Sunday, July 20, 2008
Ellen's column took off ..
The first post on Ellen's column has been published... Let us know what you think!!!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
4WD in Wilbinga
Ja, Ineke en Luus: het is inderdaad stil rondom de Blessies... Geen bijzondere reden voor hoor. Gewoon het dagelijkse leven dat lekker doorgaat. De dagen schieten voorbij.... :-)
Oh en Lucia, of course we did not trade Ellen's car in.. That is our work horse
Ok, a few weeks ago we have been invited by XPditer Wilco to go along on a little 4WD trip. We have been asking around a couple of times for opportunities to come along on one of these trips. Wilco actually organized one more or less especially for us, let's call it a introduction to 4WD trip. The location we went to was Wilbinga, an area just north of Perth (about the height of Yanchep Park), and then adjacent to the ocean. This means that you can get to a few very nice 'remote' beaches that you will not be able to reach with a regular car... Of course we were not alone, Frank and Menno (with their respective cars) joined as well, because any smart 4WD-er will never go out on his/her own!!.
To get there took about an hour from Wilco's place (probably it would take us an hour and a hal to get to the entrance road. The entrance road by itself is just a gravle road, not too bad just a bit bumpy. After about 15 minutes drive we were at the end of the entrance road and about to get on the soft sand roads. This means the tyre pressure has to be decreased (from 40 to 20 psi). That way the tyres are reasonably soft and will be giving beter grip on the sand roads.
This is of course a matter of simply pressing the tyre-valves untill the right pressure level has been reached. Then we were ready to get on the sand roads:
And no it what not all just flat sandy tracks:
The final destination (although of course it is not so much about the destination as it is about the road there :-))... Can you spot Ellen?:
After this trip when we were driving home we agreed that it was a very exciting activity. Would we not have 2 cars already, we may have been tempted to look for an (older) 4WD car ... (un?)fortunately we have the two so that is something for later..
Feel free to have a good look around at some more photos here.
Oh en Lucia, of course we did not trade Ellen's car in.. That is our work horse
Ok, a few weeks ago we have been invited by XPditer Wilco to go along on a little 4WD trip. We have been asking around a couple of times for opportunities to come along on one of these trips. Wilco actually organized one more or less especially for us, let's call it a introduction to 4WD trip. The location we went to was Wilbinga, an area just north of Perth (about the height of Yanchep Park), and then adjacent to the ocean. This means that you can get to a few very nice 'remote' beaches that you will not be able to reach with a regular car... Of course we were not alone, Frank and Menno (with their respective cars) joined as well, because any smart 4WD-er will never go out on his/her own!!.
To get there took about an hour from Wilco's place (probably it would take us an hour and a hal to get to the entrance road. The entrance road by itself is just a gravle road, not too bad just a bit bumpy. After about 15 minutes drive we were at the end of the entrance road and about to get on the soft sand roads. This means the tyre pressure has to be decreased (from 40 to 20 psi). That way the tyres are reasonably soft and will be giving beter grip on the sand roads.
This is of course a matter of simply pressing the tyre-valves untill the right pressure level has been reached. Then we were ready to get on the sand roads:
And no it what not all just flat sandy tracks:
The final destination (although of course it is not so much about the destination as it is about the road there :-))... Can you spot Ellen?:
After this trip when we were driving home we agreed that it was a very exciting activity. Would we not have 2 cars already, we may have been tempted to look for an (older) 4WD car ... (un?)fortunately we have the two so that is something for later..
Feel free to have a good look around at some more photos here.
Monday, April 14, 2008
C-Day
Well, well, just in time to prevent a full 3 months gap between the posts.. Time really is flying when you're having fun!
Anyway, now that we are back (sort of ;-) I (Pete) need to tell you about C-Day. Although it may sound a bit like another one of those Ozzie holidays (like Anzac-day or Labour day) it is not. In a way it is a much more interesting day. The exact day of C-Day is Friday, April the 4th. Almost exactly 3 years ago we were in Canada visiting my dad. During that day I actually fell in love with ... C. C actually being his last name. First name 300.... Can you guess by now? No?
Ok, the family name is Chrysler. In that family there are a few members with a normal heart (3 and 3.5 liter and 6 'chambers') and two with a big heart. The biggest heart (6.1 liter, 8 chambers) is a real race monster. The one just below that one is the one that I actually started a relationship with... His name: Chrysler 300C Hemi... Hence the C-Day, the day our relationship started!
Now, just in case you still do not have the picture, HERE is a picture of his face:
Anyway, now that we are back (sort of ;-) I (Pete) need to tell you about C-Day. Although it may sound a bit like another one of those Ozzie holidays (like Anzac-day or Labour day) it is not. In a way it is a much more interesting day. The exact day of C-Day is Friday, April the 4th. Almost exactly 3 years ago we were in Canada visiting my dad. During that day I actually fell in love with ... C. C actually being his last name. First name 300.... Can you guess by now? No?
Ok, the family name is Chrysler. In that family there are a few members with a normal heart (3 and 3.5 liter and 6 'chambers') and two with a big heart. The biggest heart (6.1 liter, 8 chambers) is a real race monster. The one just below that one is the one that I actually started a relationship with... His name: Chrysler 300C Hemi... Hence the C-Day, the day our relationship started!
Now, just in case you still do not have the picture, HERE is a picture of his face:
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Memory lane ;-)
Last week we were cleaning up the harddisk of our desktop. We more or less stumbled into the holiday reports that we had made during our (3) holidays to Australia. It reminded us a bit of the ´prequel´ fashion that goes on in the film industrie, when they bring out movies for succesfull series about how it all began (Star Wars, Batman begins, etc). So, we thought it was a good idea to bring out our own prequel.
Now, unfortunately for some of you, these holiday reports were all written in Dutch. We have decided not to start translating them because that would really take too much time. So, if you do not read Dutch, you may consider skipping the next part (although some photos are there as well...).
Dus ga ik nu in het Hollands verder. We hebben voor onze prequel gewoon een 2e blogje gemaakt. Als je het leuk vind om dat eens door te lezen (hoe ervaarden wij Australie voordat wij er woonden), neem dan de tijd (of deel het in stukken) en begin te lezen bij het verlsag van de 1e vakantie.... Deze prequel is te vinden op: http://www.blessiesprequel.blogspot.com/. Mocht je comments willen plaatsen dan kan dat daar ook gewoon.....
Now, unfortunately for some of you, these holiday reports were all written in Dutch. We have decided not to start translating them because that would really take too much time. So, if you do not read Dutch, you may consider skipping the next part (although some photos are there as well...).
Dus ga ik nu in het Hollands verder. We hebben voor onze prequel gewoon een 2e blogje gemaakt. Als je het leuk vind om dat eens door te lezen (hoe ervaarden wij Australie voordat wij er woonden), neem dan de tijd (of deel het in stukken) en begin te lezen bij het verlsag van de 1e vakantie.... Deze prequel is te vinden op: http://www.blessiesprequel.blogspot.com/. Mocht je comments willen plaatsen dan kan dat daar ook gewoon.....
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