Sunday, 11 December, 2011 00:33
Written by Kirrily
During our recent holiday up Australia’s east coast (only as far as Sydney, this is a bloody big country!), we had the great pleasure of enjoying a bushwalk as a family. It was the LGBB who insisted on the 5km bush and beach trek. I’m so glad we did it. There were some really amazing treats on the well worn, overgrown track. Tiny birds, big rosellas, little lizards, crazy fungus formations, whole copses of fallen beach shrubs that were stunning in themselves despite being long dead and flattened.
It was a humbling experience, coming from the beachside holiday spot in Lakes Entrance and walking just a short distance to get to the point of the actual Entrance itself. So untouched yet so close to all the modern conveniences. I’m quite impressed, actually, that they have conserved this area. It’s only a great pity there are not more of these pockets of nature. It really contrasts with the paved roads, the industry, the devastation of tracts of land to make way for more “progress”.
Along the way, there were many stops by me and the trusty Canon DSLR. Too many photos to share here but some of my best captures of what we saw are below.
First though… Any guesses what this is?
I’ll show you the whole photo in a post later in the week, give you a chance to have a good guess.
Apologies for the pesky copyright watermarks. I’m just a tad protective.
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| On the boardwalk |
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| Perfect natural borders! |
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| Mushy |
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| Gnarly, dude |
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| Perfect flowers |
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| The reward at the end – 2.8km in. |
The beach was an entirely different kind of photo shoot, altogether.
……And if you’re not all saying “it was an entirely different kind of photo shoot” in unison right now, I will be most disappointed.
More later in the week.
I hope your weekend has been kind and restful and given you the chance to stop and notice the significant little things around you.
I love your bush/beach walk, I'd like to do something similar one day. With my camera of course.
My weekend? I learned how to take videos with my camera. Now I just have to learn how to load them to my blog…..
River: Hey, that sounds great! I like to use vimeo.com (have an account set up) but there are others around. Once you plug your phone into your computer it should give you a file (mp3, mp4, some sort of video file?) then uploading to Vimeo is as simple as "choose file" and let it chug! Good luck, I'd love to see your footage
You've got me pining for the walks I used to do in Wales… total forest emersion; greenery everywhere. Total soul food. I'm glad you had such an amazing time.
What glorious pics.
I just want to jump right in there.
What a fabulous collection of photos… yes, I'd love to jump right in, too!
Wow, these pictures are beautiful! Sounds like a blissful day. Lolly is so adorable. Give her a squeeze for me.
Beautiful pictures! I have noooo idea what that first pic is though!!
I don’t know whether it’s just me or if everyone else experiencing issues with your blog.
It appears like some of the written text within your content are running off the screen.
Can somebody else please comment and let me know if this is happening to
them as well? This could be a problem with my browser because I’ve had this happen previously. Thank you
Jude that sounds like some sort of container issue… I’d say, yes, if it’s happening because of the blog it should be happening to others. But I’ve never had anyone else mention it (and I can also see all the content ok whichever browser or device I use). Still, hopefully I hear from others if they are experiencing problems. Can’t have issues with my blog now, can I! Thank you for alerting me.