Sky Watch Friday

A very agitated sea and sky at Stockton Beach, north of Newcastle, NSW, Australia last weekend. For more photos from all over the world visit Sky Watch Friday.

Sky Watch Friday

Welcome to this week's Skywatch Friday. This photo is again of Port Macquarie - a beautiful old three-mast sailing ship that was used to transport goods along the coast.

Photo Challenge - WATER

Welcome to another Brenda's Photo Challenge. Maria from Let the Good Times Roll has set the theme for this round of the challenge. Check out all the other participants photos too. I hope that you enjoy my water photos, a small selection taken from our holidays over the last few years.

The platypus waterhole in Boonoo Boonoo National Park in New South Wales, right up near the Queensland border. The reflections are so tranquil and clear.

The Fairy Falls in the Victorian High Country, where we spent a week a few years ago enjoying some camping, four-wheel driving and beautiful, rugged country.

The wreck of the Sygna off Stockton Beach, New South Wales. We usually spend a weekend a year up at Stockton playing on the sand dunes.

Sky Watch Friday

This is another shot of the river at Port Macquarie, where we spent a few days recently on holidays. I just love the strength and power of silhouettes against the sky.

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Halloween Celebrations

We have celebrated Halloween for the past few years. It's not that big here, but children have started to go trick or treating on Halloween for the last few years. This year was fairly quiet - we didn't get many kids at the door. I found a nice big pumpkin (after some hunting 0 they are hard to get here and a bit pricey) and carved it. The jack-a-lantern was cool, but I forgot to take a photo of it :-(

My girls had a few friends over and they all went tramping around the neighbourhood dressed up and having fun. They didn't find many houses that were participating though and were a little disappointed, especially Shelby (my youngest) and her best friend, Erin.

After the trick or treating, I took the oldest kids (Tegan, her boyfriend and her two best friends) to see Saw IV. Slasher flicks are always good value on Halloween :-)

Photo Challenge - EMOTIONS

This photo is of my sister at a Christmas party a few years back. Some of the group had been dragged out of the audience by Santa to do silly things. It was really funny, as you can see :-)

This photo was taken on our recent holiday. Tegan and I visited Dracula's Haunted House in Surfers Paradise. It was fun, though I wouldn't say it was scary. Mind you, Tegan held my hand the entire time. At the very end, there was a shark movie and you could tell that the screen was split and that something would jump through it. We were waiting, thinking "A shark is going to jump out at us" when the platform we were standing on dropped suddenly and THEN the shark jumped out. And you get a silly photo like the one above...LOL.

Check out the post on the theme parks that I went to on my holidays (just below this). There are some great emotions there too, but I didn't want to post the photos twice :-)

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My Holidays (Part 5) - Gold Coast Theme Parks

A picture is worth a thousand words.
We had GREAT FUN at Dreamworld and White Water World!