Well of course harsh reality set in today.  We were back in detailed mining terrain for the final event of Easter.  Our Information “tent” was inside a hall – luxury.  The sun shone and all was right with the world. Out on the course, I quickly realised that the mining features were low to the […]

Halfway through the carnival already – months and months of planning, and it goes by in a flash.  Something remarkable happened today.  We drove to the middle of Nowheresville, on increasingly smaller and more remote roads.  Eventually we wound up next to a bush conservation reserve on the side of a small, boulder-strewn hill.  Rocks […]

Being out in the forest it’s a very different story.  After a hot dry summer, it’s very dusty and brown everywhere.  Our club is looking after the “Information Centre”, which means we hand out everyone’s race numbers and tourist information, answer lots of questions, look after lost property, deal with endless requests to change courses […]

It’s been a while, but we’re on an orienteering road trip with all four members of DipidyDoo.  We aren’t overseas, but we have left home to compete in the Australian Easter 3 Days, which is in north central Victoria.  It’s the first time in a loooong time that Ian has entered Easter, although the other […]