Far North QLD - Port Douglas

We took a week off to go up to the Far North Queensland. It's a 2.5 hour flight to Cairns from Sydney.


The towns we visited were:
Cairns,Port Douglas, Palm Cove, Kuranda, Cape Tribulation
and the Great Barrier Reef (life changing place!)


We based ourselves at the Manta Links Golf estate in Port Douglas. Port Douglas is around a 1 hr drive north of Cairns - I have clearly changed as I never took my golf clubs!


4 Mile Beach at Port Douglas.


Juice on 4 Mile Beach . "Too Easy" as the locals say about their lifestyle.


Down town Port Douglas. Port Douglas is one of the many gateways to the barrier reef.


One of the local drinking holes.

Fun Sunday out

Well the Sydney "winter" just doesn't seem to exist this year.




Juice, Leigh and Shaun standing at Palm beach.


kookaburras


Went to Palm Beach jetty for lunch.


The tough life at Palm Beach.


Collaroy Beach


While Kimble did his race Juice,Leigh and Shaun enjoyed a coffee at Collaroy.


Today I did the Pub2Pub 13km run.


Had a really fun run with a few tough hills and a beach run for the start.


Happy to be at the finish line in 1h11.

City 2 Surf 2009

Once again it was City 2 Surf time.

When 75000 Sydneysiders come out to run / walk the 14km from Sydney CBD to Bondi Beach.

As you can see it gets somewhat crowded at the start.

This year Martin and Janice also took part.

Juice walked with Martin and Janice seen as Kimble had decided to use it as a training run. Although there's a lot of work before IM, I was very happy with my time of 1h11

Ironman WA - Entered.

It's done! I have entered Ironman WA (Western Australia) no turning back now.

The Ironman is the longest form of triathlon.

Swim: 3.8 km

Cycle: 180 km

Run: 42.2 km

What would life be without a few challenges?

Yes, this is going to be a long day out to say the least.

Busselton in about 3 hours drive south of Perth.

General Out and About

The weather has been great in Sydney over the past few weeks. So we've made the most of it.

Down at Cremorne Point for Lynda's B-Day

This was the most unbelievable chocolate thing ever!

Darling Harbour off to the maritime museum to an exhibition about Charles Darwin.

Yes, it's true! Juice has bought herself a ticket to see BRITNEY SPEARS.

The little possum we rescued after it was attacked by a cat.

Another footy game. Sydney Swans v St kilda.

Yet another great Sunday out at Coogee Beach.

AFL - Swans vs The Bombers

On Sat Kimble and a few mates went down to the SCG

to watch The Swans (Syd) vs The Bombers (Melb)

This was Shaun and Gerrie's 1st AFL Game.

Kimble wearing his Bombers jumper.

There was almost a full house at the SCG for the game.

The Bomebers - the team Kimble supports won

Score:

Swans 10.12 - 72

Bombers 15.17 - 107

Whale watching

Fortunately the weather has been great in Sydney...ie: No rain!

So Juice and I thought we'd go whale watching.

We joined Dave and Lynda

Awwww our first whale sighting about 2km off Sydney mainland.

We were informed that this was a large whale pod of around 9 whales.

The whales are heading up north to the warmer waters off Queensland.

After 1,5 hrs of bobbing around like a cork it was time to head on back. The poor lady next to Juice could hardly wait as she was sooooo sea sick!

Sydney in the distance.