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Composite photo of several. Location Green Flash Restaurant Captiva Island Florida. Birds photographed at Miami Matheson Marina. All my own photos. Captiva Island has a wonderful amount of birds, far better than Miami.
All need is some sand, sea, surf & barnacle-clad rocks to keep me happy. A camera helps too :)
Happy weekend everyone!
Along much of the east coastline of Tasmania the orange lichen grows on the rocks in abundance. This is supposed to indicate purity of air and water. The granite takes on distinctive block-like forms having been shaped by eons of time.
A very serene sunrise just me & Percy enjoying the views and the calm by ourselves. Good company pelicans, unless you are a fish of course.
Back to landscapes, free of floating food subjects. This is just one of the little inlets along the beautiful coast named Bay of Fires in north eastern Tasmania. If you like clear blue water, white sand and orange lichen-clad boulders then this is the place for you. If you look closely you will see a tiny artist painting in the corner of the beach. I think she is painting a seascape with a little photographer taking photos of a seascape with an artist painting.
So this rocky headland at Terrigal, NSW is known as the Skillion. A skillion is by definition a towering rocky headline overlooking the ocean. Pretty well sums it up! It also doubles as a piece of training equipment judging by all the groups of youngsters running up and down it early in the morning. Crazies!
I hope everyone has an awesome Friday night & wonderful weekend 👋😀
Cheers
Getting back to basics with my favourite subject - coastal landscapes. Give me a stretch of natural coast to wander about , with a camera, and I'm a happy man. Well, an accurate weather app could maybe make me a wee bit happier perhaps. Especially when you get up at 430am, make the trek over to the coast & find out someone forgot to tell the sun it was supposed to rise.
I do have an obsession with weather apps; Weather, Willy Weather, Accuweather, Alpenglow & Clear Outside are my current faves, especially Clear Outside for forecast cloud coverage at various heights. I haven't tried examining the spleen of a pig yet, which apparently is the most accurate way of forecasting weather 🐷 ⛈ Does anyone know any good spleenless weather Apps can I add to my collection of Apps to reliably get the weather forecasts wrong ? 😂
Just felt the need to post another seascape.
Clouds have been a bit scarce around these parts of late. El Niño apparently. In Australia we have had 3 years of rains and floods care of La Niña. Now El Niño is forecast to bring extreme dry hot weather. Will be interesting to see what El Ninja brings next!
Happy new week everyone :)
These are just some of the Dolerite sea cliffs on the southeastern coast of Tasmania are the tallest in the southern hemisphere, towering some 300m above sea level. The pic can't do justice to the feeling of being buffeted around the Tasman Ocean at the base of these fantastic cliffs with not much between you & Antarctica.
Have an awesome weekend everyone :)
The other day, I hopped in my Subaru Forester, wondering where to go for a quick photography outing. Then it hit me—the Forester must go to Forresters! Beach, that is. Not to be confused with Forster from my last photo.
Shame I’m not a lumberjack, or it could’ve been the forester in the Forester going to Forresters, not Forster. A missed opportunity, really.
Thought for the day: Isn’t clapping just repeatedly hitting yourself because you approve of something? 🤔
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Waterscape 23/100 in 2025
A sunrise from earlier this year to warm everyone up. First light is around 5am at the moment, so that would mean a 4am start for me, too early to drag my old body out of bed now, getting lazy.
Cheers everyone !
Does it look to like the clouds and waves seem to merge? Perhaps the whitecaps are just clouds of the sea—or maybe the clouds are just waves of the sky. The sand on the other hand is just sandy sand.
On a lighter note, I had a nice long bike ride this morning. When I got home, my bike fell over. Appears it was just two-tired!
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A cloudy day at Toowoon Bay didn't dampen the fun at all of exploring the rockpools with my grandson, and ever faithful beach-loving pup of course :)
Fun fact - the world’s largest waterfall is underwater. At the Denmark Strait, the cold water from the Nordic Sea is denser than the Irminger Sea’s warm water, making it drop almost two miles down at 123 million cubic feet per second. I don't think I'd like to be caught in that waterfall!
Have a great week everyone !
PS I was using a 12-100mm "walk around" lens, not sure why I got the fisheye-type curve on the horizon
Some more mid-week Zen. Pelican beach is my favourite local beach this last year. It does make me feel relaxed. As a matter of fact I started a beehive so I could "bee" in the moment :)
Happy midweek everyone!
Some more of the wonderful natural colours that mother nature has on display at Burgess beach. I'm not sure which I like best; the red and slate rocks, golden sand, green ocean, or grey sky. Probably all equally.
Quick fun fact for the day: turtles can breathe through their butts. I thought you would want to know that :)
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Trevor, my troll buddy, was very excited when we reached the rock shelves at Forrester’s Beach this week. The moment his feet touched the stone, he was off—scrambling over barnacle-crusted boulders and vanishing into what I had assumed was just another rugged outcrop. Turns out what I had dismissed as lifeless rock formations was actually a lively gathering of his kind!
I wonder what is the term for a gathering of trolls? A quarry, perhaps? A crumble? A grumble? Whatever it is, they were deep in discussion when I caught up. If you look closely you will see Trevor mid-scene having a chat.
He was locked in conversation with Granite Greg, a hulking troll in full complaint mode about the erosion rates along the coast. “Used to be solid cliffs here Trev,” he rumbled. “Now look at it! Water wearin’ us down, bit by bit. No respect for a troll’s structure these days.”
Beside him was Basalt Barry, He wasn’t complaining about erosion. If anything, he was wishing for more of it. “If you ask me, we need another eruption around here! Bit of fresh lava flow would sort this landscape right out.” He sighed “It’s been far too long since things got a proper reshaping.”
Sandstone Sam was the most weathered of the group, his body a patchwork of golden layers. He had a habit of shedding small grains, much to Granite Greg’s frustration. “You’re making a mess again Sam,” Greg grumbled, brushing some sand off.
Pebble Pete, the smallest of the bunch was young by troll standards, barely a few thousand years old. “One day, I’ll be big and strong like you, Greg!” he said. Greg snorted. “Not if the waves get to you first.”
Over in the shallows, Coral Colin lounged near the rock pools, his body covered in barnacles and seaweed. He rarely left the water and had a salty way of speaking. “You land-trolls think erosion’s bad? Try dealing with parrotfish gnawing on your head all day,” he muttered.
Slate Sally lay calmly, the sun reflecting off her naturally polished surface. "Oh, come now, boys," she murmured in her smooth, steady voice. "Nothing stays the same forever. You’ve got to let time do its work—resistance only makes the cracks deeper."
I did get to hear some stories about Trevor’s wilder days. Apparently, he used to be in a rock band, until he got thrown out for being stoned.
I think we will back at Forrester's one day soon if Trevor has his way.
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Have I ever mentioned I love beaches ? Must get back to this one, soon!
Hope everyone is having a nice weekend , if you have made it there yet,
Fun Fact - Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.
Stumbled upon this driftwood on deserted Pelican beach, just me, the waves, and this piece of wood that looked like it had seen more of the world than I ever will. Took a photo to capture its rugged beauty... because if driftwood falls on a beach and no one's around to post it to Flickr, did it ever exist?
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I like all the different types and colours of rocks at Forresters Beach. Mother nature is quite the artist!
I think I am turning into a beach, but not quite shore ;)
There is nothing like home hey! I've always appreciated what I have on my doorstep. This is my old fave Pelican Beach. The one thing I do like about autumn/winter here is even less people on the beaches, can't wait to get some free time to get back out there.
Fun fact: the entire body replaces itself every 7 years. I do feel a bit ripped off though, that means I've had like 9 new bodies, and none of the adult ones have come with abs!
Have a great new week everyone!
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Waterscape 28/100 in 2025
This is the nice little, ahhmmm, Little Beach in Bouddi National Park here on the coast. Bouddi Coastal Walk is a great little walk, 8.5km one way, boasts several beaches (including Little Beach), wildflowers, sweeping views, some rainforest, whales (in season) and fantastic rock formations. And best of all, not a single human construct to be seen, all natural :) Well, except for remnants of an old shipwreck at Maitland Bay, but nature will sort that out very soon!
Hope your Thursday has perfect exposure and zero noise :) Stay focussed ;)
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Waterscape 29/100 in 2025
I'm getting beach photography withdrawal symptoms. Haven't been able to get to a beach since before Christmas. Had planned a bushwalk with a mate to Waterfall Beach, my "missing" Central Coast beach today but the weather dictated otherwise. We went from weeks of 30C+ to tops of 20C with incessant rain last 3 days.
This beach here is Birdie Beach, and the little island in the distance is Bird Island. The Bird Island Nature Reserve is a protected nature reserve located 1.4 kilometres off the coast. The island is no more than 260m long and rocky cliffs make access difficult by boat. Over twenty types of birds have been recorded on the island.
We didn't let the weather dampen our spirits, had a great workout and a couple of beers at the local brewery instead while planning future outings.
I hope everyone is having a great week !
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Makes me wonder why I bother lugging around camera, lenses, tripod, filters etc. when my iPhone can take a sunrise like this. I do like the exposure & warmth controls on the iphone13 I must admit. This was taken recently at the awesome Box Beach at Port Stephens.
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So, there I was on Pelican Beach, stumbling across what I initially took to be a horse, more precisely a sea-horse. The mythical creature of the beach log variety. It had a certain equine look, if you squinted and ignored the lack of legs and general horse-ness. But hey, who am I to be a neigh-sayer?
It was wedged so deeply in the sand, must have been some powerful seas wash it up. I suppose the seaweed mane might’ve just washed up on it, or maybe an enterprising mermaid did a little redecorating — who knows? Not many people wander this far down the beach, so it remains a mystery for the ages.
It definitely qualifies as a log with more personality than most that I have encountered!
Bateau Bay Beach is the closest beach to home, and luckily it is unpatrolled and never overly busy. It also has numerous rock shelves. I like this one , it has lots of variety in it.
Thought for today - if you try to fail and are successful, have you succeeded or failed ?
Happy Sunday :)
The New Year is close now & I'm excited to see what it will bring. 2024 was an interesting one:trips to Fiji, a south Pacific cruise, some outback camping, welcomed a new grandson, had a minor TIA , rowed in excess of 1,500kms on indoor rower, bootcamp workouts every second day, (probably why
I tore my rotator cuff), started karate (65 isn't too old to start hey?), numerous trips to the coast's beaches & even had a haircut ;)
Anyway here's my attempted analogy between a coastal walk and the New Year, (it's a bit of a stretch, apologies in advance ;) .......
Wandering along this rockshelf feels a lot like journeying through 2024. There’ve been slippery, mossy patches where footing wasn’t always steady—those tricky moments that kept us on our toes (and sometimes on our butts). There’ve been sharp, rocky bits, demanding resilience, and a good pair of shoes. But there’ve also been stretches of soft, golden sand, moments of ease and calm that remind you life isn’t all rough edges. And that sense of satisfaction of moving on and making ground. The rocks & vegetation are so many shapes, colours, and textures, much like the unexpected turns and delights of the past year.
Now, as I near the headland, anticipation builds. What’s waiting just around that corner? A hidden cove? A wild, windswept beach? An "influencer" taking selfies (they do seem to be everywhere), a mermaid or pirate ship? Maybe another rockshelf to navigate. That’s the thrill of it—like stepping into 2025, you don’t know exactly what’s ahead, but you can’t wait to find out. Bring it on!
Happy New Year everyone !
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Waterscape 7/100 for 2025.
We've had such changeable weather lately—swinging from 40°C heatwaves to two days of non-stop thunder and lightning and a 15c temp drop.
I was hoping for some dark, ominous clouds today at the beach, maybe even a flash of lightning. But alas, the sky had other plans—just endless grey.
Still, the beach never disappoints. Raindrop patterns in the sand, dune grasses swaying in the wind… there’s always something to appreciate.
After all, the only bad day at the beach is the one you didn’t go to. 😉
Hope everyone's week is going well, cheers.
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Beaches of the Central Coast #36 of #49 .... again ;)
There is a different light after the sun has risen and the orange gone, but clouds move in. Almost a bit blue-hourish in a way.
I know the Northern hemisphere is about hit it's spring and then summer so being a personal trainer and all I have some advice on how to get a beach body:
Step 1 - have a body
Step 2 - go to the beach
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So much driftwood on Pelican Beach. Someone got creative by the looks. I'm not sure if they were building a shelter or maybe preparing for an (illegal) bonfire. Pelican is in Wyrrabalong National Park, and like any national park you are supposed to leave everything just the way it is.
Thought for Friday - We were waiting for the waiter in a restaurant the other night. Didn't that make us the waiter ?
Waterscape #2 of 100 for 2025.
The seaweed in this rockpool, Hormosira, is commonly known as Neptune's necklace, Neptune's pearls, sea grapes, or bubbleweed. It is native to Australia and New Zealand. It is everywhere on our stretch of coast. Apparently it outcompetes other algal species due to its high tolerance to desiccation.
It kind of reminds me of the red weed in War of the Worlds. Except it isn't red. And it isn't Martian. And it isn't fertilised with human blood. It is weed though!
Have a great week out there.
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This is Soldiers Beach on the coast here. It is between 2 headlands with Gravelly Beach to the north and Pelican Beach to south. The name is believed to originate from its historical use as a recreational area for servicemen. During World War II, it was a popular spot for soldiers stationed in the region to relax and enjoy downtime away from their duties.
Okay history lesson over for the day ;) I hope everyone has recovered from their New Year's Eve activities by now.
I never iron my clothes on New Year’s Day, because you shouldn’t start the year off with a *pressing* hangover!
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Wandering along the beautifully empty Pelican's beach I stumbled across this exhibit of nature's art. A driftwood sculpture on the sand, carved and polished by the wind and waves. It told me a tale of wild journeys, trees transformed by sun, salt, and surf into rustic, weather-worn relics. Made me wonder if it once held court somewhere in a deep forest on the other side of the planet, living a different life, before fate and the elements carried it here to our little Central Coast. It was like the ocean curated the display, bringing it to this place at this time while I was there. Or maybe my imagination is just a little too active and it simply a washed-up bit of timber from a local area. I prefer to believe the former :)
Happy mid-week everyone!
Ah, springtime in Australia! The ocean’s warming up, everything’s buzzing back to life, and it’s the perfect excuse to sneak down to the beach with a camera.
Here’s a shot along Gravelly Beach at Soldiers Beach, with the Norah Head lighthouse just visible in the distance. It’s got all the classic “textbook” landscape ingredients: rule of thirds, foreground rocks balancing the distant headland, leading lines that draw the eye to the lighthouse, layers of blue and green, that classic beach curve for framing, and a clean simplicity—just beach, ocean, and sky. Did I actually think about all that when taking the shot? Absolutely not; I just liked the view. 😉
Happy weekend, everyone!
This view is looking south from the majestic Wybung Head in the Munmorah State Recreation Area. The second little cove you can see is Little Birdie Beach, sometimes called Waterfall Beach. It is one of the 49 beaches on our central coast that I haven't visited yet. That needs to change, soon! The description won me over:
"If you really want to get away from it all, this is the beach for you. It’s remote, it’s windswept and we can almost guarantee you’ll have the place to yourself" "it’s not one we recommend" "it’s quite hard to get to, not great for swimming and not patrolled." "The 50m long beach has a sandy high strip of sands fronted by 50-100 m wide intertidal rock flats, with rock platforms and 30m high cliffs to either side" "One for the wilderness seekers only"
Who can resist a description like that!? I will be seeing you very soon Little Birdie :) Wybung Head is the perfect vantage point for these sweeping coastal views, and you can dangle your feet over the cliffs while whale watching or taking photos. And down a goat track on the northern side of the head is my fave Deadmans Beach. Pretty much my kind of perfect place!
Have a great weekend everyone!
Where do rocks go to swim? To the rock pool of course ;) But seriously , these rocks have so much sedimental value ;))
Have a great new week everyone!
I figured it was about time to share a photo of "The Entrance" itself: the point where the Tasman Sea meets Tuggerah Lake.
It’s such a fascinating area. Tuggerah Lake is an estuary, a unique mix of freshwater and seawater where rivers and streams flow into a coastal lagoon, maintaining an open connection to the sea.
For me, it has been a place of endless photographic opportunities—and kayaking adventures. Whether paddling down rivers into the lake, boating across its waters, or exploring the foreshore teeming with birdlife, this place has been a constant source of enjoyment for me and so many others.
The Entrance is more than just a location—it’s a transition zone, where rivers meet the ocean, where different forces and environments collide. That’s what makes it my favourite kind of place.
Wishing you all a great Monday - "the entrance" to a new week! Thank you for any comments and likes, they are always greatly appreciated!
Waterscape 15/100 for 2025
Waterscape 6 of 100 for 2025.
Recovering from a couple of days of Australia Day celebrations here and waiting for the weather to cool down a bit so I can head out for some bush walks and beaches. Temps coming off high 30's tomorrow to mid 20's on Wed, with some cloud about, woohoo, that's the day! Now the fun part planning where :))
Fun fact: The Match.com founder lost his girlfriend to a man she met on Match.com Probably good advertising I guess!
Fun fact No.2: I had to get my cards to check this one. There are four kings in every deck of cards. And while they all look similar, the King of Hearts is the only royal fellow who doesn’t have a mustache. (Are you looking through a deck of cards now ? ;)
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Waterscape 5 of 100 for 2025.
Who said I never post photos of sandy beaches with people swimming? Well, here you go—not one, but two sandy beaches! Granted, they’re tucked away in the background behind the rock shelves and waves that insisted on dominating the foreground. The larger beach you can partially see on the left is Frazer Beach, which isn’t often crowded. The tiny beach straight across is Bongong Beach, rarely peopled. I like the word "peopled"—it almost sounds like a disease. I’m sure much of nature would agree!
It's been a good week for getting to the beach for a swim, not so much for photography. Need to enjoy this summer while we can. Hope your week is going swimmingly well.
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Beaches of the Central Coast #23 of #49.
One of my first "photography" beaches on the Central Coast, and still a favourite. A simple shot but I find the number of natural elements in such a small area fascinating.
Bateau Bay was previously called Boat Harbour but was renamed Bateau Bay in 1937. Apparently "bateau" is French for boat. You really wanted to know that I know, you're welcome ;)
Hope your week is going well.
I don't think I've posted a photo of Avoca beach before, number 18 of our 49 beaches. I couldn't believe the number of fisherman out catching the sunrise!. (maybe they use rays as bait to catch a sunrise ;) Don't they know it's not safe out there. It's only safe for photographers!
Avoca is nice little seaside suburb, with a lagoon (which now identifies as a lake) sometimes joining the ocean. It has regular markets and an old-fashioned cinema, and lots of places for lunch or ice cream :) Avoca is an Irish name meaning "great estuary" or "where the river meets the sea".
Totally unrelated fun fact for a Saturday - Did you know that honeybees hold hands? Their “hands” resemble hooks, and they tend to do it while they’re sleeping. I'll mention this to my wife next time we are sleeping & I'm snoring really badly and she ever so politely elbows me and suggests I move. I wonder if they say "g'nite honey, it's bee'n a busy day"
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Waterscape 9/100 for 2025.
Another one of our 49 beaches— and somehow, I only just realised I’d never been here before! One of the smallest, too. The little breakwall is designed to protect the channel where the ocean flows into the lake, creating such an interesting landscape. Geography? Geology? Either way, it’s a fascinating spot.
The Entrance is best known as a tourist destination, with a fantastic waterfront park for kids, lots of fish and chip and ice cream shops (my fave), small carnival in the park, magnificent water views and, of course, the famous pelican feeding, where hundreds of pelicans gather for a meal courtesy of Marine Wildlife Rescue.
Wishing you all a great new week!
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