Cabbage Tree Bay

From 1990, concerned residents lobbied Manly Council about Cabbage Tree Bay and in August 1994, Council agreed to establish a snorkel park, with objectives including protection of biodiversity, promotion of environmentally friendly passive recreation and encouragement of environmental education and awareness. In 2002, Cabbage Tree Bay was finally established as a “No-Take Reserve”.

Sky Watch Friday

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Beach cricket

Shelly Beach

This is Shelly Beach, just across from Manly, where most of last week's shots were taken.

Monochrome Weekend

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Weekend Reflections

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Playing with fire (3)

0.8sec @ f5 39mm ISO 400 tripod and cable release

0.8sec @ f5 39mm ISO 400 tripod and cable release

Playing with fire (2)

5sec @ f5 39mm ISO 400 tripod and cable release

2sec @ f8 42mm ISO 400 tripod and cable release

2sec @ f8 42mm ISO 400 tripod and cable release

Playing with fire

1/100 @ f5 39mm ISO 400 tripod and cable release

A while back I went to a photo meetup in Parramatta Park. One of the models from that shoot does fire twirling and asked if we would be interested in photographing him and his mates. Would we?!! A beautiful evening at Shelly Beach across from Manly, 7 boys playing with fire and 20 photographers having a wonderful time.

Weekend Reflections

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Lord Howe Island - Middle Beach

This is Middle Beach, another pretty beach with rockpools and good beachcombing at low tide. Very steep access and I didn't feel up to the climb this time round. There are some amazing banyan trees nearby which I will show you later. One thing I did notice this time was the amount of erosion, some of the beaches are much narrower than I remember, particularly Lagoon Beach which now has steep drop offs down to the sand where the bank has washed away. The drop is right at the edge of Pinetrees Boathouse which itself will eventually be washed away. There used to be a swathe of grass between the boathouse area and the sand.

Lord Howe Island - Ned's Beach

This is Ned's, my favourite of all the island beaches - stunning location, rock shelves and pools, great snorkelling with coral and bright fish and fish in the shallows that can be hand fed. Something for everyone. Shame its at the top of a great big hill. It was also the only really sunny day of the whole week.

Lord Howe Island - Blinky Beach

Blinky is one of the most beautiful beaches on the island (although not my favourite) and the surf beach. Unfortunately it rained, hence the spots everywhere. The tape is to keep people away from the nesting terns, which were so prolific you couldn't avoid them and were dive bombing me as I tried to shoot. Will show you the birds next week.

Sky Watch Friday - Fesetival of the Winds (11)

 

Looking in the opposite direction to last Friday's sky watch.

 

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Sky Watch Friday - Festival of the Winds (5)

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Festival of the Winds (2)

Festival of the Winds

Flying Fish.

The killer whale wasn't very well behaved and kept flying into the crowd.



Clothes optional

I was only passing by on the photography walk to South Head - honestly. It's too cold to swim anyway, with our without clothes.

Monochrome Weekend

A different view of the same paddler at Camp Cove.

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Weekend Reflections

This is one of my favourites from last weekends walk. Taken at Camp Cove.

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