More Pidgeon house mountain

Photos taken from the top of Pidgeon house mountain, which is the morton national park.

Birds

The first three photos are from olympic park.


A sharp-tailed sandpiper.


Red-necked avocet


Black-winged stilt


A crested tern in non-breeding plumage, photo taken in Jervis bay, NSW


Little Egret, Jervis bay, NSW

Climbing at Mount Piddington

A couple of quick photos of a climbing trip to mount piddington with Alexis before he had to return to dirty old leads.


At the bottom of flake crack with Alexis, I could barely move after seconding it i was so pumped.


I didn't even contemplate trying to second this.


Nice lighting, but less than attractive pose.

A bit of trad

Went trad climbing yesterday in the blue mountains at mount Piddington. A lovely day although it could have been a bit cooler. It was a instructional course run by the SURMC and I managed to learn alot and have a good time doing it, even absailing off a climb in the dark when the last climb took a bit longer than expected was pretty good. Sadly no photos though. Also managed to see some rock warblers for the first time and some very large cunningham skinks as well.

The South Coast

A couple of photos from a trip down the south coast with Adelle and my parents.




From the top of Pidgeon House mountain which is an easy few hour stroll in Morton national park, NSW.

Alchemist Ball

Another quality alchemist ball has just finished. This year it was in the IMAX building in darling harbour.




Iain, Alan and I


Gary Glitter was a particulary bold costume choice.




Ricky as Zoro

Copenhagen

The last few photos from my overseas trip, this time all from Copenhagen the Danish capital.




Won't see this add in Australia.


The palace of "our Mary"


The famous little fish woman

Beware universities' quest for mediocrity

An interesting article on the current state of tertiary education.

Heat

It's getting really hot already and there is still ages to go before summer arrives. It is forcasted to hit 30 degrees celcius on friday. Luckily I will probably take the day off as it is the day after the ball.

All done

I gave my talk last week to a relatively receptive audience although I do feel a little sorry for the group members that had to endure so many appalling practise talks. Extremely glad it's finished and the drinks afterwards were good as well.