Packed up. Bye bye Blue Mountains :(

I've landed a F/T job in Dunedin, New Zealand. We're shipping off in 2 weeks and we're getting rid of everything to make a light load. Sunshine and I are very sad to leave, as the mountains has given us a beautiful life style. We had a very good house with a secure yard for the dogs and easy access to some wonderful walks. But its bye bye Blue Mountains, hello Dunedin.

We're excited about moving to New Zealand actually. We love mountains obviously, and NZ has quite a few of those. Dunedin is a lovely town, with plenty of interesting shops and sights to visit. See the pictures I took on our first visit.

So this blog has changed from "Life in the Mountains" to "Life in the South". The URL has to change too. http://lifesouth.blogspot.com

See you over there.

It snowed up here again!

Its been pretty cold of late, and the day before yesterday snow flacks were being blown all around, but nothing settled. Then over night it managed to settle a bit, giving as a glorious morning!



Here's the temperature inside at 8 in the morning:



It was Blackish's first time to see snow. It was funny to watch her running around in the deck, slipping and having big stacks!

Posters in Katoomba

I've noticed the poster poles in town recently. A couple on there caught my eye. Here's one that appeared to be screen printed:



And another interesting adaption of the old ripticket style. Interesting style and content of course!

It Snowed Today!!

Yesturday it was sleet and hail. I was getting so excited, I called it snow!


Today though, it snowed for sure! About an inch of cover. Enough to clip sunshine into her skis and get pushed around the deck.


Our dog Mistisa has never seen snow before, she was quite curious about it, giving it a taste and eating it. Our other dog Black One, was in getting desexed this day so sadly missed it.



Aparently, it only seems to snow once in the Blue Mountains every year, and only lasts half a day at that. This snow melted on the same day, but was enough to get us amped for a ski trip down south.

We Have Wireless Broadband Now

So a lot of sitting by the fire tapping away at the Internet these days...

Chris and Amanda Visit

My old friends Chris and Amanda visited us over the weekend. It was great to see them again. Sunshine and I showed them around the Mountains which put on a lovely show for us all.




We ate out at Cafe Zuppa where Chris told me of his plan to start manufacturing active wear back in Taiwan. I'm looking foward to seeing his products as I can see his been putting a bit of thought into the designs and stuff.



The highlight of the day for me was the visit to Evan's Lookout in the afternoon. Perfect light in perfect weather really made for some nice views and pictures.

Down Pours, Hail, Lightening, Floods...

The weather up here has been crazy. With more than 4 days of almost constant down pour, hail the size of golf balls, lightening to knock out my modem and desk top (but the laptop keeps cranking)... The MiniHaHa water fall is quite a sight. This is Sunshine crossing the creek at the beginning of the track down to the falls. I had to carry Mistisa over. The water fall was really something. We couldn't get anywhere near the base of it due to fast moving flood waters. The awesome power of it just left us sitting above, looking down on it in silence and awe. The really amazing thing is witnessing just how much water is caught in our tiny little catchment. Wentworth Falls would be incredible. Maybe we'll visit that one tomorrow.