Category: Family

The Stig of the Darwin Fishing Fraternity… 0

The Stig of the Darwin Fishing Fraternity…

Fish tremble when his line hits the water. Some say he is the Peter Pan of fishing skill, playing a melodic tuna to lure fish to his vessel… Some say he hears the call...

Dry Season Flowers 0

Dry Season Flowers

In the dry season in Darwin our flowers come out in bloom. Although I primarily only have one type of orchid, this time of year the other couple pop out a flower. This type...

Trinidad Scorpion Chilli 0

Trinidad Scorpion Chilli

Here are the first pictures of a Trinidad scorpion chilli. Fittingly it came from a plant I gave my father last Father’s day. I have fruit on my plant as well, but they haven’t...

Restoring some of our history from Cyclone Tracy 0

Restoring some of our history from Cyclone Tracy

My Father offered me a rusting frame of what was obviously a table, letting me know it was the table 6 of us sheltered under for most of Cyclone Tracy from about midnight until...

Our 2013 – An interesting year 0

Our 2013 – An interesting year

2013 has been a year of ups and downs. Luckily most events have been good. If there is one good thing about taking a lot of photos with date stamps, you can at least...

Joe turns twelve in Lakes Entrance, has his first birthday with a party… and more 0

Joe turns twelve in Lakes Entrance, has his first birthday with a party… and more

We headed down to Lakes Entrance for Joe’s twelfth birthday and completion of one Chinese 12 year cycle (He was born in the year of the snake and this is his first full cycle...

Flower Photos from our Garden 0

Flower Photos from our Garden

Well our first cyclone of the season passed without problem and part of the process of cyclone preparation is about checking the garden. Normally this is done to secure potential flying missiles, but let’s...

New websites added to XsymetriX 0

New websites added to XsymetriX

I have been assisting the McMinns Lagoon community to set up their website and have included some photographs of the wonderful flora and fauna of the area. To find out where McMinns Lagoon is...

Joe’s Grandfather – Helen’s Father has passed away 0

Joe’s Grandfather – Helen’s Father has passed away

I am much more comfortable sharing good news, travel news or basically things that make us smile. Joe’s “Gong Gong” or Grandfather passed away last Saturday and I am in Melbourne assisting where possible...

3 houses for different purposes 0

3 houses for different purposes

In the picture below are two vessels. The large cruise ship is the Sea Princess which is one among 8 or so cruise ships docking in Darwin this month. These visitors help the economy...