Group Kakadu Trip

Posted on 9 September, 2012 by stuart

Awesome three day Kakadu trip.

Rowen, Claire and I went down and saw Nourlangie the first night, did some stargazing at Mardugal, before meeting up with the others the next day.

The next day we went to Gubara for a swim and a bushwalk, and onto Ubirr for sunset.

On the last day we had a sunrise cruise and fishing trip at Yellow Water, Chops managed to get an undersized barra, saw some big crocs and Jabiru’s.

Got some really good photos there two, probably my two favourite from Kakadu were taken here. Both got touched up as I needed to remove Claire’s annoying date stamp! Taught myself photoshop for that single reason, otherwise they are totally untouched, so I hope you like them.

First houseboat trip

Posted on 12 May, 2012 by stuart

The first time I went down to the Mary River Houseboats was in May of 2012. I can’t remember a huge amount about it except for one important fact:

Chops caught a freshwater barra and it was delicious.

Everyone who claims they can’t be eaten are wrong, at least for this one.

The other thing I remember is that little baby ducks had hatched and were following their parents from one side to the other. Simple enough? Nah, the crocs were at them. The parents would fly to another area to trick the croc into submerging in the wrong area. But then the hawks would swoop in on the baby ducks. The parents would fight them. And the crocs… well you get the idea. About half were making it – the balance of nature I guess. But was David Attenborough worthy.

Paradise Valley 2012

Posted on 6 April, 2012 by stuart

Another great easter!

Dugong Beach Trip

Posted on 16 September, 2011 by stuart

A good friend of mine was having a 30th, so they decided to do a camping trip at Dugong Beach on Whitsunday Island. It is home of the famous Whitehaven Beach, but it is a huge island, and one isn’t really accessible from the other. “Damn” I thought.

Well I turned out to be wrong. It was, and still is, the best place I have camped. The beaches were amazing, great sunset, fishing (I only managed a small bream, despite the all the effort), crabbing, a great bushwalk up to a lookout that could only seen to be believed.

Not trying to sound conceited but the photos taken are not photoshopped in anyway, taken on the “auto” setting of a Canon Powershot D10. It looked way better than they seem.

And the trip was great, great chat, lots of people, everyone just having a ball. How could you not? The place was paradise.

Sunset fishing, I just got a bream