Thursday, 29 March 2007
The final admin frontier
Captains log:.........today the Fyvies conquered the final admin frontier.....VISAs. Yeeehaaaaa!! Now just a matter of time before we'll be boldly going where 500,000 Safers have gone before!
Saturday, 24 March 2007
Early birds
After a few days of threatening to do it, we finally made it to Nahoon Beach for an early morning walk this morning... a great accomplishment considering its a Saturday.
The main purpose of the outing, other than to just enjoy being out, was to see the impact of the super high tides we've been having the last 2 weeks. Apparently a combination of the equinox, spring high and a cut-off low pressure system which caused a stormy sea, some seriously big waves hit the RSA coastline. The awesome clouds and lighting was beaut (as was my willing model of a wife.. the little black spot in pix below), so ended up taking more pix of sky than eroded dunes.
Anyway, the shape of the mouth have been quite drastically changed (much bigger) and the hummock dunes cut right back. Would have been cool to see it as it was happening.
The main purpose of the outing, other than to just enjoy being out, was to see the impact of the super high tides we've been having the last 2 weeks. Apparently a combination of the equinox, spring high and a cut-off low pressure system which caused a stormy sea, some seriously big waves hit the RSA coastline. The awesome clouds and lighting was beaut (as was my willing model of a wife.. the little black spot in pix below), so ended up taking more pix of sky than eroded dunes. Anyway, the shape of the mouth have been quite drastically changed (much bigger) and the hummock dunes cut right back. Would have been cool to see it as it was happening. And after that, it was off to work for both of us .... dow!
Thursday, 22 March 2007
It begins ........
.. and one giant IT steps for the Fyvies. Never would have thought that I'd be setting up our own website, but here I am. Thanks to my mate Al for inspiring me to go bloggular.
On Tuesday our HSMP permit thingy arrived. The envelope was opened with trembling hands, and there was much celebrating done when we saw the response was positive. G and I even did the "dance of joy" (remember Balkie from Perfect Strangers?). The poor domestic worker is now convinced we're nuts. Thanks to Ruth and Ash for assisting our celebrations with a bottle of bubbly. Anyway, we're now one step (visas) away from hoping onto a jumbo (or maybe an airbus A380 if we're lucky) and zooting off to the UK. Time frames are not fixed as yet but we're looking somewhere early/mid May. Which brings me to the purpose of this blog. Rather than bombarding friends and family with lengthy, attachment intensive email updates of where and what we've been up to, the plan is to let you update yourselves at your leisure.
And there it ends for now.....
On Tuesday our HSMP permit thingy arrived. The envelope was opened with trembling hands, and there was much celebrating done when we saw the response was positive. G and I even did the "dance of joy" (remember Balkie from Perfect Strangers?). The poor domestic worker is now convinced we're nuts. Thanks to Ruth and Ash for assisting our celebrations with a bottle of bubbly. Anyway, we're now one step (visas) away from hoping onto a jumbo (or maybe an airbus A380 if we're lucky) and zooting off to the UK. Time frames are not fixed as yet but we're looking somewhere early/mid May. Which brings me to the purpose of this blog. Rather than bombarding friends and family with lengthy, attachment intensive email updates of where and what we've been up to, the plan is to let you update yourselves at your leisure.
And there it ends for now.....
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