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Monthly Archives: January 2007

The Secret to Driving A Manual Car (and the First Day of School)

I learnt the secret of driving manual cars today. As you may remember, we had our paddock slashed and baled several days ago. Well today, the slasher lent us his ute to pick up those bails. He even said that one of us kids could drive it around! Naturally I, being the only one who can drive, was appointed to do the driving. My job was to drive down the rows and stop every time there were some bails lying around. My dad did the hard work of throwing them on. Each ute load held exactly 24 bails, and we did four loads. That meant that we transported 96 bails!

Anyway, when I first started the ute and tried to drive forward, the ute stalled. Read More »

January 29, 2007 – 12:00 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Information for Locals, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park | Comments (0)

Australia Day Celebrations at Yeppoon

Please note this is an old article (Australia Day 2007)

Many kites were being flown over the beach

Flying Kites on Yeppoon Main Beach

Today is Australia Day. We celebrate Australia Day because 219 years ago to the day, the First Fleet landed in Sydney. Every Australia Day, many people become Australian Citizens in a special ceremony. Anyway, enough history and on to a recount of the celebrations at Yeppoon.

First up, we walked to the KBSC who were offering free sailing boat rides. My sisters and I all had a ride. I decided that going out in the powered rubber boat was much more fun than sailing, which was a bit too slow for my liking.

After the boat rides, we went up to the entertainment area, where the Big Top Circus was performing. Well actually, there wasn’t a big top and the sole contents of the circus were 2 – 3 clowns and a hula-hooper. I didn’t think that they were that good.

After that, we wandered the stalls and bumped into friends. Below are some photos that I took while I was there.

The boats out from the Keppel Bay Sailing Club January 26, 2007 – 3:00 pm | Posted in Information for Locals, Yeppoon | Comments (0)

A Perfect Summer’s Day

As you must have guessed by the title, today was a really nice one. Although the temperature was a bit hot, there was a gentle breeze blowing that counteracted the heating effect. I decided to join my sisters in the dam this morning, and I had a great time. Most of the fun was caused by some water flippers, like the ones used to go snorkeling. They allowed me to go much faster than I normally could with no flippers. Once I took the flippers off though, my feet felt a bit strange. It would be like swimming with your hands for a while, then cutting them off and trying to swim without them.

The Slasher

Today, and for the past 3 days, we have had a slasher slashing our paddocks. Today he was raking up all the grass, as you can see by the photos below.

A view of our paddock slashed

A view of the slasher

The Tripod

Now, about the tripod. From what I can read on the tripod, it is a Gitza–Gilux, Weekend–Performance, made in France. The head that we put on it is a Manfrotto, made in Italy. It is a fairly small tripod, with 2 extra leg sections to make it taller. The head is a bit big for it, as the tripod that I have didn’t come with a head. Because of that we had to take the head off another tripod that my dad had. I think the most useful things for it will be taking long exposure and supermacro shots. You can see some photos of it below.

A photo of my tripod

A photo of the head of the tripod

A photo of the brand of the tripod

January 25, 2007 – 12:00 pm | Posted in Daily Life, Photography, Woodbury, Bungundarra & Adelaide Park | Comments (0)

Capricorn Coast Picnic Spots

The following is my list of the top picnic spots on the Capricorn Coast, ordered by distance away from Yeppoon, starting from furtherest away.

Kemp Beach

This picnic spot is actually part of the Capricorn Coast National Park. It’s located right on the beach, and walking trails that go around the hill near it are very popular with joggers. There are many bush turkeys living around the area too, so it is not advisable to leave food unattended. There are lots of trees covering most of the picnic area, so it is nice and cool most of the time. Read More »

January 24, 2007 – 4:48 pm | Posted in Causeway Lake, Kemp Beach & Mulambin, Information for Locals, Information for Tourists, Yeppoon | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

A New Design

Well, I was sitting around this afternoon wondering what do to. I decided to design a nice website template. And because I don’t want a boring post, I put a screenshot down below.

The buttons on the left are the navigation, and they turn yellow when hovered upon. The image is from my photoblog, and I set it as a background image in the CSS.

January 22, 2007 – 12:00 pm | Posted in Internet & Web Design | Comments (0)