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Currie Harbour A small harbour that's difficult to navigate a boat into, especially in rough weather. |
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Currie Lighthouse Quite an imposing lighthouse and impressive in it's location and stature over the harbour. |
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Currie lighthouse history It's quite old and significant. |
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More Currie Harbour Currie is the main town on King Island, although the supply ships come into Grassy port on the other side. |
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Crayfish boats A lot of cray fishing here, and other fishing boats, operate from this harbour. |
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Kelp farmers The kelp is picked up from the beach, dried out, ground down and shipped to Scotland to make food products from. |
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Old cray pots Beyond use, these have been collected and lined up here. |
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British Admiral Beach Named after the ship that sank here, this was the location for two little events. |
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Start of the predicted time run Run over 2.7km, out and back, we had to predict our time and run without a watch. Closest to predicted time won. |
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Predicted time run A really nice beach, very exposed to the wind. |
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Nearing the end. I missed my predicted time by about 20secs. |
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The "Free Willies" run for ladies Only 6 ladies lined up, won a short t*t from the lady on the left... |
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The men lining up Checking the opposition out, although since it was cold there wasn't much to be seen this afternoon. |
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The men's "Free Willies" race Run straight towards the now clothed ladies who were cheering loudly!! |
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Sunset on Kind Island A nice sunset. |
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Sunrise on race morning At Naracoopa on the other side of the island. |
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The Erection Crew These are the guys who erected the finish line area in Currie. |
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The start venue Tea, coffee and breakfast available inside, and the handicap start outside. |
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Off goes a runner. This lady started on 31:00mins. I started at 79:00mins. |
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The start line We were each called to the line as our handicap start time arrived. |
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Post race recovery In Currie harbour, a relaxing soak followed by much banter on the grassy bank of the harbour. |
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Post race analysis Nice green grass is very rare so we wallowed around here for a while. |
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Awards dinner Surrounded by the mens 2n4 & 3rd placegetters, and the womens 1st place. All quality!! |
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The awards stage They set up the finish arch on stage. |
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Race video A great collection of runners along the course route was shown at the end of the awards. |
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The dance floor It took a long time to get started...and then the teenage DJs kept arguing about what songs to play. It all died badly... |
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Post race morning On the Currie pier seeking out lobsters from the fishing boats. |
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Micky, Ricky and Shirley My hosts for the weekend were absolutely wonderful - so generous, friendly and salt-of-the-earth nice people. |
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View from the pilot's seat I got to ride in the cockpit on the return flight - this is what is looks like. |
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Our captain A young guy, and co-pilot on the right. They did a great job and were fascinating to talk to. |
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Point Neapean What a special view as we flew stright up Port Phillip Bay. |
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Coming in to land Check out the jet still taking off from the runway as we approach it!! This was an amazing joyride. |