After 10 weeks in lockdown, including a week of school holidays, we had serious cabin fever and had to get outdoors. And so we strapped our mountain bikes to the car, and headed for the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. Emma was still a little bit too small for the bike we got her for Christmas, …
My family and I amazingly managed to escape the latest Sydney lockdown by flying into Brisbane, two weeks prior to a planned Keppel Island vacation. That said, it wasn’t all plain sailing, and we were forced into 14 days of lockdown by the Queensland premier. Thankfully we were still allowed out to exercise, which happened …
For about 15 minutes on Wednesday I got to experience the rare synchronisation of the moon being at it’s closest point to the earth, while simultaneously experiencing a full lunar eclipse. It was the first blood, supermoon since 1982, and I made sure I was outside to capture it. I’m not an experienced astrophotographer, but …
I don’t usually make off topic posts, but moving into our first Australian home seemed like a big enough life event to share a few photos.
Just over a month after starting my Advanced Open Water course I climbed into my car to head to Terrigal to finally complete it. Previously, poor weather had resulted in the second day of the course being cancelled, and I was itching to get back into the water to complete the training. I’d collected my …
December Brisbane trip…cancelled due to Covid…April Brisbane trip…cancelled due to Covid… And so, on a beautiful April morning, I launched my kayak from the Tunks Park boat ramp, fly rod in hand. The plan for the day was to go after some pelagic species on fly, specifically the Sydney harbour kingfish. I wasn’t sure what …
Despite being new to diving, I was itching to get back into the water to do my Advanced Open Water certification. Why? Well, predominantly to open up a wide variety of exciting new dive sites, especially for our Great Keppel Island holiday in July (fingers crossed it doesn’t get cancelled due to Covid). I spent …
With the state borders finally open, Kerry quickly booked a flight and headed to Sydney for a well overdue family weekend. Besides eating and drinking far too much, and catching up with family at the beach, we also planned a kayaking trip on Sydney Harbour. We opted to explore some of Sydney’s hidden, harbour beaches, …