Over 12months in the planning and preparation, anticipation high and we’re off! Thursday 29th July, Jules and I headed off on our long awaited 9week trip to Qld and back. Our long term travel buddy, Rod, had ordered a new Read More …
Yep, that’s right. This trip we headed off to the Big Apple, which all Sandgropers know, is Donnybrook, about 200kms south of Perth. Our long time camping buddy BJ recommended the Donnybrook Transit Park to us the other week and Read More …
A couple weeks back our youngest daughter Georgia had her 21st birthday and as part of her celebrations, she decided she wanted to go camping with our normal camping crew, down at Dryandra. Luckily for us, Dryandra is one of Read More …
My mate Rod invited me out on a day trip around the Dalwallinu area, approximately 230kms North East of Perth to explore and shoot some of the areas extraordinarily coloured salt lakes. He wanted to get some video of the Read More …
This time last year we were reviewing 2019 and wondering what 2020 would bring. We were also just starting to hear snippets of news about a virus in China but, like most people assumed it would never impact us…. We Read More …
It so happened that Jules’ birthday fell on the same weekend that the guys had booked to stay at Molloy Island for a short fishing trip so we decided to tag along. Molloy Island Caravan Park sits on the banks Read More …
So, for those that don’t know, I’m a little bit infatuated with Peacock Jumping Spiders and if you don’t know what I’m talking about I suggest you quickly check out this YouTube video before reading the rest of this blog.. Read More …
For a few months in 2013 I got into photographing water droplets and the little explosions they create when they splash into a pool of water. My first attempts were very hit and miss, but I eventually followed some internet Read More …
Bushy, Craig and I spent a day back in 2014 looking for our first Peacock Jumping Spider, eventually finding a couple, Maratus Speciosus, in some coastal bushes not far from the Pinnacles.
One advantage of living in Western Australia is it’s typically quicker, cheaper and easier to fly to Bali, Indonesia for a holiday as opposed to flying to the East coast of Australia. We had a little family holiday there in Read More …
For those that have followed my photography for a while, you’ll remember that I used to publish my pics at my tony.budge.com.au website. However, I stopped maintaining that site when I started up this blog and some time ago, when Read More …
If you said Dryandra, then well done. Yep, with last weekend being a long weekend due to the Queens Birthday holiday, we took another quick trip down to the Woodlands. Taking the Friday off on annual leave, we shot down Read More …
With Spring now blooming with WA’s wildflowers, we decided to do another little long weekender down at Dryandra Woodlands. Dryandra has become a firm favourite spot of ours as it’s only 2hrs from home and also due to the variety Read More …
Leaving Gladstone Bay, Saturday 15/8, it was a leisurely 300km drive, made even more leisurely by the stupid number of caravans and motorhomes heading in both directions. We got stuck behind a cavalcade of five vans, so decided ‘when in Read More …
Our plan is to be at the Murchison River Homestead on Saturday 15/8 to meet up with the guys who are travelling back from Francois Peron. As we had a few days to kill after leaving our camp at Temple Read More …