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at the end of last nights dinner, as we were all leaving, a rather drunken pact was entered into, whereby we agreed to all go out boating today! with low expectations we arose and started getting our boat ready, I texted the rest of the crew and despite being a bit slow to respond, in the end everyone agreed that it was still a good idea in the hard light of a new day!

so, we headed out to launch the boat and quickly discovered it was a bit windy outside the bay so we just headed across to a small group of islands called the Granites, which is literally five minutes from the boat ramp and has a beautiful sheltered beach.

in the end it was a reminder of just how easy it is to have a beautiful day out and how close to our doorstep it is – the inclination is always to lift the eyes and look further afield to more exotic locations further off shore but the Granites was perfect today and the kids had a ball while we adults seemed to pick the discussions up from the gutter where we had left them the night before!

as a bonus John caught his first fish in Arnhem Land on his new boat, so a great day was had by all.

another one rolls by, and so we start 2012. given the imminent demise of my mobileme hosting i thought it was about time to develop a new blog and website, given that all my video content is now hosted on Vimeo and the images are all hosted on Smugmug  something clean and simple like a wordpress blog seemed to be the best option for my needs.

i see this as becoming the repository of all my online content, so I will retire our website and my foodie blog, smashed crab this will make it much easier to manage updates and content and provide a better long term solution.