Ice skating in Brisbane October 2010

Eat ya heart out Tonya Harding!!!

Random pictures

My birthday present: a ballon trip over Brisbane - followed by a champagne breaky. It was a fantastic day,

Hamish on his cousin Karls's new bike. Like he's ever going to be allowed one. Ha!



This chap came out across the road in front of us. The first time we have seen a Koala in the wild - well actually it was in Cleveland.

A new year and new adventures!

Christmas day video. This is at our fabulous cousin's house.

Hamish spent a weekend on Stradbroke Island. He was in a leadership camp for Surf Life Saving. When he got home on Sunday afternoon he went straight to bed at 3pm and we woke him for school at 7am the next day. It seems he enjoyed himself...

Kate has taken up the guitar and is keen to practise (oh our poor ears!!!)

Lindsay has flown to NZ to sort out our house as quick as possible - our lovely long term tenants have left. A good opportunity for a tidy up.

On board Blue Heron

Kate finds a stowaway!

Now the holidays have kicked in I have spent a few moments selecting a video or two for those people who wonder what it was like on board on our ocean trips. The first one is on the first or second day before our "sea legs" arrived!




The second one is Hamish and his father on early morning watch as the sun is rising. A bit of male "bonding". Which meant I got to sleep in a little - yay.




This is a bit of fun at Vila.

There are some more but Lindsay recommends I embed some of the good ones from his youtube site as it doesn't have the 10mb limit that blogspot has. I'll try that tomorrow!

Coochiwoochie

Here we are out enjoying an early morning walk around Coochiemudlo Island while Kate and Hamish are at surf life saving. It look us 2 hours to walk across and back. A pleasant morning, so nice we decided to do it more often. So far we have been out again for a morning walk 0 times! Oh well we had good intentions but we will walk around the island again next Sunday.

Just when you thought it was safe to go to the beach!

We have just got back from a fabulous morning on Coochiemudlo Island - a small island on Moreton Bay about 1-2 miles off Victoria Point. It is very pretty and reminds us a bit of some of the Hauraki Gulf Islands.

It was Kate and Hamish's first time at the surf life saving club there. They had great fun while we watched and enjoyed the atmosphere from the shade of some pine trees.

Hamish enjoying the boards.

Thumbs Up!



Bottoms Up!!