21-22 July 2002 I'm sitting in a motel in the coastal town of Lakes Entrance. The journey here was through mixed weather. I spent the afternoon visiting the Ninty-Mile Beach. Then decided to film the fishing fleet that is tied up in the harbour. Got some good video and a few still shots. Went to a Bistro for tea and ordered Fish of the Day, which was very nice. Tomorrow I will travel sixteen kilometres west along the Princess Highway to Swan Reach where I'm working in the local Kindergarten. On my booking sheet it shows a 9am start and should [View Full Entry]

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30 June 2002 In the last six months I have been on trips away from Melbourne on many occassions. On this trip I have no plans in keeping in touch with my girlfriend, not my phone anyway. Why? Because she is coming with me. The Hume Freeway was the planned direction to the coast south of Sydney. We stopped only once and that was in Gundagi where we had lunch in a restaurant that she had read about in a food magazine. We were a bit disapointed with with the meal. After a nine hour journey we arrived in Bomaderra. Settled [View Full Entry]

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22 June 2003 Into New South Wales via Albury, the weather wasn’t the best and the journey away from the border was uneventful. At one point I stopped to photograph some interesting clouds. As I walked back to the car I noticed a small rainbow on the horizon, then saw it belonged to a much larger splash of color. It stretched across the sky in a wide ark. Rainbows don’t last long so I worked quickly taking many shots at many different focal lengths to include the newly ploughed field in the foreground. Only continuing my journey when the last frame [View Full Entry]

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11 June 2002 Today was spent driving to Mt Gambier in South Australia. Driving over familiar territory I went through Geelong onto the Hamilton Highway which eventually arrived at the town by the same name. The weather was typical for this time of the year in Victoria, overcast! I had never been in the area west of Hamilton and thought the journey interesting. Mostly flat farming land broken by hills that looked like extinct volcanos. There were also areas that the road followed between lush green hills and small valleys. My journey terminated around 3.30 pm (SA time Zone) [View Full Entry]

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24-25 June 2002 I looked out the window to see how the weather was. Above was blue skies but it looked a bit cold. I should say, very cold! Before I could leave for work I had to get the ice off the windscreen. The sessions on both days were busy. No matter what state I find myself in, afternoon TV is not worth the power used to transmit the images. 26-27 June 2002 I had no intentions repeating the last couple of afternoons, so decided to have another look around town. First the sheep auctions at the Sale Yards but [View Full Entry]

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23 June 2002 It was 9am when I left for my next week's job in Temora, which is a small country town in central New South Wales. Always looking for new roads to travel on, I checked my map which indicated I could head into territory I had not visited before, although it was going to be forty-seven kilometres longer. From Seymour I followed the Goulburn Highway through Shepparton and Numurkah and crossed into New South Wales near Tocumwal. I was now on the Newell Highway; it was only a few weeks ago when I was in this area, working in [View Full Entry]

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12-14 June 2002 I was in the same Kindergarten all week. On a couple of days I had to work into the afternoon, when I did, only a few children turned up; it hardly seemed worth the effort. When there was time to become a tourist the weather was so bad it wasn't worth venturing out of my motel room. Late on my last day, the weather was better. It was an hour before sunset when I make an effort to travel the few kilometres south of town to visit an extinct volcano. The light was failing fast when I started [View Full Entry]

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16 June 2003 From time to time I find myself in a town that I have not visited before and that’s good. On the other hand because I have been with this company so many years its inevitable, return trips to areas are becoming more normal. The first year is great because I can explore places of interest. Some are worth a return visit but most are not. Once the morning session is finished, I find myself in front of the TV and believe me there is little that interest me there. I still enjoy travelling to these country towns and [View Full Entry]

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28-30 May 2003 Wednesday I was working in Stratford. It only took fifteen minutes to arrive at the outskirts of town and had plenty of time to take a short drive along the River Avon. The mist was rising from the river and I took the last couple of shots left on the roll of film. It was only last year I worked in the Stratford Kindergarten and again it was a good centre to spend time in. For the last two days of this week the Day Care Centre situated in the Sale Airforce Base was the location of my [View Full Entry]

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27 May 2003 After driving four hours yesterday I arrived in Sale, which is in Southeast Victoria. The trip down was done in fine weather and the motel I'll be staying in, until Friday is good. My first day's job was thirty kilometres to the west; a small town called Rosedale. It was a foggy morning trip but I still managed to arrive in plenty of time before the children came through the door around nine o'clock. The morning went well and by time I checked my watch around eleven thirty the last of the children had been photographed. The town [View Full Entry]

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