Halloween festival in the city

 Halloween has become big in Australia over the past few years.  I went to the Halloween Festival in The Rocks on Saturday and it was great fun.  Lots of amazing costumes on display and plenty of fun camaraderie.

Ghost cinema

Escaping a fire in the Kalk Bay mountains with Russell and Stephen

We went caving in the mountains above St James and Kalk Bay.  After over an hour crawling through the caves (a real adventure), we emerged to discover a Whatsapp from Jo saying there was a fire in the Kalk Bay mountains.  We climbed to a high vantage point and indeed there was a rather scary looking fire coming our way. We put foot out of there and hiked to Silvermine to ensure our safety, a lot longer hike than we had been planning.  Jo very kindly came to pick us up and take us to retrieve Russell's car.  We then went for a celebratory ice cream in Kalk Bay and a swim at St James.

Exploring the cave

The fire and escaping it

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Recovering Russell's car, ice cream in Kalk Bay and a swim at St James

 

Yikes!!

Matt, my new house-mate, is quite a manly kinda guy.  So when I heard him scream, I knew it must be pretty bad. Ventured down to his room to find this enormous specimen occupying his bed, after just running over his leg.  After the essential photos, we set it free, protecting it from the very interested local butcher bird who obviously fancied a large meal.