Posted 08 September 2010 - 10:32 AM
AWWwwww!!! shucks!!!!!!!!!!!................. ya did miss me! ...................I'm all a flutter! ..........thanks folks, great trip but just a little bit too wet, I wanted to take the "long exposure shot" of the falls and some rivers but the rain and the spray was just shocking, it doesn't show on the piccy's but the spray alone was extending a good 30 metres in all directions and it was spitting relatively hard, my shots were basically, check settings under raincoat, out with camera , shoot, then cover, I tried half a dozen different settings with the 50D and a couple of lenses but auto and 10-22 seemed to come up with the goods most times, dragged my damnable tripod all over the joint as well, never mind it clips onto the bottom of my lowepro, but oh boy it's a lot of weight dragging on my hips
the young feller out on the balcony's had probably 400 feet of nothing under him, he is a professional idiot er um I mean photographer, he was hired to do a shoot for the grampians tourism association, a right pain in the posterior, everywhere we went he and his mate were there, and because they were young and fit they damn well beat us there as well, oughta be a law!, .........all that youth and vigour is wasted on the young!!... nice lads though, we got on like a house on fire, one place I didn't see them was up at the Pinnacle, 2 kilometres of straight up hell for the over 15, we did that accidently on our first day out, I'm still suffering now, legs have muscles complaining in areas where they have no right to have muscles complaining, we met a couple of mobs of school kids doing it hard on the climb up, I asked the female teacher if I could buy half a dozen of them, she asked what for, I said that I was going to rope them together and ride them up to the top, strange the kids didn't think that was funny, the teacher thought it was though, we met a couple who were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, we found suitable rock's and just sat and yakked for an hour, we shared a meal with them at the Hall's Gap pub that night, and a very good evening, we will stay in contact, we are arranging another meet next month and maybe share our next honkiday together, funny even on a mountain friends can be found
I will always remember the return through the Grampians themselves on the trip back home, thick fog and low cloud, visibility down to less than 30 feet most times, just the ghostly outline of the road, and the presence of the tall and straight ghostly gum's, very surreal setting, everything "soft" and "blurry" we were forced back to second gear crawling at around 15 kph, in absolute silence, no wind up there, very very eery! the chief complainer got some shots on her phone, I'll see if I can nick them and place them here for you!
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if you come across someone without a smile,.................. give them one of your's....... and watch it grow!
never be mean with a kind word, ........................you may need one yourself one day!
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Good to see you had a good time, but it sounds like the trip home was a bit hairy. 
