MDR, PB & MB hiked up to Glacier Rock today from the Douglas Track at Kamerunga. MB scrambled up the mountain with her new hi-tech Leki Super Makalu hiking pole (gift from PB). MB & PB were no match though for the Silverback, he raced ahead getting to Glacier Rock first. Hiking time, up and back, was 3 hours. Glacier Rock is just above the Kuranda Railway line.
Sunday, July 31, 2005
Australian National Tree Day - 31July
National Tree Day is Australia's biggest community tree-planting event. Last year more than 250,000 volunteers planted a million native trees and shrubs at 3,200 sites Australia wide.
MDR & PB celebrated this special day by ruthlessly felling two palms from MDR's Dad's garden (PB said "It felt like we cut down a hundred.")
MDR & PB celebrated this special day by ruthlessly felling two palms from MDR's Dad's garden (PB said "It felt like we cut down a hundred.")
Thursday, July 7, 2005
Melbourne Trams, Mentally ill & Random Violence
Melbourne wouldn't be Melbourne without a tram experience. Usually when I travel on a tram in Melbourne I attract mentally ill people who insist on sitting next to me and talking nonsense at me, so far they've always been harmless & non-threatening. Today I was travelling in one of those fancy, brand new Yarra trams going through Bourke St Mall. I got myself a window seat so I could watch the teeming masses outside. All of a sudden one of the masses broke out of the crowd (a young guy wearing a beanie) ran across the road and punched the tram just under the window of the seat in front of me, then ran off again. The chap in said seat didn't see this random act of violence but he heard it and nearly jumped out of his seat. I couldn't help smiling, but quickly reverted to the serious, aloof look that Melbourne commuters have to adopt.
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