June I '03

A trip to the Royal Gorge zone, on a weekend when the water cracks 3800 CFS, forcing us to retreat.

Click on image for bigger picture. Cheers to Flange for the photes and the Japanese-style dedication to getting every snap. Shame you weren't with me in Blighty.

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Aussies. Too many of 'em. aussies.jpg (41885 bytes)
The first of many Tonks birthdays brian_tonks.jpg (42595 bytes)
colin_tonks_me.jpg (48580 bytes)
Elizabeth & Dina elizabeth_dina.jpg (55893 bytes)
Feuer feuer.jpg (27308 bytes)
Brian and his deluxe bird-catching tent fuhrer_tent.jpg (48704 bytes)
A rare glimpse of Pennsive Penn me_blithey.jpg (52829 bytes)
pinstripe shirts are standard CO camping gear me_kelly.jpg (53230 bytes)
Missing the second layer of the tent, a passing animal is skinned and a tablecoth produced, dyed by a neighbouring raspberry bush me_tent.jpg (40564 bytes)
Please, Mum mike_eliz.jpg (69711 bytes)
Mo' fire mo_feuer.jpg (29613 bytes)
Waking up and getting up has never been easy... morning.jpg (96662 bytes)
...'specially when you're sharing a tent with Tonks & Blithey morning2.jpg (84097 bytes)
"Er, it's 10pm and I'd really like it if everyone would go to bed now" oh_blithey.jpg (49423 bytes)
Seen one, seen 'em all rafting1.jpg (49879 bytes)
Yes, well that wasn't the white squall that sent us tumbling into the torrent of speeding snow-melt, was it.  rafting4.jpg (47489 bytes)
rafting2.jpg (68110 bytes)
Compare & contrast the facial expressions of Kelly  (front-left rowing position) and Elizabeth (front-right). Tee-hee. rafting3.jpg (74398 bytes)
The Royal Gorge, a thing of beauty and surely worthy of a Conan Doyle tale? royal_gorge.jpg (73642 bytes)
Sean as Sherlock Holmes being pursued by Professor Moriarty? rannery.jpg (103790 bytes)

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