Archive for the 'Sydney' Category

We had a little birthday party for Andres today – we invited a few friends and family around to help us celebrate his first birthday. After a cool start to the day, it turned out to be a glorious afternoon and we had afternoon tea out on the back lawn. Leanne out-did herself with creating [...]

We woke this morning to a strong smell of dust in the air – but we were not prepared for what we saw when we got up and looked outside! One of the worst dust storms in Sydney’s history – soil blown in from the inland deserts and western farming regions on strong westerly winds. [...]

Took Andres to Taronga Zoo today for the first time. This was supposed to be an outing for our adoption support group, but nobody else turned up at the allotted time, so we spent the day there on our own instead. I prefer it that way anyway! I got some good photos – although I [...]

Jimmy, a friend of mine from Queensland was in town for work and had a free afternoon – asked if I would like to come do some landscape photography with him. He picked me up and I directed him up to Kuringai Chase National Park where we drove around looking for the ideal spot to [...]

Leanne’s parents are staying with us for a few days – we took them out to Kuringai Chase National park and did some walking around West Head and other nearby walking tracks. This is quite a spectacular area of Sydney, with the mouth of the Hawkesbury River and many inlets and coves forming an intricate [...]