Saturday, August 16th, 2008
The Great Coastal Walk is a mixture of bush trails and road rambles that lead from Cronulla in Sydney's south to Barrenjoey Lighthouse in Sydney's north. It's only just fully opened.
I did the Manly to Barrenjoey walk a few years ago and it was fantastic.
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
I'll be offline for a few days because I'm going up north to stay at a friend's beach house.
Happy New Year everyone! :-)
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
And here, like every year, are the pictures of what my winning page on the NaNoWriMo.org website looked like:
Note the Purple Bar of Win in the top image! :-)
Though the bar is nice, I prefer last year's NaNoWriMo.org look - a Flash animated book, with a cover and turning pages ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
My Neo has just arrived. I got a pick up notice from Australia Post in the mailbox today and charged down to the local post office.
Thirty minutes later, I'd tested out my brand new Neo, and uploaded the fan-made fonts. Like the font in the picture - Bold. (There's ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
From The Sydney Morning Herald:
"I personally think it's over-the-top paranoia to make you feel scared," said Anthony Miller, manager of the Museum of Sydney Cafe in Bridge Street, which was surrounded yesterday by wire fences, hordes of police and undercover officers.
"On Monday an APEC security officer asked us to limit ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Eclipse Of The Moon
Originally uploaded by travellingcharl.
Went down to the beach to watch the total eclipse of the moon over the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, this was the best shot my point and shoot camera could manage. This shot was ...
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Monday, July 30th, 2007
Silhouette Of Lion Island
Originally uploaded by travellingcharl.
Yewenyi, Belinda, c.j.b. and I walked down from West Head, down Resolute Track, to my geocache 2108 on Sunday. We took lots of photos. Here is Lion Island, from West Head. The sun ...
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
West Head Box Jellyfish
Originally uploaded by c.j.b.
We thought this was a killer tropical jellyfish - in Pittwater, Sydney!
We were waiting on Mackerel Beach wharf for the next ferry back, on Sunday, and c.j.b. mentioned he'd seen a strange jellyfish and ...
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Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Boat On The Side
Originally uploaded by travellingcharl.
Taken at Mackerel Beach, in Pittwater, while walking to the 2108 geocache.
This is the first time I've experimented with strange camera angles.
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Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Myra
Originally uploaded by travellingcharl.
This is the ferry me, c.j.b., Yewenyi and Fi went to Mackerel Beach on, to check my 2108 geocache. I thought it would be easy, but the tide was coming in and it was difficult to get ...
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Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Duke Paoa Kahanamoku
Originally uploaded by travellingcharl.
This Hawaiian introduced Australia to surfing in 1914. The statue can be found at Harbord Point, at the northern end of Freshwater Beach. There is a geocache, Dudes' Yonder, very close by...
I actually took this ...
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Wave Watching
Originally uploaded by travellingcharl.
I took a lunchtime walk along Newport Beach today. There was no beach patrol (as that's finished until next spring) and though it was fairly warm, it wasn't quite warm enough to swim. Like this girl, ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
Will this week ever end? I felt well enough this afternoon to go for a swim at the beach and I left my car keys, wrapped in a light blue microfibre towel, on the beach. When I came back, they were gone. It's the first time something of mine has ...
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Sunday, December 25th, 2005
Dear all,
It's 28 degrees C, not a breath of wind, the cicadas are chirping and the sky is a perfect, cloudless blue. I just got back from a quick swim at the beach. The water was like warm, green glass. Now I'm tidying the house, in preparation for the relatives ...
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
It was rough in the beach pool at lunchtime.
I'd just entered the water and I was swimming, when a large wave broke over me, and the next thing I knew, the concrete sides of the pool were rasping along my left hand and left knee, my feet were kicking ...
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Monday, December 5th, 2005
Incinerator
by EvilDan
S 33° 48.685 E 151° 12.083
(ratings out of 5 stars. 1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1
Walter Burley-Griffin is most well known for designing Canberra, but here's another example of his impact on Sydney.
The Incinerator started operating in ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
First lunchtime beach trip. Lovely, though a little cold.
There was a lot of seaweed in the pool. I'm glad I'm not still picking it out of my hair.
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
Scotts Creek lives!
by The Reigate Squires
S 33° 47.314 E 151° 11.686
(ratings out of 5 stars. 1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
Difficulty: ** Terrain: *
A brave urban stream battles against the pressures of civilisation.
Rather polluted despite a recent ...
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
Warm day that clouded over in the afternoon. I had a few hours before I had to get ready to go out, so I went to the beach.
Heavy, dark rainclouds hovered nearby as I walked up and down the beach. I could see a veil of rain only a kilometre ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Hot and gorgeous spring day.
Had a picnic at Arney's Beach with Chris, Belinda and Fiona today. There were at least 5 yachts moored at the beach, so it wasn't as quiet as it was last time I was there, but we still had a good time. Fiona looked for ...
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