I need to sit down and write a proper post about our trip away last weekend but probably won’t get time to do it until this coming weekend, so in the meantime here are a couple of photos and the link to more on our Picasa page ….
Saturday: Near Hotham Heights looking towards Mt Buffalo
Saturday: On the Bogong High Plains Road between Omeo and Falls Creek
Saturday: Walking up the Summit at Falls on our way to find the place where we were married
Saturday: At the little hut near Eagle Chair where we signed our marriage papers
Saturday: Looking down the Kiewa valley from Road 24
Saturday: The spot on Road 24 where we got married
Sunday: Hanging a right in the Wandiligong Hedge Maze
Monday: Fanging it on the Dargo High Plains Road from Hotham to Dargo (Jayne took that shot from the sunroof!)
More photos on Picasa.
Yesterday I had to go to Sydney for work. There are only two flights from Avalon in the morning and the second one got in too late, so to kill some time between arriving there at 7.20am and my meeting at 11 I decided to do the Bondi to Bronte coast walk.
I hopped out of my taxi at the south end of Bronte beach and made my way along the path past Tamarama and around the point to Bondi. It’s just over 3kms and it took me around an hour and a half (there are quite a few sloping sections and steps, plus I was stopping every so often to admire the view and take photos!).
It really is spectacular. All the Melbourne is better than Sydney stuff might be true on some levels but I can’t think of anything that Melbourne has within 30kms of the city that matches this walk. I suppose I got it at it’s best - calm and sunny, early morning before the tourists and the backpackers had woken up so just locals about exercising, big swell up on the ocean - but even on a bad day I’d say it would still be magnificent.
At Bondi I stopped for some breakfast at the Lamrock Cafe (also almost deserted, but good brekky and coffee) and eventually dragged myself away to Surry Hills for my meeting.
I took the camera, so here’s a slideshow. Some of the pics are a bit similar to each other but they all look good. They’re all stored on our Picasa page.
The possum-deterring isn’t going well. He ignores the lights and the Poss Off, and is having no trouble getting himself onto the roof even though I’ve pruned the trees. I can’t cut them back any more - they’ll be too lopsided.
We have a few other tricks up our sleeves but this week’s been busy and we’re away this weekend so we’ll get serious again next Tuesday or next weekend.
Me incredulous that he’d been out there less than an hour after dark on the day we put the lights up
Checking the lights were sensing properly (yes I am up a ladder wearing my bathrobe)
The next night realising that more drastic measures will be required, but in the meantime a tarp will help keep the boards clean
Not happy, Jan (note the plank of wood in my right hand ready to give him a whack if I see him)
The Poss Off didn’t work. Last night the little bugger was back with a vengeance. This is what he’s doing to the three day old merbau boards.
Not good. So today we introduced some new possum-controlling measures.
1. Some tree pruning. There are three access points to our roof: one in the front garden from a neighbours-be-gone and two in the back: one is the tree next to the bricked area and the other is the shrubbery between our house and next door. Today I pruned the branches back on the back garden trees.
2. A sensor floodlight. I fitted it today so that it’s on top of the shadecloth lighting up the roof and the trees rather than the deck. The theory is that when the possum arrives he’ll trigger the floodlights, feel like he’s in a day-nighter at the MCG and scamper off to a different house. You can’t really see it from the garden so it doesn’t look weird that it’s lighting up the top of the shadecloth and not the balcony.
Setting it up this afternoon
Adjusting the sensitivity and timer this evening
If he returns tonight and ignores the lights I’ll have to resort to more extreme measures. Like a sophisticated tripwire network with timer fuses and explosives - Caddyshack style.
To be continued…..
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