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South east view over the Gold Coast hinterland from the 'Best of All Lookout' on the Springbrook Plateau — the escarpment, Coolangatta and the two Mt Cougals at left with Murwiilumbah, farmland and Tweed Valley to right.
Went back to this dream home high up on the range near Murwillumbah to get a wider view....what a great location.
We have been away for a few days and arrive home tomorrow. November is the month that the beautiful Jacaranda blooms but this year many of the trees don't have a lot of flowers, probably due to the drought and extreme heat earlier in the year. This beautiful tree is on the edge of the cemetary where most of my family's ashes are buried. It looks so pretty.
Margaret Ollie's reconstructed 'Yellow Room' in the centre named for her in the Tweed Regional Gallery. The iconic Australian artist and citizen is commemorated in the town of Murwillumbah where she lived before moving to Sydney.
On a night which was a bit hazy the stars and more peek through in profusion. Looking south from the Gold Coast hinterland the light source behind Mt Somerville is the town of Murwillumbah. This sight fills me with wonder.
A shelf in the reconstructed Margaret Olley house in the Tweed Regional Gallery in Murwillumbah. The furniture and other house contents were faithfully placed in their exact positions in exactly reproduced rooms of Olley's Paddington (Sydney) home.
Taken as we drove into Murwillumbah, NSW. I was born in Murwillumbah where my father had a dairy farm. We came to Sydney when I was around 3 years old, but it still feels like home when we travel up the far north coast of NSW.
Mount Warning, a mountain in the Tweed Range in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, was formed from a volcanic plug of the now-gone Tweed Volcano. The mountain is located 14 kilometres west-south-west of Murwillumbah, near the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Wikipedia
Lieutenant James Cook saw the mountain from the sea and named it Mount Warning.
Nightscape from my brother's place near Murwillumbah, NSW. You can just see the fence :)
A friend sent me this link about Aboriginal Astronomy and the emu:
Faithful reconstruction of Margaret Olley's Sydney lounge room at the Tweed Regional Gallery and Margaret Olley Centre established to celebrate her life. Margaret Olley was a distinguished Australian artist and honoured and much loved Australian citizen. The reconstruction reproduces her cluttered collection and living and working spaces in the finest detail.
Another storm last night, did not have to drive as far, taken from Tropical FruitWorld near Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia
Took a landscape version of my last posted image, but didn't quite like it, because the foreground tree stump didn't stand out that well as I had moved back a meter or two, so I only posted the portrait version.
A friend, Torben Christensen, suggested that a square crop might have been better for that image, so here it is. Not quite square, but close enough. I also enlarged the old tree stump just a tiny bit - I know that's probably is a big no no, but I think I got away with it even though I'm not that good at Photoshop. I should have stayed closer to it from the start, instead of moving back :-(
Anyway here it is - hope you like this as well. This is taken about 3 minutes after the portrait version, so you can see how quickly the fog lifted, although it came back just as quick.
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Natural Bridge is in the western part of Springbrook National Park, part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area.
The park's Natural Bridge section features a picturesque rock formation, formed by the force of the waterfall over the basalt cave. It is easily accessible from the Nerang-Murwillumbah Road car park.
Follow the easy one kilometre circuit (walk in a clockwise direction) and descend through ancient Gondwana rainforest to the Natural Bridge rock arch. Hoop pines emerging from surrounding forest are living relics of the Jurassic Age, 180 million years ago.
During the day spot paradise riflebirds, green catbirds, wompoo fruit-doves and also rare and threatened species like the cascade tree frog, tusked frog, sooty owl and koala. At night join a guided nocturnal tour to see the resident colony of protected glow-worms and microbats. On summer nights, also see luminous fungi and fireflies.
Photographed in the Tweed Valley, the lush verdant volcanic crater created by the ancient volcano Wollumbin/Mt. Warning seen here behind the beautiful Tweed River near Murwillumbah.
I don't usually post 2 images on one day but weather events here in Brisbane have been just terrible over the last week and I wanted to post this while it is still current.
Sunset on Monday afternoon at Wellington Point showing the last of the "Rain Bomb" that hit Brisbane over the last few days. For those friends who are overseas this "Rain Bomb" stayed over Brisbane for 3 days dumping unprecedented amounts of rain causing major flooding to the city, Sunshine Coast, Gympie, Maryborough and Lockyer valley. It dumped over 1770 mms in 3 days in some parts! that's a lot of rain and it has caused heart ache for so many. So many lives lost, homes and businesses too and they are still mopping up. To give you an idea on how much rain fell - the main dam (Wivenhoe) was at 57% last Thursday - by Sunday it was over 170%! This dam can hold enough water to fill Sydney Harbour twice over so its a huge dam. The system has now moved south flooding the Gold Coast, Logan and Northern NSW including the towns of Murwillumbah, Lismore and Grafton. The flooding in these places is just awful too - up to and past the roof of some houses and businesses. It is now as of today 02/03/2022 moving down into the Sydney region and they are expecting flooding there today and tomorrow.
Thankfully, and I am forever grateful that my home & my part of town are ok.
My heart aches for everyone involved so this image is for you xx
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My brother has recently moved to the Tweed Valley in northern NSW. We spent a night there and this was the next morning - a bit cloudy and moody.
Natural Bridge, Springbrook National Park, Queensland, Australia
The Springbrook National Park picturesque Natural Bridge rock formation - once formed by the force of the waterfall over the erosive basalt cave - is easily accessible from the Nerang-Murwillumbah Road car park.
Start the short one kilometre subtropical circuit clockwise and descend through ancient Gondwana rainforest to the Natural Bridge rock arch.
During the day spot paradise riflebirds, green catbirds, wompoo fruit-doves and also rare and threatened species like the cascade tree frog, tusked frog, sooty owl and koala. At night join a guided nocturnal tour to see the resident colony of protected glow-worms and microbats. On summer nights, also see luminous fungi and fireflies.
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At the launch of the new private operator, 42107 (and 42109) stand at Murwillumbah having worked the first train from Casino.
Byron Bay is a beachside town located in the far-northeastern corner of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 772 kilometres north of Sydney and 165 kilometres south of Brisbane. Cape Byron, a headland adjacent to the town, is the easternmost point of mainland Australia. At the 2021 census, the town had a permanent population of 6,330. It is the largest town of Byron Shire local government area, though not the shire's administrative centre (which is Mullumbimby).
Byron Bay and surrounds are located on traditional lands of the Bundjalung Nation of the Arakwal, Minjungbal and the Widjabul people who have lived by the coast for at least 22,000 years. Traditional custodians of the region believe that the land and people were created by Nguthungulli, who rests at what is now called Julian Rocks. The traditional name of the township area was Cavvanbah, meaning "meeting place". Significant totems for the area include Wajung and Kabul.
In 1770 Lieutenant James Cook found safe anchorage and named Cape Byron after a fellow sailor Vice Admiral 'Foul-Weather Jack' John Byron, circumnavigator of the world and grandfather of the poet Lord Byron. European settlement in the area took place in the 1830s. A massacre took place in the 1850s, south of Suffolk Park where the quarry is today.
The first industry in Byron was cedar logging from the Australian red cedar (Toona ciliata). The timber industry is the origin of the word "shoot" in many local names – Possum Shoot, Coopers Shoot and Skinners Shoot – where the timber-cutters would "shoot" the logs down the hills to be dragged to waiting ships. Timber getting became insignificant after World War I. As a result, many former timber workers became farmers.
Gold mining of the beaches was the next industry to occur. Gold was discovered in Byron Bay in 1870. Up to 20 mining leases set up on Tallow Beach to extract gold from the black sands around the 1870s.
Byron Bay has a history of primary industrial production and was a significant, but hazardous, sea port. The poet Brunton Stephens spoke of cattle grazing on the "mossy plains" of Cape Byron in a poem he penned in 1876.
The first jetty was built in 1886, and the railway was connected in 1894, and Cavvanbah became Byron Bay in 1894. Dairy farmers cleared more land and settled the area. In 1895, the Norco Co-operative was formed to provide cold storage and manage the dairy and processes meat industry. The introduction of paspalum grass improved production, and Byron Bay exported butter from its depots at Murwillumbah and Lismore to the world.
The Cape Byron Lighthouse was built in 1901 at the most easterly point on the Australian mainland. Its construction destroyed a significant Arakwal men's ceremonial ground.
In 1930, the first meatworks opened. The smell from the meat and dairy works was appalling and the annual slaughter of migrating whales in the 1950s and 1960s made matters worse. Sand mining for monazite (zircon, uranium and thorium) between the World Wars damaged the environment further. Mining ceased in 1968 and processing in 1972.
Longboard surfers arrived in the 1960s and used natural breaks at The Pass, Watego's, and Cosy Corner. This was the beginning of Byron Bay as a travellers' destination, and by 1973, when the Aquarius Festival was held in nearby Nimbin, its reputation as a hippy, happy, alternative town was established, although tourism facilities remained minimal. From the 1980s, tourism began to develop in earnest, with the cash-poor surfers and hippies supplemented, and to a degree supplanted, by cash-rich conspicuous consumers who in turn stimulated the development of retail precincts and accommodation more tuned to their needs.
In 1994, a native title claim was made by Arakwal Elders Lorna Kelly, Linda Vidler and Yvonne Graham. After seven years of negotiation, an Indigenous Land Use Agreement was formed with the State of New South Wales in 2001, a national first and precedent for subsequent agreements around Australia. Two further local agreements also followed.
Today, Byron Bay is one of the most up-market residential areas on the Australian east coast with the growth in multi-million dollar mansions now pushing the median value of house sales up beyond AU$1.5 million in 2017, over a 100% increase since 2013, based on 2018 data from realestate.com.au. At the same time, the town has not lost its attraction to a diverse range of visitors including surfers, backpackers and general tourists interested in the natural attractions of the area, and also supports a healthy cross section of creative persons including artists, craftspersons and musicians, while its more recent hippy/new age past is reflected to a degree in a prevalence of alternative "new-age" shops, "spiritual" services such as meditation and yoga classes, and holistic healing/"wellness" retreats. As at 2018, the town is cited as having around 5,000 permanent residents, while being visited by 2 million tourists each year.
A number of shipwrecks litter the bay and surrounding areas. A total 16 are known with the most famous of these being the 'Wollongbar' which due to bad conditions sank off the eastern tip of Belongil beach, it now rests about 150 metres from the coast and is still visible above water during low tide.
Still sleepy from the nights soft blanket of mist, the fertile pastures of Murwillumbah await the suns awakening caress.
Nestled in the arms of Mount Warning and 5 National parks Murwillumbah comfortably enjoys her sleep in.
Above the Tweed Valley near Murwillumbah, northern NSW.
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There is always a flower somewhere, I found these beautiful orchids in a florist shop in Murwillumbah
My brother has recently moved to the Tweed Valley in northern NSW. We spent a night there and this was the next morning - a bit cloudy and moody.
Don't like posting two things of the same, but as Yannick suggested with my last pano, a cropped version might have been better, so well - here is the suggested crop.
Straightend the horizon as well, which I forgot to do on the uploaded version of the full panorama. :-0
Will still go back in a months time, when the cane has grown a bit, and hopefully I'll get a few more clouds as well.
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Over the ranges along Queensland — New South Wales border from the Gold Coast hinterland. Bottom centre is Mt Somerville, location of the Gold Coast and Brisbane Airport radar and communications. The urban glow (light pollution) over the horizon stems mainly from the country town Murwillumbah. (three merged images HDR Lightroom)
The forecast was for Severe thunderstorms, but was downgraded and we only got a few drops out of these.
Went out to try some new toys. :-)
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Tweed Valley from the Best of All Lookout at Springbrook on the NSW/QLD border.
This lookout is actually in Qld but is right on the NSW/QLD border and the views look down into NSW and out towards Mt Warning and the Tweed Valley.
A 7-shot panorama from South Tweed on the left to Mt Warning on the right. Murwillumbah is in the middle just below the horizon.
Taken on the JBO Photo Shoot to Northern NSW and S.E Queensland with my son Nick (Chucky1988) in February 2011.
XPT XP2009 (City of Murwillumbah) sneaks up on me from behind whilst capturing the silos at Illabo.
XP2006 (City of Wagga Wagga) was trailing.
New South Wales, Australia.
It is a hazy night over the border foothills but the Milky Way finds a way to shine. The bright patch highlighting the geodesic dome on Mt Somerville is reflected light from Murwillumbah a town a few kilometres almost directly behind. It's about 1.45am so only a few residential lights are active on the hillside.
~Laurie Anderson, Strange Angels
Tweed Shire country side in the afternoon glow.
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Near Murwillumbah, northern NSW. We saw a platypus just upstream from here not long before I took this photo. Explore # 17
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The Milky Way was so beautiful, shot near Murwillumbah, Northern NSW.
Foreground is painted with torch light.
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Wisps of cloud illuminated by the town of Murwillumbah over the horizon provide texture to a starlit sky. Mt Somerville communications dome is visible on the horizon with the denser part of the Milky Way to the right. This point of view (at 4.20 am) faces roughly south from the southern Gold Coast hinterland, Queensland Australia.
We stayed the night at Murwillumbah, NSW on our way to Hervey Bay in Queensland to visit family. I was actually born in Murwillumbah and it always feels like coming home when we visit, even though we left when I was 3 or 4 years old.
Mount Warning (Bundjalung: Wollumbin, a mountain in the Tweed Range in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia, was formed from a volcanic plug of the now-gone Tweed Volcano. The mountain is located 14 kilometres (9 mi) west-south-west of Murwillumbah, near the border between New South Wales and Queensland. Lieutenant James Cook saw the mountain from the sea and named it Mount Warning.
Milky Way viewed south from the Queensland Gold Coast hinterland at 2.40am this morning. Horizon light silhouetting the Air Services Australia communications dome emanates from the small town of Murwillumbah in the border ranges. Hillside lights are the sleeping village along the Currumbin Valley.
On the weekend, I caught up with some friends at the Margaret Olley Art Centre near Murwillumbah in northern New South Wales. These were taken with an Apple iphone 6. As you can see, I enjoyed photographing these stone bulls or are they sheep? Mt Warning is cloud covered on the lhs.
A little bit of information on what is current at the gallery: