Thought I'd post a couple of pics from a great long weekend away camping. It was a great time. We camped at a little private hut which is not so easy to get to in the back blocks behind Peel. A very steep four wheel drive track is the only access.
Great four wheel driving
, good friends and family
, and a bit of fun on Sunday
... we rigged a flying fox... probably a good 70m span across the river
. It was great fun! All the kids enjoyed it (big and small
). We could've rigged a bigger span but couldn't find the right combination of suitable anchors, clear path and safe loading and landing areas for a bigger span
.
I did hope to get more images worthy of posting, but the damn image stabilisation tricked me again... when will I learn to turn it off when taking shots of a small moving object? (The IS just makes the background sharp, hence the subject is blurred
instead of a sharp subject with motion blur background). It used to be so easy with the OM-1... new fan dangled things and old operators don't always mix
.
Didn't have any room in the truck to take any scopes, but I shot some star trails (see Deep Sky forum) and answered questions and gave a little impromptu tour of the emu, etc to the non-astronomers
.
Good fun weekend very much enjoyed. Haven't done a weekend like that in long time.
Al.