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Werribee Gorge

nicola — Sun, 20 May 2012 01:42:51 +0000

A Saturday afternoon walk around through the steep-sided gorge in Werribee Gorge State Park with Sara. We intended to meander around the circuit (about 10km), but we added a bit extra by missing the circuit turn-off and hitting the river a few km further upstream than intended. We then had to bush-bash down-stream, crossing the river at several times where we hit the sheer sides of the gorge went straight down into a pool.

Final Harvest

nicola — Sat, 12 May 2012 01:33:14 +0000

The bees are now prepared for winter with enough stores to get them through until spring. The final honey harvest of the season yielded 18kg, bring the total for the year to over 85kg!

Heron in the City

nicola — Sat, 05 May 2012 01:31:22 +0000

A white-faced heron landed in our garden. Very pretty until it ate our Shubunkins.

Hobart

nicola — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:53:02 +0000

A short weekend in Tasmasnia visiting J&A.

Wombat 100

nicola — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:30:04 +0000

Ross rode the Wombat100 MTB race held in The Wombat State Forest his weekend. The race started and finished at Cammeray Waters, which wasn’t too bad a place for the non-riders to hang out :)

Sleeping Sharks

nicola — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:41:38 +0000

A weekend of diving in Port Phillip Bay.

Easter Climbing

nicola — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:13:23 +0000

If climbers kept diaries, Easter would be circled in red as The Event of the Year. This year, Me, You and everyone we know could be found from Friday through Monday camping either at Mt. Stapylton or Mt. Arapiles. Friday was hot, windy and rubbish so we drove up later in the day. Saturday and Sunday were near perfect – great days for a long multipitch up Mt. Difficult and sport-cragging at Tribute. Monday turned cold and windy but just fine for bouldering at Titanic before packing up and heading home.

Sunday Afternoons

nicola — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:44:16 +0000

The Yarra River had been flowing from it’s source in the Yarra ranges through Victoria and out into the ocean for a long time before Melbourne grew up around its final stretches. Now it winds it’s way through the Eastern and Inner suburbs under roads and railway lines, flowing out though the docks into Port Phillip Bay keeping company with cyclists and runners, rowers and paddlers.

Golden Orb

nicola — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:08:01 +0000

Every night a golden orb spider fills the entire width of our garden with a giant web. But in the morning there is nothing there …

Sunday Morning at Blairgowrie

nicola — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:54:34 +0000

I’m really enjoying my new dry suit – so nice to hop in for a dive and come out dry :) I thought it would be another dive with no nudibranchs, but found a cute little orange Discodoris on a pile near the end of the dive. These usually very difficult to spot as impossible to photograph to spot as they hide on oranges sponges and blend into a sea of saturation in the flash so it was nice to see one roaming around on a dark background.