Category Victoria
What A Difference A Day Makes (Eppalock Part 2)
Well not so much for me. Today’s course was a similar distance in similar forest, with a similar result, to yesterday. It was definitely harder navigating. The features that my controls were on were a lot vaguer – shallow gullies, broad spurs, tiny low cliffs. All of them required careful compass work and complete contact […]
Into The Forest We Go (Eppalock Part 1)
It’s been 14 months since either of us have done any bush orienteering, and my last foray, the Victorian Long Distance Champs, ended in me abandoning the course after failing to find one of my controls midway through. Since then, we’ve either been away, or the maps have been too steep, or it’s been bucketing […]
Best Tour Guide Ever (A Day In Bendigo)
We have of course been to Bendigo many times, but it’s been ages since we actually spent time in the city centre. We’re here for two days of orienteering at Eppalock – one of our favourite forests – but we added an extra day, and found ourselves a nice little AirBnB in Kennington (not far […]
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 […]
Concrete Canvases
As always, just click on any image to see it enlarged. Another short trip to use up bookings made in 2021, and unrealised. We deferred this one until after the summer school holidays. After such a wet spring, we were wondering what the weather would hold in store, but its been a hot start to […]
It’s All About The Light
Click on thumbnails to view full size images … We luxuriated in a late morning. The temperature had reached the 30s very quickly, and a north wind was strong enough to swirl leaves and small twigs off the gums. Our destination was the Noojee Trestle Bridge, followed by a walk to see the Toorongo Falls. […]
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