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Well hello all and good to see you. Sorry it has been so long ,pretty busy doing nothing, you know that mundane day to day stuff that keeps you busy. We did have a great visit with Jackie and Goldilo-oops I mean Barb. The girls have all grown up so nicely, another few years and they could be quite dangerous.
4-5-6 club 2001

4-5-6 club 2008


Tory and Kaiya are having great sport seasons. Tory's soccer is off to the final next week and Kaiyas netball goes to the semi finals but are most likely a shoe-in for the final. Sekaiya will be performing in Southern Stars spectacular in a few weeks which is a huge multi school dance thingo. Let's see what else... rain rain and more rain... oh yea and throw a whole h of a lot of wind in with that.
Hoping to get a better garden going this year soon. The green house is up and waiting for seeds to go in trays. Come on Spring!
We had our annual July Trek up the coast, which was as good as ever.
The Bull that terrorized Bellinger Keys:

Cathy,Tory, Kaiya, Emmy, and little Cheyenne (Our Great Niece):

Tory, Ellie, Kaiya, Uncle John :

Cheyenne and Emmy:

and a couple of great bush/beach walks around here.
Walking from boat ramp at Vincentia along rocks and beach, quite a large stingray!



Then a great walk out in the national park on the Murray's Beach trail up over Governors Headland.


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