Marks Offroad Adventures and Daytrips

 I have been doing a bit of research lately on granite outcrops near home in the Perth hills, today was one of the trips I had planned a while ago, we took the daughters Jeep today mainly because she wanted to go offroading in it but didn't want to go too hard with it. I been on Google Earth trying to find the easiest way  to get to the locations that I seen, I have gone passed the track a few times recently and never ending up going down it, I had planned it in recent trips I have been on but usually try to do too much in one day and usually run out of time, my average day trip can be anywhere from 150km to 400km even more a couple of times. Our first stop was a Granite out crop I really wanted to see, although it took us four tracks to find it, I forgot to set my maps for the journey properly. The first track we went to was the right one but there was a downhill part that looked a bit sketchy for the first time offroad not knowing the car properly but we ended up climbing it...

    Hi all, so Last year we went on a holiday to Cairns to see my other 2 children we had a great trip and I plan to share some of that trip on here, which I didnt' think to do at the time while eveything was fresh in my mind I will do my best to cover what I remember, I have a lot of photos from that trip so each post will be one day at a time, I will get these posts up when I have caught up on all my recent trips I have done a few recently.       I have taken an interest in Rock Hounding, geology and the formation of our country so my next few posts will be from trips out in the bush while I have been looking for Rocky outcrops to photograph mainly Granite but some of the formations are not bad some not so great , I still have many trips planned to explore the bush a little more, Geology is a real interesting subject, I am really new at it and are still trying to learn what it is all about.      Unfortunately there is not many areas you can Foss...

   Today the wife and I had a day off together doesn't happen much anymore, we decided to go for a drive and went to Mundaring Weir another place I haven't visited for a long time, this time it was the wifes idea to go for a drive, so I packed the car we picked up lunch on the way and stopped at Mundaring Weir to have lunch. After We had something to eat  I went for a walk with the camera, here are a few snaps from there.  I have also picked up a cheap Dash Cam which Might be usual for when I do offroad trips to add to the blog or might start a Youtube Channel this was the first trip with the Dash Cam quality is not great but perfect for viewing on your phone etc.   The Trip home was long detour through some of the back roads and ending up on Toodyay Rd  going home from there found a few more places I would like to visit and have a look around if possible in the future although a few might be on Private Property. All images are copyright Mark A. Gray all ri...

   Today my wife and I decided to go for a drive around some of the dams, our trip included Nth Dandalup, Sth Dandalup and Waroona Dams, We picked up some lunch on the way down and stopped at Nth Dandalup Dam, where we ate, I had a wander around and then we headed off, Unfortunately I don't have any photos of Sth Dandalup Dam as it was closed on the day we went and no Photos from Waroona as we didn't stop we had to get back home for the kids but it was still a nice drive. Here are some snaps from Nth Dandalup another regular stop We do All Images are Copyright Mark A. Gray

Today was another planned tripped visiting Serpentine Dam, Jarahdale POW Camp and a part of Wungong Dam, I have planned a few more for the future now that the hotter weather is over it is time to get out and about again, I did a few small detecting trips over the summer in the bush and the beach, finding the usual stuff but nothing real exciting. Today was a reasonably short trip I reallly just wanted to get out and take a few photos something I haven't done for a while, I have been playing with camera at home and recently went to an old lake which I believe has been around for well over 200 years according to old maps I have seen, the older landscape was different, and some of the trees very old ( See Lake Coogee Post published 3 December 2023), I have a bad knee at the moment so it is a little bit hard to walk too far. My First stop was at Serpentine dam we have had a few dry months and I was curious to what the waterlevel was, after taking a few photos I moved on to ...