A camera catchup

Some pictures from my SLR taken on our road trip to Canberra & more recently in China Town for the New Year Celebrations.

 We had already done a check for snakes!

 Mid picnic - it's a serious business

 ....or not.....

 Tongue curler extraordinaire

 Andy-Pand

 Wow.  Really, just wow.  View to the left.

 ...and view to the right, the view straight in front of me was a huge wind farm.  I know some people don't like them but I think there is something quite charming about a power source that is so huge, mostly silent and green!

 This was a dirt road around 30k's long, proper red dust, between Canberra and Jervis Bay.  This was the road that I spotted the big dead black snake.

 And we crossed over a large mountain/hill range (Great Dividing Range?) and the weather changed from the dirt road sort of day to a cool, foggy, drizzly & slightly damp day!  Weird.  It stayed like this as we drove over the other side and down to the coast.

 Our car proudly stamped with the red dust evidence that this 4x4 has been off road.

This Sunday just gone we made our way into Sydney using the tried and tested ferry method which is usually no trouble at all.  Unfortunately it appears peak holiday season, hot weather & the kids on holidays makes for not enough ferry seats.  One long boring story or the short one being we ended up catching the ferry from Darling Harbour back to Circular Quay to be the 1st ones to board the ferry back up the river as there was no hope of getting on the previous one.  It's not that hard....put more ferries on....!

Anyway, we had a good visit into China Town and saw the Lion Dance!  Vibrant, colourful, energetic and general feel good entertainment.  Finn & Isla were mesmerised.  We snuck into a Chinese restaurant for lunch - the Golden Harbour.  Great food, Dim Sum which was lovely and the real buzzing atmosphere.

 One of 6 lions.  It seems they were probably made up from the local Kung Fu team which would explain how very limber they were!  Quite a sight.

The guys providing the music.

A good, hot day rounded off with 2 hours in the pool when we got home.  Perfect.

Finn & Isla have come on leaps and bounds in the pool and they will both now jump in without holding on to anything, bob up to the top for us to pull them out and be ready to do it all again...and again...and again.  I am so proud of how they have both progressed in such a short amount of time and how much they love the water.  Long may it continue.