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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…