Outdoor activites during 2003

The following photos were taken during a camping activity from 25 to 27 October, at Mellieha:

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L-R: Me, Kurt.   In the background are the lights of Mellieha heights.* L-R: Me, James, Kurt.* The remaining two tents in the second night, mine is the blue one on the right, the other one is Kurt's.* The guy who cooked everything for us!  He is a great guy and cooks food really nice
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Fireworks!   One of the guys brought lots of fireworks with him (he builds them) and we had a pleasant night with very nice fireworks display! Ok!  Here is one of the fireworks working.  It changed colours lots of times but I think I must have caught it in the start of it when it is very plain! And here we are!   A group photo.  I am the one with the white T-Shirt. And all the group for another shot!  B.t.w. they are all nurses in our state hospital
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I am making some coffee, as usual!      

* Photos courtesy of James.  Thanks mate and cheers!

 

The next photos were taken during the camping from 21 to 23 November, at Mellieha:

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Kurt, eating, and me, drinking wine as usual! The group... L-R: Michelle, Kurt, Rachel, Javone, Chris, myself Preparing for an abseil on Saturday morning at L-Ahrax tal-Mellieha The gigantic cave we abseiled from the top of.  Barely seen can be the 2 abseil ropes.
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Before the abseil. Just after the abseil, at the sea level    

 

The following photos are from the trekking event to Mgarr ix-Xini in Gozo on 30 November:

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On the ferry ship... L-R: Jeffrey, myself, Maria, Kurt; prior to starting our long day of trekking and climbing Seen here together with Jeffrey at the first part of the trek, 15 minutes from starting Arriving at the clay cliffs area (in the background) Kurt pointing to something on the cliffs.   In the foreground L-R: Rueben, Kurt; in the back row L-R: Maria, Jeffrey
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Hail to the Lord of the Tower! The first area of the valley... where the vegetation is still only waist high and traversable Rueben descending the steep cliffs after a 'dark' adventure in a pitch black tunnel The bridge spanning from side to side and the only way to traverse the thorn ridden valley
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Packed and ready for the trek back, this time during darkness which makes it three times harder! The reward after a hard day... a great dinner in a restaurant!  On the left, with the drinks, on the right with the food?!  L-R (both pictures): Jeffrey, myself, Kurt, Maria, Rueben All the group at the freezing cold ticket booth..  Here we had to wait 2 hours for the next ferry and we all slept out of exhaustion...

 

Next set were taken during a whole day of climbing in Gozo on 21 December:

The day was perfect for climbing.  Sun, cold, no rain!  We had already decided spend it in Gozo climbing... but where?  Jeffrey proposed we go to San Blas.   And we remained there!  5 minutes away from the car is a huge tower in the middle of a plain.  The climbs are savagely hard, ranging from 7A Fr till 8A Fr.   The photo on the left shows the massiv tower, with steep cliffs on the background.   Pity the cliff face and part of the tower faces have crumbling parts.  Points to note:

* The tower was much higher but some authority in Malta decided to raise the ground by a third of the tower's total length so they can use it for olive production

* Their are lower-off bolts on the top of the tower so as to facilitate anchorage.   However some ignorant fool decided to steal the mouilloins and the chains that were there.  It's a pity things like this still happen on Malta where you can find ignorants taking out things from climbs :-(

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Stefan on Rhino Chaser (6A) Group photo from the top of the tower.  L-R: myself, Kurt, Jeffrey Eating a huge meal after a hard climbing day at Sports Cafe in Gozo.  Note the huge rack of spare ribs on my plate.  I wonder if they were taken from some type of monster...  

 

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L-R: Kurt, myself, Maria, James.  During a whole month camping in May.  It was a time of fun, drinking and studying for my upcoming german exam!

A day of climbing at San Blas area, sometime in December:

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After a day of climbing the obbligatory group photo.   L-R: myself, Jeffrey, Kurt, Reuben, Poala

Another group photo.

 The first "group photo".  However the others went running away leaving me staring blankly at the camera! Me drinking some wine... What a cold night it was!

 

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