Day 364 – New beginnings.

   Fresh day dawns in the tropics.  Speckled clouds sit on the horizon.  As colours reflect through with rising sun.  With new day, brings new adventures.  Whatever your adventure is today hope it is a great one? :)

Day 361 – Nothing but sunshine.

 
Happy Easter everybody, and hope the Easter bunny was good to you today?  For a change at Easter, the sun is putting on a brilliant show in the tropics.  Normally rain comes and plays but this Easter it has stayed away.  The temperature is beautiful and great time to be outdoors in the wide open spaces.  Hello sunshine and tropical Easter it’s nice to be here. 

Day 346 - Peek a boo Morning.

  Well the sunshine is living up to its name over the weekend.  7am and it is already rise and shine, sparkling over the Coral Sea.  Only a few clouds coming to say hello.  Everyone is taking advantage to get a bit of exercise in before it really heats up.  Now whether that is through guilt because maybe one or two red cordials might of been had the night before, with not so good food choices.  Or it is a regular thing.  One thing I will say for people in the top end; a lot of people enjoy the outdoors, exercising.  Call it nuts or taking advantage of the place where we live.  There is another breed here though and that is the extreme nuts; ones that exercise at midday.  Hats off to you, crazy people, hard core.

Day 342 - Riding High.

 Not far from the mouth of Swan River lies in the Indian Ocean a little oasis called Rottnest Island.  Turquoise waters, limestone cliffs, and infamous quokkas hangout at Subway.  Bikes weave in, out and across the island.  May I mention at this point, there are a lot of hills on this tiny island.  10km on a bike felt like 90km :).  Then there is the 'adventure ride' in a small boat to circum navigate the island.  Did I mention small boat, large seas with 2.5 - 3m swell and cross winds, seat belts fastened, armed with two 300hp Mercs, crew smiling, it was hold on and lets go.  I've only lost my wits about me and went into shock once in last 12 months it was on a wee little 4WD track in the Victorian High country with sheer drops either side of the vehicle, going down.  This was probably no different.  When you hear the engines come out of the water after the wave you have just gone over and about to descend into another wall of water, no blue sky to be seen; OMG.  BUT what a ride, once started to breathe again it was amazing, and when we got to the calm side of the island it was like, can we do it again......awesome.  Rottnest Island is worth more than a day trip.  Next time it would be nice to stay a couple of days, and try and find one of those bikes with engine.  :)

Day 331 – Panorama Friday.

 
The weekend is fast approaching and breaking dawn this morning was pretty special.  The colours, reflections on the mud flats were a little distracting from the task at hand; boot camp.  Guess they kept the mind of the pain of a push up, squad, lifting tyres etc.  Crazy early morning stuff.  It was much more relaxing watching those beautiful colours.  Have a great weekend.

Day 329 – Peaks and troughs.

 A lot of crazy people I know are in the midst of training for the Ironman and half Ironman to be held in Cairns come 9th June.   Be it teams or individuals.  The full on training started back at the start of January.  Many KMs’ have been chalked up on the bike, running and swimming.  There will be many more to come before it ends.  Along the way; peaks, troughs have been reached.  Even a few cracks starting to appear.  It’s all part of the adventure; so I’m told.  So here is to more peaks on this tricky road, then troughs.  May your training days be awesome, and when you want to crawl up in a ball and cry, from sheer exhaustion that’s ok too.  Most of all enjoy and cherish the small achievements happening each day, to get to the BIG end.