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Adventure Day with Step Into Life, June 2007. Activites included archery, high ropes, abseiling, leap of faith, lava crossing etc. Lots of fun! |
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Pinjarra Crew at Safety Bay - in late Dec 2006, Justin brought his friends from Pinjarra to Safety Bay for some windsurfing and they had a ball. |
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Windsurfing Trailer - Ric Haselhurst, my brother-in-law and principle at Stirling Marine Fabricators built this fantastic windsurfing trailer for us for all our gear and to use on SU Windsurfing Camp. I designed it with his expert input and helped build it. |
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New Zealand 2005 - On Jun 20th 2005 we flew to Auckland and spent a month zig-zagging down the north and then South Islands having fun doing Freefall Extreme, black water tubing, skiing, snow-boarding cruising around Milford Sound, climbing mountains in Queenstown and other fun things with a number of friends. |
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Windsurfing Camp 2005 - Tiffany & Martin went again to Geraldton as leaders on the 2005 SU Windsurfing Camp (camp pages here) and spent a week with 24 year 9 through to yr12 campers windsurfing, ski-biscuiting, doing Horizontal Bungie, a bush dance, sand-boarding, on the farm, etc. Lots of photos! |
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Safety Bay Windsurfing Dec 2004 - Justin, Daniel, Tiffany and Martin spent a fun couple of days windsurfing in great conditions. The second day saw lots of wave jumping and some great spills (last two pages). video to come later. |
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Esperance 2004 - We joined Mandy and Giulio for an excellent holiday down on the Tilbrook farm and off-roading and windsurfing through the Cape Le Grande, Cape Arid and Stokes Inlet National parks. |
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Jut's Birthday - November 6th 2004 we spend the afternoon and evening (others stayed overnight) camped in the bush at a secret Prosser get-away somewhere off the road on the way to York. My brother Justin's Subaru demonstrated it's submarine capabilities and we also had to winch the Disco out. |
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Bush Bappos Sept 2004 - Brett Chambers invited us to join his 4WD club again for an expedition to new muddy tracks out around the Helena Valley. We had to use the winch with a snatch block to pull the Disco out of some amazingly soft ground and got all vehicles well and truly covered in glorious mud. |
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Japanese Student Visitor August 2004 - Ayumi, from the Japanese University Ship Fuji Maru stayed with us for 2 days - we went 4WD-ing at Pippidinny, visited Kahuna Wildlife Park where we patted kangaroos and koalas, held a huge wombat and had a real Aussie BBQ and then saw her ship off at Freo harbour. |
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Gidgiganup Winching - After the Mt Pleasant Retreat at Eagle's Nest, Tiff and I found some very steep clay tracks down into some valleys around Gidgiganup. 3 Video clips and a few photos. |
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Mundaring Mud Trenches May 2004 - half a dozen photos without much mud - However, very muddy Video footage yet to come! |
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Mundaring Power-Lines March 2004 - Fun with Pete's Vitara & friends. Only 3 photos, Video yet to come |
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Windsurfing Camp 2004 Tiff's first experience as a camp leader! Not many windsurfing pics but heaps of camper shots |
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Geraldton 2004 - Lots of Sidewinder, some windsurfing, a very sad fatal accident and Wayne cops a cobbler sting |
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Mum & Dad's 40th Wedding Anniverserary and Mum's 70th - a surprise river cruise with friends. |
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Jarrahdale Aug 2003 - Fun with Rex & Debbie in the National park at Jarrahdale where Mart popped part of the rear bumper off - Don't tell Tiff! Half a dozen photos |
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Sawyers Valley 2003 - Submerged Disco and lots of winching through big Muddy puddles with Brett Chambers leading the Bush Bappos 4WD club. Video footage |
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Exmouth - Bungles 2003 - 10,000kms in 3 weeks - caravan rollover at Coral Bay, Shark fishing at Exmouth, Gibb River Rd punctures, Kakadu, Bungle Bungles, Uluru, Kalgoorlie etc. Video Footage |
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Lancelin Jan 2003 - Rex & gang and the Terra playing in the dunes - getting bogged again of course. |
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Our Honeymoon Nov 2002 - Bogged on the beach the first night at Dongara, Windsurfing at Corros, campfires, sea eagles, Z-bend at Kalbarri and the Pink Lakes |
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Our Wedding Nov 2002 - 4WD bridal vehicles, joey hopping around, afternoon tea, swords in the cake, helicopter & reception. With full streaming video |
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Tiffany represented Australia for the International Australian Ladies Gaelic Football Competition in Ireland Sept 2002 |
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7 Deserts Trip April - May 2002 We spent 2 weeks travelling through the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts, crossing over the Canning Sock Route, up to Broome, Derby, Halls Creek, Windjana National Park and Tunnel Creek, Fitzroy Crossing, the Bungle Bungles and Karijini National Park. On this trip I asked Tiffany for her hand in marriage! |
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Geraldton to Exmouth Trip 2002 - 2 weeks of off-road fun, sand-boarding, windsurfing, fishing up at Exmouth and an amazing encounter with a 25 foot whale shark. With full video. |
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July 2001, I flew over to Victoria for a week of trail-bike riding up into the mountains out of Wangaratta followed by a week of snow-boarding at Mt Hotham with friends. |
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We often go up to Lancelin for some fun in the Dunes- July 1st 2001 trip including video footage |
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Karijini & Canning Stock Route Trip May 2001 - 5 friends took my 4WD on a 2 week trip to Karijini National Park and then the Canning Stock Route through the Gibson and Great Sandy deserts. More than the usual collateral damage on this trip. |
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Mart re-started SU Windsurfing Camp as director in 1999 and 2001 and has now handed the reins over to Mandy & Giulio Montini, now taking the role of Bosun. |
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Geraldton Dec 2000 - Lots ofwindsurfing, off-roading, snorkelling, BBQs the beautiful dry river gorge of Oakabella and lots of Sidewinder photos. |
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Videographer of Saltbush 2000 |
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Over New Years Eve 2000 we spent a month on a Trans Australia Trip through the Centre to Queensland where we spent new years Eve in the Daintree Rainforest and sailed around the Whitsunday islands. Check out the Video |
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Mart has been a leader on many annual and occasional camps including:
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Broome Trip July 1997 - Exmouth, Karratha, Port Hedland, Millstream & Karajini National Parks, Broome with Michel from the USA and 10 other friends. |
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Geraldton 1993 (approx!) One of the early Geraldton Trips with the gang - Rental Hilux, Skiboat, BBQs and windsurfing. |
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Tiff & Mart are both Windsurfers with a vengeance. |
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Volleyball Wayball and Beach Volleyball |
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Bass Guitarist for a few bands - playing gigs all over the place including parties, weddings, various camps, my local church (Mt Pleasant Uniting). |
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Mart has created several Multimedia-enhanced talks on Science and Christianity including
- Science and the Bible - Bridging the Rift with lots of images and animations from NASA
- God Beyond Space and Time with lots of video clips from the movie The Matrix
which he has delivered dozens of times for camps, schools, churches, youth groups etc. |
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Mart was President for about 5 years, as well as VP, Newsletter editor, Committee Member and now honourary life of the Western Australian Macintosh User Group (WAMUG ). |
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Abseiling at Goosberry Hill Quarry - One of many abseiling trips (this one with work colleagues), notable in this case for Mart's flying leap that ended in a badly rolled ankle. |
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The SideWinder our off-road fun machine. Lots of photos and Video Footage of Roll-overs and the different versions of of this little motorcycle engine-powered that Mart and a couple of friends built. |
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Human Powered Vehicle enthusiast. Mart won the State prize in Applied Technology for the 3-wheeled HPV he designed and made and subsequently rode to Uni for several months. |
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Hobie Catamaran sailor |