Swandives

Happy New Year! You know, I really should be the kind of person who scoffs at new year resolutions as being completely vacuous and silly but that’s not the case. I love a good new year resolution! I always make a few, and inevitably fail to keep a couple. The longest standing has been to obtain my boat licence - I have had this on my list for at least the past 15 years!

But this year, I am determined. And in order to give myself a kick up the bum and actually accomplish them, I am posting them here. No doubt in 12 months I’ll look back and chuckle at the complete futility of it all but I can’t take the chance that this action won’t motivate me to new resolution completion heights! So here it goes. Resolutions for 2009:

• * Obtain my boat licence - I have already completed the compulsory safety course, so now all I gotta do is pass the test. Good start huh?
• * Become fit enough to run another half marathon - just to prove the first one wasn’t a fluke. Fitness levels at rock bottom right now so I’m essentially starting from scratch.
• * Read Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Then Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Did you know I have never even seen the film?
• * Play field hockey - this is a big one. I haven’t played hockey for 17 years and the game has changed radically in that time. But it’s on the list anyways.
• * Travel to New Zealand to go fly fishing for trout.

That’s probably enough for one year don’t you think? Got any resolutions of your own?

This was taken on a road between the Snowy towns of Khancoban and Cabramurra in NSW. It’s a bit out of the way - not even Google maps has it listed. The road is closed during winter and was closed for two days after this video was taken. As you can tell, we were starting to become a little worried by when we shot this, as we only have a little VW Golf and weren’t carrying chains. It was April, for goodness sake! We went past a few vehicles parked on the side of the road - we can only assume their owners were taking refuge in a mountain hut somewhere - and National Parks and Wildlife spent the next day pulling cars out that had become trapped. It was quite exciting and I love snow but I was very glad to get below the snow line.