After our early get up to see the lunar eclipse, we dressed and went into Hobart for breakfast with Richard and my nephew, Thomas. They went to have their hair cut while John and I wandered around Salamanca Market. This is an outdoor street market by Hobart waterfront. It has over 300 stalls selling Tasmanian... Continue Reading →
Sights at night: the blood moon
I can’t resist an extra blog post because I’ve had great fun photographing the pademelons, the starry sky and the lunar eclipse. I even saw a shooting star for the first time... usually John sees them and I miss them! Pademelons are marsupials, which are smaller than wallabies, and they hop around Rich and Rach’s... Continue Reading →
Bonorong wildlife sanctuary and Richmond
Eight hours sleep! Fantastic! Unfortunately John wasn’t so lucky but, hopefully, we’ll both be ok tonight. Anyway... today we had a lovely morning meeting lots of Tasmanian wildlife, including wombats, Tasmanian devils and koalas, who were all super cute! Bonorong is a wildlife sanctuary, not a zoo, and primarily looks after Tasmanian native animals who... Continue Reading →
Falls and fossils
Jetlag sucks! I was feeling very sorry for myself today, and a bit grumpy, because I was wide awake from 1.00, while John managed to stay in bed until about 7.30! Because of this, we decided to stay locally, and not do anything very taxing. A walk to Snug Waterfalls in the morning and another to... Continue Reading →
Trip to Tas leg 3: Sydney to Hobart
I woke with a start at 3.50 in the morning, wondering where I was. John woke too, maybe because I'd disturbed him, so I made a cup of tea and we showered and got ready for our final flight to Hobart. There, my sister in law would be waiting to collect us to take us... Continue Reading →
Trip to Tas leg 2: Singapore to Sydney
My overwhelming feeling is of having lost 2 days. We've arrived in Sydney on Tuesday evening having left home early Monday and it feels as though the world has just kept turning around us while we were in some sort of weird time zone in the sky. We saw the sunrise over Singapore and we... Continue Reading →
Trip to Tas leg 1: Manchester to Singapore
We're in some sort of odd other world up the sky, where time makes no sense as we travel over 7000 miles on a 13-hour flight from Manchester to Singapore at almost 600 miles per hour. We left the house at 6 o'clock this morning and have been travelling for 13 hours so far, and... Continue Reading →
A trip to see the queen… sort of!
Yesterday, I took my mum and dad on a trip on a heritage train from Bangor to Windsor along the west coast main line, with West Coast Railways. Unfortunately it was a diesel train, rather than a steam train, but I'd booked premier dining, which included silver service of full English breakfast in the morning and... Continue Reading →
Meet Bertie BoxLife
People have been asking me and John about our new campervan, particularly what it's like inside and why we chose it. It's a Knaus BoxLife 630, which John has named 'Bertie'. I wasn't sure about this name at first but it seems to suit the van and has grown on me a lot. We loved... Continue Reading →
The 3 lighthouses challenge
Not my usual type of challenge as there was no running involved... Last weekend's challenge was to photograph the 3 main lighthouses on Anglesey – Penmon, Llanddwyn Island and South Stack. The day was a Welshot rewards day and the aim of the event was to be out all day, experimenting with photography and, hopefully capturing a... Continue Reading →