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Amed
Our trip to Bali in 2018
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NZ Motorhome Advunture
A motorhome around the South Island
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Driving around Victoria
Driving around Victoria
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Gorge Camping
Gorge Camping
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Bluff Creek Campgrounds
Bluff Creek Campgrounds http://www.kenilworthcampgrounds.com/
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Brisbane Tramway Museum
Brisbane Tramway Museum
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Byron Lighthouse
Maggie and I went to Byron
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From the Archives..
Imperfect Panoramas Here’s a collection of my quirky panoramas over the last five or so years – I’ll add captions as I get to them
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Pictures from Bangkok
Cal and I Bangkok for a month All taken on an Iphone 6s Because I was working most of the time, I saw the view from my balcony a lot …but what a view!
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Why a “Jim Dobbin is a good man” sticker?
THE Jim Dobbin is a good man sticker STORY By this stage I would hope everyone has been told the story of the artwork, Jim Dobbin is a good man. Just in case one or two of you went out the back for a smoke, it begins thus… Lach Lustre, a gentlemanly young gent, SMS’d…
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The Brisbane so few get to see
Words are following, but in short – we went out on the bay for the weekend. Jim and Cal anchored at Blakesley’s Blakesley’s Anchorage dawn Blakesley’s Anchorage sunset Blakesley’s Anchorage Cal and Jim sunset Blakesley’s Anchorage
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Working Microadventure…
I had couple of jobs to do on the Sunshine Coast, an hour and a half north of Brisbane, so I decided to not waste the travel time by making it into more of an adventure. Once I’d finished installing the signs, I drove inland through superb country, green hills and thick forests. At Woodford,…
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Planning a Microadventure
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” …said LaoTzu, a popular blogger from China, and I’m convinced he was talking about microadventures. I mean, isn’t everyone these days? “So Jim, how do we start to microadventure?” is a question I imagine people asking several times a day …and it is a good…
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The Rules
The idea behind microadventures has been quite well documented – a way to look at the world differently, break out of our everyday routines, learn new skills and to appreciate stuff that we may have overlooked. They’re a passport to freedom. …so I’ve come up with a set of rules. From Alistair Humphreys… “…small and…
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Who really created Microadventures?
What is a Microadventure? Who really created Microadventures? Alastair Humphreys is a serious adventurer. His website casually lists that he has cycled around the world, walked across India and rowed the Atlantic, but read further and that’s just a tip of the iceberg …an iceberg he probably climbed, circumnavigated and sailed around Cape Horn. The story…
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City Cycle Pub Crawl – why not?
First City Cycle Pub Crawl -April 20 2016. My brother-in-law Geoff and I discovered the incredible City Cycle scheme. Modelled on London’s Boris Bikes, one can acquire a 24 hire hour pass for the outrageous sum of two dollars. There is no other expense IF you have your bike for less than thirty minutes at…
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Canal Boat Time Travel
It’s like Canal Boat time travel. Seeing Britain from a canal boat offers a unique view of English vistas tied resolutely to their historical past, whilst providing both accommodation and transport at the wonderfully slow five kilometres an hour. We started our family holiday in the UK with 10-days around the Birmingham canals in a…
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Applying Real Life Science
Rough workings of an abandoned book idea (2013) Real Life Science “Maybe. Who cares?” said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. “Perhaps I’m old and tired,” he continued, “but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to…
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Sailing Moreton Bay (Quandamooka) (Part 2)
Sailing Moreton Bay Continued… So …we have a boat for sailing Moreton Bay …big enough to sleep on, small enough to sail single handedly and possessing something our good ship Laafin couldn’t boast – a keel that lifts up when we need to get into the shallows, or away from the sand bars that we…
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We bought a boat in Moreton Bay
We bought a boat in Moreton Bay Brisbane – Queensland’s Whitsundays? (Part 1) We bought a boat in Moreton Bay …this is our story… When I first arrived in Brisbane via first class sleeper train from Melbourne (I know, exotic right?) in 1988, the beautiful local girl I found to show me around (I have…
