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It's best to photograph this interesting area late or early in the day, when the colours fully come out. Remember to go at low tide.
Long Reef is unique in the Sydney region, as this headland is primarily made of Bald Hill Claystone. Mostly, it's a soft reddish rock, formed in the early Triassic period. The maximum thickness of this rock type is 20 metres.
An interesting variety of sedimentary rocks may be viewed at Long Reef. There's much iron influence here, most evident in the haematite. Much of the rocks here are of the Narrabeen Group of Sedimentary Rocks. There's also volcanic elements, such as a dyke of Jurassic dolerite. It was two metres tall, but it's since been partially removed for industry.
An abandoned copper mine is at Long Reef. A tunnel was dug into the purple claystone to explore for copper. It was situated along the claystone, between the red-brown oxidised rocks and grey-green reduced siltstone.
There are masses of fossils in the grey coloured claystone, however, they are mostly strands of vegetation and are not particularly impressive.
The commonest of the fossils being a primitive plant, known as the horsetail, "Phyllotheca". It's in the form of a stem with a whorl of leaves. These plants grew like reeds, which indicates they were swamp dwellers.
Less often, fossils of a shrub-like forked leaf "seed fern" (Dicroidium) may be seen. One more interesting fossil is of a large amphibian. The animal would have been around a metre long. Named "Bulgosuchus gargantua."
The commonest rock types are shales, sandstone and claystones. The sandstones are described as "lithic" meaning they have plenty of other rock fragments within.
The sands of the nearby beaches are orange in colour. Black coloured influences in the sand may be seen along the nearby beaches. Prominent of these dark minerals is rutile. Others include ilmenite and monazite. Geologists suggest these are derived from ancient rocks from the Broken Hill region.
Ages ago, I first visited this area in a school excursion. The school teacher was impressive intellectually. However, he mis-read the tide listings. And we went at high tide. He also said that so many of the fossils have been removed that there's hardly any left. This latter remark is barely true, as the rock keeps crumbling away and more fossils are revealed.
Taken from the top angle. 13.02.10
Award-winning, off-shore and parallel-to-coast Sea Cliff Bridge forms part of the Grand Pacific Drive and is located on scenic Lawrence Hargrave Drive, 60 kms south from central Sydney (or 23 kms north of Wollongong). It was opened on December 11, 2005, at a total cost of A$52 million.
The Bridge provides road, pedestrian and cycleway access it's entire length (665 metres) and spectacular views. Like the Bridge, Grand Pacific Drive never loses sight of the sea. It hugs the coast between the high battlements of the Illawarra Escarpment, looming like the great wall of a lost world, and the vastness of the Tasman Sea, an ocean view so wide you can see the curve of the Earth. Looking south, the "Coast with the Most" is scalloped with bays, and world class surf beaches all the way to Wollongong and beyond.
Why was it constructed? In August 2003, a large embankment slip indefinitely closed Lawrence Hargrave Drive between Coalcliff and Clifton, a stretch of road area notorious for rock falls and closures.
But community protest at this closure was fierce, and a permanent fix was demanded from the NSW Government. Over two years later, Sea Cliff Bridge provided that fix, and the road reopened, finally Bridging the Cliff and the Sea and Community. (http://seacliffbridge.com/)
There were waterfalls everywhere. It rains frequently on the north side of Molokai, and the pilot said the previous day's rains had been very significant -- leading to extremely full waterfalls. Scale is difficult to communicate here, but
Gonarezhou NP:
y journey into the heart of Gonarezhou begins with the realisation that this is wild country. It is one of Africa’s last remaining pristine wildernesses and we are all privileged to be a visitor here. The animals are in their most natural state at Gonarezhou; these are no lazy photographic models, hassled by a constant cavalcade of jeeps, radioing one another in their relentless pursuits. This is a country of red sandstone, thorny scrub and baobabs. Buffalo gather at watering holes, big cats prowl silently in pursuit of painted impala, hippo wallow midstream attended by squadrons of fluttering birds. The presence of elephants is everywhere; on the earth and the vegetation, as their families travel along routes passed from one matriarch to another in search of food, safety, and water. A panorama of birdlife gathers at Tembahata and Machanu Water Pans, a flying, wading tumult of colour, while the wonders of Chilojo Cliffs and Chivilila Falls reveal the glories of the unique landscape.
El Megano at El Golfo, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain.
Spot man taking the same photo as me >> maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.972587,-13.831117&spn=0.00... :-)
20 Jan 06 - Canon A80
The Cliff Hanger ride allows show-goers at the Sydney Royal Easter Show to simulate the sensation of hang gliding.
Olympic Park, Sydney, 2007
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