Charlie's World500th Post! – Adventure Dreaming
Posted on March 3, 2014
Happy 500th postaversary,
I’ve been blogging for ages – close to 10 years now, but as is the way of things, blogs were started, burned, rekindled, abandoned. But this one has been around since Feb 2008, which make it almost 6. Not too shabby. Theres been some ups and downs, but generally life is good. Busy, crazy, but good.
So – this 500th postaversary post is dedicated to an adventure (or more likely, multiple adventures) I want to have over the next 6 years. Thats reasonable chunk of time, so it should be doable.
See, I’m a nerd. As a geologist (by education and passion), I love amazing geological wonders – fossils, volcanoes, crazy sites of incredible geological importance. So, I thought I’d pick a few incredible sites – world famous science changing sites that Australia has to offer, and go see them in person.
On my motorbike. Read More
Pics from the daily commute – 2
Posted on March 2, 2014
Twas a lovely morning for it, but then it usually in in Perth in the summer to be fair. You really have to be on the road early before the sun has had too much time to crank up the heat, but as I’m in work before 8, thats not usually a problem 🙂
Pics from the daily commute – 1
Posted on February 25, 2014
I got a GoPro camera for taking all kinds of video footage, but primarily for taking videos when I’m on the bike.
The videos are fun (I’ll post some up later) but I don’t have a fast enough computer to be able to process my daily files and make decent clips (that’s about to change though, as I have a shiny iMac about to be delivered (if we can ever time the delivery to when we’re actually home..)) – but what I can do is take stills from the camera and show you all how fun my day is. Read More
Christmas 2013 – Tern Island and Perth
Posted on January 29, 2014
The girls all wanted to go for a walk, so Henry stayed home with Jay and I drove the girls a few km down the road to Safety Bay so we could walk around Tern Island.
Fun fact, Tern Island isn’t actually an island. Its a spit of sand thats well and truly connected to the land. It encloses the a shallow lagoon that the kite surfers use as a wonderful freestyle kite playground. I’ve posted a ton of pics of these guys here before.
Anyway, despite it not being an island, the tide was high and we had to wade out across the shallows to get on it. Read More
Christmas 2013 – Walk round Point Peron
Posted on January 28, 2014
We decided to have another adventure with just the three of us – this time going for a long walk around one of my favourite parts of Rockingham – Point Peron. Technically it’s actually Cape Peron but who’s counting!
Point Peron is limestone, joined onto the land by a thin strip of sand that one day will erode away and Peron will become another of the many islands that dot the coast.
We walked up to the old WW2 gun emplacement and then down onto the beach, poking around the rockpools for crabs and other goodies. Read More
More from Christmas 2013
Posted on January 27, 2014
Damn, I’m slack – I was meaning to do a post every few days to get through all these, now it’s a month late and it’s not so relevant. Ah well.
Anyway, continuing the theme – we spent a lot of time outside (as it wasn’t stupidly hot) and the beach, being pretty much on my front door step, was an obvious place to hang out for Ella and Henry! Read More
Christmas Lights
Posted on January 11, 2014
One thing we have done ever since I arrived in Perth is to visit the local Christmas lights on Christmas Eve. A local street is pretty much given over the entire neighbourhood with thousands of people turning out to look at the incredible effort the residents have gone to.
I know this post is out of order from the other one, but I kinda forgot I had all these pics on the other camera!
Ella, Henry and I got in from the flight in time to have some (now cold, the flight was an hour late) pizza and then we all piled into the 4wd with kids sitting on each others laps (it’s not far to drive and only via deserted back streets) and drove to the closest park to the street, parked up and walked over to join the crowds. Read More
It’s Chriiiiiiiiiiiisssstmaaaaaaas.
Posted on December 26, 2013
Yes, it is, as yelled by Noddy Holder in that old faithful seasonal refrain, ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’
I hope you had a brilliant Christmas – I certainly have!
But first, a small apology Read More
The Liebster Award
Posted on October 1, 2013
Kell tagged me with an award thing. A Liebster Blog Award I had no idea what a Liebster Award even was.
Turns out its this:
The real “gist” of the Liebster Award is that there is no real award. There are no judges, no special rules. No website with an official team to congratulate you and hold your hand. It’s mostly what you want it to be. If you receive the award, you can 1) accept it and 2) pass it along. It’s that easy.
So there you go. It’s kinda just a quiet appreciation tag thingy. Thanks Kell.
So – my challenge from Kell – it’s kind a like a top 10. Read More
Public Holiday walkies
Posted on September 30, 2013
After a week of pouring rain and the last of the winter storms, the skies cleared and we had a beautiful day. Which, as luck would have it, was a public holiday.
Boo yar.
So, some chores and blah blah later, it was time for a ride on my bike.
I was going to go for a long ride, but I rode up to Point Peron and it looked so lovely that I decided to go for a walk and leave the long ride for another time
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