The Doc heads to New Zealand on Thursday. First up a 6 day landscape photography course around the South Island. Then he picks up a campervan for another 4 or so weeks. Back late October.
A picture from Dunedin, taken on the last trip.
Category Archives: coastal
Massive Derby tides
The Township of Derby on the southern end of the Gibb River Road, in The Kimberley, is renowned for its massive tides, up to 11.5 metres or 38 feet.
While The Doc was there the tides were a more restrained 8 metres. So The Doc went down to the Derby Wharf right on low tide (1.3 metres) and back again in the afternoon at high tide (9.39 metres). The difference in pictures:
Coastal Wetland – algal bloom
Something a bite different a very rare type of algal bloom. Most algal blooms are just green, this one ranges from green through brown to white and many shades in between.
In this coastal wetland an area was not subject to normal tidal movement. However, during a king tide this area filled with water, an algal bloom resulted and as the water evaporated the sun would begin to dry out the bloom from green through brown to white. The white occurs after the bloom completely bleached by the sun.
This shot shows all 3 major colours, taken from above. Nature can create some amazing colours and textures even from a humble algal bloom. Click on photo to see full size.
Derby mudflats
North of Derby in The Kimberley, King Sound to be precise, there are amazing mudflats only visible from the air. A small taste:
ODO Update #3
With the return trip under way from Western Australia quite a few kilometres have been travelled in the last 5 days. New milestones include:
- AWC’s Newhaven Sanctuary, Northern Territory, 77,000kms;
- Erldunda, which is the turn off from the Stuart Highway out to the Olgas and Uluru (Ayers Rock), Northern Territory, 76,0000kms. (Erldunda is 200km south of Alice Springs and you still have a further 245km to drive to Uluru. It is a myth that Uluru is close to Alice Springs, think 425km away!)
- Middle of Nowhere (technical term), Great Central Road, WA, 75,000kms
- Kalbarri National Park, West Coast of WA, 74,000kms
A few snaps from this time.
Expensive Broome
Caravan Parks in Broome sure know how to charge. $37 a night for a small unpowered site next to a noisy road, a total of $111 for 3 days.
The Doc decided to stay 20km out of town at Broome’s Gateway Caravan Park. It was $15 a night for a large site and far less noise. For a few dollars more than $111 he got 3 nights accommodation, a 2 course meal and drinks at The Roey (Roebuck Bay Hotel) and watched the new Mad Max movie at the Sun Picture theatre, the oldest Picture Garden in the world, 99 years young.
They are not the only ones who make you pay top dollar, Autopro charged $11 for a small packet of split pins. The Doc sourced over 200 for $16.50 delivered on eBay.
The Doc’s likes Broome, but it will be a shorter stay when prices are so high.
Next stop Cape Leveque tomorrow.
ODO Update
The odometer update for recent milestones include:
- Cape Leveque 67,000kms
- Broome 66,000kms
- Derby 65,000kms
- Mitchell Falls 64,000kms
- Mornington 63,000kms
- Manning Gorge 62,000kms
- Lake Argyle 61,000kms
- Bungle Bungle Range 60,000kms
Killiecrankie Bay
View from the base of Mount Killiecrankie , Flinders Island, looking across Killiecrankie Bay at Killiecrankie. Click on image to see full size.
Flinders Island – Castle Rock
A photo from The Doc’s recent visit to Flinders Island. This is Castle Rock a granite monolith on the edge of Marshall Bay. The rock is 4 or 5 stories high. The “small” rock on the right side is taller than a human. That is orange lichen growing on the rock, something not uncommon in Tasmania. The earlier image The Doc posted had even more lichen, click here.
The picture is two images stitched together. The Doc was testing a new tilt + shift lense. Nothing special in post processing, just a small re-crop, plus some saturation and sharpening.
Cape York – Day 3
Probably the shortest day of the trip in the air, from The Tip to Weipa. The geography is not was varied on the west coast of the Cape, but plenty of rivers and lakes. Report and pictures here.
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