Category Queensland
Easter Day 3
It seems normal now to get up at 5am, and we move efficiently around the house, doing what we need to do to get ready and depart at daybreak. Today, day hadn’t quite broken, thanks to a heavy fog that was hanging in the valleys, severely reducing visibility. Once we climbed up to the plateau, […]
Easter Day 2
My enthusiasm was slightly less apparent at 5am, just before the alarm went off, and the world outside was dark. We dragged ourselves out of bed, and were on the road at 6, the sky brightening already with promise of another lovely day. There was an upside and a downside to my pre-9am start. The […]
Easter Day 1
Today marked the start of the Easter 3 Day competition, where the war of attrition starts. One mispunch, and you are out of contention for the whole comp – game over. Even if you are holding up the bottom of the results, there is satisfaction to be had in completing all three days intact. That […]
It’s All Good
Glorious sunshine woke us. We opened the blinds, eager to see our surroundings in daylight. To our surprise, there is a mountain on our back doorstep! There are parrots, cockatoos and lorikeets in the trees, and we had a leisurely breakfast on the verandah, watching their antics. The back yard has an enormous tree stump […]
DIPDYDO
Yep the DipidyDoo gang is (almost) back together, though not quite overseas, but for the first time in 2 years and 6 months, we’ve jumped on a plane and flown somewhere to go orienteering (it’s been a year since the last major carnival in Australia, but we drove to that one). This time we’re in […]
I Need My Space
The real purpose of the trip to Brisbane was to visit the NASA 50th anniversary exhibition “The Human Adventure”. We set off bright and early, heading across the river to Southbank, for our 10am admission slot. The website advised to allow 90 minutes to see everything. Four hours later … It was amazing. It told […]
The Wilds of Indooroopilly
This morning we flew to Brisbane for a couple of days, to visit the touring NASA exhibition, which is not coming to Melbourne. We planned this several months ago; however it wasnt until last weekend that I thought to check the orienteering calendar. Sure enough, there was a Tuesday NightNav event on in Brisbane, or […]
Latitude S23 23 59 24 (aka Tropic of Capricorn)
The navigator in me loves a geographic landmark, so of course my final day in Rockhampton had to include a stop at the Tropic of Capricorn, marking the divide between the temperate and the tropic zones. Surprisingly, we needed a map to locate it. Once Rocky’s major/only tourist attraction, these days it sits rather unassumingly […]
Remembrance, and the Guard Bear
Aah, another sun drenched morning. After a relaxed start to the day, we headed to Yeppoon for a bit of shopping and a look around. Yeppoon is a quiet seaside resort town with splendid views from the top of the not inconsiderable hills (I assume the views are splendid, we didn’t actually climb any of […]
Short Holiday
Hello from the Capricorn Coast of Queensland, where the sky is blue, the temperature is in the mid 20s, there are no looming public transport strikes, and every day is a holiday (well at least for a few more days). I flew into Rockhampton yesterday, where Mum and Dad collected me. We’re at Kinka Beach, […]
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