When you finally make it all the way, you just can't wait to go home to tell mum...

"Once there were three small islands in this part of the river. Fatima Island, with its stone bank built in 1901, now stands alone - its banks slowly eroding into the mudflats.

In 1951, hundreds of Catholics made a rosary crusade to the riverbank in homage to the Portuguese Pilgrim Statue Our Lady of Fatima. The island has been called Fatima Island ever since."

From the information plaque on the bank. Near Tempe train station.

Near the end of the climbing, about to descend a very nice long downhill section to the pub, via cow-pats, a few more spaniards, and some pretty awesome single track adrenaline fun!

Lee Quarry, Bacup, Lancashire

18/01/2014

I took this picture while researching a Financial Times article found at www.ft.com/cms/s/0/075f0478-dddc-11de-b8e2-00144feabdc0.html and an audio slideshow found at www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e844abb4-dddc-11de-b8e2-00144feabdc0.html

May 25,2007 in Houston Texas.

I took this picture while researching a Financial Times article found at www.ft.com/cms/s/0/075f0478-dddc-11de-b8e2-00144feabdc0.html and an audio slideshow found at www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e844abb4-dddc-11de-b8e2-00144feabdc0.html

A Sunday cure for cabin fever - every weekend it has just poured for the last umpteen months. In the top right hand corner you can see a building which is Melbournes' "police Academy" perched high on a hill. In the 3/4 foreground the white specks are cockatoos (cockys to us) huge buggers the size of an overfed moggy (obviously the rains have brought plenty of food). Decided to get on the MTB's and just get wet and dirty. Taken on the Samsung Galaxy SII whilst braving a cold and wet Sunday arvo. The bike track actually goes all the way to the beach some 25km's south if you stick with it. It follows the newly opened Eastlink motorway. The track goes through parks and bushland, urban centres, sewage treatment plants (huge drying ponds), a purpose built olympic rowing centre and finally to Port Phillip Bay. Used Pudding Camera app - vivid and finished off on Snapseed.

Part of a photo scavenger hunt. This was "sidewalk fossils."

Bike track under Holbrooks Rd (Linear Pk)

Cyclists training hard on Newport Velodrome.

Looking out from the car park. That greets first time visitors on their way into Queenstown. The Kawarau river, Lake Wakatipu's only outlet seen winding its way along towards the Gibbston wine area. You can just make out Queenstown Airport just before the lake, and get an idea of how spectacular the views are from the plane on the way in.