Rolling again.

The injured shoulder is well on its way to full recovery so given the green light to get out there, I've wasted no time using it to get rolling again .... both in the kayak and on the mountain bike.

Dean0 and I took the shoulder out for a test run at Daisy for an easy Sunday afternoon cruise.

.... it was then onto a koala spotting night ride through Daisy. Glad to see that there really are koalas out there in the Koala Forests.

Always great to get out with mates to test the fitness and catch up on the latest.

Once in a blue mo...

There are a lot of good causes out there but with a little help from a few friends, decided to show my hairy side by growing a mo for MOvember in support of Beyond Blue and Prostrate Cancer Research.

After numerous comments about 'bum fluff' and the like .... due to the fact that my Mo was hard to see being mostly blonde with a hint of grey .... I decided to turn it blue for the rest of the month. It looks more blue in real life but you get the idea.

If you have any spare cash and want to support your mates, why not put a few dollars towards a good cause. I'm sure that you will only see a blue Mo only once in a blue Moon. ;-{))

http://au.movember.com/mospace/990950/

Ups and downs in Nepal

Thought I'd drag a few photos out of the vault from a trip to Nepal in 2004. Lucky I had two good shoulders then otherwise I might have found myself falling a looooong way down. ;-)

We travelled on tracks not used much these days, not seeing any other people for 4 or 5 days at a time. Although there was that Maoist rebel that travelled with us for a while as a "friend" of one of the guides. It was a time when you had to pay cash to the rebels (with large guns and knives) to enter their territory,  but they gave you a receipt so that you could show the next group that you had already paid. Scarey at times, but very civilised really.

There is nothing like being in the mountains with peaks towering to 7,000m around you. A trip I had wanted to do for a lifetime. Carpe diem.

Eagle boy ... lizard whisperer ... what the???

If you can't ride your bike or paddle your kayak you will find other things to do. Annoying the local wildlife is always fun. I'm not sure who was out-staring who with my lizard encounter ... in the end it didn't bite me and I didn't bite it ... so it all ended well.

In the case of the wedge tail eagle, I think it was taming me. It let me scratch its neck like it was a puppy. Its talons and beak were pretty serious weapons though.

The animals of SE Qld will be happy to know that I was back on my bike today ... first time in three months. Might even go for a paddle soon. :-))