December Wrap Up

Another year is almost over and it spells a huge change for me. I resigned from my current, secure full-time employment and have taken the leap into some kind of locum work. January will be the start of training for a job at a laser vision clinic and the end of work at my current job. It is exciting and stressful and all things good and bad at the same time.

Christmas at the coast

This year we headed up to the Sunshine coast in Queensland to spend a few days with Brandon's family for Christmas. It was a really nice break away, and got us back into the beach feeling. Even though we live so close, we have been pretty lazy about heading to the beach regularly. Christmas day was beautiful and we explored the rock pools near our hotel to find nudibrachs of all things! Nudibrachs are sea slugs and I honestly didn't realise they were hardy enough to live in rock pools!

Piles Creek Loop

On Sunday we drove down to Giarrakool Picnic ground in Brisbane Water National Park to do a short walk. Unfortunately I had not read that the park gates shut at 5pm, and we arrived at 3pm to start a 2hour walk. On top of that, the main purpose of going walking was to take some photos. I was pretty angry. Well, very angry. Angry at the park for shutting so early in summer (especially with daylight savings!!) and at "hooligans" who are probably the reason the park needs to shut at night anyway.

"Catho" Catherine Hill Bay

Last weekend we drove to "Catho" to take a break from Brandon's assignment work, and just generally get out of the house. It was a really nice afternoon and I thought I would try out some silhouette photography. There's a number of instructional posts about it online, but as far as I'm aware all you need to do it have the light source behind your subject and hey presto.

My top 10 travel tips (from South America)

Sporting an accidental matchy look in our zip-off pants