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We are heading off today to start our Gibb River Road trek...650kms of unsealed, corrugated road...with little or no reception enroute so it could be a few weeks before I can catch up with all your lovely images. Shall check in when I can...
Six Aboriginal language groups are the traditional owners of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area:
Darug.
Gundungurra.
Wanaruah.
Wiradjuri.
Darkinjung.
Tharawal.
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. I pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
Terrace Falls are located near Lawson and Hazelbrook, small towns approximately 90 kilometers (1.5 hour drive) from Sydney.
Falls are accessible by the short 800 meter walk from the bottom of Terrace Falls Road, or from the other side, Valley Road Hazelbrook. There are now gates on both sides to
stop the dickheads that either dump cars or rip up the unsealed fire trail
The walking track starts approximately half way between these two gated. There are two entry points along the track and it just depends from which Road you access it from.
The track itself is a beautiful example of temperate rainforest with many flowering native mountain plants, fungi, birds and sunning reptiles. Don't forget to look out for the colourful freshwater crustacean, locally known as the yabbie!!!
This walk has come rather rich and lush moss and lichens, not to mention the wonderful tree ferns!
Take your time and scamper up and down rocks, stop, listen and just chill to experience a true Blue Mountains experience!!! You might even get lucky as I did and witness the majestic Lyrebird.
Terrace Falls are located near Lawson and Hazelbrook, small towns approximately 90 kilometers (1.5 hour drive) from Sydney.
Falls are accessible by the short 800 meter walk from the bottom of Terrace Falls Road, or from the other side, Valley Road Hazelbrook. There are now gates on both sides to stop the dickheads that either dump cars or rip up the unsealed fire trail.
The walking track starts approximately half way between these two gated. There are two entry points along the track and it just depends from which Road you access it from.
The track itself is a beautiful example of temperate rainforest with many flowering native mountain plants, fungi, birds and sunning reptiles. Don't forget to look out for the colourful freshwater crustacean, locally known as the yabbie!!!
This walk has come rather rich and lush moss and lichens, not to mention the wonderful tree ferns!
Take your time and scamper up and down rocks, stop, listen and just chill to experience a true Blue Mountains experience!!! You might even get lucky as I did and witness the majestic Lyrebird.
The Strzelecki Track is a 472 kilometre mostly unsealed rural road that links the towns of Lyndhurst to Innamincka in the north east of South Australia. It is an essential transport corridor for outback communities, tourism and pastoralists. I took this shot out the window as we passed the first of five vehicles we saw that day.
This is one of the waterfalls on the Terrace Falls walk in Hazelbrooks Terrace Falls Walk. Taken after some quite substantial rain, this waterfall was certainly pumping!!!
Terrace Falls are located near Lawson and Hazelbrook, small towns approximately 90 kilometers (1.5 hour drive) from Sydney.
Falls are accessible by the short 800 meter walk from the bottom of Terrace Falls Road, or from the other side, Valley Road Hazelbrook. There are now gates on both sides to stop the dickheads that either dump cars or rip up the unsealed fire trail.
The walking track starts approximately half way between these two gated. There are two entry points along the track and it just depends from which Road you access it from.
The track itself is a beautiful example of temperate rainforest with many flowering native mountain plants, fungi, birds and sunning reptiles. Don't forget to look out for the colourful freshwater crustacean, locally known as the yabbie!!!
This walk has come rather rich and lush moss and lichens, not to mention the wonderful tree ferns!
Take your time and scamper up and down rocks, stop, listen and just chill to experience a true Blue Mountains experience!!! You might even get lucky as I did and witness the majestic Lyrebird.
Kodak Brownie 1960..
Hiding in my closet is my father-in-laws well used
Kodak Brownie 8mm Movie Camera, this little beauty took hundreds of hour of silent movies; most of them have failed the test of time and the video quality has given way to years of poor storage in unsealed tins.... forgotten in the basement for thirty five or forty years, sadly the footage of which has been lost to deterioration much like the old camera itself.
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Another from our road trip over Dansey's Pass last Monday. There are many such winding unsealed roads in NZ. Have a good Sunday.
Edit: 8 hours and only 3 comments? (but good comments)
Where is everyone?
Extract from Wikipedia
A Holy Door (Latin: Porta Sancta) is traditionally an entrance portal located within the Papal major basilicas in Rome. The doors are normally sealed by mortar and cement from the inside so that they cannot be opened. They are ceremoniously opened during Jubilee years designated by the Pope, for pilgrims who enter through those doors may piously gain the plenary indulgences attached with the Jubilee year celebrations.
Pope Boniface VIII began the tradition of the Holy Year, known as a Jubilee, in 1300 and the Catholic Church has celebrated them every 25 years or so ever since. A major part of the Holy Year for Catholics is a pilgrimage to Rome and the ritual passing over the threshold of the holy door to symbolise the passing into the presence of God. At the same time, remission of the temporal punishment for the pilgrims' sins is granted, known as an indulgence.
One of the earliest accounts of the Holy Year dates back to a Spanish historian, traveler and pilgrim called Pedro Tafur in 1437. Tafur connects the Jubilee indulgence with the right of sanctuary for those who had escaped persecution. He also noted its existence in pagan times for all who crossed the threshold of the Puerta Tarpea previously upon the site of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran. Accordingly, at the request of Emperor Constantine I, Pope Sylvester I published a Papal Bull proclaiming the same immunity from punishment for Christian sinners who took sanctuary there. The privilege, however, was quickly abused and at some point was even commercialised resulting in popes consequently ordering the door to be sealed with a wall, only to be unsealed during Jubilee years.[citation needed] The wall was destroyed and the door opened once in a hundred years. This was later reduced to fifty years and now "opened at the will of the Pope".
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Our second day in Kruger National Park was just as exciting as the first. This is part of today's journal entry:
"Our guide was Luis, an African with a sharp eye and a vast knowledge of animals. Kruger National Park is bigger than Wales, or Israel. It has an extensive network of paved roads, with unsealed secondary roads, many of them loops, extending many Kilometres from the main roads. The park is well signposted and not difficult to navigate. The challenge is to find the animals.
We drove all morning with a 30 minute stop at Skikuza Gate for a restroom stop, and breakfast at 8:30. This morning we saw in no particular order, lions, a leopard, giraffes, buffaloes, crocodiles, vervet monkeys, hyena, waterbuck, impala, kudus, bushbuck, zebra, mongoose, squirrels, warthogs, rhino, hippopotamus, countless birds, and a herd of elephants. What a fabulous morning, and that's before I consider the photography."
I was following a narrow unsealed road in fog getting closer to the farm where I would have to turn back. Then I saw this and quietly got out of the car so as not to make them run off.
Have a good weekend.
The same lake from a different viewpoint. The causeway and bridge save a lot of driving on this unsealed back road.
It's the cellophane seal that covered the plastic cap on a 500mL Listerine mouthwash bottle. Transparent with white lettering, it was photographed on a black background using 36mm, 20mm, and 12mm Kenko extension tubes with a Helios 40-2 85mm f1.5 lens.
Crazy Tuesday: "Close Look At Packaging" theme
HCT
Somewhere near Roxburgh, Central Otago.
This was taken while we were driving back to Roxbourgh from Lake Onslow. Did not know it takes almost 1.5 hours to get to Lake Onslow and the road is unsealed and very curvy...really off the beaten track. Didn't want to drive in the dark so was rushing back, but had to stop when I saw such beautiful clouds and colours in the sky.
Early on a Wednesday morning I had been driving for an hour seeing only single vehicles every 5- 10 minutes when suddenly there were three at once. Such is rural New Zealand. HFF too if you look in big version. Have a good weekend.
Gooden’s Nomad bee (Nomada goodeniana) is one of the largest and most common Nomad bees in the UK. Nomads are wasp-like, cleptoparasites which will target unsealed pollen-stocked nest cells created by their Mining bee hosts and lay their own eggs inside.
Gooden’s Nomad bee (Nomada goodeniana) is one of the largest and most common Nomad bees in the UK. Nomads are wasp-like, cleptoparasites which will target unsealed pollen-stocked nest cells created by their Mining bee hosts and lay their own eggs inside.
From the only dead tree for miles, a Wedgetailed Eagle surveyed the scene for prey beside an unsealed road in Outback South Australia. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the bird so close to the road. I rolled down the window, stopped the car and preyed the bird would not fly away. I managed just two shots before it flew away. If I got not another shot that day, I would have been happy, but the day was young and this was just a teaser; it pays to take the roads less travelled.
"The Brachina Gorge trail is a 20 km unsealed road through the magnificent Flinders Ranges
The main feature of the drive is the Brachina Gorge Geological Trail. The trail features the geological history of the region. There are signs and stops all along the track that point out various geological features.
Even if geology isn’t your thing, the scenery is spectacular. The colour and shapes of the rocks and ranges will have you taking lots of pictures.
The gorge at the western end of the drive is stunning. The towering orange rock walls will have you gazing skywards. They light up when the afternoon sun hits them. The giant river red gums in the dry creek beds are also a great sight."
Near Tomingely, NSW, Australia, September 2015. Sun setting over an unsealed road and fields in Spring.
Toowoomba stands high on the range and is the gateway to the Darling Downs which comprises 5,500 square miles (14,200 square km) of rich black agricultural soils.
"The first range crossing in the Toowoomba district was Gorman's Gap Road, to the south of Toowoomba. This route was aptly named "Hell Hole Road" because it was so steep and dangerous that it took 3 days to travel just 12km.
1853: A gang of twelve workers cleared and constructed a better road along the route of what would become Toll Bar Road.
In January 1855: Toll Bar Road opens. A simple gatehouse was erected at the top of the range, near the current intersection of Ipswich and Curtis Streets in Toowoomba. A bar crossing the road and a fence either side stopped traffic and enabled toll collection of approximately two pence. Toll Bar Road consisted of a rough stone pavement on very steep grades. As the road was unsealed and very steep, with grades as much as 14%, it was subject to severe scouring during heavy rains.
The Railway line reached Toowoomba in 1866 and dramatically reduced the traffic on the Toll Bar. As a result, the toll was lifted in 1867, but it still remained a vital transport link.
1938: A major upgrade of the range road took place. The new range road was a vast improvement on the old Toll Bar Road as it provided a 6.1m wide bitumen surfaced pavement over a length of 3.7km and climbed a total height of 350m. The average rate of climb was nearly 9%, although the actual grades varied between 7.5% and 10.5% with the exception of a short flattening in the vicinity of a saddle which had become known as "Essex Evans" due to the fact that the poet George Essex Evans (1863-1909) once resided at this location.
The road grew in importance as a link from Brisbane to the West. The next major improvement was in 1964 when work started on construction of a new two-lane up section, which made the highway basically as it is today."
Many tales are told of this steep climbing road along these lines "Our old Morris Major had a boiled over radiator so much in the road that Mum always packed a thermos and sandwiches for a roadside snack!"
Bali (Indonésie) - Cette femme passe visiblement ses journées à tirer sur une cordelette pour faire claquer des bambous. Le bruit est destiné à effrayer les oiseaux de la rizière dont elle a la garde. Et je peux vous assurer que le bruit est très proche d’un coup de fusil.
J'ai cru desceller une forme de détresse ou de grande lassitude dans son regard. Je lui ai donné un billet, alors qu'elle ne me demandait rien. Quand j'ai vu son visage s'illuminer, je ne suis dit que je m'étais sans doute trompé dans la somme que je pensais lui donner. Mais je n'ai pas eu le courage de lui demander si elle avait de la monnaie. La vue du billet lui avait redonné le sourire.
The smile found !
Bali (Indonesia) - This woman obviously spends her days pulling on a cord to snap bamboos. The noise is intended to frighten the birds of the paddy field in her care. And I can assure you that the sound is very close to a gunshot.
I thought I unsealed a form of distress or great weariness in his eyes. I gave her a ticket, while she wasn't asking me anything. When I saw her face light up, I didn't say that I was probably wrong in the amount I thought I had given her. But I didn't have the courage to ask her if she had any change. The sight of the note had made him smile again.
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It’s really not important
‘cause your mind is somewhere else
And you’re busy with your numbers
Drowning in yourself
And it really doesn’t matter
‘cause your eyes are on the clock
And now your feet are tapping to the rhythm
But very soon they’ll walk
You think it’s done
But it didn’t even start
Passing by your ear
And missing your heart
And it’s really not important
You have troubles of your own
And your mind is on the weekend
And all the things to do back home
So when she tells you of her sorrow
When her soul becomes unsealed
She may be foolish but she’s hoping
For a small crack in your shield
You think she’s done
But she didn’t even start
Passing by your ear
And missing your heart
It’s really not important
‘cause your mind is somewhere else
And you’re busy with your numbers
Drowning in yourself
And me, i only want to hold you
And to tell you it’s ok
Though it really makes me sad
Every time you turn away
You think we’re done
But we didn’t even start
Passing by your ear
And missing your heart (Noa)
Not far from Queenstown is this magnificent view of Skipper's Canyon. The road was built so gold miners could get in here and is not for the faint hearted! Also the car rental companies won't allow you to use the road. The worst problem is mini buses full of rafters and other thrill seekers which travel at speed.
Pyramid Falls is one of the first falls that flows into Bedford Creek on the Terrace Falls Walk. This waterfall needs a decent bout of rain to see it's full beauty. With the recent El Nina rain event that has lashed the east coast of Australia, the Blue Mountains waterfalls have been in fine form.
Six Aboriginal language groups are the traditional owners of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area:
Darug.
Gundungurra.
Wanaruah.
Wiradjuri.
Darkinjung.
Tharawal.
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. I pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
Terrace Falls are located near Lawson and Hazelbrook, small towns approximately 90 kilometers (1.5 hour drive) from Sydney.
Falls are accessible by the short 800 meter walk from the bottom of Terrace Falls Road, or from the other side, Valley Road Hazelbrook. There are now gates on both sides to
stop the dickheads that either dump cars or rip up the unsealed fire trail
The walking track starts approximately half way between these two gated. There are two entry points along the track and it just depends from which Road you access it from.
The track itself is a beautiful example of temperate rainforest with many flowering native mountain plants, fungi, birds and sunning reptiles. Don't forget to look out for the colourful freshwater crustacean, locally known as the yabbie!!!
This walk has come rather rich and lush moss and lichens, not to mention the wonderful tree ferns!
Take your time and scamper up and down rocks, stop, listen and just chill to experience a true Blue Mountains experience!!! You might even get lucky as I did and witness the majestic Lyrebird.
Terrace Falls are located near Lawson and Hazelbrook, small towns approximately 90 kilometers (1.5 hour drive) from Sydney.
Falls are accessible by the short 800 meter walk from the bottom of Terrace Falls Road, or from the other side, Valley Road Hazelbrook. There are now gates on both sides to stop the dickheads that either dump cars or rip up the unsealed fire trail.
The walking track starts approximately half way between these two gated. There are two entry points along the track and it just depends from which Road you access it from.
The track itself is a beautiful example of temperate rainforest with many flowering native mountain plants, fungi, birds and sunning reptiles. Don't forget to look out for the colourful freshwater crustacean, locally known as the yabbie!!!
This walk has come rather rich and lush moss and lichens, not to mention the wonderful tree ferns!
Take your time and scamper up and down rocks, stop, listen and just chill to experience a true Blue Mountains experience!!! You might even get lucky as I did and witness the majestic Lyrebird.
This Water Tank is perched high on the top of a hill where other telecommunications and power infrastructure is fenced away from walkers. The road, after cresting the hill, turns into a unsealed road on the other side. There are quite a few elegant new houses in the blocks going up. It was a fresh spring day with promise of clouding over later
Paradise ducks that is. Getting lazy with age I just drove the car to this point and opened the driver's door window. Decided to back up a little then took the shot. Most dangerous thing is other drivers coming at speed on unsealed road. I keep well to the side!
And in other news All Black vice-captain is out after another concussion last Saturday. Someday we may have to have helmets like USA football!
Heading south along Western Australia’s Great Northern Highway somewhere between Broome and Port Hedland.
This 3,200 kilometre highway links Western Australia’s capital city, Perth with Wyndham, the state’s northernmost town.
I recall driving a long section of the highway in the early 1960s when it was no more than a rough, corrugated dirt road. The final section of the highway, from Newman to Port Hedland, remained unsealed until 1989.
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At the top of our South Island they needed a way to take sheep or cattle from Blenheim down to Canterbury before the coast road went in. The road still exists but is narrow and winding unsealed for over 100 km. It is only open over the summer and closed early this year for fire risk.
We have tried to drive it in other summers but my mother died one time 9 years ago, then my wife's father died the next time and we had to cancel again. This time a friend came with us and her mother died a few weeks before. I just want our children to warn us before they drive it :(
I spent a few hours driving between locations the night I captured this scene, trying to avoid the ground fog that seemed to be chasing me around the Eurobodalla region of Australia’s southeast coast. Some mist had stubbornly settled at the spot where I shot this scene, but it was only thin and added a lovely soft feel to the receding rural road in the lower left of my photo.
The autumn-affected tree that dominates the foreground isn’t native to Australia. Still, its flamboyant foliage added a lovely touch of red to the overall green hues visible in the tree, the nearby paddocks and the airglow-illuminated sky. Looking at the image now, I find my gaze shifting between the colourful flora and the magnificence of the Milky Way’s core rising over the hill in the distance. If you can zoom in on the scene, you’ll see a brick chimney standing alone, the only remains of a farmhouse that was obliterated in the fires that overran our eastern coastline in early 2020.
This photo is a stitched panorama created from seven overlapping frames I captured with my Canon EOS 6D Mk II camera and a Rokinon 24mm f/1.4 lens @ f/3.2, using an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 6400.
A truck had just passed in the opposite direction and left some dust hanging over the road on a fairly windless day for this area. The cloud is real and the strange white field has just had fertiliser applied. Fortunately didn't stop long and wasn't late for work.
Thanks very much for visiting.
This is the road to the Nevis Valley not far from Cromwell. It is a bit rough, single lane and unsealed, but great views from the top where it crosses Duffer's Saddle, the highest public road in New Zealand.
We stopped to see the sealion sleeping but a car carried on past raising dust from the unsealed road. Kind of added something to the ditch water. Have a good weekend. Friday night here.
In silent echoes, whispers play,
Capturing souls in shades of gray.
Where shadows dance, and light does fade,
A timeless portrait, quietly made.
Through misty veils of memory's hue,
The past and present softly accrue.
In the stillness of the silent night,
Echoes of souls take their flight.
Each line etched upon the face,
Tells a story of time and space.
In every crease, a tale is told,
Of love, of loss, of dreams untold.
Oh, how the monochrome canvas sings,
Of life's complexities, of all it brings.
In every shadow, a truth revealed,
In every silence, a soul unsealed.
So let us pause in this silent gaze,
In the depths of monochrome's maze.
For within these shades of gray,
Lies the beauty of life's fleeting play.
These impressive waterfalls are situated between Whakatane and Rotorua in the North Island.
They are in a forestry area and you need to gain a permit to access them using the private forestry roads which are unsealed and quite rough in places with the odd large logging truck on the same roads. Permits are easily obtainable from the Kawerau information centre.
The falls are a 20 minute walk through beautiful native New Zealand bush along a well defined path beside the clear and tranquil waters of the Tarawera river. The falls are a very impressive sight, the photo doesn't do justice to the area - the water bursts through a fissure in the rock face cliff which is very high. Well worth the visit!
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6kms of unsealed road leads you to the picturesque granite outcrop. It is a sacred site known to the Waramungu people, a significant women’s dancing place for the Munga Munga Dreaming.
I found this hidden remote spot a few days ago during a clear sunny autumn morning, not the mood I wanted to capture, but on the next day everything changed. The intermittent drizzle was exactly what I needed, even if sometimes it became too dense for an unsealed camera. The strong wind added some motion blur. A few minutes latter the drizzle became rain, the wind became a storm! The perfect moment was gone...
Six Aboriginal language groups are the traditional owners of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area:
Darug.
Gundungurra.
Wanaruah.
Wiradjuri.
Darkinjung.
Tharawal.
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I work and live, and recognise their continuing connection to land, water and community. I pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.This is one of the waterfalls on the Terrace Falls walk in Hazelbrooks Terrace Falls Walk. Taken after some quite substantial rain, this waterfall was certainly pumping!!!
Terrace Falls are located near Lawson and Hazelbrook, small towns approximately 90 kilometers (1.5 hour drive) from Sydney.
Falls are accessible by the short 800 meter walk from the bottom of Terrace Falls Road, or from the other side, Valley Road Hazelbrook. There are now gates on both sides to stop the dickheads that either dump cars or rip up the unsealed fire trail.
The walking track starts approximately half way between these two gated. There are two entry points along the track and it just depends from which Road you access it from.
The track itself is a beautiful example of temperate rainforest with many flowering native mountain plants, fungi, birds and sunning reptiles. Don't forget to look out for the colourful freshwater crustacean, locally known as the yabbie!!!
This walk has come rather rich and lush moss and lichens, not to mention the wonderful tree ferns!
Take your time and scamper up and down rocks, stop, listen and just chill to experience a true Blue Mountains experience!!! You might even get lucky as I did and witness the majestic Lyrebird.
My wife driving a mountain pass "shortcut" in eastern Iceland. It seemed like they laid a road over a glacier at times and I don't think we saved much time! Partly this was slow driving on unsealed road but also a photographer kept wanting photo stops :) You may be able to see the temperature outside on the dashboard display.
The glass has been falling all the afternoon,
And knowing better than the instrument
What winds are walking overhead, what zone
Of gray unrest is moving across the land,
I leave the book upon a pillowed chair
And walk from window to closed window, watching
Boughs strain against the sky
And think again, as often when the air
Moves inward toward a silent core of waiting,
How with a single purpose time has traveled
By secret currents of the undiscerned
Into this polar realm. Weather abroad
And weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction.
Between foreseeing and averting change
Lies all the mastery of elements
Which clocks and weatherglasses cannot alter.
Time in the hand is not control of time,
Nor shattered fragments of an instrument
A proof against the wind; the wind will rise,
We can only close the shutters.
I draw the curtains as the sky goes black
And set a match to candles sheathed in glass
Against the keyhole draught, the insistent whine
Of weather through the unsealed aperture.
This is our sole defense against the season;
These are the things we have learned to do
Who live in troubled regions.
(Adrienne Rich)
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More waves coming in from the Pacific. Nearest land mass Chile. New Zealand is a long way from anywhere as I am often reminded by people who think it is too far away for them to visit. In a way the Peninsula remains unspoiled and under populated for the same reason as the roads are narrow and winding and some unsealed.
Have a good day whether it is autumn or spring.
French Pass is situated in the Marlborough Sounds at the top of the South Island. The road from Rai Valley to French Pass was built in 1957. The drive is spectacular. Overseas visitors rate it the most scenic drive in the country surpassing Milford and Queenstown. The road is partially unsealed but in good condition and takes the traveler through forest, farmland and on to breathtaking sea views of the French Pass and d’Urville Island.
Briefly here to let you know I'm alive :) This was the view from our hotel just after sunrise this morning. The "mist" is dust from cars heading up the unsealed road to the skifield on the other side of the mountain. A great winter day today with sun all day. Hope your day was good whether summer or winter or tropical.
Sorry no time for comments and don't feel the need to write one thanks.