Leura Port - Arriving March 31st!
To all cruisers on the deck! Stay tuned for the port of Leura arriving at your doorstep on 31st March!
There’s nothing quite like a deadline to get things done hey?! I’ve been busy taking photographs, confronting my fear of approaching strangers during the process (as i don’t like being an “intimidating” photographer and perfer the introverted route where people can hardly see me)!
I have yet to confront my fear of being alone in the night with photography too - so i’m looking forward to the challenge!
Ok - this evening’s storm report - as many of you know that i’m such a junkie for monitoring the weather here! A sneak peak of the Blue Mountains by offering a view from Katoomba on the Scenic World route. As usual - the camera never does it justice and it’s much better to view it yourself. Can you believe that one of the lookouts was called “Landslide”!!! I’d like to confirm that the Australian drought has definitely broken, as it’s been raining *almost* every day this month but just take my words that preliminary climate change is on the way in Australia, for now. Rainfall is without exception - much higher compared to last year for this month. It could be a red herring, but i think the rains are seriously coming now. One can only hope (and then complain about it raining too much) soon!
I was rather scared driving up this road, because i was on the edge of some seriously steep f’king cliffs and I’ve acquired a pretty bad fear of heights ever since my son was born. I never used to be scared of heights before, EVER! These days - it can give me serious panic attacks where i go dizzy and need to time-out to get my heart rate OK on a bushwalk here!
To catch up on the International Cyber Cruise that’s taking the world by storm on the www - I leave you with the following links:
Looking forward to playing host in this beautiful town that is 985m above sea level!
that frolicsome kid said,
March 30, 2007 @ 12:34 am
It’s good news that the drought spell is broken by the rain. I heard from my elder brother living in Australia that the drought at the eastern coast are quite bad. His girlfriend told me that there was even a ban in washing cars. :O
Wow, 985m above sea level! That’s pretty high!
Ah yes, deadline. A boon and a curse in itself.
R’acquel: {nods} Strong water restrictions here during drought. You’re not allowed to hose your garden when they’re set in place and will be fined if you’re caught wasting water. Rain water colleting tanks are becoming popular here. Houses that use water like that, or through “bore water” need to display signs at the front of their house to avoid charges for using water to wash cars & feeding the front lawn etc.
Yep - I love deadlines! Like, they’re so motivational! *lol*
TorAa said,
April 16, 2007 @ 12:53 am
Now I do know you did a very serious preparation for the Cruise. Thanks so much.
Talking about afraid of hights. Yesterday a friend brought us on a sightseeing up in the mountains around Monaco and Menton. Scary-scary…