Happy New Year 2016-17

2016 was a great year:

Resigned from work and left the day after my 60th birthday :-)

Built my man cave :-)

Tried to improve my Sporting Clay target shooting :-|

Hunted some bunnies in the Victorian autumn :-)

Went Barramundi fishing in the top end (to be continued... :-(

Hunted deer in the high country several times (to be continued... :-(

Hunted wild boar in far western NSW :-)

Took a sea voyage across the bottom of Victoria :-)

Caught a Port Phillip Bay snapper :-)

Hunted ducks on the rice fields of NSW :-)

Caught some Murray Cod :-)

Camped, fished, hunted and thrashed a great little quad bike :-)

Utilised all animals for food and had some ripper feeds :-)

Looking forward to ticking some things of the incomplete list in 2017.

Thanks to everyone that helped make it a great year and made these things possible, you know who you are ;-}

-27.90465 S, +153.204625 E

The main reason we went up to the sunshine state was to celebrate with our grandson on his 9th birthday.

Also its an opportunity to do some maintenance on the house and clear the lantana from the vacant block next door taking over our fence. Lantana is listed in Queensland as a 'Weed of National Significance'. A picture of a lantana flower below.Below is the view from the corner of our street to the Gold Coast. Just down the hill some 17Km and you run straight into the Worlds Sea World, Dreamworld Wet'n'Wild Water World, Movie World, Australian Outback Spectacular etc . .

A flower we found in the Botanic Gardens a few hundred metres from our house. although its over some steep terrain :-)

The traditional owners are the Wangerriburras, the area has a history of logging and Advocado , kiwi fruit and ruhbarb farming but is now largely rural residentail surrounded on all sides by by the Tamborine National Park made up of 12 separate reserves. The platue has lookouts, gorges, cliffs, waterfalls, rainforest areas and wet eucalypt forest.

Another interesting feature is the Fig Tree roundabout at the top of the Gallery Walk a Km or so from the house. This tree was planted by a local in about 1926 to provide shade for the many bushwalkers that came by this way and stands here in the roundabout today.

The must see here is the new Brewery and cheese factory.