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The time just before sunset was my favourite time at Lake Cawndilla. It's hard to describe the feeling but I'll give it a go.
As the sun starts dipping below the horizon, the landscape before me transforms into a silhouette of stillness. The dead trees, scattered across the foreshore and in the water of Lake Cawndilla, stand like ancient sentinels. Their skeletal branches, once full of life, now provide refuge to flocks of birds settling in for the night. In their thousands. The last rays of light paint the sky in hues of orange and pink and mauve, casting a warm glow over the lake’s surface.
Everything falls eerily silent. The wind has stilled, and the distant chatter of wildlife fades. In this moment, kilometers from civilization, I feel an overwhelming sense of calm. I become aware I am standing in knee-high grass and there could be new types of creatures heading to the water in the safety of night for a drink. This is their place, so I warily make my way back to the campsite. The isolation, the raw beauty of it all - it’s a feeling like no other, a peace that can only be found in the far west, Outback NSW.
Gallipoli beach was where the 1981 part of the war movie Gallipoli staring Mel Gibson was made,photo taken winter 2019
This isolated beach would be my favorite place to beachcomb.It's a hard slog to walk down there and 99% of the time you are the only one there....photo taken in winter
Arctophoca forsteri is a species of fur seal found mainly around southern Australia and New Zealand.
The Mere is a permanent saline lake and shares a boundary with lincoln national park.The rocks in the foreground are Stromatolites en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite