The Chambers

What we get up to….

Photo taken while staying at the wonderful Sausage Tree Camp, Zambia. Here we are fishing on the banks of the Zambezi, one eye on the River on the lookout for Alligators, another on the lookout for Hippos, another on the lookout for Lions, another on the lookout for Elephants :)

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Photo: California Pizza Kitchen


California Pizza Kitchen

Originally uploaded by ckjchambers

Photo Taken: 30th October 2007
Photo Location: Beverly Centre, Los Angeles, California

In 2007 we holidayed in the USA, staying in Los Angeles around Halloween.

This photo was taken at the California Pizza Kitchen, at the Beverly Centre. According to their site, the California Pizza Kitchen (http://www.cpk.com) serves “Authentic California-style cuisine at all CPK locations. Try our innovative pizzas, distinctive pastas, salads, soups, appetizers and desserts.” According to me, they serve good, inexpensive food.

I’m not sure what was happening in this photo, but it looks like Jackson was getting a smack, which he certainly would not have been.

Photo: on yer bike in Telluride


on yer bike

Originally uploaded by ckjchambers

Photo Taken: 21st January, 2010
Photo Location: Telluride, Colorado

This photo was taken on the last night of our stay in Telluride in 2009 / 2010. The snow had started dumping down during the night before and was heavy throughout the day, resulting in a couple of feet of snow falling over the 48 hour period.

These bikes were caught in the middle of the dumping, parked in a bike rack in the centre of the town of Telluride.

Photo: qualia, Hamilton Island


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Originally uploaded by ckjchambers

Photo taken: 26th June, 2009
Photo location: Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia

This photo was taken just outside the “Jurassic Park” like entry gates to qualia, on Hamilton Island.

I like this photo for a couple of reasons.

The photo was taken while Kylie and I were at qualia celebrating our ninth wedding anniversary. We had such a great time there and would love to get back there again one day. The resort is amazing and we felt spoilt to be able to stay there; the food is great, the accommodation superb and the service outstanding.

Hamilton Island was also a major part of my professional life during 2009. The “Best Job in the World” campaign was such an amazing experience and will always trigger a wonderful range of emotions.

http://www.qualia.com.au for more information on the qualia resort

Photos from Hawaii

We spent 6 nights in Hawaii, which was the last leg of our 6 week long holiday in the USA. Hawaii is a great stop on the way from the USA to AUS, breaking up the 14 hour flight home. In a story which will be shared later, our attempt to circumvent the high baggage fees US airlines charge we upgraded to Business Class for the flight from Montrose (Telluride) to Hawaii…. the plan was foiled, but the upgrade was nice.

Kylie’s Mum and Dad joined us in Hawaii. We hope they had a great time, it was nice to have them join us.

Highlights of Hawaii ?

* The drive around the island
* Taking a submarine ride off Waikiki, to the depth of 100 feet
* Visiting shops like WalMart and seeing fireworks on sale
* Yummy food & Honolulu Coffee Company coffee
* Jackson playing on the beach

Here’s a slideshow of pictures, which includes captions & info

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckjchambers/sets/72157613162841901/show/with/3242458614/

Watch the slideshow here is you don’t care for the captions

Photos from our Disney Cruise

Our 100th post! *yawn*

This weekend I’ve worked my way through another big chunk of the 2,600 or whatever photos we took and have now picked out my favs from the Disney Cruise.

Click this link to see a nice big slideshow (you know you want too!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckjchambers/sets/72157612939854559/show/

Watch the piccies here:

Some of my favs from this lot:
Photographic evidence of Jackson having a doughnut for breakfast
The shots of Kylie and I’s toes with the Caribbean waters in the background
The price of water vs beer in the Caribbean

Photos from Kennedy Space Centre

Allo, allo! Happy Australia Day long weekend!

This morning I sorted through the photos from our time in Port Canaveral and at the Kennedy Space Centre. I’ve put them into a slideshow:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckjchambers/sets/72157612900843609/show/

Or you can view them here, but it’s better in the bigger slide show you will see by clicking the link above

The receipt looks wierd as a photo, but it was from the restaurant we went too and they had some great items on the meal. Spicy Taters, which is fried balls of mash potato with Jalapenos through it and Fried Beer Shrimp (speaks for itself!)

The Kennedy Space Ctr is an amazing place, where the native fauna thrives under protection of a “National Park” type set up. We saw many ‘gators, some massive Eagles and vultures. The tour was great as you tripped around on bus to several stops and took in stories of the USA’s magnificent defeat of outer space (that’s how the story was told in places I thought) and of some of the tragedies of the space race. A great facility and way to spend a day!

enjoy

ps – yes, I’ve skipped over New York, photos to come soon enough….

Photos from our day at Yosemite National Park

For some reason, in spite of me knowing full well Yogi was from JellyStone National Park, whenever I think of Yosemite National Park, I think of that great Yogi Bear line “Smarter than the average bear booboo….”

I can’t explain how beautiful the Yosemite National Park is. This pictures do go part the way to showing you and I’m glad we did get a couple of great shots to share.

The tour to the Yosemite NP was a long day, we were up and getting ready at about 5am and we didnt get home until about 15 hours later. But, it was worth it.

We saw waterfalls – BIG waterfalls, beautiful granite cliff faces, dense forest, hiked to huge sequioa trees, stopped at magnificent look outs and had a lovely pickernick lunch by a creek.

A top day – worth the 6 hours travel on a bud for sure!

Click this link for the big slideshow with the cqptions and descriptions:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckjchambers/sets/72157612236645596/show/

Watch this for no captions / descriptions

A few photos from San Francisco

So, I’ve got onto a bit of a roll with the uploading and organising of our photos and managed to get our photos from in the city of San Francisco sorted. We didn’t take many in town. We were there three nights, which was two full days and one day we went to the Napa Valley and the next we went to Yosemite. So, we didn’t spend much time in town itself. Anyways, we got a few good shots in!

Same deal as the other set. Click the first link to go through to a slideshow (recommended), or if you’re lazy (or not really that interested in captions and the like) watch the slideshow below.

:)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckjchambers/sets/72157612182587203/show/

Chris

Photos from our visit to the Napa Valley

One of my 2009 goals is to make sure that I do get the photos from our 2008 visit to the USA up onto the information super-highway and share them with family, friends and anyone else who wants to take a look-and-see.

We took 2,183 photos while we were away. Not anywhere near all of them are good, but there are some great ones. The plan is to get them all tagged in an orderly manner and sorted into sets on flickr and then post slideshows here on the blog. I’m then going to pick 42 photos (1 for each day we were away) and put them into a slideshow.

After that’s all done, I can start on 07′s trip…..

Without further delay, here’s some happy snaps from the Napa Valley!

You will get a better view and captions / descriptions if you click this link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckjchambers/sets/72157612167795221/show/

I have also set these up like a slideshow, press play to activate and then the left and right keys to scroll through the photos. But, it would be better if you clicked the link above as the slideshow below does not have captions or descriptions…..

We had a great day out there. Thanks Rick from Blue Heron Tours for his hospitality on the day.

cc