Category: The Kids (Page 6 of 8)

The Adventures of Chris and Terry’s kids

A Panoramic View

November 28, 2006 / trevor

I was going through some of my photos from my trip to Djoodood during the last holidays, and came across one that I never got around to posting. Playing around with my tripod and camera, I took a set of photos with the aim of producing a panoramic image of the wonderful bay there.

Derek painstakingly put together the Manning Pool image using Gimp, while the one above took me about 15 seconds to put together. Admittedly, it doesn’t look quite as good, but I still highly recommend taking a look at DoubleTake for panoramic shots – it is shareware (and only works with OSX), but the ease of use is brilliant!

And the Ashes begin!

November 23, 2006 / trevor

All excitement here, as anyone who knows me will attest, with the first day of the Ashes Test. Not to be slowed down by things like school or work, I was able to follow all the action via Baggygreen on the projector all day. With a cricket day forecast in the classroom, my students did plenty of maths using cricket stats, practised reading lists through quizzes about cricket records, and examined the history of the Ashes (I’m not joking, by the way). The upside was, we got to watch the commentry click over as well as rejoice when Langer made a 50, and Punter made his century.

The glory days...

I’m not sure where they got the on-line commentators from, but they were pure gold… unless you were an English supporter of course! I thought I’d list a few of their completely unbiased observations… I hope they are with us for the whole Ashes series! Oh, and by the way, the image is an unabided look back to my glory days… Newman Cricket, the mecca of world cricket. If only I was famous enough for them to spell my name correctly…

Harmison to Langer, 1 wide, and it’s wild and woolly, a massive wide taken by first slip. Welcome back to Australia, Steve
Poor, wayward start from Anderson. Poor, wayward start from England too. They’re rustier than a bag of spanners left out in the winter rain
Hoggard to Hayden, no run, too wide for Hayden to worry about it, leaves it well alone. Perhaps this is Hoggard’s tactic…

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Aboard the Rare Breed II

November 17, 2006 / trevor

Having spent most of the fishing charter with a fishing rod in my hand, rather than a camera, I was struggling to post any pictures of our adventures. Luckily for us, Claire (another teacher from Fitzroy), was less dedicated to the fishing, and did manage to snap some shots. She has very nicely offered them up for viewing here!

Oh for the Deep Blue Sea…

November 13, 2006 / trevor

After a few weeks of busy school-work (I can see why Term 4 is called the “silly season” up here), a group of us booked into the Broome Beach Resort for a weekend of fishing and relaxation. All up, there were 16 of us there – 10 for a deep-sea fishing charter, 6 for a day spa with massages. We were all there for the drinking and swimming.

Piling into the bus straight after school on Friday, we rocked up a four hours later a little hungry, but with our thirsts well quenched. Saturday saw the girls off to their day spa – they insisted on being driven to the place via bus, which turned out to be a good 500 metres from where we were staying. The remainder of the crew hit the shops, stocking up on all the things Fitzroy shops don’t offer (read: everything).

A quiet Saturday night for most with dinner out at the Zoo Cafe, then it was up bright and early for the fishing on Rare Breed II with a 6am pickup. The swell was quite large, which accounted for quite a bit of extra burley from those used to the calmer waters of the Fitzroy, so we only ended up travelling about 25 miles off shore, instead of the promised 40 for the big red emperor. Regardless, there were plenty of fish on offer, with catches including Spanish Macs, Mackeral Tuna, Coral Trout, Blue-Line Emperor, Silver Snapper, NW Snapper, Rankin Cod, Sea Perch, Spanish Flag, Green Snapper… need I go on?

There were also the undesirables, such as the hard fight, only to pull up the head of a large Spanish Flag, one NW Blowie and even a very ugly Monkey Fish (also known as a Stargazer… do a Google Search and you will see why!)

Although I was far too busy to take photos of my fish, or anyone else’s for that matter, we did catch enough to feed everyone – as the fish-cleaning table shot shows.

The moment we got off the boat, it was all stations go as we quickly packed up the bus, and made the trek back to Fitzroy. We hit home just after 8pm, and having promised to fillet the fish for everyone on returning home, it left me a very busy boy as I worked feverishly until 11pm, filleting and skinning the fish, while Emma bagged and labelled them for everyone. A big weekend, but a fantastic one! I look forward to making it an annual event!

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Derek Can Catch Fish

November 10, 2006 / terry

Here is proof that Derek can actually catch a decent fish. This “little”
mulloway was caught in Useless Inlet, Shark Bay. He looks like he has been
riding a horse but that’s because the fish is heavier than him.

Derek with a mulloway

Why I don’t post about fishing…

November 10, 2006 / derek

Check out this amazingly large haul of black bream from the Swan River. Compare it with some of the other fishing photos on this page. This is why I post about sketching and not fishing.

And they’re not even mine!
(Image courtesy of www.abc.net.au)

Some Sketches

November 8, 2006 / derek

In a moment of mental clarity I once vowed never to write a personal blog and have until this day remained true.

But I now feel the need to supply the good readers of this site with a respite from descriptions of fishing that only serve to remind us of how non-existent the fishing is wherever we are, and the ensuing recipes reminding us of the extortion we would have to face at the local shops to be able to eat fish on a regular basis.

So my contribution is a couple of pencil sketches that I’ve done recently.

The first is a sketch of my friend Brooke playing with a ‘curdled’ soy mocha at the great Yahava coffee works in Margaret River. The second is my girlfriend Joy being supported by a vintage car outside the metallic oasis that is the Colonial Brewery, also in Margs.

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Both images were sketched with (mainly) a mechanical lead pencil.

A quick look at Geikie Gorge

October 28, 2006 / trevor


Fishing-free day today… after yesterday’s success, who can blame us! Mind you, we’re off again to the river tomorrow for another round, and with any luck we can pot just one more to top a great weekend. I’ve been meaning to take a few shots of Geikie Gorge to put up on the website, but to be honest, I spend too much time with a fishing rod in my hand to have a camera as well. Unfortunately, there is not quite enough time in the day for both. I have managed to snap a few shots, and I will try to add to these over the next few weeks.

Did someone mention barra?

October 28, 2006 / trevor

I wasn’t sure if you could see the barra well enough in the last post, so I thought it better to show it again. If you need to see a bigger picture, feel very free to ask me, and will oblige… an 8 megapixel camera should give you as big a picture as you could ask for.

Have I mentioned how excited I was about the barra?

Finally, a Barra result!

October 27, 2006 / trevor

Now I don’t want to gloat, but… OH YEAH! With conflicting reports about the barra fishing after a good rain, Troy and myself went out to the gorge for a little troll after school. The results speak for themselves.

The first one we were happy with – 67cm, and a good fight. The second one was a rip-snorter. It was only 79.99999cm (luckily just under the legal throw-back limit), but it really, really LOOKED LIKE it was 17 pounds and 92cm. For comparison purposes, just to prove it was under 80cm, I am really only 4 foot tall.

Trust me, you will hear more about this, and there will be more photos. OH YEAH!