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A entry point for surfer to surf Snapper Rocks. (there are safer places to enter the water and this is for the brave and expearience.
It is MisterMan's first day of summer school, so I am back to making his lunch bento again after a short hiatus.... vacation is always too short.
Salt and pepper pan-fried snapper with brown & white rice / pearl barley. Tamagoyaki with turmeric, shredded carrot and home-grown green onion. Edamame skewers, parboiled broccoli and peapods, carrot flowers, and radish mushroom (idea from AnnaTheRed). Fruit section has red grapes, blueberries and yellow peach slices. Alas, no more tropical fruit... I'll have to search this weekend for (inferior) lychees in San Francisco....
This was snapped on the shores of Snapper Rocks at dusk. I loved the shape and textures of the rocks there although I'd highly recommend wearing some thongs/slops or what ever slang we call beach footwear to protect your feet from these sharp guys :-)
Once upon a time, Snapper Rocks was a fairly average Gold Coast point break living in the shadow of it's world famous cousin Kirra. In fact it was better known as a fishing spot (hence the name) than it was as a surf break. However, in April 1995 the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project began pumping sand out of the river mouth and dumping it just east of Snapper Rocks. Before long a super sand bank had formed in Rainbow Bay and once the swells started hitting, local surfers realised they had one of the world's longest, and most consistent point breaks on their doorstep.
The point break responsible for the likes of Joel Parkinson and Steph Gilmore goes off.
Coolangatta, Gold Coast, Australia.
I nearly didn't see this medium sized snapping turtle partially submerged in a mud puddle - on his way somewhere as 10 minutes later, he was gone. Hampton, NJ
these two snapping turtles used to be at the RRNC pond....have no idea why they trapped and moved them to big met but now there are three big snappers competing for food there....it's to bad they don't eat friggin' beavers
I have just returned from a diving trip to Tanzania, where I have begun learning underwater photography for the first time - it's a lot harder than it looks!! In Kinasi Pass, a huge channel in Chole Bay, there were enormous schools of snapper, sweetlips, amberjacks and mackerels that you let you swim right up into them - an amazing experience!
Mafia Island, Tanzania, 2011
Four more photographs in first comment.
Way Out From The Gold Coast Highway. We are now heading to Tweed Heads. Driving on Marine Parade leading to Point Danger. Point Danger is a headland, located at the southern end of the Gold Coast on the east coast of Australia. Separated by Snapper Rocks and Rainbow Bay to the West, with Duranbah beach and the Tweed River mouth to the south. Present-day Point Danger has also indicated the border between New South Wales and Queensland Australia, since 1863.
The point is the location of the Captain Cook memorial and lighthouse, the Centaur Memorial and Walk of Remembrance, the Marine Rescue NSW Point Danger station, and the southern end of the Gold Coast Oceanway.
The Centaur Memorial remembers the sinking of Australian Hospital Ship Centaur by a Japanese submarine on 14 May 1943. The Walk of Remembrance commemorates other ships lost to Japanese and German action during World War II and takes the form of plaques arranged in a semicircle around the lookout fence.
Captain James Cook while sailing North about 5 pm on 16 May 1770 (log date) encountered the reefs that run 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) east from Fingal Head and Cook Island. To avoid these reefs Cook was forced to change his course to the east. Cook's log indicates his ship was "about 5 miles from the land". However having to pull away to the east to avoid the reefs, that we now know only run 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) to sea from Cook Island, would indicate Cook was much closer to the point he named Point Danger.
The next morning, (same log date 16 May) James Cook, although much further out to sea, recorded the location of the reefs and named the point off which the island and reefs lie - Point Danger. [1] He wrote:
We now saw the breakers again they lay two Leagues from a point under which is a small Island, their situation may always be found by the peaked mountain before mentioned from them this mountain or hill, and on this account I have named Mount Warning it lies 7 or 8 Leagues inland the land is high and hilly about it, but it is conspicuous enough to be distinguished from everything else. The point off which these shoals lay I have named Point Danger.
These reefs are now named Danger Reefs and comprise Inner Reef, South Reef and Outer Reef.
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Sur La Gold Coast Highway dans le sens nord-sud, nous sortons à Tweed Heads en empruntant la Marine Parade qui mène à Point Danger. Point Danger est une pointe élevée qui surplombe l'océan, située à l'extrême sud de la Gold Coast. Ce lieu est aussi indiqué comme étant la frontière entre le New South Wales et le Queensland. C'est aussi l'emplacement du monument au Capitaine Cook et du phare peu commun qui indique les quatre points cardinaux (cf. #2).
Le phare a été achevé en 1971. De style plutôt moderne, ce phare et a été le premier au monde à expérimenter des lasers à la place des lampes pour augmenter son rayon. L'expérience a échoué et les lampes électriques ont fait leur retour. Il émet un double flash blanc toutes les dix secondes à une hauteur de 44,5 mètres.
A propos de Point Danger : Le capitaine James Cook qui faisait route au Nord le 16 mai 1770, rencontra les récifs sur 3 miles nautiques (5,6 km; 3,5 mi) à l'est de Fingal Head et l'île de Cook. Pour éviter ces écueils Cook fut contraint de changer son cap à l'Est. Le Livre de Cook indique que son navire était "à environ 5 miles de la terre". Toutefois, après avoir changé de cap afin d'éviter les récifs, il semblerait que Cook était beaucoup plus proche du point qu'il a appelé Point Danger.
Ces récifs sont désormais nommés Danger Reefs.
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