Banff Mountain Film Festival On Tour ’06

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 …

Yarra River Paddle

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 …