Random thoughts and observations
We returned to Mount Gambier today after a lovely two-week holiday in the Alpine Shire region of North East Victoria, where we used to live. The video shows the kids jumping into the Ovens River at Porepunkah. We stayed in a four-bedroom holiday house on the Buffalo Creek Road, south of Myrtleford. It was a [...]
We were curious when we returned to Porepunkah to see if Dude’s oak tree was still there. When he was three or four years old, about 10 years ago, my parents gave Michael and Kathleen each an acorn, which they planted in pot plants. Kathleen’s failed to grow, while Michael’s thrived. He planted it in [...]
We visited Porepunkah today for the first time since we left almost four years ago exactly.
Winters in Kalgoorlie are short and not very cold, but temperature is a relative thing. It does get down to zero in Kalgoorlie, but it’s a dry crisp cold, and days starting that way tend to warm up nicely. I only encountered a handful of days when the wind was strong enough and chilly enough [...]
Cleaning up before a big move always reveals some nostalgic items. Today I came across CDs containing copies of the Alpine News. This was a weekly newspaper that Juliet and I produced from our home in Porepunkah for six months from July 2002 to January 2003. It circulated in the Bright area and reached a [...]
