Wow.

I'm glad I chose to go birdwatching today.  But I'm gonna regret it tomorrow.  I walked 12km, up and down steep, uneven slopes.

I think I'm getting fitter.  I was a bit puffed but I didn't get that awful burning in my chest and I only needed a brief rest to continue walking - and all this with a blocked nose!  I also refilled my water bottle from the creek at the top of the waterfall, nice.

The day turned into a stunner.  As I was driving there I heard on the radio that it was 2C in the city.  It didn't feel that bad outside, just brisk and in the sun it was lovely.  Later on I was glad it was winter, I think the walk would have been impossible in summer.

( Pictures of the waterfall and surrounding countryside )

We started at Hillside Farm, then travelled north a little before heading back over to the actual Ellis Brook nature reserve.  We walked up the entrance road then to the quarry.  Then we decided we were game to travel up to and around the falls that we could see in the distance from the top of the farm.  Lots of pricky plants.  3 species of orchids, drosera (both flat and stemmed), various grevillia, banksia, hakea, isopogon, hovea, other peas.  It was lovely.

( Piccies of purdy flowers )

Brilliant day for the birds.  Nothing new, but a lot of species I haven't seen much of previously.

( Bird is the word )

Next week is a full day walk at York. That should be good.

Wow.

I'm glad I chose to go birdwatching today.  But I'm gonna regret it tomorrow.  I walked 12km, up and down steep, uneven slopes.

I think I'm getting fitter.  I was a bit puffed but I didn't get that awful burning in my chest and I only needed a brief rest to continue walking - and all this with a blocked nose!  I also refilled my water bottle from the creek at the top of the waterfall, nice.

The day turned into a stunner.  As I was driving there I heard on the radio that it was 2C in the city.  It didn't feel that bad outside, just brisk and in the sun it was lovely.  Later on I was glad it was winter, I think the walk would have been impossible in summer.

( Pictures of the waterfall and surrounding countryside )

We started at Hillside Farm, then travelled north a little before heading back over to the actual Ellis Brook nature reserve.  We walked up the entrance road then to the quarry.  Then we decided we were game to travel up to and around the falls that we could see in the distance from the top of the farm.  Lots of pricky plants.  3 species of orchids, drosera (both flat and stemmed), various grevillia, banksia, hakea, isopogon, hovea, other peas.  It was lovely.

( Piccies of purdy flowers )

Brilliant day for the birds.  Nothing new, but a lot of species I haven't seen much of previously.

( Bird is the word )

Next week is a full day walk at York. That should be good.

Call out for geeks!

Okay, we have a problem.  There is a chronic troll on a message board I frequent.  The problem is she is on AOL so her IP cannot be banned without banning many decent AOL users.  She creates new nicks as quickly as previous ones are banned.

Maybe if I could find out her e-mail address or something would somebody be able to devise something that crashed her system or made it damn hard to use and was untraceable to the person responsible?

This girl does not deserve to have a computer at all.

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Call out for geeks!

Okay, we have a problem.  There is a chronic troll on a message board I frequent.  The problem is she is on AOL so her IP cannot be banned without banning many decent AOL users.  She creates new nicks as quickly as previous ones are banned.

Maybe if I could find out her e-mail address or something would somebody be able to devise something that crashed her system or made it damn hard to use and was untraceable to the person responsible?

This girl does not deserve to have a computer at all.

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