Cradle Mountain - Marions Lookout

On Saturady we headed out to Cradle Mountain to show Breyley who needed to see it before she left. The weather was perfect, low winds no rain sun beeming down, perfect. Until we got to Cradle where the wind picked up and it dumped down with rain.

The (I forgot its name) Dam, I was hoping it would be spilling after all the recent downpours. Oh well...



Cool Rock wall here, I'd had too much caffeine so my hands were shaking too much to get a decent photo. The colours were cool, providing a bouder didn't decide to come down and give you a closer look...



Lazy tourists in the car with the heating while I slave away capturing the moment :)



Double rainbows were the order of the day at Cradle. A lot of them were below us as we climbed too. I can tell you that someone was lying about the pots of gold. Bastards...



A fair few of these around the place looking for scraps of food. I can only presume some people are dumb enough to feed them. They weren't getting any of our pizza shapes.



The usual suspects near the summit of Marions. It was raining too heavily to get any more pictures as I didn't want to bring the camera out to get wet. There was enough snow for a few snowballs though :)

Hobart for a day...

We are so keen at finding new thrills down here that we all piled into the trusty old Volvo for a day trip down to Hobart to help Benny get some research stuff from the state archives. Well Benny did research, Matt and I ate fish and chips, took photos and walked through shops, yes shops, they have them in Hobart!

Not so early morning piled into the Volvo heading out of the hole...



My backseat comrade for the day Rhiannon. How wet is the back of your neck Matt?



The beacon of the harbour, Aurora Australis. Australia's one and only icebreaker. Such a cool ship I wish I could go down there one day before it all melts.

Note the raised bow which is designed to slide up on top of the ice and use the weight of the ship to break it down. Not sure whether it would wallow like a pig in the massive southern ocean, vomit comit perhaps?



This brand new fishing trawler looked so shmick. I took a few in black and white for fun. Processing already reduced images has resulted in some degredation of images, the full size pics look awesome though.



Mount Wellington all covered in snow. It was bloody cold out of the sun.



More orange stuff....



Some of the awesome restored boats layed up in the harbour...



More B&W fun...



The trip home dodging the fuzz which were out everywhere...



After a brief rainstorm the sunlight was trying to punch its way through the clouds, looked a lot more impressive in real life...



Rhiannon was summoning the rainbows, there were 2, but the camera could only see one at a time :(



And then we were home, quickly off to soccer for a 1-1 draw, Aww I wanted a win...

last Saturday night....

We had a few drinks last Saturday night. The usual suspects turned out for a night of excess consumption.

Here we all are. This is on record the worst photo of me I have ever seen so dont complain if I post a bad one of you up here! I wasnt even that drunk at this point :)



The gentleman on the left, however, was that drunk at that time. Hank on the right...



Correct music selection and beer choice essential to a good night.



mmm Corn chips...



And out the back the usual inferno was happening... How to smell like an airport in 1 step, stand in some Kerosene smoke...



Cheerio :) More to come soon....

Old Shooter.

Boring but cool, I dug out my very first camera the other day and whilst a little dusty and had a film jammed in it, still working perfectly. Those Krauts build things to last. This little gem actually shot me some awesome black and white shots even though I knew nothing back then. I'm finally figuring it all out now, I shoot in Manual pretty much the whole time now.

More little ones...

Right now I have been very slack keeping up with the blog posts recently. Although I cant really take all the blame as i've had some major computer problems (Major crash x 2). Not even my fault which is a new one.

Anyway time to get back into it and to begin, here are some photo's of the young ones! Far out they are so cool. Kudos to the Mini-Morelli's :D

I get this sort of reaction a lot when the camera comes out. I love it!



Old man Morelli and mini-Moz



SOooo Cool!

Long time no pic? You no love me?

Hello everyone

Sorry about the total lack of posts recently. It is inexcusable and disgraceful :D

Actually I have been struck down over the last five days with chronic computer self destruction. More accurately, I formatted my computer and reinstalled windows. While it ran much faster it also failed to recognise the Hard drive with all my photos and Uni work on! Total and utter catastrophy!

After spending near on five days sweating and swearing in desperation I finally managed to wrangle it all back out of the depths of Norton induced partition dissapearance!

A lesson for all, go out buy a $100 portable hard drive and for gods sake back-up your important data. Of all people I should have known this considering how often I have seen it happen to other people.

Anyway, i've got all my pics and sanity back and i'm about to throw up a few pics from the last few days!