Family and downtime
My sister is old. Yep, she and Scott, my bro in law, both turned 50 this year and to celebrate they held a combined 100th Birthday Party. Due to COVID and other things, Jules and I had not seen Max Read More …
Tag: landscape
Trip 41, days 4 & 5 – Helena and Aurora Ranges
The following blog post was written by OpenAI (https://chat.openai.com/) using a small number of dot points I gave it about our recent camping trip. As a test, I wanted to see how it’d go at writing a post using just Read More …
Trip 41, day3 – Helena and Aurora Ranges
The following blog post was written by OpenAI (https://chat.openai.com/) using a small number of dot points I gave it about our recent camping trip. As a test, I wanted to see how it’d go at writing a post using just Read More …
Trip 41, day2 – Helena and Aurora Ranges
The following blog post was written by OpenAI (https://chat.openai.com/) using a small number of dot points I gave it about our recent camping trip. As a test, I wanted to see how it’d go at writing a post using just Read More …
Trip 41, day1 – Helena and Aurora Ranges
The following blog post was written by OpenAI (https://chat.openai.com/) using a small number of dot points I gave it about our recent camping trip. As a test, I wanted to see how it’d go at writing a post using just Read More …
Trip 40 – part 1 – A lot of not much
It’s that time of the year again when the Budge clan pack up our stuff and head south for cooler climes and Christmas cheer. Over the years, we’ve managed to extend and accumulate more days for our site and this Read More …
Trip 38 – Bolinda Vale
The girls had picked this weekend to go camping as it fit uni commitments, but with the dog in tow, we needed somewhere dog-friendly and close as we only had a few days for a quick trip. Georgia lucked across Read More …
Trip 37, part 4 – Giralia Station
At the bottom of the Exmouth Gulf, 130km south of Exmouth, lies Giralia Station, our next stop for the final week of our holidays. Established in 1888, the original lease encompassed an area of 2,047 square kilometres and was used Read More …
Trip 37, part 2 – Exmouth
It’s good to be back in Exmouth and feels very familiar, despite it being nearly 10 years since we were last here. We expected there to be more change, however, the town still feels the same, with many of the Read More …
Trip 37, part 1 – Heading North
After spending the recent WA Day long weekend camping at Dryandra where the overnight temperature dropped to 2C, a week later and we’re heading North, to warmer climes. With three weeks to spend, our itinerary was a week at Gladstone Read More …
Trip 36 – 9, 10 and 11!
Georgia has started a new tradition which celebrated its second occurrence this past long weekend. Camping at Dryandra!! Last year it was for her 21st birthday, this year it was just ‘because we love it’. BJ, Jules and I headed Read More …
The trip you have when you can’t do your trip – part 2
As per the classic Cold Chisel song, we’re “back in Bow River” barring this being our first visit, but here we are at Waalitchup Farmhouse in Bow Bridge, approx. midway between Denmark and Walpole. A working beef and aquaculture farm, Read More …
a retrospective – Bali, April 2014
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 …
a retrospective – Karijini National Park, March 2014
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 …
Trip 27 – Guess where?
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 …