Canoe Trip Kangaroo Valley

Kangroo Valley canoe trip - the surprise mystery weekend I've been enticing Templeton for months.

On the first day we stopped over at Fitzroy Falls where we spotted a beautiful Lyall Bird, and stayed the night in the township of Berry at the Bunyip Inn which was very Victorianly gorgeous, follwed by breaky at the bakery round the corner.







Second day we hired the canoes and extra camping gear from Kangaroo Safaris - they dropped us off at a bank on Lake Yarrunga (yep, still there!!) the catchment which supplies Sydney with water, where we canoed downstream and camped over night finishing off at Tallowa Dam on the third day. Absolutely the best outdoor experience to date.

walk against warming

Pics from the well attended Walk Against Warming in Canberra today

My new food blog

Food not only harness my life but it completes it. Woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning obviously and decided it might be nice if only I had a food blog. Bring it on Kylie Kwong!

Have a go at my recipes and lemme know how you went:
http://iplayfire.blogspot.com/

Rain!

At last! Rain!

Its almost sad that I connect rain with specific memories - what I was doing last time it was raining, that time when we went to the gallery it was raining, the chalk writing on the footpath is finally washed off...

That gingery smell of wet bark - the warm "chill" in the air coupled with the smell rising from the earth, grey dots filling the concrete, the distant sound of thunder running up to my chest from my feet.

The drip on my forehead, the dry grass sticking to my bare feet, under the black bucketing sky.

This smells like home, and when you are home you run outside and dance like crazy like there's no tomorrow. Dance! Rain! Dance!