Adventure

What’s with all the fucking bird pictures?
What’s with all the fucking bird pictures?

What’s with all the fucking bird pictures?

What? Me a twitcher? Didn’t see that coming? That’s OK, neither did I. Much like people don't see me coming now my idea of high fashion is dressing like a shrub. And like most things I’ve done in my life, there was no real plan it just sort of… happened. One day you’re a perfectly [...]

By Sputnik|2021-03-23T11:05:59+09:30March 18th, 2021|Adventure, Birds, Homepage, Life|Comments Off

Elusive sea eagles, platypus insects, shit brown birds and a guy called ‘Jeff’.
Elusive sea eagles, platypus insects, shit brown birds and a guy called ‘Jeff’.

Elusive sea eagles, platypus insects, shit brown birds and a guy called ‘Jeff’.

Decided to sneak in a bit of a bird nerd yesterday in between work stuff. So did a meeting in the morning then headed out north. There'd been a reported sighting of a White Bellied Sea Eagle so went chasing wild gooses. Went to a part of the International Bird Sanctuary, and if ever you [...]

By Sputnik|2021-01-07T07:51:31+09:30January 7th, 2021|Adventure, Birds, Homepage, South Australia|Comments Off

St Francis Island: Chapter 4. (The end bit.)
St Francis Island: Chapter 4. (The end bit.)

St Francis Island: Chapter 4. (The end bit.)

Telling stories is never as much fun when people can’t laugh at all the shit that goes wrong, and after a few days of amazing craziness and plenty of things going a bit tits up as has been known to happen on my adventures, our final day, which is the one after the one that [...]

By Sputnik|2020-11-22T16:45:37+09:30November 22nd, 2020|Adventure, Birds, Homepage, Life, Travel|Comments Off

St Francis Island: Chapter 3
St Francis Island: Chapter 3

St Francis Island: Chapter 3

We’re now two days into our four day tour which means there’s three days to go and that makes absolutely no sense and neither does anything else that’s about to happen. By now the only ‘shower’ I’ve had is the snorkel in the ocean the day before but I’m about to get a very comprehensive [...]

By Sputnik|2020-11-22T16:45:43+09:30November 4th, 2020|Adventure, Birds, Homepage, Travel|Comments Off

St Francis Island: Chapter 2
St Francis Island: Chapter 2

St Francis Island: Chapter 2

After a pretty fun first day, I wake up full of beans after what was, all things considered, a fairly decent night sleep in a swag, only to find a second, much bigger python about six feet away from where I’m sleeping. Everyone said it was much bigger than the first one but I’m pretty [...]

By Sputnik|2020-11-17T08:17:40+09:30October 30th, 2020|Adventure, Birds, Homepage, Travel|Comments Off

St Francis Island: Chapter 1
St Francis Island: Chapter 1

St Francis Island: Chapter 1

So I get a call late on Friday - do I want to go shoot some stuff somewhere? We leave Monday. There's no way I can do it with existing work commitments but then someone mentions birds and hello, what time do we leave? I'm in. Even though I have very little idea what I'm [...]

By Sputnik|2020-11-17T08:17:55+09:30October 27th, 2020|Adventure, Birds, Homepage, Travel|Comments Off

6hr Uni Loop Run Report
6hr Uni Loop Run Report

6hr Uni Loop Run Report

After my last few races I've done little race reports to keep you mildly entertained and give you some insights into the wonderful world of running, and when I decided to do the 6hr Uni Loop event yesterday I figured it would be another good opportunity to do that, but as usual, I was pretty [...]

By Sputnik|2020-10-05T11:13:19+09:30October 5th, 2020|Adventure, Homepage, Running, Running Event Reviews|Comments Off

Shit that isn’t cancelled.
Shit that isn’t cancelled.

Shit that isn’t cancelled.

If like most of us, your calendar is looking decidedly fucking empty for the next three or forever months, welcome to the Covid Club. And we’ve all seen the announcements about things being cancelled and fuck, we get it. It’s all cancelled. Everything. But not really. Some things aren’t cancelled. There’s plenty of awesome things [...]

By Sputnik|2020-03-20T14:06:18+09:30March 20th, 2020|Adventure, Birds, Current Affairs, Homepage, Life, News, Running|Comments Off

Finally some good news for runners.
Finally some good news for runners.

Finally some good news for runners.

Amidst all the upset, angst, frustration and yes, for some, even anger and outrage amidst a shit tonne of event cancellations, I’m here to deliver you some good news. “What the fuck? Good news?!?!?” I hear all you lovely little runner people cry out in unison. Yes, good news. The good news is… you didn’t [...]

By Sputnik|2020-03-17T16:07:00+09:30March 17th, 2020|Adventure, Current Affairs, Goals, Homepage, Life, Running|Comments Off

Bushfire Fundraisers for Runners
Bushfire Fundraisers for Runners

Bushfire Fundraisers for Runners

So we all know how completely messed up the Aussie bushfires are. Lives and property lost, environment decimated, animals and potentially entire species gone forever. We're all doing what we can in our own way, at whatever level we can. I know we're all being bombarded with fundraisers left, right and centre and there's only [...]

By Sputnik|2020-01-18T12:42:43+09:30January 8th, 2020|Adventure, Current Affairs, Homepage, News, Running, South Australia, Travel|Comments Off