Sunday, June 7, 2009

Adventure into the Hinterlands...Rock Falls

It was a late nite and I was feeling a little jazzy after the hike.  
Rock Falls.  a random rapids we stumbled across on our hike.  
Some more of the Australia Jungle.  
I was gonna save him, but it looked like a good picture. 
Crikey!  My best impression of the late great Steve Irwin.  I was so close to jumping in a wrestling a croc, jk, but seriously I brought the intensity.  

The Dreaming '09

This is James house we stayed at.  It's on top of a mountain and everything in it is all great carpentry.  Very relaxing.  
We were front stage for the Blue King Brown concert.  Awesome!  I have more videos of the Dreaming than pictures.  Ree is on the left and James is of course yelling.  
I have a video to better show what this is, but it's people riding this weird contraption around, interesting to say the least.  
Ahhh the didgeridoos, we got to hear a lot of them playing all throught the festival, but this was a shop were they were handmaking them on the spot.  Very cool sound. 
This is an indigenous african drumline.  They were sweet, I again have more videos than i have pictures. 

Byron Bay

Stuffing my face full of 'Fish and Chips' on the beach.  I love the fact that I wore this jersey on this particular day, it later provided me with free drinks all nite.  My hair is awesome btw.
Body surfing
We really do own the ocean.
I love beaches, what starts with a b and ends in h...not a bitch, BEACH!
Byron Bay 64 km.  New South Wales.  We (James, Jonna, Jess and myself)  roadtripped down to Byron Bay, Jess shopped, and while James and I went to the beach and Jonna took all the pictures.  

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Surf Weekend

The crew...left to rite...James, Jonna, Jon, Al

I'm all done surfing and into the street clothes.
Wax on, wax off.  Ok...I got it Mr. Miyagi
Maybe I got a little to carried away.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Tetri Beach in Noosa

This is on the drive home, this is actually Peregian Beach with the full moon out, no clouds.  
Me after a long day of surfing and being a beachbum.  I'm tired.
I didn't make this, but I thought it was cool.  I'm standing where I think the sunshine coast is.  
Tetri Beach as the sun goes down.  
Just got in from the amazing surf and the sun was setting on Tetri beach.  
Tetri beach we we got there.  It's called Tertri beach of all the tea trees behind it-sidenote.


Still Tetri Beach.  
Look at those amazingly smooth waves.  It was the calmest surf and the waves were glorious.  

Peregian Beach and Mudjimba Beach

Baywatch anyone, except better.  This is peregian beach.  We attempted to surf it.
Sometime you just have to turn things upside down.  
Urban walking, you know what i'm talking about.
Despite what you think, there is a beach to the right of this picture.  
Mudjimba beach, and the beach is off to the right.  

Mt. Coolum

This is Mudjimba island and here is the aboriginal story behind it.  I thought it was cool (um)--bad joke, but judge for yourself.  The name "Maroochy" comes from a local Aboriginal legend. It tells how Ninderry, a rival from another clan, stole a beautiful young woman called Maroochy from Coolum, the man whom she was to marry.

When Coolum rescued his bride by stealth, Ninderry chased them. He caught up with them, and, throwing a boomerang, succeeded in knocking off Coolum's head, which rolled into the sea and is represented today by Mudjimba Island. His body is represented by Mount Coolum. For his treacherous attack, Ninderry was turned into stone by the wrathful gods.

Maroochy fled inland, where she wept so copiously that her tears flowed down the mountain to form the Maroochy River.

A different view of the hike.  
I may have been a little over excited.
So from the top of Mt. Coolum, you can see Caloundra in the way way back behind the pennisula/lighthouse.  Then comes the peninsula (Kawana beach is behind it.  Mooloolaba is on the turn of the corner then Alexandria headlands, Marachydore and Coolum is the closest town that is cut off, kinda.  I hope that makes sense, but that's pretty much the extent of all my beach travels from the top of one mountain, kinda sad, so we decided to go to some more beaches after the climb. 
A nice view from the top.  Where's wALdo?  Good fun.