Travelogue: A Photo Blog

First Rain in the Savannah

2011-10-29T18:22:00.002+08:00

Can you hear it?Yes! The thunder!Can you see it?Yes! It's getting darker!Toop...Ooh the first big drop on the ground!Look at that! It's about 1cm in diameter!Toop...Ooh I caught it on my open arm!Toop...Now my shoulder!I look up at the rain cloudsand got the next one on my face!Yes it is raining people! It is pouring down now!I ran into the chicken penthe chickens are hiding under the flower

Queen E in yellow

2011-07-14T14:41:00.001+08:00

"Mr PM, did you have a lovely weekend?"

Peaceful protest

2011-07-11T00:00:00.006+08:00

The owners of this shoplot felt safe enough to lean back and take a look.Cafe patrons watching life pass by.Police cars were allowed to pass through.Policeman on bike didn't have to fear for his life.Watch police, are they rioting?Police allegedly kick and arrest a peaceful protestor.

Heroes

2011-07-10T23:45:00.005+08:00

It was a moment of reflection as this elderly man in the wheel chair went past.As soon as people noticed him, they clapped and cheered. He had walked with his crutches all the way up to the Stadium Merdeka hillside, despite the train service disruption, right to where the FRU blockade was, as close as he could get to the stadium.One man in the crowd said "You are a hero!"He replied "I am not the

Bersih 2.0 bad for business

2011-07-10T23:15:00.003+08:00

The authorities said Bersih 2.0 would affect business.Brisk sales for ice-cream man, barely 300 metres from Stadium Merdeka.On the contrary, this public car park had no business. Guess who diverted traffic and blocked the roads into KL?

How does 6,000 people look like?

2011-07-10T21:08:00.008+08:00

UMNO's Majlis Penerangan Perdana on July 10 was claimed to attract 6,000 participants.[View photos from UMNO Online.]IGP estimated 6,000 people turned up for the Bersih 2.0 rally the day before.How many does this look?These photos were just from the Chinatown/Stadium Merdeka area and excludes other hotspots ie KLCC, Dataran Merdeka.Wonderful birds-eye view of KLCC area.[Watch on YouTube]

Cowboys

2010-12-01T16:40:00.008+08:00

Never thought we'd be cowboys.Riding along with our cowboy hats.Leading cattle across the creek.Mustering with the mob.Chasing bulls into sunset.Rounding 'em all into the yard.Driving the cattle for the draft.Never thought we'd be cowboys.

I'm adopted

2010-11-30T16:49:00.004+08:00

We know of that shocking moment when people realise that they're adopted, that the parents they knew are not the parents they knew. Today our baby Tongue found out that she's not a human but a cow.She had been hearing the lowing of the recently mustered cattle from the yard. And probably pleasantly surprised to actually understand the language. Then she watched as these things that looked like

Proud dad

2010-11-29T00:10:00.004+08:00

There are some simple moments in a toddler's life that can only just make a dad proud.For the first time, hearing her say 'Maaaa!' instead of 'Moooo!'Observing how she discovers her world through touch.And taste.Watching her relate with kids her size.And seeing that gaudy baby of yours grow from the first time you saw herInto something more healthy and more handsome like you.There is also the

Rescue 911

2010-11-27T03:53:00.000+08:00

She was just about a day old when we first saw her. Weak and fragile, she was still shaking on bony stilts.We were gathering firewood when we found her all alone. We returned a half hour later, but her mother was still nowhere to be found, believed to have been taken by a crocodile.So this whole baby thing was quite unplanned.We didn't even manage to get a proper baby car seat!

Unlucky Lucky

2010-11-12T14:36:00.001+08:00

He was born Lucky. But you could say he had an unlucky start. His mother gave birth to him at a fuel station in a rural country town. Barely weeks old, his family gave him away because they had one too many.Luckily, a new loving home took him in and fed him well. There weren't many luxuries like in the big cities, but better than the others next door. Really, compared to the neighbours', he was

Baby blues

2010-11-08T22:36:00.018+08:00

First I have to apologise for not keeping our writing up to date. In the last nine months. we’ve not had much time or opportunity to do many online updates. Being busy with a new life, adjusting to changing routine, taking each day as it comes, and savouring every moment.Regardless, you may have already heard the news. The start definitely hasn't been easy - non-stop crying, late night feeding,

Sitrep

2010-09-05T06:53:00.002+08:00

in case you are wondering, we have just crossed the border of Western Australia into Northern Territory.

I wish I were a whale

2010-08-29T14:06:00.004+08:00

I wish I were a whaleThen I will need no passport or visato cross the Indian Ocean before I head back down to the Atlantic every year I will swim by this beautiful place for freeup to the warmer sea with probably my mating partner, and our other families we breach above the wavessplash the surface back into the oceankeep on singing our songs with all our friendskeep breathing out the water in

Windfarm and Crayfish Lunch

2010-08-29T13:57:00.002+08:00

typical WA scenery - the ol' windmill and the ol' pump tank. 54 world largest wind turbines, each one towers at 78m, around the sunflowers. They generate 90MW of power which equivalent of removing 80,000 cars from the road each year. and we... were happily having our crayfish lunch at this magnificent clean energy windfarm.

Softest sand

2010-08-28T20:45:00.000+08:00

The Softest WA Sand Beach Award has to go to Dongara near Port Denison.The sand is as soft as talc, pure luxury for the feet.Even the dog can't get enough of it.

Wind and waves

2010-08-25T21:09:00.000+08:00

The next day we took a detour to a lookout point and tested our new Olympus SP600UZ.Pretty impressive 15x zoom.A windfarm! The Emu Downs Wind Farm has 48 turbines, each 110 metres in height with 41 metre long blades weighing 7.5 tonnes per blade.Our lunch stop by the beach at Thirsty Point.

Moore River

2010-08-24T20:53:00.001+08:00

Our first night freecamping, just along Moore River, down the road from Yanchep National Park.We certainly took slow traveling to the most, barely driving 100km away from Perth before stopping for our first night.The place was almost just for ourselves.Also the chance for my first diary entry for this Big Aussie Trip.

Mohawk

2010-08-13T08:27:00.001+08:00

A self-inflicted accident with the blade just before theatre practice meant that all my beautiful black hair had to go. Alex and Cara, with all their experience from pruning weeds and trimming horses, gladly took the responsibility.The end result - a bit like horse mane.

sunset movie board

2010-07-26T20:38:00.005+08:00

sunset one sunset one and a half sunset one and three quarter- Chapman Valley, 12 June 2010 -

beachy? sandy? porky?

2010-07-26T20:27:00.008+08:00

it's impossible to leave no trace hereeven him, will try to mess a lil with the silkiness Lancelin is probably your guess, no?Of course no! we own this private beach and dunes here Uncrowded, unspoiled, absolutely freesunset over the bak kut teh ta-da-da-ta-da!- Sandy Cape, 11 June 2010 -

Fingers beneath the Golden Desert

2010-07-25T11:20:00.005+08:00

under the 360