What – no internet?

No internet? hahaha not quite, as you can see my colourful mouse still got a workout at times while the the remaining internet users in the house picked their noses and twiddled their thumbs!

Of course that’s all sorted now we’re with the new provider and I’m so glad we changed, because now we no longer have to deal with BigSwamp and wow, we’re getting more for less – I wonder how they keep their customers when they offer them very little!

Stu and I went out with the cameras a little over a week ago, got some nice pics from around the southern end of the Coast (which is in my opinion the most scenic), I had to stop for an ice-cream,  and donuts (I was hungry!) Anyway, we had a good few hours out of the house. I did suggest to Stu that we put a ban on weekend photography though, so frustrating because people are so damn rude here and they see you’re setting up for a photo so they just walk in front of the camera.

What happened to the days when people saw you and stopped and waited – I do that! Thing is, it’s a great way to make small talk with a stranger, though I found my own way of doing the same with the knuckleheads on the beach. Whenever they walked in front of me I would take a photo and say loudly “you can view it in public online tomorrow!” :lmao:

Stu generally leaves me in charge of where we’re going to take photos, his reason is that he doesn’t know where to go for good photos – I told him neither do I, the only advantage I have is I know the area but I haven’t really looked around to know what is available!

I chose the airport, I’ve been wanting to head down there for ages and decided now was a good a time as any. The trip was enjoyable, it was the first time I’d been able to get reasonable photos of the planes and of course we came to the attention of the Federal Police. After a chat to them, they told us where we could get better photos and took us to the new spot and left us there to enjoy the day. Lovely guys too I might add!

The problem with going out with me taking photos is I am a grizzly bear! I think we all have certain things we enjoy doing on our own and this is generally one of them for me. If I’m left to do my thing everything runs smoothly but if I’m shadowed during the process I get a bit snappish – ask Stu, he’ll tell you :angel:

So a couple of days after our day out, I decided on a whim to head back to the airport for more snaps. There were two reasons for this, firstly there was a plane I wanted to capture (yeah, in a butterfly net and then bring it home!) and secondly because an old buddy from Victoria was flying in and though my sister was picking him up, I let her know where I was so they could pop across to say ‘g’day’ – which they did!

On my way to the airport that morning, it decided to pee it down with rain, so while I sat at the lights wondering whether to continue, I snapped this sign….so due to the obstruction, I’ll tell you what it says “Making love? do it ….. longer!”

Good oh!!! Is this sign spam for viagra or something?

At the airport, I took a few photos – 428 to be precise – remember they are fast moving objects I’m trying to photograph, it can sometimes be a bit hit and miss, naturally not all are clear. On the Sunday I’d met with this charming young female magpie and sure enough she found me this day too. She’s great with the camera, standing right beside me posing.

Magpies are my favourite bird, bummer they’re associated with the crappiest AFL team in the country *dodges the tomatoes thrown by the Collingwood fans* FYI: the ONLY people who like Collingwood are their supporters, it’s a fact that every other person in Australia MUST hate the team. It seems to be the only team that this rule applies to.

Of course plenty of plane photos were taken and one thing that tickled my funny bone was something that graces the side of most of the Virgin Blue planes (Virgin Blue being my domestic carrier of choice) – see what they’ve done? Put their phone number on the side of the plane!

Now I got to thinking about this and it struck me that most people don’t actually see planes on the ground unless they’re at the airport waiting to get on one. You’d think by that point in time a passenger has pretty much made his or her mind up on who she’s flying with. I can’t imagine people would just rock up to the airport, suitcase in hand, no ticket, wander in and straight up to the window, get the phone number and call the airline – they have COUNTERS at the airport people!

Then I wondered if it was “sky spam”? So, we’re running out of interesting advertising space – oh I know, we’ll advertise in the sky! Well, without a decent pair of binoculars you’re not going to really get through to those on the ground…UNLESS they have a different tactic!

Picture this: A couple on another airline flying from point A to point B, she looks out the window and sees a Virgin Blue plane fly by and says “honey, quick…grab me a pen and some paper, I need to take down a number! The inflight food on this carrier is shocking, we’re going with them next!” I don’t blame you either….as I mentioned, they’re my domestic carrier of choice and I think their competition sucks big time! Did you get that number? It’s 13 6789….that’s right…just 13 6789 local call from anywhere in Australia (mobile rates may be charged at a higher rate!) *

But you know, it’s all go around the airport, or in this car’s world it’s more like all stop! Dude – who stole your wheels?

I don’t know if they were in fact stolen or removed legitimately by its owner, but I think if they were stolen then the police need to be onto this A.S.A.P instead of running monthly awards for special crimes.

In the following photo you’ll see a photo I snapped on the way back home, the way it’s worded makes me think they’re having a monthly competition “who can do the best…” type thing. “And the award this month goes to Jenny Bloggs who simultaneously used her mobile phone to conference call two people while doing twitter updates and applying make-up in the rear vision mirror at the same time she sipped coffee and changed a cd!”

Okay that’s enough from me for the moment…..later gators!

* I am in no way affiliated with Virgin Blue or any other airline or their affiliates, I just know good service when I get it!

No cars were harmed during the making of this post!