Corporate Games 2012

The KPMG mens touch football team competed today in the Corporate Games, held at the University of Queensland. We played three games back-to-back and managed to draw our second game. The scores were 5-2, 3-3 and 5-2. (I scored a try in the second match.) Here's a photo of me with the team.

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It's really tough to stay on your feet out there in running shoes and I went "A over T" about three seconds after stepping on to the field. I can't place all of the blame on the shoes for being a bit sloppy out there today. (Eating three pancakes and cream beforehand played a role too.)

Framed and baked

Two Pinkertons were framed this week.

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 And Lindsay was baked in to a pie! (Or an enormous ravioli.)

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Hally and Pinko visit the Main Range National Park

Hall and I rode to the Main Range National Park on Saturday. We rode through Spicer's Gap and took in the view from the "Governor's Chair". Here's a little video that I recorded during our trip.



We stopped at the entrance to the park. The dirt path through Spicer's Gap starts here. (It's the old route from Brisbane in to New South Wales. Hall's bike was certainly more at-home in this terrain than the GS.

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I set up camp at the Spicer's Gap campground. It was deserted when we arrived but a few more people arrived later in the afternoon.

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It was an easy stroll up to the Governor's Seat. Apparently, in the nineteenth century, the state governor used to come up here to survey the land.

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Can you tell from this picture that it was really windy on Sunday? I snapped this on my hike along Mt Mathieson trail.

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There was a grassy meadow close to the end of the walk, replete with wildflowers and butterflies.

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The message is at the foot of a cairn dedicated to the pioneers who perished building and maintaining the mountain road through Spicer's Gap.

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Hiking and Camping in the Conondale Ranges

The GS is perched at the Booloumba look-out. Across the valley is Mount Allan.

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I cooked Maggie two-minute noodles on my alcohol stove without leaving my tent. (The leeches were out there!)

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This is the Booloumba Falls.

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Before the bats took up residence here, gold and manganese were exctracted from this mine.

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This enormous strangler-fig has done very nicely for itself.

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I took lunch on Sunday near this cairn in the Booloumba Creek.

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Sometimes, I think that park staff are a little conservative about designated tracks for four-wheel-drive vehicles only. I crossed a few streams on my GS500 (some of them deeper than that shown here). Here's to one-wheel-drive!

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These tourist drives through the mountains are fantastic on the bike. Gunners, you visited us a week too early! You'd have loved this.

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This is the view, on my way home, south-east across to Brisbane.

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