This week’s response to sonofabeach’s which way challenge is more ways to the beach in Oz – this time Albany, Western Australia.
Tag: western australia
Which way – to the beach in Australia #1
For sonofabeach96’s whichway challenge, I’ll include my favourite way – to the beach – and for #1 it’s the Denmark region of Western Australia.
Light and dark at Leeuwin’s lighthouse
The Tuesday photo challenge, light and dark, from Dutch Goes the Photo, had me instantly think of this shot from inside the lighthouse. It occurs as you climb the stairwell and looks out onto the tiny graveyard.
Cape Leeuwin is the most south western point of Australia and is named after the vessel upon which the Dutch first sighted the cape in 1622. It was more than 100 years later that Australia was ‘claimed’ by Europeans.
WA Wildflower
From the Coral Coast, Western Australia, and growing in sand, it’s for Cee’s flower of the day. There are so many wildflowers (more than 12000 species) during the season and very hard to find all the names. This year is set to be a bumper year, with above average rainfall, so if you’re heading to the west, make sure to visit one of the wildflower trails.
Safe travels. Take water and a hat, and your camera.
Mulla mulla
Botanical name Ptilotus, this mulla mulla carpet of wildflowers we found in the Coral Bay area of Western Australia, unexpected on the red dirt.
Mulla mulla is a regular inhabitant of the Pilbara region in Western Australia and found across the mainland.
See more flowers in Cee’s flower of the day.
Waterlily
My entry in Cee’s Flower of the Day is this unexpected find, in mid-west Western Australia. In the middle of a pond, surrounded by an amazing array of colourful birds, was this single waterlily.
If you are in Kalbarri, visit Rainbow Jungle. It is a visual delight.
Take a hat and water. Safe travels.
A sunburnt country
Dorothea Mackeller, 1885 – 1968, described Australia as “…a sunburnt country…” in her poem, My Country. The weekly photo challenge this week involves choosing your favourite sunrise or sunset photos, and there are plenty of opportunities, here. I noticed that most of my sunrises are over land and my sunsets over water. I’ll be interested to see if that’s common for most photographers in the challenge.
I wake early, so I see many sunrises from my backyard and from farther afield.
King’s Canyon
King’s Canyon
Corny Point
Hobart
Hobart
Backyard break of day
In Australia, the redder the sunset, the hotter the next day will be. Although I’m not a night owl, I also see lots of sunsets.
Mawson Lakes, South Australia
Kata Djuta, Northern Territory
Pt Hughes, South Australia
Semaphore Beach, South Australia
Moana, South Australia
Brighton beach afterglow, South Australia
Cable Beach, Broome WA
Brighton Beach, South Australia
My father used to say,
“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a girl healthy, wealthy and wise.”
I achieved the first and in my definition of what is valuable, I am rich beyond my dreams. There’s still time for the wisdom.
Safe travels, whatever you do between sunrise and sunset, this week. Take your camera!
