…
A Broken Hill, Low Scrub & Bush, The Hunter Valley
13-10-2019: For the start of this holiday, I arrived at the railway station in the town we live in a bit before the time the XPT train to Sydney was due to arrive at 12:21pm. I waited. And waited. And…
An Island Holiday
Monday 7th October was the start of 3 weeks of annual leave for me. And the start of 1 week of annual leave for Rebecca. As I had 2 more weeks of holidays after this week, this week of holidays…
Birdlife in the Backyard
From the house we live in we can see a lake which has a good variety of birdlife.Here are a few photos of some of the more interesting birds we have seen so far. Above: A pair of ibis (ibi,…