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A couple enjoys the white water on the rocks at Horseshoe Bay, Port Elliot.
One thing that photos don't show is how noisy these places are.
Taken at Lady Bay, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia. Not much of a sunset but I liked the texture in the sand.
Digital Blend EV -2,0,+2 hope you like!
I deleted my whole gallery when I was ill. I ought to have explained yesterday but I am replacing as much of my old gallery as I can but wherever possible using a different shot taken at the same time ( I take lots usually) or reworking the raw file (which I save.
I don't expect you to comment on photos you think you have already commented on -or on so many as I am putting back on.
I pulled the plug on my account so that is my responsibility so i just ask you to bear with me whilst putting my gallery back together. The photos on Flickr were not in a single folder either so it is laborious work....
Incidentally the top row of houses just able to be seen above the second bridge which is called The Ladybay Bridge is Oakdale Road a two minute walk from my house
This is a link from the anchor chain of the destroyer HMAS Hobart. The anchor (with chain) is set up as a memorial to the two ships called HMAS Hobart, a destroyer and a cruiser. Why at Lady Bay on the Fleurieu Peninsula, I do not know.
Found these old pair of fellas parked in front of a house whilst out for a stroll. At a guess they've been there for at least 30 years.
Some serious effort required to get these road worthy again!
This is a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) base on Sydney Harbour at South Head, near Watsons Bay in Sydney, NSW. Commissioned in 1945 (after three years operating as HMAS Radar), the base served as the RAN's radar training school. In 1956, torpedo and anti-submarine warfare training were relocated to the base, and by 2011, Watson was the main maritime warfare training base, as well as providing post-entry education for maritime warfare officers, training for combat system and electronic warfare sailors, and command training.
The base's name is derived from its location at Watsons Bay, which in turn was named after Robert Watson, the quartermaster of HMS Sirius, a ship of the First Fleet. In 1801, Governor Philip King granted Watson land at South Head, where he settled. Watson later becoming boatswain, senior harbour pilot and harbourmaster of the new colony. In 1818, Governor Lachlan Macquarie commissioned the "Macquarie Lighthouse" appointing Watson as the first superintendent of the lighthouse. Today, the Macquarie Lighthouse is depicted in the centre of the crest of HMAS Watson.
South Head was recognised as an important site for the young colony and, as early as the first year of settlement, a signal gun from HMS Sirius was installed at South Head (some 300m off to the left of the image above) in order to indicate the arrival of any ships.
The first permanent military presence on South Head commenced in 1871 with the development of coastal artillery emplacements to defend the Port of Sydney. The first barracks, occupied by members of the NSW Artillery, were completed 19 March 1877. Extensions were added in 1880 to accommodate additional personnel. Many of the early barracks constructions are still standing.
An embrasure for what I assume was a coastal artillery piece can be seen in the cliff face in the lower left corner of the image. The adjacent beach in Lady Bay, below HMAS Watson, is apparently a nudist beach - something I certainly didn't know when taking the photo!
To give a sense of the enormous scale of Sydney Harbour, it should be noted that the world-famous Opera House is some 6.3 km to the south-east (off to the right of the image), with the Sydney Harbour Bridge beyond that and the inner harbour extending well over 10 km beyond that.
Taken from aboard a floatplane heading out of the harbour and north up the coast.