The long and (not very) winding road
The long and (not very) winding road Meningie, Australia Meningie, Australia You know what a great idea it had been to get up early and see the Twelve Apostles in the morning light? Well for the Blue Lake of Mount Gambier, this didn’t work as well. We saw the...
Trout Weekend
We’ve just returned from a weekend at Liawenee in Tasmania’s Central Plateau. Apparently it is the coldest place in Tasmania. Clearly somewhere you really want to go heading into winter . . . We went for the Inland Fisheries’ annual Trout Weekend, which is held at IFS’ Field Station,...
P365 – Day 362 – Salmon Ponds (and year in review 9/12)
It was one of those afternoons where we just had to get out of the house, so we went for a short drive to the Salmon Ponds. Juniordwarf had fun feeding the rainbow trout (note if you will, the fine capture, by iPhone camera, of the fish food in...
P365 – Day 239 – fishing days
On Monday, Slabs took Juniordwarf fishing after daycare, and Juniordwarf caught his first fish! He was very excited to show me when I got home (although he didn’t want to touch it because his hands would get dirty). We decided we’d go on a family outing to the same...
P365 – Day 72 gone fishing
Slabs is a keen fisherman and one of the things that attracted him to our town was its proximity to the river and a host of great fishing spots. So today we went fishing. Actually we did more driving than fishing, but we ended up at a pretty spot...
P365 – Day 65 Plenty
Today we completed our tour of wineries we hadn’t been to by visiting Kinvarra Estate Wines just outside the small town of Plenty, in the Derwent Valley. The homestead was built in 1827. The vineyard has a great view up the Valley. Someone forgot their polarising filter. Again. The...