20
January
2008
Once a year, Melbourne hosts the Australian Open. Now I am not the biggest of Tennis fans but the prospect of going to watch some of the world’s best is hard to ignore (plus Sharon loves to go) so we usually make a night of it and watch the two night games at the Rod Laver Arena. This year we got to see Davenport VS Sharapova (and yes those grunts are really irritating live) and Roddick VS Berrer which turned out to be a surprisingly good game, not the expected Roddick whitewashing the opposition.
I also took my Canon G9 along to test how it would handle the court lighting and how many blurs I would snap of the ball being hit at the 150+ KM speeds and was pretty impressed at how the G9 handed these demanding situations. (showing it’s true colours as one of the top notch point and click camera)
Posted: Out and About
24
June
2007
Brighton’s relatively famous bathing boxes built to protect the “modesty of bathers changing” date back (officially) to 1862. Prior to the Great Depression of the 1930s, between 100 and 200 bathing boxes were scattered along the Brighton foreshore, with many (boxes) being subsequently washed away during severe weather, leaving just 82 remaining..
Posted: Out and About
9
June
2007
With all the constant time demands with organising our upcoming wedding, Sharon & I needed some time out and escaped for the Queen’s Birthday long weekend, taking a drive along one of the most prettiest of roads in Australia (The Great Ocean Road). For anyone not familiar with this road, it is a stretch of road, a few hundred kilometres long that very literally follows some of Australia’s most stark coastline between Bass Strait and Southern Ocean (basically next stop would be Antarctica.)
Posted: Out and About
