Mike at the beautiful Tsunami MemorialKamala Beach, Phucket.

 

 

A typical Thai family going around their business on their scooter, we saw up to five family members on one scooter. Sadly and accident and mortality rate is high and they dont have to wear helmets, and no restriction on how many people can go on a scooter at one time.

Mike and my wedding and Honeymoon in Thailand

Arriving at the church.



Jodi myself, Mike, Mikes daughter Candice and her financee Dave Eades

 

Our beautiful room at the Aquamarine Hotel.

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The amazing view from our room.






Aquamarine Hotel near Kamala Beach, it was beautiful but a bit far from nearest town, and the local beach was not swimable.








This is where the famous film The Beach with Brad Pitt was filmed.

Aloe Steam Train Ride

ALOE STEAM FESTIVAL

The Aloe Steam Festival is in Creighton on the 11th & 12th July. The Aloe Steam Train is a 2 hour return trip with Aloe viewing along the way. The train makes two stops, at the first we were allowed to walk amongst the Aloes for some of these amazing photos shots. It was an unforgetable experience. At Riverside station we listened to a local choir entertain us while the train prepared for the return journey. The locomotive "Eshayamoya" is a beautiful restored locomotive that was built in 1939. My sister in law Libby and her daughter Julia, our friend Gordon and fiancee Michael and myself decided to do this little trip into the country to do this nostalgic trip. I must say the only down side was the nearly two hour car journey down windey roads up and down mountain passes to get to the beautiful village of Creighton.

 

ALOES FOR SALE

 

THE BEAUTIFUL ALOES ALONG SIDE THE NGOGWAAN RIVER



THE ESHAYAMOYA LOCOMOTIVE

 

JULIA AND MICHAEL HAVING A HUG







GETTING UP THE STEAM FOR THE JOURNEY

 

A GOD GIVEN BEAUTIFUL SUNSET ON THE WAY HOME

Picnic at Botanic Gardens

I decided that seeing today was a public holiday that we should really take the day off and rest in the beautiful setting of the Botanic Gardens in Durban. The weather this morning in Pinetown was terrible with really strong winds, we had faith and drove to Durban anyway to find the weather beautiful. We had a really big crowd and I think a good time was had by all.




Brad and Faith Bowker and Clive and Lynda Page.

 

Andy, Granny Eileen and little Cloe

 

Trish and Zarrick

 

Myself and Gordon

 

Zarrick



Jen and Andy



Nakita, hanging out in the perfect tree!




Joy

Julia & Britney at the beach

I really enjoyed creating this for Julia. I was with Libby when she took these photos and it was just such a pleasure watching Julia and Britney frolicking on the beach.

This was done using Photoshop's Clipping Mask.

Friends step by step all the way!

Thats me in the striped T Shirt and thats my friend Jeni in the blue hat. Jen and I have been friends for a loooooong time. She says I will always be her friend "because I know too much!!!!" We have shed tears of happiness and sadness together over the years. God in his amazing grace has just put these lovely two men in our lives, we both got engaged recently (can you see us showing off our rings? We both will be married later in the year!!



 
 

Sunshine and sunflowers

We live in Pinetown and at the moment these "sunflowers" are growing wild in abundance all over the place.
Michael has always said that I was his ray of sunshine. We are getting married in August and we are using sunflowers as our theme so we decided to make the most of Gods magnificient abudance of these lovely flowers and take some photos we could use for the wedding in some way.