Monthly Archives: June 2015

Morning paddle Sessions

Most wedensdays during the winter I go paddling before work.  I have been meaning to take my camera for ages to try and capture how beautiful it can be in the mornings paddling in the middle of the swan in the dark, paddling away as the sun slowly comes up to another day.  We usually go out for around and hour doing Will’s lovely pyramid sprints and finish with achy tired shoulders.  The fear is always there of falling in when it is dark as who knows what lurks in the water.  Usually it is dolphins but they still put the shits up you!

Winter here is still pretty good fun!

Saturday in the hills riding MTBs and Geocaching with the Elks

Saturday was spend going for Will’s last mountain bike ride.  Pete showed us some of the new trails he had been building.  Letting out a small squeal when he though Will was going to not clear the gap jump and had horrible visuals of sending him home to the UK in a sling.  It was wet and sloppy out there, which even made some mud for us!  nearly felt like home.

Afterwards we went to the pub for lunch then on to Jorgenson Park to go geocache hunting with the Kids.  Good fun and the kids loved rummaging through the push hunting for the hidden treasure.

 

Bye Bye Will

Will is sadly leaving us to go back to Blighty for good.  As a last bash he organised a mini race for all of us.  He found a cool phone App call Loquiz where he set out an orienteering type course with a three hour time limit.  Different check points were worth different amounts depending on their difficulty.  We had a choice of how we got to them, Running, biking, paddling or however else you wanted.

teams of two, i was paired with Jo.  Three hours and the rest you can see below.  A very good fun afternoon – some racing competitively others not so much……

after the race we all retired to the pubs and then onto a gig where the night got messy.

Kids adventure in John Forrest

We met a load of friends and their kids and headed off out to John Forrest national Park for a kiddy adventure.  Ended up with a load of wet, muddy but very happy kids at the end of it.  Lovely to get the kids outside and playing with each other exploring their little hearts out.

Quick night away camping in the Dunes at Wilbinga

A quick drive North and into the Sand dunes at Two Rocks and through the Sand dunes north until we found a nice spot to camp for the night.  DNW-3We arrived a little later than we expected, Ellis and I ran around collecting wood for the fire (can you see her?  down below).   DNW-4Whilst Lara set about putting our tents up for the night.

DNW-2I did manly wood chopping and fire lighting whilst Lara drank beer.  Sounds like a perfect evening!

DNW-7Soon the sun started to set, we cooked and ate some dinner, chatted and just enjoyed being out of Perth for a bit of camping.

DNW-8The now obligatory glow sticks of course were with us!  Was lovely to have a fire to keep us warm now it is winter and we are allowed them.  Now all I had to worry about was Lara’s turn driving us back out over the sand dunes!  Gulp.