Coffin Bay 2010: Sunrises and Sunsets

Sunset and rainbow


Sunrises

Coffin Bay 2010: Wildlife

Stripy skink


Loads of pelicans
(I like this first one in particular when he's coming into land on the water and you can see his feet out ready)










(can you tell I like pelicans??)

Kingfishers

(and a heron in the background)



Kangaroos
We came across these on our walk

And these ones came right up to the house one morning. I didn't have much time to adjust the settings on the camera before they were disturbed by passers by, so it's not the best pic.


Pacific Gull


We saw loads of dolphins out on the boat, but it's so hard to get a good shot...

and trust me, this lump is a seal.


Here's one of Paulie's friends - a sting ray! So awesome to watch in the water. Check out the wings cutting through the surface.

Coffin Bay 2010: People

Just to remind you of Paulie's BIG fish

Well, here's my little fish...

The fish were really biting that day. Megs wanted to take a photo of me fishing, so I let out just enough line, so that you couldn't see the tackle in the pic. A hook was only just in the water and that is what it caught. Needless to say, baby tommy rough was thrown back in the water and told to come back when he'd grown up!

Here I am with some better looking fish - a gar fish near my face and a whiting in my other hand.


And this is how I caught them - alongside my Dad, with some bait and essential nutrients (tea and shapes) in between us.


Here's Paul and Dad with their whiting after our first day out fishing.



Paulie's enjoying his lunch break


Megsie is out on the boat with us



Here's the boat.


And here's John's boat which we went squidding in at second creek.


This is the very awesome Team Poseidon


And here are some more family photos



This is the deck of the house that we stayed in


And the view of the house from the boat. Ours is the "shack" on the left of screen. Mum is on the deck.


And finally, this is the one and only photo that was taken by my camera at Casey's 30th. Sorry petal! I should have been paparazzi, but I was still in holiday mode!!!

The Blogger is Back!

I've been awol for a little while now. It's been a busy time and I haven't really figured out how to organise all the little parts of my life at the moment.

My new job is going really well. I'm learning lots of new things and meeting new people. The change is really working for me and making me a happier person. At the moment I'm feeling like it's the right thing to do, but part of me is also thinking that I'm almost 30 and doing a job that I was practically doing when I was 20. I've just got to keep looking at the bigger picture and seeing that I'm building up my skillset and expanding my horizons and all of that junk. I also know that it will get more complex and I'll have to stay on top of everything and be really organised and the role will probably end up being what I make it so I just have to make it interesting.

I redesigned one of our websites while my boss was away last week. I'm just waiting to get his approval before it goes live and then I'll post the link here so you can admire my handy work. Just don't view it in IE6 or it'll look like crap.

Because I'm provided with my own computer at work and when I get home, I really don't feel like sitting in front of the computer, I'm not using my laptop very often, so I hardly see my outlook calendar. This is why my planning and organisation skills for my home life have gone out the window. I actually bought a paper diary recently, so I'm going to try and use that. Maybe I can keep it in my handbag.

I guess the other thing that people ask me about are our babies. The puppies are doing well. There are some snappy and growly moments, but they're settling and becoming further apart (the snappy moments that is, not the puppies). Morgan is a destructive beast. She's teething too, which isn't helping. After she destroyed most of the toys we've had around since Myf was a puppy, we've had to go out and buy a whole new collection - all of them with the words indestructible in front of them. Let me tell you now, they're lying!!! She's very cute though, which makes it hard to tell her off.

We're taking Morgan to obedience school. She had her first class last week and that went pretty well. Like Myf, she has difficulty focusing when we're around other dogs/people. She's the youngest in the class though, so she's doing pretty well to keep up with the bigger dogs. She does sit, drop, come (most of the time, although Myf's taught her selective hearing) and we're teaching her 'look' this week - that's part of our homework. I've already forgotten what the rest of our homework is. OOPS!

Well, I'm about to start putting up some of the photos from our Coffin Bay holiday (finally). I'll organise them into subject headings, and just give brief descriptions since I've already done the whole holiday story.