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 BĂ©rhault 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 …