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Long Reef Headland is a very special place for me. Pretty much were my photography journey has started. It is a beautiful place but can only be accessed during low tide. I was treated with some lovely cloud formations and colour in the sky that day.
Easterly winds and sunny weather make perfect conditions for paragliding. Long Reef headland in the right foreground, Dee Why Beach behind.
We will soon be celebrating the second anniversary of the Northern Beaches B-Line service. So, at a loose end on a Sunday afternoon I took myself off to check our services in north of the Spit Bridge,
Sun rising through the clouds at Long Reef in Sydney just last weekend while with a group of other photographers. It's tough that we have to get up early and spend so much work (ie: tripod, filters, getting wet! etc) to capture these scenes in Sydney but it's worth it in the end.
Trees include the Swamp Mahogany (Eucalyptus robusta). The tree fern is not indigenous, sometimes killed by forest workers (Cyathea cooperi).
In the other direction ... but not necessarily at the same point.
I think that bit of clifftop is as far as i went. I could see right around to Dee Why Beach from that point. I figured that was far enough.
That's Long Reef over on the right in the distance.
Mucking around with tilt and shift on a beautiful sunny day at Dee Why pool.
The GPS says North Curl Curl but it is taken at Dee Why headland.
After lots of attempts he finally made it.
Taken from my balcony on the third story made for an interesting angle.
This surfer girl was great to photograph. Every time she rode a wave, she smiled and threw her hands up in the air, looking as if she was dancing on water. Then I thought back to 7 years ago when I had learned the basics of surfing, and I realized I had my own surfing behaviour peculiarities (I raised my hands up like Rocky, thinking I was the champion of the world... Ahhh the nostalgia of the days of youth!)
There are a few flights from New Zealand which fly right over Sydney, giving this great view. Notable beaches include Manly and Dee Why.
In the 1940s, the Australian people were afraid of being invaded by the Japanese.
Here's a picture of the remains of a tank trap. Built to discourage Japanese tanks from invading Sydney. Seems a bit hard to believe it would be effective.
This photo taken today, beside Dee Why lagoon. This small sea side lake is an important refuge for migratory birds.
here's a reference: www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/manly-daily/tank-trap...
Day 29:
I thought i'd try to complete the cliff top walk over Curl Curl Headland, between Curl Curl and Dee Why Beaches.
I've been up on the Curl Curl side quite a few times (i like that bit!), but i'd never walked right round to Dee Why.
Well, i never made it right round to Dee Why this time either, but i went close enough. They've fixed the track up so that there's boardwalk over the worst wet bits, and there's hand rails on the awkward bits, and a bit of fencing at the clifff edge lookouts. But i still didnt feel all that comfortable on the track. I didnt like it when the track went up close to the houses. Nor did i like it when it headed off towards the edge.
OK for a one-off look, but it's not somewhere (like Long Reef!) that i want to keep coming back to do again.
Was up at 4:30am this morning for a shoot with Mario Bekes, Cathy Adams (3 times Miss Australia - Bodybuilding) & her partner Ian Cameron.
This will be first of a series of captures from this morning.
If you have time please take a look at my Bodies set
Special thanks to Cathy, Ian & Mario for be so amazing this morning : )
An afternoon in the beer garden of the Dee Why hotel, on Sydney's northern beaches, summer 1975.
Camera: Olympus OM1
Film: Tri-X 400
Developer: D76
Scan: Epson V700
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media, or reproduce it in any way without my explicit written permission. © copyright 1975 Lynn Burdekin. All Rights Reserved.
My favourite cafe in the whole of Sydney is Seachange. Fantastic service and the best breakfast. Oh if you're there in the evening try out salt and pepper calamari. Located on the beach at Dee Why. While you're there try One of these!