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!
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!
Time to test out for real how good I am at fire twirling. Has all the practice with the old converted broken broom handle paid off?
Starting off with some simple rotors. I was a bit nervous... I was suprised at first how much heat came off the ends when they weren't spinning.
Figure'o'8... Feeling much more confident here... Gods its cool fun...
Phill giving it a go with a bit of the 8 action...
Ash having a crack at it. Awesome effort Ash! you were a natural!!
Dave was so stoked he let me keep a photo for the blog! :D
Getting overconfident is a bit of a shock when it goes wrong. Lucky it burns quite cool so no burns. Mind you its warm enough that i'm missing half the hair on one arm.
Cyclops smiley face!!!
Here is a few shots from the end of the night when I was getting used to it and improving rapidly...
Love this one... :)
And to top it off at the very end of the night I pulled off an awesome throw and catch!!!
Well all the clothes are in the wash because my shorts are black from the mess ups and they stink of Kero...
Sooooo much fun was had tonight! :) Ciao!!!
If you head down the hill from Dobroyd Head, down the bush track and take a semi-concealed right turn down a dark and narrow secret track, you will emerge at Crater Cove. Locals might remember this area as the area where a lot of hermits used to live. They have been evicted since the old days and now the huts and shacks are protected and maintained by volunteers from the NSW Sparks and Wildfire services.
Here's the cove with Dobroyd being the big headland on the right of the picture. You can just make out some of the shacks in the distance. They are remarkably well camouflaged.
Entrance sign all painted up in true hippy style.
The view from one of the shacks. With this to wakeup to every morning, its not great wonder why these people lived here for so long.
One of the "bigger" shacks. They were all still pretty tiny, built from salvaged driftwood and anything else that could be carried in.
This shack was so cool, it overhung a sandstone cave below it and had a rainwater collection system that drained all the water into a keg with a tap at the bottom. Seriously cool design and implementation.
Another entrance sign. The sign on the right says a lot of things but emphasises the point of "For gods sake, dont ask us if we live here, we've heard it a thousand times and it's just plain rude now."
One of the many little sandstone cave/grottos. You could spend hours here just relaxing.
The bottom end of the freshwater supply system...
More aquaducts for transporting water around.
Crater Cove mass transit system. Probably more reliable than Sydney's rail system too.
I shall be returning that way again soon too. This time i'll take a good book with me and sit down and enjoy the view for a few hours.
Hi all...
Here is the last piccie for the trip, a sewn together panoramic taken at the end of the day when everyone was about to head home. You'll probably have to click on it to get a bigger view.
Enjoy
On Saturday we packed the cars and headed up to the blue mountains to test our skills by throwing the cars up a range of muddy, wet, slippery and rocky tracks designed to sort the men from the boys...
Andy, Tristan and Al ready to depart...
Daisy where it always is, behind.... :)
The only good way to keep warm in the Blue Mountains in the middle of winter is to burn half the state forest that your camping in... This little puppy was hot enough to make short work of any bottles thrown into it. What survived the next day was some cool bottle art...
A hot breakfast on a bloody cold morning the next day. I never thought I could appreciate bacon and eggs with a hot coffee more than I did that morning. Tristan wouldn't stop carrying on about the coffee. One would think he has never had the real stuff before...
The sight of the cold as hell diesels starting up was near on comical. Al's Maverick churns out heaps at the best of times let alone this morning when the whole campsite was covered in a fossil fuel fog...
Stay tuned for part 2 with the driving bits...
