Images

This page is a collection of Photo Albums from our travels.

Click on a photo to see the big picture slide show. Then use the left and right arrows to scroll through the album…Scroll over the picture to see the caption (if there is one…).

Please note: All images remain the copyright of Kerry Lorimer and Damian Clark and any unauthorised use is prohibited.

Damian’s Tongariro Crossing Album

January, 2015

We hiked New Zealand’s finest one-day walk, the Tongariro Crossing, with our friends Irene and Lionel (Kiapa) and Diane and Graham (Maunie of Ardwell). I wrote about it here. I used my photos in that post, but Damian took some great photos on the day, so here’s Damian’s Tongariro Crossing…

Cruising Fiji, July to December, 2014.

We spent the winter season cruising aboard Sel Citron in Fiji, from SavuSavu (Vanua Levu) south via Namena and Makongi Islands to Viti Levu, along the north coast to Musket Cove on Malolo Lai Lai, then cruising up through the Yasawa Islands.

What happens when you lose the fishing competition…

Suzie and Save

Hanging with the Tarts at Sawa-i-Lau

The Vaka Vinaka motley crew: Lionel, Irene, Ray, Michelle, KL

Recovered from sea sickness (wearing skirts for sevusevu)

Dave and Sandra, Monoriki

Matt’s Big ‘un

New sunnies for the ladies

New sunnies!

DC putting it through the power zone

We even had our own dance routine…

M&M Fancy Dress

Sunday arvo rugby

Michelle likes icecream

Aaargh and aaaargghh

Tug-o-war at the Sandbar party

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Marrakech, Morocco, January, 2014.

Around about mid January, after a month of being restricted to indoors, shifting from couch to couch – not to mention suffering vitamin D deficiencies – we decided to do that most English of things: take a ‘Mini Break’.

Damian gave me about 48 hours notice but didn’t tell me where we were going. Turned out to be a three-day trip to Marrakech, and after a three-hour flight we were in warm sunshine, mad markets and clashing colours – a total contrast to rainy rural England! Spent our time getting lost in the souk, marvelling at the architecture, eating tagines and couscous and getting lost in the souk again. See the story on the Home page, in ‘View From the Shed, Part I”, April 2014.

Djemaa el-Fna – centre of Marrakech

Magic lanterns – pierced metal lit like a galaxy

Never enough slippers…

Food stall on the Djemaa el-Fna – we had dinner here

Back streets en route to our riad

Riad al Mansour – our hotel deep in the medina

Sitting room at Riad al-Mansour

Koutoubia Mosque

Jardin Marjorelle

Jardin Marjorelle – by Yve St Laurent

Succulent garden at Jardin Marjorelle

Leather tannery

Ali Ben Youssef Merdersa

Ali Ben Youssef Medersa

Potion shop in the Jewish quarter

Local baker

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England: West Sussex, London, Derbyshire, Bath and Devon.

Our trip to the UK to spend Christmas with Damian’s family and to catch up with a few old friends. See more on the Home page, in the December, 2013 posts.

Christmas lights next door to Damian’s Mum’s place, Wisborough Green

Amberley Castle – Lunch for our belated 50th birthdays

Pre-Christmas lunch a deux, courtesy of Davina (for our joint 50ths) at Amberley Castle

Village of Arundel

Arundel Castle

Arundel Cathedral

Arundel Cathedral… and next door pub

Brighton

Brighton waterfront

Petworth House, near Wisborough

Very cool exhibition by staff at Petworth House

Note the ‘second sitting’ in the foreground

Close up of the second sitting…

Another room at Petworth

Wisborough Green countryside

The Church in Wisborough Green

Newbridge near Wisborough – it was flooded like this numerous times while we were there

Visiting Helen and Gordy in Derbyshire

Alexa (K used to be her nanny!), Rich and Damian, Derbyshire

Village of Amberley

Amberley village

Visiting Johno and Rachel (and Milly the Dog) in Bath

Bath

Milly in the mud

Rach and Johno’s ‘back yard’, Bath

Woods The Stationers – J and R’s shop in Bath

Johno wonders what’s worn under a centurion’s um, kilt

Bath Cathedral

Worthing waterfront

D’s brother, Karl – King of the kids?

Wittering

Bosham village

Swans at the Give Way sign

Bosham

The Shard from under the Millennium Bridge

View from The Shard

The Shard

Detail of The Shard

Old and new architecture along The Embankment

D and Davina

Outside Buck House

Trafalgar Square

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The Vava’u Islands of Tonga, August to October, 2013

See more photos and the full story on the Home page, in the August, September and October 2013 posts.

Leeward side of Kenutu Island

Coral exposed at low tide

Windward side of Kenutu – next stop South America…

Dog-tooth tuna burgers for Pete’s birthday lunch

Pete’s birthday

Later on Pete’s birthday – star-gazing…

Gwyn bargains for treasure

Bounty Bar and Coconet Cafe/Laundry

Charlie, ‘boss’ of Coconet cafe, who might think he’s a dog

Three Pa’anga per pile at Neiafu Market

Leonati, carver to the King

Neiafu market, Vava’u, Tonga

Angel the orphan piglet

Angel goes shopping – for a wedding dress perhaps?

Another orphan, Lape Island

Janie with the Lape Island kids

100 year old woven mats and new games

Ian, Sue, Janie and Damian

Kerry’s family came for nine sleepovers

Tongan experience at Utule, ‘My Tongan Home’

Woven fans

Dave gets in touch with his feminine side

Swallows Cave

Teaching Matt to drive the dinghy

Sir Richard Dyson’s

Traditional sailing catamaran

Lori learning to drive..

View from Karen and Boris’s place, Blue Lagoon

Nuku – apparently Tonga’s most photographed island.

A luvverly bunch of coconuts

Neiafu Harbour

Main Street, Neiafu

Catholic church, Neiafu

School uniform

The King of Tonga

Playing for the King

The ‘mother’ of the revival of traditional basket weaving

The King of Tonga

Our new Sel Citron ‘logo’ designed by local school teacher, Villiami

Pete models the new design

Coconut cut from the tree

Anatelli, founder of the Botanical Gardens, former government minister, who’s met the Pope four times and been to London about 30 times. He gave us a private tour of the gardens

Rare Pineapple in the Botanical Gardens

Tiny spider inside a pineapple bloom

Anchored at Nuku Island

The calf swam right through our group

Mum and baby

Junior just wanted to play

The mother’s tail fluke was close enough to feel the wave of her wake and see the details of the barnacles on her tail flukes

Snorkelling Mariners Cave

Rainbow over Neiafu

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The Ha’apai Islands of Tonga, July, 2013

See the full posts (I and II) on the Home page, July 21, 2013.

Namuka Iki, our landfall in the Ha’apais.

A ship run foul of the reef, Namuka Iki.

Humpback whales come to visit the anchorage at Namuka Iki. Swimming by Manaroa III

Full moon, Namuka Iki. Surf on three sides of the anchorage…

Anchored off our ‘private’ islands

One of nine inhabitants on our private islands. They’d cross the sand spit from one to the other, twice a day.

Sunset over our ‘private’ island

Pandanus forest

Windward side of Uoleva

Sailing between islands

Main street, Ha’afeva

Gravestones are adorned with handmade quilts

The anchorage at Uoleva.

Ha’ano, last stop in the Ha’apais.

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Ha’afeva Kids, Ha’afeva Island, Ha’apais, Tonga, July 2013.

We arrived in the village on Ha’afeva on a Sunday, when EVERYONE goes to church. The hymn-singing was amazing – it almost took the church roof off. Not sure if these kids were wagging…