Category Orienteering in Australia
If It’s Monday It Must Be Brisbane
Our heads are spinning a bit from the constant relocations. We spent three nights at home, unpacking, washing, shopping, preparing everything for the Anzac weekend, repacking, and driving to Bendigo on Anzac Day. The car was once again full to the brim with gear. It finally poured down with much-needed rain as we drove up […]
Reality Check
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 […]
A Tortoise’s Tale
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 […]
The First Half
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 […]
Easter on Home Turf
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 […]
Sydney City Race Weekend 2
Onto the main event. An early start was required, as start times were between 8am and 10am. We were both at the latter end of the start draw, but we left in plenty of time to walk from Circular Quay to the arena at Observatory Hill. The Carnival Splendour cruise ship was in, busily disengorging […]
Sydney City Race Weekend
Ian and I are in Sydney this weekend, purely for orienteering – specifically, the first Sydney City Race. It took them 5 years to copy us, but they have gone all out with a $1000 prize for the outright winner. We just had to come and run it, being the ones who introduced the popular […]
Day 3 – Vague
Today’s terrain was pretty much a repeat of the other two days, except it was less open, and scrappier scrub with smaller rock. Everything was vague. Vague contours, vague tracks that blended with the general sandy ground, vague fences that might or might not be standing, and vague vegetation boundaries where yellow gently graduated into […]
A Canopy of Giraffes, and an Elongation of Meerkats
With a relatively early finish (notwithstanding my 20-25 minutes worth of errors), we had time this afternoon to visit the no 1 tourist attraction – the Monarto Safari Park. This is an open range zoo with mostly African animals, and in what was a very appealing drawcard, you are driven around in an airconditioned coach. […]
Easter Day 2 – The Wheels Fall Off
My start time was 2 hours earlier, and I looked forward to a cooler morning; it was not to be, as the temperature quickly soared again into the mid 30s. The terrain was very much like yesterday’s, but with less shade on the course. Setting was similar too, with the first few controls on rock […]
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