March 2008

I thought it would be of value to record the trials and tribulations of building this blog site.

This whole site (davidedwardsphotos.com) came about after my wife complained that we have thousands of photos that are stuck on our computer but never viewed. If you think back to the film days, you normally made an effort to put photos in an album which would come out whenever you did a major cleanup. Also with film cameras we didn’t get too carried away with pictures, especially when using expensive slide film. Now with digital, you snap off a dozen shots of almost the exact same view and don’t think twice. So, getting back to the point, I decided to setup a website to display my pics.
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We’ve just returned from a family weekend spent with friends on the Mornington Peninsula. With a base in Rosebud, we spent time at the Red Hill show, down the beach, and around Portsea. This entry looks at the family day trip to Porsea, taking in London Bridge, Point Nepean and the Sorrento back beach. I’ve wanted to visit Point Nepean for years. When we decided to head to Rosebud for the weekend, it seemed a perfect opportunity to see it.
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It’s been ages since I spent a few days on my bike touring the corners of Oz with friends. Earlier this year my mate Skip sent through a few events being organised by the BMW MCC Vic. They had planned a to spend the Labour Day long weekend at Nelson in the far SW corner of Victoria. This looked like a good option, but after a few chats we decided to do our own thing and find some interesting places to visit.

The final plan was to head the back way down to Apollo Bay (avoiding the tourist-popular eastern half of the Great Ocean Road) and across to Peterborough, taking in the Twelve Apostles and Loch Arg Gorge, then to head up into the Grampians and do a bit of walking, and finishing with the back roads through central Victoria (to avoid the boring Western Highway).
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