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Sunday Selections @Snoskred 3

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For the next couple of weeks, I would like to take you along with me on my favourite walk. Where will we be walking? Here.

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Why do I love this particular footpath? There are many reasons – it involves two of my favourite towns in the world – Huskisson and Vincentia. It has a little bit of uphill and downhill but mostly it is flat. The scenery changes – you get sea and beach views, you get to look at some pretty fancy houses, you get greenery views, you walk past two caravan parks.. Let Us Go!

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This is looking back towards one of the Huskisson caravan parks – the footpath follows alongside it for a little bit here.

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This is the view looking in the opposite direction. We are up on a bit of a sea cliff here, not too high, but enough to climb a couple of floors according to Fitbit.

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Here is a spot near Vincentia where houses are on one side of the footpath while sand dunes and the beach are on the other side. Many of the beach houses along here are worth over 1 million dollars and are available to rent on Stayz.com.au and various other websites. Many of the houses have their own websites! And mixed in with those, are occasional weatherboard shacks.

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Some of the houses we have given nicknames to, and consider them as landmarks. This one here is known as the Circle House. It has a large balcony which follows the circular shape of this end of the house. We watched them build this house for a super long time, it was several years in the making.

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There is also a small part of footpath where you have the beach and sand dunes, footpath, then a road, then houses. The road is called Illfracombe Road.

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This spot has a bench where you can sit and watch everyone go by. I’m sitting on it, so you don’t get to see the bench. It is raised up a little, so you can see to the ocean.

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There are several places on the path where you enter a tree tunnel. Very pretty!

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Along the path there are many offshoot paths which take you down to the beach.

Next week, we will see what is at the end of this path, plus we’ll take a walk on the beach, because we can. :) And more footpath. :)

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Sunday Selections @Snoskred 2

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Part of the reason it is time to get moving again is to go out and enjoy all the awesomeness nearby. For our first Fitbit walk, we went down to Huskisson and parked next to the kids playground there, and walked over to Vincentia, then back again.

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There are some great footpaths around the bay and basin which we want to explore over the next few months. This was an 8km walk. All the tourists were in town so it was a little busy and we couldn’t park where we wanted. But no matter – we got out and we enjoyed our walk.

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This photo looks across Moona Moona creek. The tide was out, as you can see.

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This photo was taken near Vincentia and is overlooking Collingwood Beach. We did not walk on the beach this time – maybe another day. The footpath is beautiful and takes you past many amazing houses.

The Sunday Link Up

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Sunday Selections @ Drifting Through Life – Sunday Snap @ JibberJabberUK – The Maple Hill Hop @ Maple Hill 101

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Sunday Selections @Snoskred 1

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My Favourite Portulaca Photo Of 2015

Of course, it is apricot coloured. :) Normally I do a garden update on the first Sunday of the month, so here is a quick look at the backyard.

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The new portulacas are doing well.

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The sunflowers have begun to develop their flower heads. The chooks will deeply enjoy the seeds!

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The cat grass probably needs a trim back. There is not a huge amount going on in the covered garden box. This may have been a garden FAIL.

Also, my apologies for not remembering last week, for Andrew and anyone else who wanted to see the flytrap a week later once it caught a lot of flies, here is the link which will take you to the pic. Don’t click if you don’t want to see some very dead flies. ;) If I had to guess how many are in there, I’d say somewhere between 100-200. There are 5 other ones just as full.

Snoskred On Sundays 2016

For the past 6 months I have been participating in Sunday Selections via River from Drifting Through Life. A few weeks ago I also started linking up with Sunday Snap over at JibberJabberUK. I’m going to keep linking up with both of these going forward and I will be keeping an eye out for other link up opportunities.

From today onwards, I will be providing a very simple link up option here for anyone posting photos on their blog on a Sunday – known as The Sunday Linkup. This linkup is via Simply Linked, which I wrote a post about a while ago.

I hope that providing a simple way to link up might encourage more bloggers to join in and post images that would otherwise have remained hidden in folders on their computers forever.

If you are reading this, and you have folders on your computer with digital photos in them, why not join in? Everyone is welcome.

Adding your link to the list takes mere moments and I will promise to visit – and comment – on the links added each week.

The Rules –

There are only two rules. No spam links will be accepted. Your post must contain at least one image.

Why Participate?

To share images which might not otherwise see the light of day on your blog. To find new blogs and bloggers who you may not have found otherwise.

What Do The Numbers Mean?

I use week numbers so I can keep track of how fast the year is going. This is week one of 2016, so there will be 52 posts this year.

The Sunday Link Up

Link Title – The name you want to appear with your link eg Sunday Selections @Snoskred 1

Email Address – You can feel free to put in a fake one eg none@none.com – I’m not going to be emailing you, unfortunately I cannot remove this field.

URL – The link to your post.

The linkup will remain open until I close it, most likely on the following Saturday.. So you can add a post from any day of the week if you like.

Also Linking Up With

Sunday Selections @ Drifting Through Life – Sunday Snap @ JibberJabberUK – The Maple Hill Hop @ Maple Hill 101

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Carter Gets A New Hat

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A couple of months ago, we were sitting down at our local bowling club watching a band (sadly not The Villains) play and there were these kids with sparkly sequin hats. I said to The Other Half – I would like one of those for me!

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On a trip to Warrawong to get my car washed and pick up chicken from Lenards, I handed over the car keys and was told to return in 2 hours. We did some serious wandering around and in a shop called either Smart Dollar, Hot Dollar, or some other word I can’t recall in front of the Dollar, hats with sequins were discovered. For the low price of $5, I picked up this gorgeous purple number, and for the time being it resides on the skull of my excellent and quite silent friend Carter.

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He was already wearing this purple tee, it is just coincidence that the hat matches it. I had considered a few other colours, silver and pink, and decided that purple would go with the most outfits of mine.

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A profile view. Carter suggested keeping his beanie on, and the hat fits better that way. :)

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Plane Spotting

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This jumbo will NOT come to you as a surprise!

Ever since I was a baby, probably before I was even aware of it, I have been a plane spotter. I had grandparents who lived under the flight path in Adelaide, and the head office of the family business was also directly under the flight path – as in planes flying over so close you could almost touch them. My Nanna and Poppa were both crazy for planes and every single member of the family inherited this craziness.

There is just something special about a plane flying. The magical scientific mystery that it is even possible at all – that tonnes of metal can be lifted into the air – is awe inspiring and breath taking to watch.

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So, Qantas were retiring the first 747-400, and they decided to donate it to a little known outfit known as HARS – or the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society – little known unless you are a plane spotter like me and thousands of other plane geeks in Australia to whom HARS is a well known awesome band of volunteers who have kept the Connie and many other planes flying or in tip top shape to be displayed to the public for many years now.

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HARS have an excellent museum at the Illawarra Airport which will shortly be made all the greater for having the 747-400 VH-OJA “City of Canberra” on display.

This event was hyped up in the media and full respect to HARS because they deserve every single bit of media attention they can get.. but unfortunately, people are crazy and what happened was an example of sheer and utter lunacy.

It is not HARS fault, they had a plan. And they announced that plan very clearly in the days leading up to the event – where people could and could not be. However plans are just that, and there was no way in heck that anyone could have moved these people from the spots they had arrived at in the early hours of the morning.

We also had a plan, thinking that every man and his dog would want to be close to the end of the runway, we were going to the carpark of Hungry Jacks at Yallah. But when we got to the Yallah turn off? Gridlock. Nobody could go anywhere. The exit from the highway and the road that leads to Hungry Jacks was a carpark. ps1

Though you cannot see it in the image, there were cars and people stopped on the bridge that goes across the highway there. It turned out that there were cars parked all through Haywards Bay – I bet the residents there were super pleased! People parked their cars and then walked off in search of what they thought was the best vantage spot.

Cars were just parking wherever they felt like it, including in the no stopping lane on the highway, or like this one we spotted as we were leaving – that black car there is parked, there is no owner with the vehicle. SRSLY?

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I hate to be the one to tell these would be plane spotters – many of whom arrived at the airport this morning from 3am onwards in order to secure a decent vantage point – just one hour down the road in Sydney, large planes like this plus the A380 are landing all day every day, and you can get a lot closer and it is not nearly so crowded.

Anyway, we ended up next to a field in the middle of nowhere and yet not very far from the end of the runway, and we did get a couple of semi-decent shots.. though we had a lot of electrical wires to shoot around.

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I’ve been flown over by all kinds of planes many times, so I was perfectly fine with not being right at the end of the runway for this one. We will go back to see the plane close up once they open it to the world. HARS estimates this will be in a month or so. I will be able to fulfill one of the items on my bucket list, which is to stand right next to a 747.

While we were there to see the plane fly over, my parents were at home expecting to be able to view this on news channels who had spoken about bringing the landing live to everyone – and when it came time for the landing? Nothing. They were airing a speech by Barack Obama instead. KTHX Obama, I know you are fascinating and all, but this was a special local moment which should have gone live to air.

Later on they discovered the landing was on Sky via the multichannel where you press red to see extra channels, and all you get is a tiny image and you can’t record it. Not cool, media people. Not cool at all.

Here is a video – they actually closed the highway for the landing and I think that was a good idea not for plane safety reasons but for people safety reasons, because there were just SO many people there.

It might be just me, but I still have great concerns about the apparent inability of people to enjoy a moment without having to use their phone, iPad, or various other means to capture it. And another video which gives you an idea of the large amount of people –

For other shots from the day –

This photo here sums up the absolute insanity of newbie plane spotters.

This is a great shot here.

HARS has a photo album online which you can view here.

Here is the HARS Facebook page – there are quite a few videos linked from there.

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