Nature Walk

The Nature on my Doorstep.

It amases me the abundance of nature i find on my daily walks - everything from whales to butterflies are there for me to occupy my time and fill my photography folders, as I wander through the beaches and headlands with Rosie (Michelles dog). I have an album of selected photos taken over the last 10 days to share with you and have attached a link for you to view if you wish.  At the moment and for the next month or so there is a constant procession of Whales returning to their summer Antarctic feeding grounds after the winter  birthing of their calves in  the warm northern waters of the Great Barrier Reef off the Queensland Coast 2,000km to the North. This photo shows a mother laying on her back with both pectoral fins waving above the surface. It's calf is doing likewise beside her - the calf has one fin above the water just to the left of the mother. As for the butterflys - In have hundreds of photos of them - all out of focus. I am trying to catch one on the wing which is so difficult to do but perseverence will one day bear some fruit - when I do I will for sure post it!!

 The Walk in Perspective

I am including in this post some photos of one part of my daily walks. The first above is a photo I took a few years back on my old budget Camera. It is from a mountain to the south of the area I live in. The photos I have here and in the album are all taken on that little outcrop in the center of the photo. I live in that little group of houses you can barely make out at the back of the headland. Mostly, my walks start by walking down to the cliff edges and from there either head north to the colection of beaches that make up Bonny Hills or south over the headland to the larger beach you see in the photo to the right. The town in the forground is Laurieton. It is the nearest town with a shopping center and is where we do our grocery shopping and pay our bills etc.

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This photo is taken from the southern side of the headland looking south toward the mountain in the distance this is from where I took the previous photo of the coastline. This position is, more or less, from where I took the photo of the whale and it's calf out in the bay. I had to use the full extension of the 400mm lens to get the photo and then crop to a size whre the pixels would not blow out so you could stull make out the fins of the whales.

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Next is to show where I start my walk. This is where the end of my street meets the open bush of the headland. We can either take the path you see here leading down to Sharkies Beach (The name us locals use for the beach) or another path leading off to the left to the cliffs we locals call bummers. (See the photo below)

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We call this part of the headland bummers because it is the word more often uttered by local fishermen as their catch unhooks itself and drops back into the surging water  it was just fished out from. It is such a long way to haul the fish up,giving the fish more time to wriggle itself free!! 'BUMMER' is the cry as the fish dissappears! No wonder fishermen learn the art of patience - either than or they sell their fishing tackle!!

Click the link below if you would like to view some of the nature taken over the last few days

http://cleaunz.multiply.com/photos/album/104/nature_walk_album


Others
http://cleaunz.multiply.com/photos/album/103/the_past_few_weeks_in_photos

http://cleaunz.multiply.com/photos/album/102/Spring_Wildflowers_-_Bonny_Hills_NSW

http://cleaunz.multiply.com/photos/album/85/album_from_morning_july_13th

http://cleaunz.multiply.com/photos/album/45/Wild_weather

http://cleaunz.multiply.com/photos/album/34/before_the_storm_in_November

http://cleaunz.multiply.com/photos/album/25/Paths_and_Other_Stuff

http://cleaunz.multiply.com/photos/album/12/latest_walk


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