Life Trove

14 January 2014

Favourite movies watched (2014)

Whiplash (2014)
Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
Boyhood (2014)
Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Tracks (2013)
Predestination (2014)
Finding Vivien Maier (2013)
Her (2013)
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Rush (2013)
Blue is the Warmest Colour (2013)
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Dallas Buyer's Club (2013)
Serenity (2005)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Africa (2013)
Fargo S1 (2014)
True Detective (2014)
Vikings S1
Black Mirror (2011)

11 January 2014

Meeting Gavin at Mount Kosciuszko

Hi Gavin.

Sorry I didn't get to say goodbye this morning. It was so great to meet you. Thanks for making our trip so fun and memorable - I haven't laughed so much in a long time. Your zest for life is infectious and your story telling borders on genius - what an amazing skill you have. Glad you got back safe. I'll send you a link to the photos on Saturday.

Cheers. Graeme

Hiking in Kosciuszko

Some highlights of our trip

The Kosciuszko YHA - friendly staff and great facilities.
Meeting up with Gavin and Peter who turned out to be awesome hiking companions.
Hiking to the top of Mount Kosciuszko, the highest mountain in Australia at 2,228 metres.
Exhilarating leaps into the sky.
The patience and skill of the photographer who captured our group leap at the top of Kosciuszko - what a star she was!
Going down the ski lift, and a moment of butterflies when we went over a cliff.
An amazing 22 km walk on the Main Range trail past gorgeous alpine lakes, rugged outcrops and breathtaking vistas. One of the best hikes I've done in Australia.
A great meal at a local Italian restaurant - including delicious salmon pasta and the best veggie pizza ever (after the world's worst veggie burger the night before.)
Hiking through a surreal landscape of dead trees and seeing wild horses on The Dead Horses Gap walk.
Seeing a huge gathering of crows on a rocky outcrop - I've never seen so many crows in one place, almost like something out of The Birds.
Awesome dessert on the final night.
Lots of talk about food - and often feeling very hungry as a result.
Delicious cups of tea and hot chocolate after the hikes.
Zante courageously leaping off a rock near the top of Mount Kosciuszko.
Elizabeth falling out of a tree, then getting right back up and up the tree again - not letting anything beat her. Also, powering on ahead up the steep hills.
Michelle, the Queen of Scrabble, who not only won but got a seven letter word; "frenetic." What a champ she is!
Gavin's hilarious and entertaining stories including a new spin on dumplings - we'll never think of them the same way again!
Learning a great and easy recipe for "Poor Man's Tiramisu" - great if you need to make dessert in a hurry.