Camping, photography and other ramblings
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 …
Wind and dust! Sounds like a title to a Midnight Oil song, but that’s what we faced on our drive from Mt Augustus to Kennedy Ranges, some 270kms away. The wind seemed to get stronger and the dust thicker, at Read More …
With a few days planned at Mt Augustus, we decided to tackle the hardest challenge of the trip being the 12km return ascent to the summit, some 715 metres above the landscape it sits in. Setting off relatively early, it Read More …
Captains log, star date 5th August 2021. The state of Victoria is in stage 5 lockdown, Fatty Palmer is taking W.A. to court to make his life easier, but Mark Man o ’Steel McGowan is keeping us all protected from Read More …
As I write this post, Jules and I were meant to be coming to the end of a 2month trip around the Apple Isle (Tasmania), however, the COVID 19 pandemic stopped that and, in fact, also meant we had to Read More …
Taking advantage of the labour day long weekend, Jules and I shot down to the Dryanda Woodlands for a couple of days with our friend Rodney This is Rodney. Umm no, the one of the left. Yes really…. Having spent Read More …