AUSTRALIA
We travel to Australia because one of our sons married a wonderful Australian girl and settled there. Although ‘skype’ is a god-send, we need to see them at least once a year. These are family re-unions and the chance of landscape photography is limited and further restricted by the sheer size of the continent. Location planning has to be done as part of general sight-seeing and visits with little knowledge about potential locations. This isn’t an excuse even though I feel I haven’t done the country justice and perhaps that is not possible because of its vastness, and to a degree lack of easy access to parts of its interior. Anyway here are a few examples; some are coastal scenes that in themselves are not recognizable as parts of Australia.
Magaret River, Xanadu winery, the best in WA
Margret River, fungus that kills tree tissue (south of Perth, WA)
Greens Pool, Denmark at sunset (WA)
Near Cape Leeuwin, Leeuwin Naturaliste National Park, WA
Greens Pool, Denmark, WA
Old quay, Hamelin Bay named after French explorer, WA
Boranup Karri Forest, south of Margret River near Karridale, WA
Jetty at Busselton. Second longest wooden jetty in the world at 1841 m, WA
Jetty at Busselton from the other side
Late afternoon Smiths Beach near Yallingup, WA
Hamelin Bay near Karridale, WA
Eagles Bay near Dunsborough (Cape Naturaliste), WA
Ocean Beach, Harding River, Denmark, WA
Old footbridge, Ocean Beach, Harding River, Denmark, WA
Canal Rocks near Yallingup, a series of rugged granite rocks, WA
Canal Rocks, near Yallingup, WA
Canal Rocks, near Yallingup, WA
Horseshoe Falls, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania
Russel Falls, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania
Inverloch, Andersons Inlet, Victoria
Inverloch, Andersons Inlet, Victoria
Wineglass Bay, east coast of Tasmania, Freycinet National Park. Wineglass Bay owes its name to whaling and the water in the bay would turn red with the slaughtered creatures' blood.
Coles Bay with the Hazards mountain range in the background, east coast of Tasmania, Freycinet National Park. The hazards were named after the whaler- Captain Richard Hazard.
Melbourne city centre reflected in the River Yarra
Sydney Harbour Bridge
The end of Phillip Island
Raymond Island near Bairnsdale
Jervis Bay
The famous Three Sisters Blue Mountains
One of the Three Sisters