Tony and Kim Outdoor Adventures

DAY TRIP TO SANCTARY COVE   Every day comes with all the way new hopes, new plans and new opportunities. We all get new challenges with every new day. Starting a day with a smile on the face and positive attitude towards all the people can surely make our day better. In the Ute early we hit the Pacific Highway and headed north to Sanctuary Cove for some shopping for Kim and Lunch.   Situated on the Coomera River surrounded by native Australia bushland, Sanctuary Cove is home to four man-made harbours and offers direct access to the Pacific Ocean and Broadwater. Sanctuary Cove was an adventurous vision to develop a community focused on the boating lifestyle, surrounded by nature and leisure facilities. We first took a sticky-beak along the Sanctuary Cove marina berths and pretended we owned one of the fancy yachts (it’s good to have dreams, right?). We then headed to the exclusive fashion boutiques with the finest Australian and Internat...

Brisbane Lookout Mt Coot-tha - Brisbane's Best Views The best light for landscape photography is first thing in the morning and the last light of the day. It definitely is worth getting up nice and early to capture a great sunrise. So, get out there, take some photos, and see what you can discover. 4:00am – Brisbane North, Queensland. Australia – The alarm on my phone goes off to wake us up…..while it’s a Sunday! How rude. But it was finally time to put all the sunrise photography tips I’d taught Kim to put into practice. We grabbed Shari and jumped in the ute to Mt Coot-tha. "Why is Mt Coot-tha special?" – someone from out of town might ask. For TV presenters, it is the HQ of television towers, sending constant signals across Brisbane. Avid bike riders look upon it as a challenge as teams of lycra ascend the mountain each morning punishing themselves with that leg burn. But for most, it is the closest mountain to the CBD offering a pa...

The Bloody Long Walk Brisbane | 35km Walking Challenge “If you haven't any charity in your heart, You have the worst kind of heart trouble.” Since when does a Queenslander say no to a challenge? Call it intimidating, call it crazy, and call it the “mother of all charity walks”… one thing’s for sure: at 35 kilometers long, The Bloody Long Walk certainly stands up to its name. The Bloody Long Walk is a 35 kilometre challenge owned and operated by the Mito Foundation. Mito is a debilitating and potentially fatal genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to convert food into the energy needed to power muscles and major organs; 1 in 200 people are at risk of developing mito. One Australian child born each week suffers a severe or life-threatening form of mito making it the second most commonly diagnosed serious genetic disease after cystic fibrosis. The start of The Bloody Long Walk was at Sandgate’s, Curlew Park. All checkpoints were stationed by...

Style Your Way Shop 6, 18-20 Ferny Way, Ferny Hills (1.18 mi) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4055 Australia prides itself on being a giving nation. But would you give unconditionally to a homeless person and be okay with not knowing what your money was spent on?   Haircuts, clean clothes, a warm dry place to store their things -- these are creature comforts many of us take for granted, but for those living rough on the streets, even the simplest things are a luxury they can only dream of. Kim is passionate about giving back to the community and is happy to put the word out there to promote a great shop called "Style Your Way". Style Your Way is situated in Ferny Hills, a suburb 14 km north-west of central Brisbane, is on the upper reaches of the Cabbage Tree Creek and Kedron Brook. It adjoins Arana Hills, which in turn adjoins Everton Hills (moving downstream), and the three suburbs constitute the Hills District in the south of the former Pin...