Its safe to say that Xavier Rudd is one of my favorite artists of all time. I've been to many of his shows in Toronto, in Madrid Spain, in Glasgow Scotland. This was my first in Australia, his home country. The show was in Ballina, a little inland town about 40 mins away from Byron, claiming its fame by being home to the giant prawn. We didn't see the prawn, couldn't find it actually, some giant.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Xavier Rudd in his own country!
Saturday, December 27, 2008
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Hope everyone has had a good Christmas! We did it up well decorating our stockings, sugar cookies and consuming far to much baked goods thanks to Elizabeth. We all agreed it felt a little weird sort of like it was July and we were having some sort of pretend half-christmas celebration. But hey, the weather was hot, the beach was filled with santa hats and what better way to work off some of those cookies then with a mid-day surf (sadly, or maybe happily in ankle deep waves).
Monday, December 22, 2008
So much to say...
So I've fallen behind with the old blog, but I've also been busy! Out and about in town, up the coast, concerts, Elliot came to visit and then I went to visit him in Perth, its been happy times all round. I've decided to start tossing up random pictures and stories in no particular order to keep those interested informed.
.. the bite, notice the outer and inner circles. yowza. bugs love me.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
November 11th, one to remember.
After we take a minute to silently remember our soliders and say happy birthday to Leonardo Dicaprio, its time to also remember November 11th as a day that Byron went off, tubes were rampant and everybody surfed, except me, I took photos. My board was landlocked at home, and sadly with no car I am bound to time constraints revolving around daylight, riding my bicycle with surfboard under arm and the 10mins of near shoulderless highway biking as the bike path ends before my house. The bike path is currently being extended but we have heard projections of four years before it is complete due to council budgeting.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Cairns....no wait, CANS, the first of many lessons on how to read in Australian.
From Ayers Rock we flew to the coastal town of Cairns. Located in the Northern part of Queensland, Cairns serves a a major port for tours of the Great Barrier reef as well as four wheel drive tours further north into the Daintree rainforest and along the unsealed roads past Cape Tribulation.
It wasn't long before kate arrived got over jet lagged incredibly fast and joined us on an excursion into the bottom end of the Daintree rainforest for some wicked natural icecream and stunning views of the coast.