Earlier today, Diane and I took advantage of our 5th season (sprinter – look it up, it’s been in the news the past week or so…in Australia anyway) and visited the upper Hawkesbury and lower Blue Mountains, another of our favourite areas on the outskirts of the city.
 
We had lunch at an unexpectedly delightful cafe on Bellbird Hill.
 
Bellbirds are relatively rare, and even where they live they’re hardly ever seen, but are certainly heard.
 
Turns out this hill is very well named, and we enjoyed a lazy lunch in the sun listening to the unique bellbird song.
 
As usual, this video won’t do them any justice, but that’s never stopped me before…
 
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Or Cantberra as it has also been known…
 
Here’s that ultra dodgy video as promised…full of useless facts and possible facts. And wind noise.
 
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wait…didn’t we come here for the snow???
 
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at least…the preparations for it.

Since Diane is designated chef for the weekend, we’re making sure we’re well stocked with deliciousness…mmmm

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Mmmmm – smells so goooood

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I get distracted fairly easily.

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So it’s probably not going to be very busy round these parts.

However, it may well be very busy on Twitter as we tweet the important things…such as the fact they have a twitterfall on the screens before each session. Important revelations like that.

I’m also looking forward to going backstage at some point to mingle check out what / how / where my staff, who provide the communications equipment for events like this, do what they do!

So far, so good.  There’s a post over at Land of the Golden Moose , set up by our friend @8dave, and where I’ll be making periodic contributions from time to time.

And now is the time.

Previous instalments in the saga can be found here and here and here.

Some Stats:
- we had around 40 minutes of “material” to sort through.
- approx 5 minutes of it was seriously unfit for public consumption…I had no idea just how wrong I could be (and it was all me). Of course, you may think the bits I’ve elected to include might be inappropriate anyway…
- we alluded to including a taste test of chilled chocobaconbits. It was delicious, but the footage was just boring.
- there will quite likely be some “issues” with an occasional word that may be acceptable in some countries and not in others, ifyaknoworrimean.

And yes, my laugh sounds a lot like Muttley, get used to it, ’cause there’s a fair bit of it in here…

Last Sunday, we travelled up to the Blue Mountains after church. The Blue Mountains are one of our favourite places on earth, and are an easy drive.

Diane has some pics from the trip over at her blog, but I’m including one little bit of the day here.

We went to visit Cahill Lookout to view the early stages of sunset, before we headed on to Echo Point for the rest of it.

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I’d never been to this lookout before, and both Diane and I were impressed with the amount of birdlife that was evident through the song…even though we had difficulty spotting many birds at all.  They were all very well hidden in the scrub, though a few did make themselves known to us.

Some of said song is captured in this short vlog….though perhaps it should be a slog since the its mainly the song and not the video.  Anyhoo, enjoy the weird and wonderful world of Australian birdsong.  It’s shorter and less melodic than I would have liked…because the battery went flat literally seconds before beautiful melody was breaking out. D’oh!