Port Douglas

PD
9/10 - 14/10 October 2013

Today will have a minimum of 25 degrees and a maximum of 29.5 degrees. Today, tomorrow and every other day. 

Beaches

Swimming with sharks

Combination of water clarity and camera quality

So many turtles

Crusing

Low Isles

Low Isles Sailaway

Mossman Gorge

Accomodation - left - 100m to the beach

- right - 250m to the restaurants shops

Micro transport

Cape Trib

Wet tropics of Queensland meet the Great Barrier Reef

Paulette stacking on some rocks

Low Isle 180

Palm Beach 360. I had to cheat a little - mouse over for before/after. 

Mount Kaputar National Park

Mount Kaputar National Park is a national park in Australia, surrounding the proximities of Mount Kaputar, a volcano active between 17 and 21 million years ago. It is located 50 km east of Narrabri. [Wikipedia]

Driving to Mount Kaputar

Mount Kaputar Summit. 1510m.

The threat of dropbears ever present.

Looking to Euglah?

Governor

Euglah

Sawn rock

Up sawn rock

No-one about complain about climbing rocks

Moon and rock

Relaxing afternoon lying on rocks looking at rocks. 

Looks more like a man-made pyramid than some man made pyramids.

... run you fools

Perisher 2013

Perisher Valley - Jindabyne 2013

There were face-plants, carrots, sickness, sore limbs, bruised bums, blood noses, buses, trains, lots of good food, thai, daft punk photo-shoots, memorial visits, wifi hotspots, creek crossings, 500, missing mouth pieces, lessons, some snow, rocks, tree visits, river visits, caution signs, pony rides, skiers and snowboarders

Diminishing snow 

25minute line before lunch - 0minute line after lunch?

Riding the pony

Ridge

Excelerator

Bottom of Towers at Mt P

Paulette and Dennis

Zach navigating traffic

Ku and Paulette navigating the fence without launching through it (which one of them has done before)

Days like this - you stay for hot chocolate. It actually fined up without us noticing because the windows were fogged up. 

Excelerator

From Blue Cow to Zalis (right) Guthega entrance (left)

Sleepy Dennis

Dennis "surge tank" memorial

Locals say the concrete cylinder is usually their seat to do up bindings. 50cm short of average snow level. Lowest level locals have seen for end of July since late 80s. 

Kuko sliding down 15degrees. Not slope angle, ambient temperature.

Cloud oceans

Travelling to BlueCow

How now

Zach -> Trees don't move

How Josiah said he looked on his 'excursion' to the creek.

Wolverine anyone?

Suit up

Favourite Run? Rollercoaster
Longest Run? Ridge into road run (2.1km)
Faster Run? Zalis @ 89.1km/h (Bests PB by 5km/h)
Total Distance Skiied? 124.3km
Total Vertical? 19356m
Average Rating? 3/5 stars
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This was Perisher.

(this is the same video - but watch-able on mobile)

more video coming soon