More Exmouth holiday.....

Hi again, 

Today we went fishing on the beach at sunrise. What a beautiful time to be on the beach. I caught 4 fish and dad caught a shark. It took him over 15 minutes to reel it in. 

 setting up for fishing

Shovel nosed shark that dad caught.

Unfortunately this Internet connection is so slow it has trouble up loading photos. I just had a phone call from my step daughter Tish and she is on her way into Exmouth so it will be great to see her and her partner Will.

Hello from Sunny Exmouth

hi there,

I know I said I wouldn't have access to the Internet while up here in Exmouth but I found out after a week of being here that they have wireless hot spot here. I am having a really wonderful relaxing time here. All I have done is socialise with my family, play cards, snorkel, go out squidding with Tom on the boat and lie on my bed and read. 

Yesterday while mum and I were playing cards with her friends it rained quite heavily so I came back to find the front part of my tent floor rather wet. The front section is just fly net. I'm living in this tent but have my meals with mum and dad in the caravan.

This is my home for 2 weeks.

We went to the beach to watch the sunset on the shortest day of the year and I took heaps of photos as usual. The fishing boats look great with the sun setting behind them.

I'm having trouble uploading photos so that is all I will show you today. 

I hope your weekend is going well whatever you may be doing. 

until next time take care

Last post on holidays....

hi again, today can finish my holiday posts and get back to showing you some cards.

Our last trip out of Melbourne was down to Philip Island. We bought a 3 parks pass and went first to see Churchill Island Heritage farm. It was interesting to see inside the house still set up as it was back when it was settled. I enjoyed seeing the animals on the farm as it reminded me of my childhood growing up on a farm with lots of animals.

The next park to go to was the Koala conservation park. you could walk up a boardwalk amongst the trees where the koalas were but they were very high up and sleeping so not as good as I thought it would be. I think seeing those koalas on the side of the road was the best memory for me.

 the sunset on the way to our last place for the day was beautiful. Then we were off the see the penguin parade. It was great to see the little penguins come in after sunset. we weren't allowed to take any photos so I don't have any to show you.

the day after was Friday, our last day in Melbourne. We packed up our things, said goodbye to Richard and Tracy and took the car back to the airport for our flight home. We did have some time to kill so stopped at a DFO to have a look what everyone was raving about. Well I sure am not a shopper as it didn't find anything that I would want to buy. Maybe that was because I had no money to spend. 

I like to take photos out the window of the plane of the clouds. This was coming into Perth.

It was a fantastic holiday and we really enjoyed it but it sure is good to be home. thanks for checking out my holiday.

More of week 2 holidays

Not too much more to show. 

Our day spent in Ballarat was all at Sovereign Hill and the Gold museum. It took nearly 1 1/2 hours just to look through the museum and the rest of the day to see the amazing re-enactments at Sovereign Hill. I love stepping back in time. 

We just had to have a photo of Graham in the Buckland Gallery

It sure was a fun day and after we drove back to Melbourne to stay with our friends again. On Thursday we planned to drive down to Philip Island for our last day of sight seeing. I will tell you about that in the next post.

Holidays week 2

After Convention was over we had one more week in Melbourne. Tracy and Richard spent the day with us on the Sunday. After a leisurely morning get up we had some wonderful pancakes for breakfast made by Richard. They were yummm.... After lunch we went for a drive up to the Dandenongs. I just loved the autumn colours and beautiful sites. We stopped near an overpass bridge and watched the puffing Billy train go past.

 

  

 I love trees and these were magnificent.

  We drove up to Monbulk. I was interested to learn that this was where Monbulk Jam was first made.

 we went for a short walk through the Forest.

It sure was a nice day out. Thanks to Richard and Tracy for taking us out.

On Monday we hired a car for the rest of the week to go out into the country a bit. I showed you photos of our visit to the Werribee Open Plain Zoo while still over there. We really enjoyed the drive along the Great Ocean Road. One sign that was on the sides of the road all the way along was for the tourist from other countries. With such a narrow winding road you sure wouldn't want to forget which side you should be driving on.

Just a couple more days to post about so will be back soon with more.

More holidays

back again. Continuing on from where I left off we did more city sightseeing on the Tuesday. It was cold and occasionally wet but we enjoyed our look around.
I wanted to see some gardens as the Autumn colour was magnificent. We went to the Fitzroy Gardens and wandered through and saw Cooks Cottage while there.

Next we went to the museum as we thought it would be a place to keep warm and dry.

This is Pharlap.

On Wednesday I decided I was too tired to go out and wanted to be OK for the start of Convention. We had a dinner with all the ESAD demos on Wednesday night. It was a swap dinner and as Tracy was coming along I helped her do some swaps. We were putting them in bags on the way in on the train.

Thursday was the start of Convention and swapping our cards. It was a good day with the first session in the afternoon. This was the stage at convention.

Graham went to the MCG for the day and did the tour and saw the sports museum. He met me after Convention and we went to the Casino for some dinner before catching the train home.

Friday was more convention and Graham went to a football game at the MCG and froze. I had a nice quiet evening at Tracy's. I'll be back with more tomorrow.