Over the Foundation Day long weekend, Emma and I had the opportunity to climb Bluff Knoll. I used my iPhone to track our trip… here’s a sample of how we...

During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I’ve shaved my beard and I’m sporting a beautifully manicured Mo. Yes, every day Joy has to wake up next to a man with a Mo, and it’s all about tackling men’s health issues and being proactive in the fight against...

Tim and I took the weekend and journeyed up with a canoe to Pigeon Creek – about a 15-20km hike upstream of the Gorge. Very clearly not many people venture up this way because the barra were plentiful and the barra were hungry! I went from 11 barra for the year to 20! I managed 9 in two...

It has certainly been a long time since we last posted anything. It is at least good to know that a few people have remarked on our lack of communication. We have just emerged back into civilization, having been “out on the Gibb” for quite some time. Everything is very dusty, we...

Bidyadanga (La Grange) proved to be an absolute delight. The school Principal, Mark Williams, was an excellent host and soon had us settled into the “donga”, perfectly acceptable accomodation right on the school grounds. Mark gave us a whistle stop tour of the local beaches after...

Tim and I tackled Donkey Crossing yesterday on the quest of catching a barra on a kayak. And we were successful! Three altogether, with Tim finally breaking his duck and landing two, along with my one. Mine was pretty small, around 40cm, with Tim’s first around the same size. It was...

Tim and I decided we needed to get a fish in before the school holidays finished – and it was worth it (for me anyway)!  Casting a beady eye on the no less than 11 boat trailers at the gorge carpark, we launched around midday and were off.  We decided to go for a troll through the...

Today was a great way to end our whirlwind trip. We hired a car and ventured out of the city to Jenolan Caves, about 180km out of Sydney in the Blue Mountains. The first thing to note was the terrible weather – it was foggy and drizzling the whole way – sometimes we couldn’t see more...

An earlyish start this morning to tackle a restaurant I’ve been looking forward to for a while.  We have most of Bill Granger’s books, and find his recipes simple and stunningly nice.  We arrived just after 9:30am to his original Bills restaurant, and were pleasantly surprised to get a...

Our plane trip from Melbourne to Sydney went smoothly… if you blinked, you would have missed it – about 10 minutes after finishing the ascent, the captain announced we were beginning our descent!  An hour trip overall. The first thing we noticed about Sydney was that the city’s drivers...