Visit.

As some of you may know, I am back in Brisbane for a little visit. I made a little video which shows our little trip back home. I say "our" because I had a travel partner in the form of a lobster from Maine called Rocky.

The video takes us from Newport Shipyard, to JFK, LAX, BNE and to Finns House - it was about 31 hours of travelling but as you can see, well worth it!

Enjoy

Ears: Frightened Rabbit

Finn taking time out on set after his debut speaking role.

The Big Apple

Just some random photo's from New York, circa a few months ago. These ones are mainly from Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown and East / West Villages.

See if you can pick the Chinatown ones....... is that being racist or just a demographic observation?

Ears: Patrick Wolf

Can never have too many hats!

Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge

Horses and things.

A group of us went to see the USA play England in some Polo a couple of weeks ago, it was a nice way to spend an afternoon. Even if we didn't really know what was going on. Luckily however, we packed a pretty mean decent that included plenty of champagne to satisfy our new found regal taste buds.

All was tied at the end of the sixth chukkah (thats what they call each period), so it was down to a seventh chukkah, which is basically a penalty shootout into an open goal from 60m out. The yanks won, much to the delight of the local enthusiasts.

Ears: The Decemberists

View?

Stomping the divots at half time.

Little dog syndrome.

The Future?

Here are a few photos that seem to have evaded me over the last few months.

This is from the AC45's that hit Newport in June, it was a pretty epic thing to watch and I can only imagine how the 72's will be next year!

I guess to the general public, sailing is a bit like race car driving, in the fact that everyone loves a good crash. I think the start of these fleet races is the most sure-fire way to encourage a crash; that is have 8 or so of these boats starting on a reach at 20-plus knots and have them turn downwind and hoist the kite at a mark less than a minute off the start.

It pulled about 10-15,000 people each day of the regatta and their were hundreds of boats on the Narragansett as well as TV crews and a full festival thing going on at Fort Adams.

It was definitely a cool thing to see, and for the interest it created, something I hope stays around.

Ears: Deckchair Orange

Wrong century bro.