Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Christmas at Oasis 2009

This year we did something a little different and all had dinner together before Oasis.
We had a lovely dinner at George's Steak and Seafood at Broadbeach and then dancing from 8pm. It was great to catch up with everyone!


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Royal Crown Revue

We had a great night out at the Tivoli and saw the all new and improved RCR. They where great! They did there Vegas Show with a female singer doing duets with Eddie. The best show yet!

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Mt Cordeaux Sunday 29 Nov

Rob, Phil, Mikey and I all got up early and car pooled it to Mt Cordeaux (about an hour and a half south west of Brisbane). It had been very hot in the last week or so so we thought we would start early and miss the heat, unfortunately there was also a lot of dust/smoke haze about.

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Mt Cordeaux is a gradual climb with a well maintained track, so it would be great for a family to do at any fitness level. Most of the track is under the tree canopy so it is nice cool.

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The walk to the summit of Mt Cordeaux didn't take too long(just over and hour), so we decided to continue along the trial to Bare Rock.

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Rob and Phil

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View to Mt Edwards and Lake Moogerah

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Except for the long grass at the beginning (keep stamping those feet Phil!) of the track this is also a great walk.

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View from Bare Rock

I got to see my first ever carpet snake (harmless) about 7 foot long and also walked the trail with a very large Goanna who only wanted to get away from us.

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Carpet Snake

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Goanna

We were back in time for lunch at Aratulla cafe. Then drove home in a thunderstorm. A great day had by all.

Roma Street Parklands - 8/Nov/09

Rob, Phil, Mikey and I decided to go our for the afternoon to spend sometime with our camera's working out how to best use all the settings. It was a great afternoon of learning with a variety of subjects. A couple of samples of our photo's from the day.

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Gallery, Slideshow

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Byron Bay Fun Run

24/25 October,

Mikey's and my first ever fun run/walk!

The fun run was held at Byron Bay around 2hrs drive south of Brisbane. Nick, Dionne, Rob, Phil and Michael and Maria arrived Saturday afternoon, we had hired a small cabin at Bryon Tourist Park for our overnight accommodation.

After walking around Byron for awhile Michael, Rob and Phil headed of to The Pass and the lighthouse to take some photos before catching up with the rest of the gang for dinner at the Bohemia restaurant. We all went to bed pretty early in the tiny bunk beds as we had to get up around 4:30am to get ready for the 5:45 am start.

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View from "The Pass" back to Byron Bay

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Lighthouse at sunset

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The fun run/walk was in aid of the NSW Cancer Council, details at http://byronrun.com/.

The super fit people did the 10 Km run from the surf club to the light house and back via a 2km run alone the beach (Nick, Rob, Phil, Mark & Sue), while the sensible people (Michael, Dionne and Maria) did the 8km walk which followed the same course but skipped the beach section.


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We really enjoyed the walk as it was nice and cool with little wind. At the lighhtouse we got to see dolphins and whales.


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The runners do 2Km along this beach

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After a quick shower and presentation we headed to the spoon restaurant for breakfast before heading home.