Thursday, February 14, 2013

Spain....

Posting some pictures from our stay at the Canaries. We stayed in Coralejo on the Island of Fuerteventura, which turned out to be the windiest of the islands, ooops....Its very close to the coast of Morocco and West Sahara and has beautiful sand dunes and beaches but a very moon like and barren centre.  It's an old volcanic island so I guess that's why.  The weather was a bit of a mixed bag which was to expect during the winter season.  Some really nice hot days, some really cold and windy ones and a little bit in between:) The main thing was that we were all together under one roof having time to see each other and that was the best thing!  


 

 Our house

 A little beach a couple of minutes from the house

 the sand dunes!!



 Corralejo















Hiking up an old volcano





Sunday, February 3, 2013

Sweden

Not a single post from me during my Sweden stay.  Sorry about that.  It's been great being home spending time with friends and family.  Here are some pictures from the last two months:)

 Cheese and wine with Emma
 Christmas!
 Our annual christmas get together with my dear friends
 Christmas eve

 My two Johannas
Some more ice and you could almost walk across to Denmark:)




 Santa!



 New Year's Eve

 William and I had a real treat, McDonalds and then the cinema
 Playing games

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The Hot Hot Summer

Greetings kids, it has been a while since we last had a new post put up, but I think it is because Johanna is in Sweden. Most if not all of you are now in the rigours of a cold and miserable winter. If you can imagine the opposite of that in the summer you have the bush fire season in Australia. As you are probably aware this country is litterally burning up and I am lucky enough to say that the closest we have been to one of the fires is 60km. I have an answer to my question 3 months past when I saw a 10 km controlled burn, most likely in anticipation of where we are now.
There have been a few too many nights like this one where around 1am in the morning the temperature is still above 30. To make things worse we have no air conditioning. so what do you do when you are hot and cant sleep???? Go to the beach!!

A lovely look at Zenith beach for a quick dip and surf...


Along with the summer come new additions to our growing family of wild pets. The first of which is a baby Kookaburra in the front with the black mask, incredibly cute but sounds like a cat.
   A friendly spider that was relocated away from the house, not the biggest but big enough to cover your ear...
Paddy the Possum enjoying the Bananna.....
Some Little Correllas.....
The second new addition, Polly has given birth to another youngster still in the pouch. If you look close enough you can see two feet sticking out of her pouch. Eventually I will have a picture riding shotgun on moms back...
Husband and wife duel, Paddy refusing to let Polly onto the deck for seeds. It was unfortunate as the night was stormy and the female was soaking before he let her onto the deck and out of the rain ;(
Some communal sharing, not very common between these two bird types...
Helga Huffelpuff came to say hello.......

The bullies asking for some seeds......

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Let the good times roll

Seasons greetings all. As you probably know Jo is having her white Christmas in Sweden while I went the warm route to Hawaii. So far the weather had been great but not as good as Australia. Hawaii has so far been filled with catching up with the family especially Abigail and Lucas.














Wednesday, December 12, 2012

What you have been missing....

As you may or may not know, Johanna has headed home for the Christmas break leaving me here alone with our pets. Just a reminder of who already misses you

                            Some old times.......

                     Pippi crawling up on the roof with her treat....

        Finally caught the Ring tailed possum on camera, a smaller and more agile cousin of the Bush Tailed possum.......

Caught in the act!!!!

Mother and daughter together again....

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Roommates

Sorry for the long break in updates but the blog hasn't been prioritized lately. Things have been busy over here with end if the year work outings, scuba diving, work and some new roommates. Our friends Lauren, Jarvis and their little Jayda have moved in to our house for a couple of weeks. It's great to have them here but sad that the reason for them staying is that they're moving up north and are in between houses:( we will miss them a lot but are right now enjoying great company and a lot of evening card battles:)

I finally got my scuba diving certificate. The last dive was really relaxed and I felt way more comfortable. Great Barrier Reef here I come:)

Wyatt and I will soon head away in different directions for Christmas. Whilst Wyatt has a sunny warm holiday in Hawaii to look forward to, I'm bracing myself for snow back in Sweden. I can't wait to see my family and friends and are getting very excited!