Side shore

A few waves this weekend...

Somewhere nearby...

SUP lefts

Unknown surfer...
Me heading out.Photo attribution Elizabeth Thorpe.

Dust cloud

From NASA's great Earth Observatory site.

Wednesday 23rd September 2009. Details here http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=40274&src=eoa-iotd

the dust storm is probably more than 3000 km from north to south

Vacation time: surf, sun, sand, and, well, dust & lightning too.

Curious Aussie magpie: 30 deg C and sunny, small surf not worth showing the pics: remember you can see the pics larger if you click on themUp the coast: frothing 15 year olds surfing a protected peak

North Brother From Dunbogan
Dunbogan from North Brother
Who's this?
North Brother rainforest walk tree ferns and elkhorns

E has an affinity for purple flowers


And some others
Bangalow palms
A pea by any other name

North Brother in the distance
Finally some quality surf, if small


The flooded gums near Buladelah - the same type as the flooring E got recently.
And also the tallest tree in New South Wales is a flooded gum [Eucalyptus grandis] all 72 meters of it [about 240 feet]
Decided surfing wasn't such a good idea right then.
Central coast rainforest walk

King parrot
Crimson rosella in flight
Confused kookaburra - not laughing
No color retouching - this is how the dust storm looked from the inside


The sunlight turned blue
Finally the real deal quality surf - a favorite right hand point break



A
A few rocks
Nature's surfers
Perfect beach breaks & bowling lefts

Staining floors and starting formwork for the next floor

Spot the difference
Elizabeth's great idea to use ferrous sulphate fertilizer at $21 a bag as the staining agent for the floors.

However, a very large dollop of sweat equity for this item...
Lots of cleaning and scrubbing and recleaning - and now some further remedial work because of rain diluting some of the stain before it was sealed... large bummer