Weekend in Guilderton

Spent a lovely weekend up in Guilderton camping next to the Moore River. Was lucky enough to witness the sandbank break and the river empty out into the sea ( apparently it happens 10 ish so times a year). Started as a little trickle and ended up huge all within 2 hours. A great weekend camping with the Staffords, biking, paddling and playing on the beach with the kids.

: Family bike ride

: Ellis and Kai riding together on their new bikes

: a HUGE change with the 16″ wheels for ellis

: Ellis and Kai tying to see how deep a hole they can dig

: Before the sand bank was broken

: Ellis and Lara riding around the River

: Of course stopping for flower picking

: Mark and I went for a paddle

: In some cool T trees, trying to get the Avon feeling

: great day for paddling

: saw a sand dune on the river so had to drag boat up it

: and slide down it into the river

: Huge pelican eyeing me up

: the dam thing followed me

: Breaking of the sand bank ( about 10 minutes)

: Ellis and Kai enjoying playing in it whilst it was small and manageable

: mark trying to stay on a stopper

: getting bigger ( about 30 minutes)

: Mark running down it

: My turn

: Was getting bigger all the time

: great fun white water

: the point i fell out and got washed out

: the state of it after about 1hr 15mins

: 1hour 30 minutes

: 1hour 40 minutes – was just huge and amazing to watch the river empty into the sea

: the mess of water as the river met the sea surf, why i stopped paddling it as it got too big and scary!

: Ellis and Lara playing on the beach

: what it looked like after 2 hours and when we left

: a good fun day on the boats

: Ellis and Kai playing in the tent

: Ellis after shower

: Night time tree climbing by head torch

: After it had emptied the next day.

: Lara and Sam’s turn

: Ellis running after mum telling her she forgot her paddle

: another great winter day

: sunday afternoon explore up the coast from Guilderton to seabird

: stopping at the little beaches not he way

: a lovely coast, shame camping is not allowed here….

: green tongued tired girl!

Bells rapids with the Kids

Spent a lovely Sunday at Bell’s rapids, 5 families, a herd of kids and a BBQ. Played in the river, went Geocacheing and then the kids tried paddling. A nice way to pass a day playing with the kids outside.

: Playing with the kids and teaching them how to cross flowing water safely

: then that was it, they were everywhere!!!

: Van and Ro playing in the water

: feet (yes i have just got a waterproof camera)

: Van showing me his best poses

: then they found mud!!!!

: Tim couldn’t refuse some mud as well!

: Seth getting his face pack on

: Seth and Storm crossing

: The happy Ots playing

: Then it was time for the kids to have a go at paddling, ellis got the hang of it in the shallows

: so went out further

: The avon Descent for her next year!

Climbing in the Porongurups

Friday night after work we jumped into car and drove down to the Porongurups listening to Rhys 90 mega mix playlist. Once getting there we went to Mount Barker to find some beer. The town was completely shut at 8pm on a Friday night, how can people live here!!! bitterly disappointed we drove on to the hills and found a place to sleep.

Got up bright and early and set off to climb Raven *** on Gibraltar Rock. A large granite slab with amazing friction. a great climb, emotional.

I think we shall be back to try and climb few other routes as it was a great day out, fairly low stress climbing in a beautiful place. Great to do some climbing in WA.

Racing cycle cross in Perth

CX in Perth, apparently this was the first race they have ever had with real CX conditions! It rained, hailed and was awesome. I wore my disc pads down to nothing and had no brakes for the last lap. I won a 6 pack of beer. Thank you to Tony Meldrum for the photos of me.

: having a quick ride around the course, still clean

: Tom firing around

: through some of the mud

: had stairs to run up

: final result, i got third in my category

: they even gave doughnuts out at the end!

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Monthly Archives: July 2015

Weekend in Guilderton

Bells rapids with the Kids

Climbing in the Porongurups

Racing cycle cross in Perth