My niece Bronwen took me around the Gold Coast and showed me a lot of the sites which was fantastic! It was also the first time I had met her daughter Ava! We wondered about, chatted, had lunch and the whole day was fun! Yeah! Hope to do it all again soon… A few pics [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Day 29 – Walk about in the Gold Coast
Posted in General Ramblings, Outdoors on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Day 27 & 28 – Arriving in the Gold Coast
Posted in General Ramblings, Outdoors on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well… I’ve arrived! Yeah!! Been a couple of days since I posted. Been a little busy! On Sunday (Day 27) we went out for a quick beer and wondered around Sanctuary Cove and then went over to see some bats. How many bats? Wow!!! These beasts are huge! Day 28 was meeting up with my niece [...]
Day 26 — Mount Dandenong
Posted in Flash, General Ramblings, Outdoors on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today all of us wondered up to Mount Dandenong just on the outskirts of Melbourne. A really nice place with spectacular views of Melbourne. We had lunch and admired the view. I also grabbed a few portrait frames of Ryan… Images below…
Day 24 – Evening out in Melbourne
Posted in General Ramblings, Outdoors on October 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Tonight Barry, Sharon and I went out in Melbourne and had a fantastic night! And we took our cameras for some night shooting… We stopped at a couple of bars along the way and had a bite to eat. Beer always helps the food go down! Here are a few frames…
Day 23 – Paul guarding the loading zone
Posted in Flash, General Ramblings on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I met up with my buddy Paul again and this time I took my camera… yeah!!! We spent the evening having a few beers and catching up on old times. Paul’s wife, Penny, joined later in evening and we continued talking about everything. Great to see them both again… On our way from place to [...]
Day 20 – Perth
Posted in General Ramblings on October 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »
One of the biggest surprises this trip has been my visit to Perth. This wasn’t part of my original itinerary… My cousin Roger kindly organised it for me to visit his home in Perth. It was fantastic! I got to meet the rest of the family and just had a great time all round. Yeah! [...]
Day 18 – Great Ocean Road
Posted in Flash, General Ramblings, Outdoors on October 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Barry took me on the Great Ocean Road and wow! It is so beautiful! Its quite a long journey so we had had to get up early and head off… We left around 7am and eventually got back just before 7pm. We did a total of about 460Km. Our first stop was Anglesea where we [...]
Day 17 – Having coffee at the Montsalvat cafe
Posted in General Ramblings on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Apart from the usual activities at a coffee venue, Barry and I decided to take natural light photos. Well apart from one shot… Photos below.
Day 16 – Meeting up with an old friend
Posted in General Ramblings on October 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Last night I had a fantastic time! I met up with an old friend of mine, Paul. It was so cool… The last time I had seen Paul was in 2002. I can’t believe that so much time has passed so quickly. We met in the Transport Bar in Federation Square and continued to more [...]
Day 14 – General observations of Melbourne/Australia
Posted in General Ramblings, iPhone on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So far I’ve been in Australia for a little over 10 days and I thought I’d write about a few observations so far… in no particular order… The homes in the suburbs are on wide streets with houses on each side. There’s plenty of space on the properties and looks like a suburb scene in [...]
