I went down to my local river – the Cooks River on January 17th in an attempt to get more bird pictures and hopefully more photos of them in flight. I was lucky – 4 pelicans were there. Most of the time they are very content to sit around preening themselves and you need to be very patient to get photos of them doing anything else at all.
But I had the time and patience so waited…. and managed some reasonable photos. Here is a selection. Continue reading
Dan organised a weekend of canyoning fun in the Northern Blue Mountains. A lot of us met up at Barcoo Swamp and then set off for our canyons.
On Saturday, one party headed off to Surefire Canyon. I was in the other group – and we headed off to visit Twister and Rocky Creek Canyons. Continue reading
I went down to see if the pelicans were about in Boat Harbour on the Cooks River. They were. At first here were only two. Then another one swam down the river and joined them. I sat watching them with the camera ready. The first two seemed to spend a lot of time either asleep or preening their feathers.
Later after I made trip to the Cup and Saucer Creek Wetland, another pelican had joined the three. They paired off – two on either side of the arms of the harbour. Continue reading
Bob and myself headed up the mountains for a spot of mid-week canyoning. The weather was not particularly good – quite cold, misty with some drizzle. So we kept on heading west and out into the Gardens of Stone where most of the canyons are fairly dry.
I recently spent some time in Royal National Park on a photographic trip. My route was from Bundeena to Waterfall via the Jibbon, Marley, Wottamolla, Curracurrang, Curracurrong, the Curra Moors, The Wallumarra Track, Bola Creek, The Forest Track, The Couranga Track. This route provided a great variety of scenery.
I went down to the Cooks River to see what the king high tide would be like. The water level was very high indeed – and over the banks in places.
I took my camera along a took a few photos of the river, but I was concentrating on the birds. I went to the Boat Harbour, where there always seem to be plant of birds, and sure enough there were lots of gulls, ducks and cormorants. No pelicans this time. Continue reading
Our annual remote canyoning trip went this year to some of our favourite canyons deep in the Wollemi Wilderness.
The party was Rik, Rob, John, Dan and myself
We began with a long walk in to a campsite in the scrub close to our canyons. Getting water was a problem – the creeks nearby were all quite dry, but eventually some small pools were found. The round trip from the campsite to water and back was several hours! On subsequent days, we would carry a fair bit of water up from the canyons we were visiting and cart it back to camp. Continue reading
Time once again for our Christmas Light Bike Ride. The ride was organised by Audrey and was mainly along the Cooks River Cycleway.
We started from Dulwich Hill, where we had dinner and waited for it to get dark. Continue reading
I spent a nice weekend up the Blue Mountains. Mosty walking with John and his son Jasper, and Keith. Chuin Nee (Jasper’s mum) was climbing nearby at the time with Chris an Susie, friends on a holiday from Germany.
Minnehaha Falls
The first place we visited was Minnehaha Falls at Katoomba. I had visited this place a few times when I was very young, and remembered it as being a nice place. Continue reading
This is the time of year for bushwalkers from SUBW and friends to head down from Megalong Valley via the Six Foot Track to the Coxs River.
The club heads down to a nice sheltered campsite that is close to a swimming hole and some great rapids. Continue reading
