Hi, I am still here. I have been so slack lately,

too much effort to log onto this. Especially

when it is chucking a wobbly and wont let me

sign in. Ah well, never mind I am here now.

I have been whale watching most days

since we got home. The poor things are camera

shy, as soon as my camera is turned on

they dive and forget to come back up

again, so needless to say it has taken

me a few days to get some decent pics.

I have taken some other random shots while

I have been waiting though.

I thought there might be some in front of the

Blue Pool the other day, so I raced

down the steps to take a pic, not until

I turned around to go back up did I

remember how steep it is and how many steps

there are. I think there is ninety something,

lucky I stopped part-way.

I spotted this cute little lizard up the top

near the viewing platform, he was very obliging

and let me take his pic.

A couple of nights ago I thought there might

be a whale jumping off Michael Lerner Lookout.

I am s*#t scared of heights, so it was

quite brave of me to go there.

I took my life in my hands and went out on

the track, sounds good, but....

the track is about 2 foot wide at it's best,

rather steep, with about a 15 foot drop

on either side with not much decent

foliage to break a fall, being sandy

it is a little shifty under the feet too.
I took a deep breath and told myself that

some idiots will do anything to get a

pic of something, it didn't make me feel

any better about what I was doing but I did

see a whale (a long way off).
Here are a couple of the pics I took whilst there.

Looking back towards Bermi.

Looking back up the track.

Looking down the track towards the ocean.

I stopped when I got to this point, way to

scary to even think about tackling.

I held onto a tree for dear life while I took this pic.

A different day, looking back towards town, the water

was so clear and such beautiful colours.

I took my Polaroids off and took a pic through them,

they make the colours so much better.

Today I got to take pics of the whales up close,

but first I had to show you this, it was stunning.

Oh, and this, the camera was sort of pointed in the

wrong direction, the whales were higher up. Lol,

too busy yapping to see what I was doing.

Obviously I have taken these while standing on

the bank. This mother and her baby kindly

came in very close. I wish I could have gotten some

better shots, it was getting dark so these are as

good as it gets for today.

This one was coming right out of the water

until I pointed the camera at her.

The tell-tale splash that shows you where they are.

The sound of them hitting the water is quite loud

when they are this close, and they tell me if you

are snorkeling when they are calling to each other

that it is almost deafening.

This one and his mate were lying on their backs

tale slapping, pity I missed getting them in sync.

I have heaps of photos I would have liked to put here,

but I thought you most definitely must be getting bored

by now, so here are just a couple of faves for now.

Phewww....Marathon post there.

Must not be so slack, yeah right, I keep telling

that, but then I don't listen.

I have other pics from Zaynes birthday,

and the holidays, but I think I have

tortured you enough for now.

Oh, yeah, I finally got a new washing machine.

I convinced the Man of the house that the

other one was past saving. I think the

neighbours were getting sick of the bone

jarring grinding noise that was coming

out of it, I could hear it 60 mtrs away.

Now I have to work on getting a new toaster,

ours is temperamental to say the least,

I decides on a daily basis how it is going

to cook the toast, warm bread or charcoal.

The handle wont stay down unless

I call it a Poofter...any other name

and it pops right back up again.

I tried talking nice to it, but that didn't work at all.

Cripes, look at the length of this post, sorry

peoples, I do get carried away don't I?

Thanks for stopping by,

I have Lo's but will load them another time.

Seeya, be good.

It's Raining, Its Pouring

We Tani and Zayne for the first week of holidays,

and I think it has been raining everyday.

All Tani wants to do is play in the sand,

it is way too wet to even think about taking her.

We have managed a few trips to the park, but

it is so cold and miserable that we didn't stay long.

It is not good for the shop either, nobody

is going fishing so we are not doing much, still have

to have the doors open though, just in case.

I am taking the kids back tomorrow and I think

there will definitely be snow up the top,

I might have to take the long way home, it will make

it interesting. I was hoping to go over the top

and see some brumbies like Sheri did last week.

Maybe on the way back, weather permitting.

I might come back later and add a pic or two.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you are

drier than we are at the moment.