Ants and Jane's Christmas blog 2024
Merry Christmas to you all.
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| Maud, Ants, Jane and Tore at Pennington Bay . Swedish sailing friends we met in Portugal and the Caribbean. 5 years on post Covid they visited our Island home in September. |
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| A July dawn walk for a swim in Dalhousie hot springs on our trip up Binns Tack on the way to the Kimberley. |
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| Ants on the boat catching snook. His happy place |
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| At Charnley River in the Kimberly volunteering for a few weeks with Australian Wildlife Conservancy. We did a 10000 km road trip up the centre and back by central Western Australia. |
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| A Boab tree in the Kunanurra area of the Kimberly |
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| Karrpa on the mooring at American River. Shags have taken to liking it as much as Ants so bird netting for the first time. |
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| With Bill and Kate in December in Sussex. We met in Portugal pre Covid and finally met up. Great hosts. |
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| Steve, Ross, Kym, sister Terri, Jane and Mabli enjoying 4 days in stormy Burry Port in West Wales. Proper winter weather with a major Storm Darragh during our December visit. |
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| Jane thanking one of our sked dogs on a self drive sled ride at Kiruna, Sweden, in minus 15C and loving it |
We started 2024 with 2 weeks as managers at Witchelina. Some 40 degree weather but loved the isolation.
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| At the Autumn KI Gallery art competition Jane was best in 2D and Ants won 3D. Pictured with the judge (another Jane) |
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| Jane spent the second half of the year back at College doing life drawing and figurative painting. Print is still her passion but she is pretty talented in other mediums (media to be correct). |
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| Helicopter ride into a work site on Charnley River. Great way to get to work! |
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| Still riding with the KIBUG group. Also a weekend away in the Copper Triangle on the big island for a dozen of us. |
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| In the Japanese spring we spent 6 weeks in a campervan called Carrot. The Cherry blossoms exceed our expectations. |
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| The snow monkeys (macaques who have adopted a hot springs) were just plain cute. |
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| In March Kerry and Jenny joined us volunteering at Port Fairy Folk Festival and photo here on Griffith Island. Ants is slightly inconvenienced with a cast on a skin graft. (pesky little skin lesion) |
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| The artist using some of the long Arctic night to draw |
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| And one of the figurative painting efforts. |
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| Ants and Tore (We had Swedish sailing visitors Tore and Maud visit in September) rowing back from a short Karrpa trip. |
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| Jane on Dartmoor in early December. |
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| Jane's nephew Seth visited in January and we fished and sailed. |
Yes, the photos are out of order!
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| Ants and a friend at the airport. 50 degrees hotter than Kiruna airport will be tomorrow. |
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| Jane in January at Witchelina. |
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| Jane, Leif and Iris enjoying Copenhagen. |
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| Ants's 3D, in "Walk on the Wild Side" |
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| Ants's first painting, Eddington Echidna. |
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| Jane's 2D, man's structures being reabsorbed into the environment. A silk screen. |
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| Carrot the camper. Our home for 6 weeks in Japan |
We still have 6 chooks at home looking after the house. Plenty of bike riding when we are home. A veggie garden, some Dragon boat Sunday mornings, on the art society committee (both of us) and still loving living on our quiet beach/country block.
So a Happy New Year to you all.
Hugs and/or kisses (or both) from Jane and Ants
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| Ants practicing before our trip. |
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| And the artist in residence adding her touch. |
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| Ants giving a final thanks. |
Another year full of activities and events. You two really enjoy yourselves. So nice to see all pictures (especially the first with all our happy faces.🤣).
ReplyDeleteWe are also ourselves starting up the planning of a tour to Japan in the spring of 2026 together with two friends of us . The same friends are going to Australia in January and has Kangaroo Island on their travel schedule - what a coincidence!
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and Cheers from us.
Tore & Maud