by Joel Mackay | Sep 18, 2024 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
Travelled to Seoul for the ICMRBS NMR conference – with my old Ti road bike in tow to spend 3 days on 4 rivers before the meeting. It’s a 600-km purpose built separate bike path from the top to the bottom (Incheon to Busan). It was my first time in South Korea...
by Joel Mackay | Jul 12, 2024 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
Report from Joel: To cap off a week of hiking with Jacqui in the Swiss alps last week – and get a last glimpse at this extraordinarily scenic part of the world, I turned up for the 46-km Stoos Trail ultramarathon. It was a very local, low-key event with several...
by Joel Mackay | Jun 24, 2024 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
We had a bumper edition of graduation recently with Kim receiving her PhD and Andrea and Erekle graduating with their BSc Hons (1st class) degrees. Kim has found herself a postdoc position in neurobiology – just where she was hoping to end up!), Andrea has...
by Joel Mackay | Feb 29, 2024 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
We ventured out into the lower Blue Mountains for a day hike on Sat 24 Feb. The forecast was that there might be some rain. And there was. The first couple of hours were persistent – though not heavy – rain. Fortunately the canopy protected us from some...
by Joel Mackay | Apr 14, 2022 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
Ingrid was as organized as usual, and gave birth to baby Scarlett at 7:20 am on April 9. Current reports are that Scarlett has not learned yet to cry, but communicates in a series of small toy-like squeaks – they can only hope that continues for some time…...
by Joel Mackay | Feb 24, 2022 | BLOG, Photo Gallery |
Oscars Hut2Hut is a 100-km trail run in the Victorian Alps with epic amounts of ascent and descent (5800 m of each) and a *lot* of technical sections. A good chunk of it is above the treeline with spectacular 360-degree views – on a good day… which is the...