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| Christmas breakfast treats |
Once again time has just flown by in a
blur of activity and fun. Its crazy to believe its already the end of
Jan 2016! The adventures started at Christmas
with a lovely sunny Australian family day of cooking, chilling and
eating. We decided to keep the day as fun as possible so googled fun
Christmas food and set about making an array of different breakfast
and dinner dishes based on the festive theme. With santas, snowmen,
christmas trees, reindeers shaped everything it was a super enjoyable
way to celebrate. Add to that the whole heap of presents stacked
under the tree and it kept us busy all day. Then as the sunset in
Sydney it was time to Skype into Xmas in the UK and catch up with all
my family and friends back home.
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| Comedy Xmas moments |
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| Vix's creating a masterpiece |
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| Sunshine at Xmas = awesome! |
After Xmas the adventures continued
with an amazing Sea Kayaking Adventure with Aussie Jas and his family
(Kirsty, Tristan and Edward) who had come over for a holiday from the
UK. We hired boats and cruised up the river before heading out to the
estuary and taking on the incoming swell. Big storms were hitting
Sydney's coastline so we didn't have to go far to find big enough
waves to surf. After three hours of sun we were lucky to find an ice
cream boat and grab a cold snack to finish of our boating adventure
the Aussie way.
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| Carnegie Great Outdoors Team hit Sydney |
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| Sea Kayaking Sydney |
We decided to finish the year in style
so on New Years Eve we set out to Manly for a quick surf and swim
before jumping on the Manly Fireworks ferry to watch the 9pm kids
fireworks. Sydney really know how to do fireworks. At 9pm every New
Year they put on a big display just for the kids. This is then
followed by the midnight fireworks but allows the kids to enjoy the
night before its get crazy busy and hectic for the main event. We got
lucky and had an epic view of the 9pm fireworks from the water before
taking a drive along the coast and finding a sweet spot to watch the
midnight fireworks in a prime spot. That said, Jez had an even better
spot. He was pretty much under the bridge!
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| Midnight fireworks |
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| Epic 9pm fireworks from the ferry |
A New Year a new adventure. And this
years adventures started big as Jez got me the most epic Christmas
present ever kite boarding lessons. So as the New Year kicked in I
took daily trips to the coast to learn how to fly and kite. Lesson 1
went crazy well and in just three hours I was up and riding and fully
hooked on this new adventure sport. By the end of day 4 I was
cruising around the bay trying tiny jump and transitions. Its been
super fun being a beginner again and exploring and enjoying the
challenge of learning a new sport. I'm excited to keep improving and
learning more about riding and combining the power of the wind with
boarding. An amazing sport I would recommend everyone to give a shot.
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| Setting up the kite |
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| Kiteboardinglessons.com.au |
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| Kite surfing as a storm rolls in |
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| Loving this new sport. Thanks Jez :) |
Now already three weeks into the year
its time to take my flight of 2016. As I write i'm sitting on the plane with Phil, Seb and Vixs about to land in Queenstown, kayaks
already loaded we can contain the excitement especially as we have
just had word that the Hawea waves will be running tomorrow. Surfs
up!
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| Stunning views as we fly into Queenstown |
