Trooper and Me #5
Pics taken Sunday July 15 2001 (and a bit of winter sunshine at long last!)
Scanned from paper prints off our old recently repaired 2nd-hand Pentax. Film stock used was AGFA 100ASA. |
Slight warning here - any thumbnails that you click on may be slow
to load down because the pics here are actually fairly big (and thus slow to load) compared to my other pages. |
Now with a couple of movie clips - see below! |
Again at Ponyland, Christmas Hills (Victoria, Australia) | |
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Bringing Troop out of his muddy paddock. Just look
at you, naughty Troop - been rolling in the mud again? |
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Kate wasn't so badly off - Rael had still had his blanket
on in the paddock. So he didn't need to roll himself a coat to stay warm during the week! |
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Hey, Rael - just wait up a minute, I'm not quite ready ... |
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Me and Troop over at the yards, after spending half an hour
cleaning off the mud and stones. And we're almost ready to go. |
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This is just a nice sunny pic of our Troop. Isn't he pretty? |
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Anyway, at long last, we were heading off up the hill into
the cross-country paddock. |
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This is Kate and Rael and myself and Trooper at the top
of the hill just checking out the general scene ... |
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Then I noticed this pretty scene in the thicket nearby, and
I got my Dad to grab a shot. Aren't they just so cute?? Would make a great poster for my wall! |
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Anyway, a few metres away was our little warm-up jump ... |
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And then it was down the hill and another warm-up -
over the tyres ... |
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... and then a few goes over the mini-ski jump. Trooper's
almost getting confident with this one at long last! |
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Then onto something a bit more challenging (we shot some of
these at 1/1000th of a second - if the sun was nice and bright) That does a good job of freezing the action! |
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This is further down the hill at the river flats
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Kate and Rael had just as much fun down here too. |
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Back up the hill, and a bit of a breather for the horses.
Oh - here's the other ![]() Just horsing around in a clump of a trees. This one's biggish, 10Mb (at least 5 mins to load :-) |
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Kate, tired? (Nah - just giving Rael a bit of a hug :-) |
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Then we headed further out, into the forest. (Don't bother
clicking on this one - it's outa focus) |
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Now here's a ski-jump. Even the smaller one was a bit
of a challenge with no instructors around (and this one's a bit outa focus too ... it was dark in the forest) |
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Then we headed off down the track (Kate taking a small detour) |
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... and up to the next hill and the clearing. |
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Err ... yup, this is us in the clearing - bit of a breather. |
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Tell you what, though - Troop was really sweating now.
Okay, have a rest, Troop! |
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At this stage, we'd been out for a cupla hours, and I
figured it was about time we headed back - Troop was gonna need a good hose-down with all this sweat! |
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On the way along, we saw Brooke a cupla times too. Brooke
doesn't come to Christmas Hills much now - she rides somewhere over near Williamstown instead. Just having a rave ... |
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Dad took this pic of her (maybe she'll see it one day) |
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Back at the cross-country paddock, and this is just a
li'l portrait shot of me and Troop ... |
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... and the same again for Kate and Rael. |
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This was Kate's last day leasing Rael for a while, and that
was a bit sad for us. |
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This is a bit of a portrait shot of Kate looking pensive
with the storm clouds brewing behind (you can even see the 66,000 volt electricity wire that crosses the paddock) |
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Anyway, down the hill and over the creek and back up the
track we went - to the holding yards. |
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Cute little close-up of Kate and Rael here ... |
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Now, Rael - you just behave yourself, do you hear? |
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As I said earlier - Troop was really sweaty, so even
though it was a bit chilly, I had to give him a rinse. Of course, I knew he wouldn't be impressed with that. |
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Rael was okay, so Kate wandered over to watch the fun |
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Troop was really good, but he still reckoned he wasn't gonna
wait to be dried, thank-you very much ... |
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Then Kate gave Rael some apples - and got really slobbered
over for her trouble ... YUCKY dripping hands ... |
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And that's where we leave this particular day. Time to say 'bye
Troop and 'bye Rael ... and thanks for another really fun day! |
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Last update: Sunday October 14th, 2001