Nearly there I hope (photo heavy)

 Blogger has decided to reverse these photos too, so we will travel backwards again today!

Tira in the garden

Tira hides from Hank in the garden, clumps of plant are her favourite

No one can see me here!! 😀

An interesting flower in the Botanic Gardens, in the hot house

Cute butterfly stone

Hoya with different leaves to mine

Christmas in the hot house

Great water lilies

Back in the bollards again

The big wheel at Eastern Beach

the bike group bollard 

The Spirit of Tasmania heading out from Geelong, loved the contrast of the two boats

Eastern Beach 

Heading for Eastern Beach

Life saver bollards

Nurse

Seafaring adventurer

Interesting clouds

Local people bollards.

For the Adventure Labs I had to answer a question at each bollard, for example the child bollard was holding a birds nest and I had to count the number of eggs in it. I walked 4.5 km this day, my feet sure knew it! Once again David was at outpatients. 

I rode my bike to Indented head one morning

the pelicans were waiting for food at the fish cleaning table

busy at the main beach

Looking form Indented Heads back to St Leonards

Main pier at St Leonards

a sailing boat near home

I stopped at Geelong on my way home from the airport for a wander, fresh air and to finish an Adventure Lab

The Geelong to the city ferry

What a peaceful way to spend the afternoon!!

Happy stitching.

Christmas happening

Hee hee, I borrowed Jenny's Christmas glasses.

Our trees looks amazing!

The Christmas ham.

Our Christmas Day meal where there were supposed to be 7 of us reduced to 3 with Adam getting covid a few days before Christmas.

Jenny made this amazing dessert, lamington fingers, chocolate custard, cream and berries. It looked fantastic and was eaten, always a good sign.

One hot afternoon we went down to the beach, it was the busiest I have seen for years, boats, jet skis and people everywhere.

One Wednesday we saw the market was happening at Portarlington

There were a lot of people wandering around. Several purchases came home with us!

Another morning looking for Adventure Labs in Geelong while David was at Outpatients

beside the Carousel 

We found onefo the snow globe paintings the council have installed around the city

and put ourselves in it

then a lovely lady offered to take our photo!

the lighted Christmas tree at Eastern Beach

and one of the bollards I visited. 

Enough for now, hope I haven't  put you to sleep!!

Happy stitching.

 

Here I am catching up again

 I can't believe we are half way through January already. Time is zooming by.

Jenny came over from NZ to spend Christmas with us, she flew over from Auckland and had to wait in Tullamarine airport 2 hours for the luggage to be unloaded from the plane. Even though they landed first it seemed the Qantas plane that came in later got priority. There was a plane load of very angry passengers at the airport. jenny then got the Gull Bus to Geelong where I picked her up. That was in 10 minutes early!!

We have had a lovely few weeks of chatting, catching up, cups of tea, Jenny has been knitting, I have done a little sewing, we have had some walks along the beach and visited friends.

David had an outpatients appt at the Geelong hospital so Jenny and I went for a walk looking for Adventure Labs (part of geocaching) along the Geelong foreshore. 

Rest time - the couch is carved out of limestone!

Jenny decorated out Christmas tree

the designer at work!

Evening beverage! A new and different rum for Jenny and Sloe Gin for me, which was much enjoyed.

Jenny collecting bunnies ears - a childhood memory for us both.

Sign by the paddle steamer wreck at Indented Head

Paddle steamer wreck

Working on our selfie skills - they need more work!!

These photos are all taken at Indented Head while on our walk.

That is probably more than enough for one post!

More to come

Happy stitching.