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Just when we thought it was all over! Finally we found something good about Grand Final weekend: 1/2 price ski resort entry and 1/2 price lift tix*! Awesome. Mark my diary for next year. Plus, being end of season, accommodation on the mountain was cheap as cheap and the bars and restaurants all need to [...]

For 11 years Paddy Pallin has been bringing the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to Australia. This year there are 23 nights in 10 locations. This week (June 10th – 13th) there are four dates in Melbourne, which means it isn’t quite as crowded as previous years. If you haven’t been before, then go [...]

I watched these movies last night. Awesome as always – the movie highlight of the year! //

But water is fun to play in and on. And the fact that the bay is likely to be polluted and full of diseased, toxin-laden fish did not stop the massive 2008 Melbourne International Boat and Lifestyle Show at docklands this weekend. We rode our bikes through the city on Sunday and went to gawk [...]

Last night we went to the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. It was awesome. This is a trailer with bits of the movies we watched :) – There is a boring advertising/sponsors bit in the middle of this but I love the sequences at the end so much …. //

Last night I went to the Banff Mountain film festival (on tour). The centrepiece was the winning film, ‘Sur le fils des 4000‘, a film documenting the attempt by Patrick Bérhault and Philippe Magnin to climb all 82 summits above 4000 metres in the Alps. But as well as mountaineering there were also movies about [...]

We went to see Deep Sea 3D at the IMAX theatre at Melbourne Museum

Sunday, I started my painting but by lunch was restless and so took Ross’s kayak to the river. I really wanted to see the bat colony, but I didn’t know how far away they were. I guess I should have checked the map but I just pointed upstream and off I went. Quite soon I [...]