I did this hike with three mates from work: Milan Pathak, Andrew Rennard and Simon Crease. It was a nice little half day hike up past a few alpine lakes to the top of the pass. I love the colour of the water!
Baby (Ian Stone) and I decided to head out for a short hike on a sunny July day, and ended up in Kanton Uri in Central Switzerland. We hiked for several hours up the mountain, but given we couldn’t find any fresh water along the route we couldn’t go as far as we wanted. , Read More
This is one of my favourite hikes in the Swiss Alps! My mate Andy Passmore and I did it back in 1999 and liked it so much we returned in 2003 to do it again with our friends Ian Summerside and Alex Derksen. Here’s an email that I sent after the earlier ’99 hike:, Read More
(L) Camping on the beach on the island of Culebra. (R) Chillin’ on the beach on Culebra. Home Sweet Home on Culebra. Alexa in Rincon. (L) Hiking in the Toro Negro cloud forest. (R) Lost and searching for the waterfall in El Yunque National, Read More
I did a short day hike with Andy Passmore, Paul & Anna Sidebottom and Chris “Baby” Stone into the valley above the Unterer Grindelwaldgletscher. The weather wasn’t the best that day but it gave us some great views further up the valley to some of the 4000m peaks there and also back down towards, Read More
Here’s a collection of photos from several hikes I did over the summer of 2002 in Central Switzerland… Appenzellerland – 11-12 May For the first hike of the year we (Mike and Amy Griggs, Nick Waddsley and Mark McCarthy – all friends from work) decided to head towards the hills surrounding 2502m Saentis in, Read More
Rugby Club Zurich has a tradition to go on tour every Easter, typically to a city around Europe like Berlin, Edinburgh, London or Stockholm, but in 2002 the club decided to go big and head to Brazil. Some 35 team mates signed up for the tour and our trip was for around 2 1/2 weeks with three, Read More
(Unfortunately most of my photos were on film, but I’ll try and get more of them up here soonish.) I flew from Zurich to Hong Kong to rendezvous with Melinda who was flying in from Melbourne. We spent a few days exploring Honkers – I really enjoyed HK and Kowloon and thought the city, Read More
(Note: I get a lot of shit from my Canadian friends – you know who you are! – about the lack of detail or photos on my Canada page. All my photos from the trip are on film and presently boxed up in storage in Melbourne. You’ll just have to wait until I get, Read More
Finally got around to scanning in some old photos from my years in the Australian Army: August 1994 to January 1997 – Officer Training at Monash University Regiment (including Recruit Course in December 1994) 26 January 1997 – Officer’s Commission at Graduation Parade and Ball January 1997 to late 1997 – Platoon Commander at, Read More