Another visit to Vivid – this time accompanying friends John and Chuin Nee and their young sons Jasper and Sebastian.
Jasper must have made at least 20 visits to this installation
Sebastian, not yet one year old, was intrigued by the many lights but was too young to take part in the interactive installations. Jasper, 4, was able to and he seemed to have a very good time. Vivid is an event well suited to people of all ages. Continue reading
It was nice to take part on a walk with Wendy to the Red Rocks on the June long weekend. We had cold, but generally good weather on the trip, and this meant that we could experience many outstanding views.
We headed to Newnes, noting that the last part of the road – the unsealed section past the One and Only Resort turnoff is now very badly corrugated. Continue reading
I had visited Sassafras Gully a few days earlier, but on that trip, the creek and been too high for a comfortable crossing so I had bot visited the best areas to see fungi. Also, that visit was very soon after heavy rain and it is best to wait a few days for fungi to appear.
So I returned on a Thursday, four days after the rain on the weekend before, to see what fungi would be out. I was pretty disappointed. Not too much was out, and a lot of I did find looked like it had been smashed by the heavy rain. Continue reading
Leslie Falls are on Lawson Creek at Lawson in the Blue Mountains. They are part of the set of waterfalls on the south side of Lawson. The other falls in the set – Adelina Falls, Junction Falls (twin falls), Cataract Falls and Federal Falls are all well known and often visited. But Leslie Falls seems to be very rarely reached by parties. There is a good reason for this – it is not on any current track and all the other waterfalls are all reached on a good track that links them all. I had visited the other falls may times but had never visited Leslie Falls. I suggested a walk to the falls to Bob and he too was keen to see it.
Leslie Falls
I also wanted to photograph the waterfall for my ongoing project to document the major named waterfalls of the central part of the Blue Mountains. Continue reading
On this visit I met up with friends John (with Jasper) and later John’s wife Chuin Nee (with Sebastian). I was able to shoot some time lapse sequences – mainly of the changing patterns on the Opera House and also shoot some stills. The weather was fine – but this meant it was crowded. Very crowded! It was hard to move around near the Quay and Opera House.
Here is my time lapse video. It is better to open it up and view full screen on YouTube.
And some photos – Continue reading
The weekend just before this walk had been wet. Very wet! The Blue Mountains had not received as much rain as the Cumberland Plain, but still had had a fair amount. Enough to make it worth getting up early and seeing some waterfalls.
Clarinda Falls
My original intention was to go and visit some of the waterfalls near Wentworth Falls. I got up early and caught a train up the Blue Mountains that should arrive at Wentworth Falls before 9 am. However, the train stopped at Penrith and went no further. Another train, on the down line (this is the line that runs up the Blue Mts) had broken down at Emu Plains and it seemed no other train would be going past it. After waiting in the train at Penrith for over an hour, we were eventually moved to buses and then began a very slow journey up the mountains. The bus passed through Springwood around 10:30 am, so I thought I should get off at Faulconbridge and still do a reasonable walk. Continue reading
There had been some recent rain. Not a lot, but enough I hoped for some fungi to be out along Wolli Creek.
There was not that much out, but I did manage to find a few nice things including three species of Hygrophoraceae – Continue reading
This was a nice day at the zoo with Digi Dave and our cameras. It was Digi Dave’s birthday and he took advantage of the special deal that runs this year – Taronga Zoo entry only $1 on your birthday. It only runs this year as its the zoo’s 100 year birthday. I took advantage of my yearly zoo pass.
We basically spent the whole day wandering around the various animals taking photos. Showers had been forecast, but on the day I don’t recall any rain at all. Continue reading
For the first day of June I went on a walk with Bob along a nice section of the Great North Walk. We met up on the train and got off at Berowra. We then crossed the busy road and walked a short way to the trackhead. It was raining lightly so we put on our parkas. We walked in them most of the day.
Berowra Creek
We were soon in the bush. The track dropped down to a firetrap which we follow for a while and then we met up with the Great North Walk where the track leaves the firetrail and descends to a creek. The creek was not up too much and we had no trouble crossing. However the creek had a horrible stink. A shame as it flows through nice forest. Continue reading
My second visit to Vivid was on rather a wet evening. This time I headed from Circular Quay towards the Opera House.
It was too wet to photograph the installations, so instead I spent some time photographing the light beams from under shelter at the Opera House. It was like a type of beam wars going on – with beams from various projectors reflecting off rain drops. Something you would not see on a dry evening. Continue reading
