lime - diary of a fruit

Turducken

Date: 2010-02-13

Chalk and Alex bought and cooked a turducken, and invited us all around to help consume it.

Making gravy, slicing up, making a mess. (You're meant to leave it for an hour after cooking, but we were hungry.)

Yes, we ated the whole thing!

The duck, chicken and turkey were all amazing - so moist.

Shawn and Amelia

Date: 2010-01-01

Shawn and Amelia.

Shawn would look good as a daddy, right? Yes!

Rat-tat-tat on the window

Date: 2009-12-24

Our front room's window has a reflective coating that helps keep the heat down (just a bit). Unfortunately birds like to fly in to it at full speed as it looks like sky to them.

One such bird was this, which Lui identified as a juvenile Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike. It seemed dazed and couldn't or wouldn't fly. We kept it in a shoebox overnight to see if it just needed some time. The next morning we let it out, but not all parts of it seemed to be working, and it only just made it over our fence before crash landing in next door's garden. Another night in the box and it was able to fly in a low curve around our house and out of sight. No idea if it made it to safety.

Lui!

Date: 2010-01-10

Hey!

Collapsed House

Date: 2009-03-28

I drive past this house at Wacol often and wonder what happened.. termites, or a big gust of wind? (Or both.)

Pumpkin

Date: 2009-03-28

Home grown at Laidley.

Corindi 2010

Date: 2010-01-23

Setting up the massive tarp was a massive effort. The wind tried to blow us away, but two hours later and we were the envy of the campground.

Someone else's also-awesome camp site.

Shawn & Rachael

Customary visit to the Coffs Candy Kitchen at the Big Banana.

Still enamel-destroyingly delicious!

Another place to hang your jeans up to dry, I guess. Coffs Harbour.

The duelling butane stoves and their operators cooked up a storm. Thanks to Shawn & Rachael's pressure cooker, we had veggie stew one night, casserole the next.. then burgers on the third day.

Panoramic shot(for those with wide screens) (not stitched).

A nice* spot to break down on Summerland Way

* Complete with large piles of beer bottles and a dodgy mattress.

Camping at Fraser Island

The first cutout is the deepest. The first big bump caused the tap to get ripped out of the water container. Lloyd alerted us to the fact that a liquid was pouring out of the back (which could have been diesel or water).

First breakdown. All of the water boiled away (bad radiator cap).

Time to eat, drink and be merry.

Bush sink.

In to town town for a bit of NextG goodness. (No mobile reception at the camp site.)

1: Looks like a nice spot to break down.
2: Lloyd pulling out an X-Trail that really didn't belong on the sand.

Lake Mackenzie.

FOXTROT

UNICORN

Doesn't look like much, unless you are hitting it at 80km/h

Happy Valley.

Maheno shipwreck

Someone gutting a fish at Indian Head

1: The local snake at Central Station, seen after eating one bush rat. According to Ranger Bob, by the end of our stay it had eaten three more.
2: A dingo (this one was tagged)

Another dingo (young, untagged)

Eli Creek, and Warwick's Landcruiser of Doom.

Indian Head and Champagne Pools

Shawn flipping a flapjack
(1/4 second exposure + flash)

[KODAK BW400CN]

Caterpillar at Laidley

Date: 2009-07-19

Brisbane Writers Festival

Date: 2009-09-10

Reddacliff Place, Brisbane

F-111 flyby test run

Date: 2009-09-11

Let's just say I underexposed this a bit.

Amelia

Date: 2009-11_08

Do not take Stemzine if you have
an allergy to:
* Stemzine

Brisbane

Date: 2009-10-23

I ride along here 2-3 days a week.

Camping at Inskip Point

Date: 2009-10-02 through 2009-10-04

[FUJI NEOPAN 1600]