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Testing GoPro Hero 5 while petting a stingray

10/06/201814/06/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2683 Views 0 Comments GoPro Hero 5 Black, Kiama stingrays

I got a new GoPro Hero 5 Black for my birthday and took it out for a test drive as

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Fantastic view of Sydney’s Vivid Festival

02/06/201814/06/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2263 Views 0 Comments Vivid Festival

Rosie and I had a night out in Sydney this week, for Vivid Festival. But the star of the whole

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A ex-Australian Army Centurion tank bush bashing at South Gippsland Tank Adventures, to promote the tank's launch inside the global PC game World of Tanks. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
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Got a taste for World of Tanks riding in a Centurion

11/05/201811/05/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 8066 Views 0 Comments Centurion, Wargaming, World of Tanks

Thanks to World of Tanks and South Gippsland Tank Adventures, I got to ride in an ex-Aussie Army Centurion tank

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F/A-18A 'Classic' Hornet makes a low-level pass over Illawarra Regional Airport during the 2018 Wings Over Illawarra Air Show. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
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Wings Over Illawarra Air Show 2018

06/05/201802/06/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 3598 Views 0 Comments Air Show, Wings Over Illawarra

ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS EVER – would not be an overstatement. This years Wings Over Illawarra air show was

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Project a long time in the making

02/05/201821/03/2021 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2309 Views 0 Comments CONTACT magazine, Make-n-Do

More than 14 years ago, CONTACT Air Land & Sea magazine was born. About five years ago, I decided to

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My ANZAC Day 2018 – Kiama NSW

25/04/201825/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2711 Views 0 Comments ANZAC Day 2018

A beautiful day in Kiama New South Wales for ANZAC Day 2018. In fact, it was the warmest ANZAC Day

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Another DIY project – you’ll never guess

23/04/201802/06/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2289 Views 0 Comments

Here’s a DIY project I just had to do. You see, I lost something small but crucial to this vlog

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Kiama Sunset – a contemplative music video

16/04/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2055 Views 0 Comments

Make a cup of tea – or pour a glass of (Irish) whiskey and mellow out to this 13-minute music

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My review of the DJI Osmo Mobile

15/04/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2101 Views 0 Comments

I bought a DJI Osmo Mobile for Christmas and, while I thought it was the bee’s knees initially, I quickly

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Beaut weekend with the Fam

10/04/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2223 Views 0 Comments

The Canberra Connection came down to Kiama for the weekend. Beautiful sunny weather for our beautiful family to spend some

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Happy Birthday Ashling

02/04/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2589 Views 0 Comments

A lovely day out at the Shoalhaven Zoo in North Nowra, New South Wales, today to celebrate our youngest daughter

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The magic of Glendalough County Wicklow

01/04/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2439 Views 1 Comment Glendalough

Glendalough in Co Wicklow is a truly mystical place, the atmosphere around the ancient graves, monastery and round tower only

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It’s nice to be home in Kiama

28/03/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2168 Views 0 Comments Kiama

…but more from Ireland still to edit. Rosie and I arrived home safely, though very jetlagged, on Monday, and did

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Liscannor County Clare and its world famous stone

24/03/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2674 Views 0 Comments Liscannor

A side trip to Liscannor, County Clare, where ‘world famous’ Liscannor stone comes from. Liscannor stone is a hard quartz

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Picking periwinkles at Lahinch

23/03/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2873 Views 0 Comments

Nearing the end of our holidays, with the sun ‘splitting stones’, we’re off to the beach to pick periwinkles… …then

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Flying my drone somewhere truely epic

22/03/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2272 Views 0 Comments

The most beautiful day of our holiday – weather wise – thus far saw us end up at one of

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Ballynooskenny graveyard

20/03/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2621 Views 0 Comments Ballynooskenny graveyard

What can I say about this except that I had a hankering for some drone flying at sunset this evening

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Snowbound in Dublin with swans

19/03/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2837 Views 0 Comments Dublin

Yesterday we attended the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin, and planned to head back to Shannon this morning. But

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At the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin

18/03/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2319 Views 0 Comments St Patrick's Day Dublin

Once-in-a-lifetime experience this weekend as Rosie and I attended the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin. Joined by 450,000 other

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A trip down memory lane – Castlebridge

16/03/201817/04/2018 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2486 Views 0 Comments Castlebridge

An all-too-short visit to my mother in Castlebridge this week. I grew up here – from my earliest memories until

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