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The Video
I have started playing around with Final Cut Pro and am a newbie at it. In saying that this is part 1 of my trip away.
High Country Trip
Finally after 2 years of no four wheel driving, it finally happened. I met up with a couple of mates at Woods Point after work Friday night. That part of the trip took a little longer than I thought it would (like 3 1/2 hours). Any how we got set up and had the fire going with a couple of drinks at hand, and discussed what the plan was for the morning. The next morning we didn’t have to hike to far for our first challenge. The last time I tried this I had the Hilux and it just wasn’t up it. I was feeling quite nervous when tempting this, but that was not the case, put the front and rear lockers on and just cruised up in no time at all. From there we drove past Crows Hut and down to the cascades, which we found to be a popular destination, and also made our job of finding a camp site more difficult. Once again we got settled with a fire and drinks were soon in hand. The next day we had some sore heads and didn’t break camp until 12:00 pm. This days journey to the Jamison valley was awesome, we had all the seasons and conditions. It was a full on day. I even got bogged and Mr Mods got me out. With journey taking us up to Bluff hut were there was plenty of snow and couple of snow ball fights, and then down into the valley to another awesome camp site. This is where I farewelled the boys and headed home to a nice hot shower and my own bed. This was definitely one of the best trips I have done.
AR Drone
Indoor Drone
Outdoor Drone
Sweet. After having a few near misses with my heli, I have back benched it, only for a little while. So with that in mind I still wanted to do something other than just planes. By chance an email came through on my phone and I checked it, it was from ebay and they were having a special on AR Drones. With not much hesitation I purchased one. It arrived in a couple of days and I haven’t looked back. For those who haven’t heard of them before, your iphone, ipod, ipad or android device is the controller. It has 2 video cameras in it, one athe front and one underneath, which you can record from back to your device.
Winch On!
Wicked the winch is on and functional. What a dangerous mission that was, so many near misses from passing cars. I guess you get that when you have on street parking. A couple of cable ties from work and the job is complete and ready for our cup day weekend trip down to the Tanjil River. Two sleeps to go. Oh yeah thanks go out to the boys from work for all putting in and buying me a winch for my engagement present, and thanks Dan for helping me with some of the awkard stuff.
The New Man Cave
Well 2 blogs in two weeks, some one must be rather happy with himself. Indeed I am. Since I moved into Janine’s I have been playing computer games on a couple of cardboard boxes and a small stool which is really a foot rest for another seat lol. This over the weeks started to do wonders for my back (lots of sarcasm), so yesterday I went out and spent $150 on a desk and a chair. Oh did I forget to mention I also spent a ludicrous amount of money on a new graphics card Nvidia GTX 580 SO. SO stands for super overclocked, which brings big smiles to any geek. It’s been along time since I’ve had a Nvidia card, but I’m glad I’m back on board. Bye bye ATI.
Black Range State Forest
I have just recovered from one of my best 4×4 trips ever. Dan and myself took off straight from work Friday and headed out to Black Range State Forest. When we arrived (in just over an hour) we headed for the old train tunnel to check that out. It was pretty cool (literally) and had been built quite well. It wont be falling down anytime soon.
After that we had a quick look around, checked out the main camping area and started to have a look around for a place to camp. We drove around a few tracks and found one that looked like it hadn’t been used in a while and set up camp there.
A few beers & a few bundys later the music and food was kicking to the early hours of the morning. No one came past our site, so we had no one annoying us which was pretty cool. The next morning we were up and were enjoying the liquid amber by about 10 am (well we were on holiday). We cruised around all day checking out tracks in the top quarter of the map. Once again we setup camp and started pumping the music and drinking ourselves silly. Well the next morning was a bit shaky for both of us. It took a while for us to get our bearings, but once we found our feet again we were back out exploring. Dan took off to go get some more fuel in Yea so i started looking for another camp site.
The only thing different about this night was that we saw the dark storm clouds come in and we had about 30 mins of rain during the mid afternoon, which was nothing, 1/2 hour later everything was dry again. Around about dusk we got to see an amazing fog come in, and it came in pretty thick and fast. It was quite trippy.
Over all we both had an awesome time. We left the forest at 10 am and was home by 11:30 am. Now really hanging for the next trip!
Another lunch time
Well here we are outside in the car park again waiting for the end of the day. To make it pass quicker I pump my tyres up lol.
Testing iPhone app
Well here I am just testing out how well the iPhone app works. Gunna try and add a photo too 🙂
Fathers Day Weekend
Last week end Zoe and myself went for a drive into the Yarra Valley to put some miles onto my new motor and run it in. We drove out to Launching place and made a left hand turn into Old Don Road. This in itself was a nice little drive. We followed the road all the way through from bitumen to an old dusty dirt road. There was some nice big houses out that way, making you wish that you too had a property out there. After getting through the windy bit we found ourselves a stones throw from Healesville and on this end of the journey we saw a sign
Under the Dash
Has anyone else replaced a speedo cable on a Hilux? I have and its not exactly easy. Infact I think its one of the trickiest do it myself missions. The speedo cable runs from behind the dashboard to out down under your car into the gearbox. So you have to pull the whole dash out which can be a bit scary, and in my case that included the center console where your radio and ash tray is as well, just to find out that even though the whole lot is in pieces you still have to graze your arm by putting it between the disassembled parts to disconnect the cable. Then you have to follow the cable out to the engine bay which means putting your hands between the engine and the firewall to pull the cable out from the clips and then with a spanner undo the thread from the gearbox. Ok sounds simplish, but once I got it back together with the new cable in the speedo is out, by about 20 kms (under) and for the life of me can’t figure out why. So if anyone with a hilux or has changed a hilux speedo cable and knows what they are doing happens to stumble across this post would be great to hear what I have done wrong!
