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Onslow 2010

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We’re up in Onslow, visiting Elizabeth’s parents. It’s HOT and humid, as opposed to Perth, which is just hot. But it’s very pretty out these ways. Follow this photo through to the rest of the set if you want to see more.

Olympic flame at Aberdeen Canada Line station

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Our journey home last night included a co-incidental run-in with the Olympic flame!
My photos got picked up and our story is on the Translink blog – The Olympic torch runs through Aberdeen Station
Yay :D

I’ve gone through my flickr photos and made up some collections of my favourite photos that I have taken. I’ve also re-uploaded in full rez any of the smaller ones. Let me know what you think? :)

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Around San Francisco

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Have uploaded my photos from San Francisco. Had a good time, both being a tourist, and seeing some people I hadn’t seen for a while (including my step sister!)

California Aquarium

Alcatraz

Fisherman’s Wharf

Mixed photos of San Francisco

Many moons ago, we booked tickets for Canada, leaving Perth 24 June 2009, returning 17 Feb 2010. We couldn’t book them for the exact period of time we wanted.. plans were to stick around for a year, so we thought we’d just change dates.
Well.. erm. We like it here. So we’re going to take the [...]

Was going through some old digital photos (2002 :P) and came across one of a Qantas 767 with a white tail (instead of a red one). Did some reading up on it. They operated a couple of them after Ansett’s collapse in 2001.
One in particular was frame 27909/591, built in 1995.
Turns out this [...]

This is a great video I came across a few months ago, and was recently reminded of.

It occurs to me that this may be of interest to some people. My wife Elizabeth and I are currently in Canada on a working holiday, and have been for the last 6 months. Much like in Australia, I’m currently working in IT for a University, which is a lot of fun and gives me [...]

Moonrise

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A preface.. a week or two ago, Boeing rolled out the first 787-8f. I wasn’t a fan of the livery, and said so on twitter. The twitter rep for Boeing’s Future of Flight noticed this, and invited me down to have a look at it in person, and take the tour of the factory, for [...]