Archives: Laurie

Well, we’ll find out on Friday if the judge at the Bega show thinks Lesley’s raspberry jam is a winner. I reckon, right now, it’s a winner!

Bega, lying in a horseshoe of the Bega River and opposite the junction with the Brogo River, is a town built around the river and river flats. Bega, built on the undulating hills that overlook the fertile dairy farming and cropping land, which to a great extent fuels the Bega economy.

Camping at Thurra River Camp in Croajingolong National Park, I wandered along the beach and made a video from the view point of a digital still photographer, featuring a log washed up on the beach and half buried.

Well, Nicky and I were enjoying one of our camping adventures when Nicky came out with the question “Was Great Grandpa an adventurer?”

Well, it’s always nice to be camped somewhere near the toilets. Ya know, ya don’t want to walk too far in the night or even at bed time for that matter.

The other day my grandson Nicky told me that flys spew on their food and then suck it up.

I like a feed when I’m camping!
On this occasion, camping at Point Hicks in Croajingalong National Park in Victoria’s East Gippsland, I had my small caravan. Ah, fridge, gas stove, comfy bed, out of the weather; the comforts of home, almost!

Well, I’d got set up at Thurra River camp in Croajingolong National Park, had some lunch and a well earned rest, and felt like a wander along the beach with the digital camera.

As a small boy, electrical storms frightened me. I’d had a few big frights and had grown to hate and fear lightning and thunder.
I’ve always been an adventurer, ya know. When I was about 14 to 16, a mate and I used to go camping on our pushbikes. This night we had a terrific electrical [...]

Camping in Seven Gates Hut at Lake Eucumbene, once again, I made a time exposure image, overlooking Lake Eucumbene and the town of Old Adaminaby.