Robbo - The Blog of Andrew Robertson

It was such a nice day in Sydney today, I thought I would go for a lunchtime paddle. I also thought it was probably good idea to see if I could...

Next week I will finally be doing (part of) a kayaking trail that I have been wanting to do for years. There is a 7 day route on the Murrumbidgee (one...

A couple of months ago Adam let me know that Mick Thomas, the lead singer of our favourite band in the 90s, was going to be playing in Canowindra. It was...

Every year we head out to Parramatta Park (western Sydney) for the Australia Day ballooning. Normally they get about 15 balloons at the event, half of which free fly and the...

From the 4 cameras we were using over the week, we ended up with over 100gb of video. Here is the final compilation of the video. Note: The music might stop...

I am currently sitting at my sister’s place in Salt Spring Island in British Columbia (Canada) a few days after the event, reflecting on it all. As you can imagine, the...

You probably have noticed the lack of posts to the blog. We are getting to the end of the competition and are all getting pretty exhausted. So down time between flights...

This morning was the first competition flight of the championship. At the morning briefing David Levin called 3 tasks; a Hesitation Waltz (where we could pick one of 4 targets to...

Today was the last day of practice. Tomorrow the competition begins. The weather this morning was fantastic for flying. It was much cooler than it has been all week and the...

This morning I staggered out the hotel into the darkness to be greeted by stars and no wind. Finally we would be able to fly. We headed into town and showed...