Lockie Cooke
∞Mutton Bird Island∞
After recently having three weeks holiday which included a week in Coffs Harbour, I'm finally getting around to sorting through some images. I snapped this shot on our second day there just as the weather was closing in, as it does. Anyone familiar with the Coffs coast (Mid north coast N.S.W) knows that you can experience four seasons in a day !
None the less, I ended up with some decent shots from the trip & had a blast re-visiting the area. One of the best things about the mid north coast is that there are endless photo opprtunities as there are just so many beaches, bays & little coves.
We have close friends that live in the area so I will get to explore more of the coastline on our next trip down. This shot was taken on Jordan Esplanade facing north towards Mutton Bird Island.
Although this isn't your typical 'postcard' shot of Mutton Bird Island I feel it's still an integral part of the image thus including a detailed description of the area I was shooting in at the time.
Make sure you view this in 'lightbox'
Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40 f4 USM
0.8 sec ∞ f. 9 ∞ 22mm ∞ ISO 100 ∞ Tripod
Located approx 440km south of Brisbane & 540km north of Sydney lies Coffs Harbour, a coastal city with a population of around 70' 000.
Coffs harbour houses 'Mutton Bird Island' which is a sacred and very significant site to the local Gumbaynggirr Aboriginal people, who call the island Giidayn Miirral.
Home to thousands of wedge-tailed shearwaters, also known as muttonbirds, the island is a protected Nature Reserve. Shearwaters are named for their ability to cut or shear the water with their wings as they skim across the surface. Early settlers called them muttonbirds for their fatty mutton-like flesh.
The muttonbirds spend the Australian winter in South-East Asia and travel thousands of kilometres each year to return to the same burrow on Muttonbird Island in August.
A pair of birds take turns incubating one single egg and also share the raising of their chick. They forage for food during the day and return to the burrow just after dusk. The muttonbirds leave the island for their annual migration in late April.
∞Mutton Bird Island∞
After recently having three weeks holiday which included a week in Coffs Harbour, I'm finally getting around to sorting through some images. I snapped this shot on our second day there just as the weather was closing in, as it does. Anyone familiar with the Coffs coast (Mid north coast N.S.W) knows that you can experience four seasons in a day !
None the less, I ended up with some decent shots from the trip & had a blast re-visiting the area. One of the best things about the mid north coast is that there are endless photo opprtunities as there are just so many beaches, bays & little coves.
We have close friends that live in the area so I will get to explore more of the coastline on our next trip down. This shot was taken on Jordan Esplanade facing north towards Mutton Bird Island.
Although this isn't your typical 'postcard' shot of Mutton Bird Island I feel it's still an integral part of the image thus including a detailed description of the area I was shooting in at the time.
Make sure you view this in 'lightbox'
Canon 5D Mk II + 17-40 f4 USM
0.8 sec ∞ f. 9 ∞ 22mm ∞ ISO 100 ∞ Tripod
Located approx 440km south of Brisbane & 540km north of Sydney lies Coffs Harbour, a coastal city with a population of around 70' 000.
Coffs harbour houses 'Mutton Bird Island' which is a sacred and very significant site to the local Gumbaynggirr Aboriginal people, who call the island Giidayn Miirral.
Home to thousands of wedge-tailed shearwaters, also known as muttonbirds, the island is a protected Nature Reserve. Shearwaters are named for their ability to cut or shear the water with their wings as they skim across the surface. Early settlers called them muttonbirds for their fatty mutton-like flesh.
The muttonbirds spend the Australian winter in South-East Asia and travel thousands of kilometres each year to return to the same burrow on Muttonbird Island in August.
A pair of birds take turns incubating one single egg and also share the raising of their chick. They forage for food during the day and return to the burrow just after dusk. The muttonbirds leave the island for their annual migration in late April.