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If you're not going to try it, you might as well stay at home


Real Name: Whenever I go anywhere I have to go to hospital and my camera breaks.
Lives In: Blue Mountains, AU
Birth Date: April 4, 1900
Member Since: Feb 27, 2006
Last Login: May 11, 2008   02:07 UTC
Member's Time: May 13, 2008   01:12 EST
VT Rank: 1860
Deals Rank: 340
External Page:www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-zIeJ01oJU
Travel Interests: Budget Travel, Historical Trip, Castle/Palace, Backpacking, Study Abroad



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The Adventures of Supercarys

by supercarys - last update: May 4, 2008

Sunrise above Australia, Boeing 777
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Macro Photography


I have recently bought a macro extension tube for my camera (much cheaper than an actual macro lens) and have discovered the difference between macro photography and regular photography. As in, which part of the fly's face do I want to focus on? And what are those blobby things anyway? I love macro!

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Cumquat and Honey Marmalade (2007 vintage)













In the spirit of the new year (and while it's still January) I've decided to put up my resolutions. After many years of well-nigh impossible resolutions, I decided to have some fun with it this year. Thus, my resolutions are as follows:

New Year’s Resolutions 2008

• Watch 12 Classic movies (listed as I've watched them)

1. How To Marry a Millionaire
2. Some Like It Hot
3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
4. Psycho
5. Breakfast At Tiffany's
6. An Affair To Remember

• Do sit ups every day unless you play sport. (Like that was ever going to happen. I gave up on the second of January...)

• Go to church at least once a month.

• Make glace fruit. (I have just found out today (the first of February) that glace fruit takes a month to make, and am now kicking myself)

• Read “Gone With The Wind” or “The Iliad” or “The Odyssey”

• Eat fruit instead of junk food once a month.

• Go to the Gladiators audition in 2008.

• Buy a scanner and finish your travel journal.

• Eat something you would NEVER eat. I ate a fried prawn head! (19th April)

• Go for a jog once a month. (I'm very lazy and didn't do my January jog but since the football (soccer) season has started, I have to do 2 jogs at least twice a week because of training. No fair!)

• Buy a lottery ticket on your birthday. Well I bought a lottery ticket and a scratchie. Total Cost $5.60. Total Winnings $6. Total Profit 40 cents. SCORE!!!

• Cook something with cloves.

• Bake a cake from scratch using your own recipe.

• Regular sleeping hours!
Harry Potter


I am a Harry Potter NUT! I LOVE the book series and I think the movies are pretty cool as well. Ooh, I just read the last book! It is so exciting! I was actually frightened reading one part of it! What a series!

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My Harry Potter travelogue is available here.

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Lincoln University, Lincoln, England

I was accepted into an exchange programme from my university in Australia to go to the University of Lincoln for one semester. I arrived in Lincoln on the 13th of September and I stayed until the end of February! You can visit my Lincoln page here.

I did a tour of Egypt in December, Ireland in January and headed home on the 14th of February (a rather strange way to spend Valentine's Day!).

I felt much more at home in London when I returned from Europe than I would ever have expected, considering the terrible way my holiday started - I got so sick I had to go to hospital on my second day in London). Cheers to all who actually read my page and I'll update again shortly.
Lincoln University, Brayford Campus

A Little Bit About Me

I am a student in Australia with a BIG TIME travel bug. I am hopeless at geography but since I have started looking at different countries to travel to, I find I can actually answer some Trivial Pursuit questions!

I have just returned from a "Scary By Myself Travel Adventure" including countries where I was unable to understand the language. I had previously only travelled with friends (or parents, a long time ago) to English speaking countries.

I love nature and history. The part of me that wants to never stop travelling is run by them, but I am Australian to the very core, as I discovered on my first long trip away from home. I love the way I feel in Australia - there is something about the smells and the scenery that is so comforting to me that I believe I will always call Australia home.

Some of my favourite photos are on display here
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Living in the Blue Mountains

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I usually live in the lower Blue Mountains on a property that backs right onto the National Park. There are plenty of great bushwalks in the immediate area ranging from scrambling up the side of a gorge (my favourite) to gentle walks along trails. There are lookouts all around the area and most of them are not fenced off. I grew up in this area and I always feel at home here.

The Blue Mountains are named for the colour that comes from the eucalyptus trees as they let off a bluish haze. If you ever get to Australia, be sure to pluck a leaf from a eucalyptus tree and crush it in your hand and smell the oil, it's a great smell.

Visit my Blue Mountains page here or you can click the link at the top of this page. I've put a lot of tips and information on this page now so if you're interested in the Blue Mountains, check it out! There's a travelogue of extra photos as well.



What's with my long and strange name?

"Whenever I go anywhere I have to go to hospital and my camera breaks"


What?


It's quite true. I seem to be cursed! It all started in 2003, my first major trip away from home...

America:
Camera broke at Mt St Helens (on my birthday, I might add...). The manual film winder snapped.
Hospitalised at Tuba City, Arizona (Indian Reservation).

Europe:
Camera broke in Switzerland. The lens of my SLR camera got stuck and would not budge.
Hospitalised in London.

Africa:
Camera broke in Abu Simbel, Egypt. Digital camera would freeze when I took a photo, had to remove batteries to turn off.
Well, all right, I wasn't hospitalised, but I had the flu for the entire trip.
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My awesome sister

Dragon Boat Racing

Here's a photo of my sister, who was part of the Australian champion dragon boat racing team - NSW won the title in 2006!! I have a national sports champion sister! I am so proud of her! She's just come back from China competing in the championships for Australia this past September! Her team came third! (I think China came first and second)

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And Now For Something Completely Unrelated...

I had to put in a few of my favourite websites. They'll probably tell you more about me than I could!

Halfelven (My friend's page. Full of ridiculous quotes and poems)

Holiday Snowglobe (hilarious - the sleepwalking granny takes the cake)

Are you obsessed with Harry Potter? (I got 57%. And I'm proud of that fact!) (Now it's a year later and I got 62%)

Engrish (funny - not quite right English lost in translation)

How British Are You? (quiz - I got a Mr Bean rating!)

The World According To Students (Funny bloopers written in actual tests)

Royal Title Generator (eg The Mistress, Her Majestic Illustriousness, Empress supercarys. The Majestic Vanquisher of Virtual Tourist)

Songbird (A big shout out to mapakettle for bringing this into the VT world, it ALWAYS makes me laugh out loud!)

Good News Magazine Christian magazine with articles about life, politics and scientific discoveries.

Creation vs Evolution Christian website about creation and evolution.

Vertical Thought Christian magazine for teenagers
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Comments for supercarys
engeluna Fri May 2, 2008 11:41 UTC
 Yep- the tram was red with a cage on top. Almost completely vertical on the climb- all while you look down to the great void below. That's the one! Scary! But well worth the mini heart attack! And I did see the waterfall from the boardwalk. So pretty.
craic Wed Apr 30, 2008 13:40 UTC
 oh it is an apple roller - i thought it might be
olja1234 Fri Apr 4, 2008 18:58 UTC
 Happy Birthday from Slovenia!
GracesTrips Fri Apr 4, 2008 17:59 UTC
 Happy Birthday! Hope you have an enjoyable day!
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