I was keen to get out of the city, despite a forecast for showers. Checking the forecast carefully, it seemed that the highest probability for rain was in the afternoon, so I thought that at least I would get in a morning of walking before the weather turned bad. When I arrived at Glenbrook Station, it was raining lightly, as I set off along to Station Street and then along the track to Glenbrook Creek at the Duckhole.
One of the reasons for walking in bad weather is that it provides opportunities to photographs creeks and waterfalls in high water with soft sympathetic lighting. But when I arrived at the creek – it was a dirty colour from the rain, but the level was not spectacularly high. The rain had made the banks, which are often rock slabs, quite slippery and a lot of wet bushes were overhanging the rough track that goes downstream. The light rain made it difficult to take out a camera without it getting a bit wet, and changing lenses something to be avoided. Continue reading
