Mt. Elmore

Chrissy and I went snowshoeing up Mt. Elmore yesterday. Nice little hike on a gorgeous day! As usual, the pictures don't quite capture how pretty it was.




What's better than 1 Chrissy?


4 Chrissy's!




The sky was an amazing shade of blue. Doesn't even come close to capturing it.

Done with Australia

By now, you all know that I've made it back from Australia. Here's a couple pictures from my last trip there. It's sure good to be home and things are great here. A bit unsure what to do with my future, but I'll get that figured out. Enjoy the pictures.


Skandia Geelong Week regatta.


International Moth hydrofoil dinghy.


Sea dragon? Washed ashore after a storm.


Sun setting over the Barwon River.


The Southern Cross. Best picture I could get of it...


Another nice beach around the corner from Bell's Beach.


Spiral Aloe at the Geelong Botanical Gardens.


What I worked out of for the past 10 weeks. 5.5 foot clearance inside... awesome.


The refinery from a distance.


Bleeding rocks near Bell's Beach. There had just been a landslide, and this is oxidation (rust) from the freshly broken rocks.

Holidays!

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas like I did! Thanks for the nice gifts! I hope you have received yours by now. Sorry they took a while to get there. Here are some photos of our holiday celebrations down in Boston with Chrissy's family. Good times. :)


Christine's Uncle Kenny (L) and Gary (R), her twin sister's husband.


Me, Chrissy, and Stef (her twin).


Chrissy, Stef, and her older sister Andrea.


Gary and Stef.


Me, Chrissy's childhood friend Amy, and Chrissy.


Stef & Gary, Chrissy & Me, Andrea & Evan (her husband).


The twins and their mom, Debbie.

Finally back home! Here's some more pictures from my last weekend in Australia (last one of this trip anyway, I have to go back).


Me and a tree fern.


Kangaroo fern epiphytes.


Tree ferns from above.


More tree ferns. So cool.


In the canopy. Blackwood tree. How'd I get up there?


The Otway Flyway! 47 meters up at the highest point and swayed like the trees. Really neat.


Fern gully...


The coast near the mouth of the Aire River. Gorgeous area.


Warning sign at Erskine Falls. No worries!


Erskine Falls, near Lorne.

Vegetation pics for Teal.

Here's some other pics of the vegetation. Really neat little spot. Where we are in Geelong, it's much drier and arid. This is down in an area called the Otway's, along the coast.


Fern Gully. Jess (closer person) is 6'. Seth (background) is almost my height. For scale...


Tree fern? Didn't most of these sorts of plants die off in the Carboniferous? What do you think Teal?

More Australia.

Sorry I've been a bit out of touch lately. Haven't really had too much time for work. Work itself has been fairly typical, with the exception that we're surrounded by stuff that could catch fire and/or explode and destroy an entire city. Not to mention the noxious chemicals like Vinyl Chloride, Hydrofluoric acid, and Hydrogen Sulfide gas. Just another day at the Shell Oil Refinery.
Not allowed to take any pictures of that, but I have taken some more of the beach and stuff.
So here they are...


Bell's Beach.










The Bass Straight (between Australia and Tasmania).


Old Eucalyptus grove.

Australia