The Videos from our 2010 Patagonia Expedition
Ok here we go, the long awaited video from our trip. Hope you dont get too bored! Patagonian Expedition 2010
Surviving Patagonia 2010
We have to keep going, we are beyond the point of no return and safety lies ahead of us not behind us. Non of us have ever experienced anything like the 36 hours that that we lived through.
Two contrasting videos from our trip to Patagonia!
Blizzards, snowdrifts, gales, frostbite, snowblindness, buried tents, floods, hardship, cold, sleepless nights. It must be summer then in deepest Patagonia.
Patagonia 2010 has arrived
Well the day has nearly arrived for us to leave to one of the windiest wildest places on earth, yes Patagonia. But it is one of the most beautiful places on this planet ive ever seen, it is worth the hardship you endure to be there.
A wildfire at the end of the season
Today we have had our first and only major wildfire this summer. We nearly made it to the end of summer without one.
Sierra Cazorla for my 40th Birthday
My 40th birthday approached and I did not want to go out to a bar and drink too much and wake up the next day feeling rough, so we decided to go away for a couple of days instead. We ended up in Cazorla
A holiday in Mallorca 2010
Had a weeks birding and walking holiday in Mallorca at the beginining of September
A weekend trip to London
At the end of August we decided to go to Wembley to watch the rugby league Challenge Cup because Leeds Rhinos had got through to the final.
Gota Fria arrived again
A Gota Fria is a Cold Drop which occurs when warm air saturated with water vapour rises and meets a much colder layer high up in the atmosphere.
Thread-waisted Wasp (Sceliphron spirifex)
Living here in the campo of Lanjaron in Andalucia you get used to seeing some strange insects. I photographed this one the other day. It is a Thread-waisted Wasp.
4 of what I think are my best recent photos
Bird photography. Not alot to say about these as they are self explanatory. Hope you like them.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama celebrates his 75th Birthday
Long live the Dalai Lama and lets hope one day the Chinese government hand back Tibet to the Tibetan people.
Solar cooker
Harness the power of the sun, so we did, we brought a solar cooker! Its called a Sun Oven
Snow climbing in June in the Sierra Nevada
All the rain we had during the winter has given us plenty of snow this year. So last week we decided to go snow climbing above Lanjaron near Cerro de Caballo.
A 2 day crossing of the Sierra Nevada in June
This year the Sierra Nevada is different, its still covered in snow, not just a little bit of snow but metres deep amount of snow, thanks to the amount of rain that fell on Andalucia this winter.
A day out with mum & dad
Mum and dad came for a weeks holiday just recently, this a report of one of our days out.
An update on the chickens
As you are aware we got chickens a few months ago so I thought I would give you an update on how they are getting along.
Scorpion! - Buthus occitanus or Buthus ibericus
So there I was minding my own business weeding away in the veggie garden, when I felt a sharp pain in my finger. I took my glove off to investigate what the problem was but noticed movement to my right ....... a scorpion making a run for it!
A new oven, how hard can it be?
We had to buy a new oven! Our old one, which was only a year old, was way past its sell buy date.
We got chickens!
We have discussed getting chickens for a good year now, first of all we decided we were not responsible enough to have some, then a couple of months ago we decided we were.