Ever since our Europe trip in 2008, and perhaps before, we’ve been planning on getting canvas prints done of some of our photos. After much deliberation, and quite a large amount of procrastination we finally picked four shots to get made into prints.

They came out really nicely, the photo quality is great. The Eiger shot is a little dark, but we kind of knew that. The framing is really nice, they are quite deep, and the photo wraps around which looks really cool.

We have three along one wall in the lounge room, and the fourth on the opposite wall, they look pretty tops – in contrast to the rest of our mess 🙂

And although we haven’t worked out the details, some of one or more of them are a late birthday and/or Christmas present for Meg & I, thanks to Mum & Dad!

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Back in March we headed down to Nowra & Point Perp for a weekend with the ANUMC. We drove down Friday night, camping at Honeymoon Bay, Saturday we headed to Point Perp.

I haven’t been to the Point for a few years, and it took a bit of getting used to. After having a look around for something easy & non-committing (ha!), we started with some easy top ropes. I think we did Over the Yard Arm (14) and Ground Swell (16), which were both nice. Anya kindly took heaps of photos of me on Ground Swell, some of which came out pretty nicely.

After lunch we walked down to T-shirt gulley, and did an easy 10 or 11 crack on gear. It was probably only 10 meters, and the climbing was super easy, but it was still nice to get used to placing gear there – the rock is a bit peculiar. Thanks to Adam for lending me some of his gear.

On Sunday we packed up camp and drove to Thompson’s Point. We started with The Money or the Box (19), which was really nice. As we roped up we were visited by a pair of little marsupial mice (I think), which were super cute.

Some of the other guys were hanging at Vanderholics with a cool lizard, so I got some cool shots of him. He’s totally giving me the eye.

After lunch I tried Sloth (16), but convinced myself I was going to fall clipping one of the bolts and bailed, mind games.

To round out the weekend we did a cavey 14 which I think was Lounge Lizard, and then the lovely Santa’s Little Helper (15) back at the descent gully walls. Somehow that took all day and we ended up driving home into a setting sun, still a good trip though.

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