Camping at Rye and Dromana, Victoria 11/17/2011
 Many Victorians have wonderful memories of camping on the foreshore or in one of the local caravan parks close to the beach around Port Philip Bay. Both Reg and I spent summers in our childhood at the beach and for several years we lived at Beaumaris and had wonderful summers of swimming and beach walks. Camping on the foreshore at Rye Vic. There are a couple of "parks" on the foreshore that are open from Nov to April only. The rest of the year, they are public land use for picnics, markets etc. Cheap, scant amenities, some powered & watered. These are very busy over the summer break. You can book in well ahead for the whole 6 months. Just fantastic summer fun if you don't mind the summer heat. love to stay in the mountains or an airconditioned home in the heat of summer though the beach is wonderful once the heat of the day is over and in the 'off season.' Children do not tend to be as fussy as me, lol, and I've never met a child who has not loved a holiday by the sea.  Add Comment Gregory's Sydney Street Directory 2012 11/16/2011
It is time to think of Christmas gifts and most of us gray nomads try to choose something highly practical and useful for our spouse. An update street directory will never go amiss. Gregory's Sydney Street Directory 2012 Click on link below to order at discount price, free delivery within Australia. 
Music » Easy Listening » Christmas Christmas Puppini-Sisters-Shania-Twain-Thalia Artist: Michael Bublé With old time favorites like Santa Baby and Silent Night this new time rendition of some of the most loved Christmas music is sure to liven those car journeys to visit the family this Christmas season and if you are like me you haven't updated your Christmas music collection since the year dot. This is one of the top selling items this Christmas and you can purchase it though fishpond via the link here, at a discounted price, so enjoy this Christmas CD. Christmas 1 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 2 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town 3 Jingle Bells - (featuring The Puppini Sisters) 4 White Christmas 5 All I Want for Christmas Is You 6 Holly Jolly Christmas 7 Santa Baby 8 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 9 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 10 Silent Night 11 Blue Christmas 12 Cold December Night 13 I'll Be Home for Christmas 14 Ave Maria 15 Mis Deseos/Feliz Navidad 16 [Untitled] 1. It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 2. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 3. Jingle Bells [featuring the Puppini Sisters] 4. White Christmas [duet with Shania Twain] 5. All I Want For Christmas Is You 6. Holly Jolly Christmas 7. Santa Baby 8. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 9. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 10. Silent Night 11. Blue Christmas 12. Cold December Night 13. I’ll Be Home For Christmas 14. Ave Maria 15. Mis Deseos/Feliz Navidad" [duet with Thalia] Special Edition Bonus Tracks Winter Wonderland Frosty the Snowman Silver Bells Performer Notes
Format: CD Click link below to order at discounted price Woods Point, Victoria Mountain Tour 11/15/2011
 Woods Point Victoria is brilliant country and the mountains are the best place to be as the weather warms up. Keep fire safe and be aware of the fire risk in each area you drive through and enjoy this excellent 4WDriving country and some of the best camping in the world. Woods Point and the surrounding country is a picturesque area and so much to see, give yourself plenty of time and make allowances for the steep winding road. Not a good road for towing the caravan. You can drive down to Mansfield via Whitfield and Tolmie and stay around Jamieson,there are a few free sites along the creek to Warburton via Woods Point. It is a magnificent trip, the crystal clear mountain streams sparkle like diamond necklaces. I leave the caravan behind and sleep overnight with a mattress in the back of the troopy and save myself the stress of towing a van over steep narrow mountain roads, not to mention saving myself the stress of having to fork out for the cost of a new gear box. After Gaffney's creek the road is narrow and very windy. It's not too corrugated until after Woods Point. Coming out of Woods Point it climbs up to Matlock. The road isn't great. Once through there it's a windy road through Jericho. Once you get through that you've got a great run across the ridge of the great divide from 'the Camp' where those who built the Thompson Dam lived. It can get badly rutted on the corners...and there are many. Once your at Cumberland Junction it's a downhill bitumen drive to the Warburton valley and then into Melbourne.  Another route from Mansfield to Warburton is via Merton - Yea - Yarra Glen - almost Lilydale - then Maroondah Highway to Warburton. From just south of Yarck, you could go to Alexandra, then Taggerty - Healesville - across to Maroondah Highway - but that route takes you up and over the Black Spur - steep and bendy. I drive this country several times a year and enjoy the trip every time. I plan to tour this area next week.   An 85-year-old great grandmother has hauled in a 385-kilogram marlin in far north Queensland. Connie Laurie caught the black marlin during a fishing charter trip off Cooktown, north of Cairns, over the weekend. Fishing professionals have called the feat "amazing''. Mrs Laurie says she has been fishing her whole life but snaring the big marlin, which was later released, is something she will never forget. "I certainly didn't feel 85 when I was bringing it in, I was too busy concentrating on keeping it on and getting it into the boat," she said. "I try to stay active and as I said, I've always loved fishing and I want to continue doing it down on the Gold Coast." A Moment to Count My Blessings. 11/07/2011
I am so lucky :-). I am writing and I mention the washing is on a few times and my man has hung it out for me. I mentioned the chicken was thawing in the fridge to be roasted and Reg has it in the oven and from the aroma I know the gas is alight. I am using my nose to check the temperature, lol. I mention I am hot and the air cooler is positioned near me and turned on. LOL...My role in all this is to earn enough money writing to pay for his fishing holiday, lol...just the same :-)m 'I am so lucky.' So happy that my man is well today. Late Night Treats for late Night Writing. 11/06/2011
 I hit the over 50,000 word mark in my latest draft of a novel and this means I need to get back to keeping more regular hours and stop looking for treats at 2 am in the morning when I should be asleep. It was fun though and I love those late night writing bursts and delicious snack food. What are your favorites? Tonight, having finished the novel draft, I relaxed with Reg and watched the movie Julia & Julie. It left me with writing prompt thoughts and unanswered questions. No it doesn't make me want to cook every recipe in Julia Child's cook book it does make me curious about another way of blogging, not so much for this blog which has been very popular as it is, but for a couple of my less red blogs which I would love to make more readable. I was wondering how, the entire history of Australia told as a personal serialized story, might go. I get crazy ideas like this at times. lol I want to know...How could I make such a labor intensive blog pay for my time and not just my late night treats. Any suggestions welcome. 
Qantas says sorry with free tickets. Please do not contact me to request tickets, I am only the gray nomad blogger who is delighted that some quick reimbursement has been offered to the thousands of people who were inconvenienced during the recent grounding of the aircrafts. I am not Qantas and have nothing to do with the refunds and free offers. Please contact Qantas directly if you feel you qualify and they do not contact you themselves. Feel very welcome to comment here about how the groundings affected you. Qantas plans to give away 100,000 tickets worth $20 million as its way of saying "sorry" to passengers affected by the grounding of its entire fleet last weekend. Tens of thousands of people were stranded in Australia and around the world when the airline grounded all flights for two days, as the result of an ongoing industrial dispute with its staff. Flights have since returned to normal after Fair Work Australia terminated all industrial action between the airline and unions and ordered them back to the negotiating table. All passengers whose flights were disrupted in the stoppage from 5pm on October 29 to 11.59pm on October 31, will be offered a free return economy flight to any destination within Australia, or a trans-Tasman flight to New Zealand and back. Passengers who bought tickets on other airlines to make up for the missed flights will also be reimbursed for the difference between the new flight and their original Qantas flight. It comes on top of the airline's decision to reimburse people whose flights were cancelled, and pay for their accommodation. NaNoWriMo for Seniors 11/04/2011
I would love to see more seniors give novel writing a go. I know many held writing a novel as a goal when they were young and once we reach mature years surely that's a great time to fulfill all those unfulfilled dreams. I am currently writing my second novel and I've been romping the word count in. I am aiming for 50,000 word draft to be written during November. November is the National (international actually) Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for short. I think they have just been bottled up in side me for so long they just spill out. :-). I am loving this writing. Last year I hit the 50,000 within the first 2 weeks.. I took time away from other work to do it. This year i am striving to keep up my other commitments but I've a year more experience in what to do to write a novel draft and I am getting there just as quickly. Once I have the numbers up...I slow down and begin making more sense of it all, fix the typos, focus on the dialogue, correct tense and getting the POW right, things I don't even think about when I begin the rough, block in draft. Not thinking about rules of writing only the story line, and knowing that storyline and the characters in my head before I begin, helps me pour it out into the word processor, quickly...oh that and my new iMac computer keyboard is just brilliant at speeding up this two fingered typists work. I've been romping the words in...I think they have just been bottled up in side me for so long they just spill out. :-). I am loving this writing. Last year I hit the 50,000 within the first 2 weeks.. I took time away from other work to do it. This year i am striving to keep up my other commitments but I've a year more experience in what to do to write a novel draft and I am getting there just as quickly. Once I have the numbers up...I slow down and begin making more sense of it all, fix the typos, focus on the dialogue, correct tense and getting the POW right, things I don't even think about when I begin the rough, block in draft. Not thinking about rules of writing only the story line, and knowing that storyline and the characters in my head before I begin, helps me pour it out into the word processor, quickly...oh that and my new iMac computer keyboard is just brilliant at speeding up this two fingered typists work. Oz Stories Blog 11/03/2011
 Do you write a travel blog for pleasure not profit? If so Stories form a Oz Blog, might interest you both as a reader and writer. Traveling and stories have been in my families blood for generations. My dad would be smoking his cheap cigars while my mum wrote about their trips in letters to friends. That was before the advent of blogs where we can more easily share our travel stories and the photos that accompany them. OZ short stories blog Stories from the Oz is a blog dedicated to helping Australian writers and people who like to write about Australia have a bit of a web presence. They accept short stories, poems, articles and reviews - anything you want to write, as long as it is about Australia. This is a hobby site and they do not pay for contributions. Details here. |  Images of Australia in the Paintings and Writing of Artist Author Kathy Shell are created on location while touring in an Eco-Tourer Caravan. `````````````````````````
If you would like Kathy to review, write or paint, your location, please contact the artist author with your offer. National Parks Passes Art and art print sales are available from
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