I went down yesterday to the Cooks River with my camera. I cycled along the river between the Cup and Saucer Creek Wetlands and the Tempe Wetlands.
The most interesting birds I photographed were these little Dusky Moorhen chicks that were swimming and foraging with their parents at Cup and Saucer Creek Wetlands. Continue reading
This was a pleasant trip through the Grand Canyon with Chuin Nee and Keith.
The Grand Canyon is a very beautiful canyon and can be very nice to photograph. So I took my camera and tripod with me on the trip and took the time to try and record some of the canyons eerie beauty. Continue reading
I was heading up the mountains with John, Chuin Nee and Jasper, on our way to Ian Brown and Tom William’s slide show of their recent climbing trip at Greenland. On our way we stopped off at Glenbrook for a walk to Grey Hat Falls and the Crayfish Pool in Kanuka Brook. According to this link, the waterfall was named in 1970. It is also sometimes referred to as “Tin Hat Falls”. The pool below the falls was named the “Crayfish Pool” sometime later.
It is possible to visit the falls on a short walk from the Red Hands Cave fire-road, but we were keen on a longer walk, so we started from the NPWS Visitor Centre. We walked down to the Causeway and then along the track up Campfire Creek. The we continued up the creek via the Link Track and then climbed up to the Red Hand Cave fire-road. Next we walked a kilometre or two along the road to the track down to Kanuka Brook. Continue reading
I joined a group of friends for the annual ride over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The ride is a celebration of cycling and a protest at the lack of facilities for cycling. For example, recent announcements of NSW Government infrastructure spending does not include any funding for cycleways.
We started the ride from Hyde Park, and after a loop through the city we went over the Sydney Harbour Bridge to North Sydney. Continue reading
Bob and myself finally completed this nice walk. It had been on our list to do for a fair while – and we had set off with it in mind – but thought it wise on those occasions to do an alternative trip because of bad weather.
The walk is around the cliff line of the Radiata Plateau. There is currently a conservation campaign to prevent development of this plateau and have it renamed after a local pioneering conservation – as Elphinstone Plateau. The plateau does have quite a few radiate pines growing on it, but there are some rare plants – such as the Pherosphaera fitzgeraldii — the Dwarf Mountain Pine, which is found in some of the gullies off the side. Continue reading
John had organised a trip to Claustral Canyon and invited me to join the group.
In the party were John, a second John, Stephen, Keith, Carl, Alex, Sierra and myself. A fairly large party for the canyon – but this gave me plenty of photographic opportunities.
The lighting was fairly subdued – which is not too bad for capturing the beauty of the canyon. Often it is too sunny – and a lot of the highlights in the photos are burnt out. In those conditions you can find areas of the canyon lit with reflected light and get nice photos. Continue reading
Thunderstorms were forecast on the afternoon of the 24th so I decided it may be nice to head out to Cape Banks for some photography. On previous visits I had admired the rock platforms out there.
It is a short walk from La Perouse, through Botany Bay National Park to Cape Banks. Approaching storms provided some moodily lighting, but the storm was getting quite close and I could see a lot of lightning strikes. Continue reading
There was going to be a gathering of friends of Benge (Graant Benett) on the summit of Mt Hay. We were going to meet there to reflect on his life.
Before heading out to Mt Hay, I had travelled up the mountains with Digi Dave the previous afternoon, and we visited some lookout of Leura for some photos and went to Sublime Point for sunset. Continue reading
Here is the video of the Dunphy Kowmung Adventure Re-enactment.
This was a nice walk in the Lower Blue Mountains. I started from Glenbrook Station and walked to the National Park entrance and then down to the Blue Pool turnoff. It was not far down the track to Glenbrook Creek and just upstream lies the Blue Pool. The Blue Pool is one of many swimming holes along Glenbrook Creek.
Glenbrook Ck
I crossed Glenbrook Creek and followed the track upstream on the west bank past the Blue Pool. There is a reasonable track on this bank all the way to the junction with Kanuka Brook (not far upstream of that point lies the Duck Hole – another large swimming hole). Continue reading
