Category Archives: ocean

AWC’s Mornington – Revisited – Part 2

4X4, Australia, AWC, Broome, Kimberley, Landscape, Mornington, Mornington, ocean, plains, Plant, river/creeks, sunset, trees, WA

The Point and Shoot images from the Supporters Event at AWC’s Mornington Sanctuary.

Broome to Mornington
Images flying into Mornington and around the main camp.

Sir John Gorge
Then off to Sir John Gorge for afternoon tea, overlooking the Fitzroy River. A stunning location.

A talk that night, from memory, about Mornington Sanctuary.

Rosie’s Pool
Breakfast at the basecamp and then a helicopter ride over the Sanctuary to Rosie’s Pool for morning tea. Back to Basecamp for lunch and a shower. I think we then had some free time to explore.

Bluff Breakfast
Then a Bluff Breakfast early the next morning, which has actually located on the adjoining Glenroy Station. Did The Doc mention we were flown up via helicopter?

Canoes
Later that day we went back to the Sir John Gorge and the Fitzroy River for canoeing.

Sunset dinner overlooking Fitzroy Bluff
At sunset we had dinner overlooking Fitzroy Bluff. What an amazing day!

Back to Broome
Finally, back to Broome via a Charter Flight over adjoining cattle stations and out across the mudflats and ocean.

Viva Cristo Rey.

Cape York – Day 1 – Revisited

Australia, Cairns, camera, clouds, coastal, Landscape, ocean, Plant, Qld, river/creeks, salt, sand, sand dunes, seascape, Textures, trees

Leaving from Port Douglas and ending on Haggerstone Island. The original Cape York images and reports are here.

Enjoy. Viva Cristo Rey.

Flinders Island flight

Australia, Flinders Island, Landscape, mountains, ocean, Plant, Tas, trees

When The Doc visited Flinders Island in late 2023 for a photography course, the group went on a plane ride. The plane took off from Lady Barron airs strip and flew over Cape Barren Island, Green Dog Island and a few other islands all part of the Furneaux group. The images were taken through Plexiglass, so the images are soft and they had heavy colour casts. The Doc got rid of most of the colour casts with some recent techiques, and has salvaged a few images. Not inspiring images but better than nothing.

Derby helicopter trip – medium format style

4X4, Artesian Range, Australia, AWC, Charnley River, Charnley River - Artesian Range, coastal, Derby, Kimberley, Kimberley, Landscape, ocean, Plant, river/creeks, trees, Uncategorised, WA, WA

The Doc also took his Pentax medium format camera on the helicopter. A selection of a few images from that camera are below.

The original images are massive in size (around 250 megs), and have stunning details even when heavily cropped. Not an easy camera to use in a helicopter because of its size and its slow autofocus. Plus you do not want to take too many images with large file sizes, which are slow and hard to work with. But the images, when they work out, are just gorgeous.

Click on an image to see the slideshow. It is worth it. Enjoy.

Plus some assorted images from Yampi Sound Training Ground, Charnley River Gorge up in The Artesian Range and the Buccaneer Archipelago.

The Gulf of Carpentaria at Lorrella Springs Station

Australia, Landscape, landscape, NT, ocean, States, Uncategorised

Photo from the helicopter trip The Doc took at Lorella Spring Station, North Territory. There are still some gems in the photo library. The day was very overcast, on the trip we visited various lost cities (rock formations), then flew down the river to visit The Gulf of Carpentaria. The Doc still needs to properly sort the images from this helicopter trip.

The helicopter landed on the beach to the right and we explored and then had morning tea.

Lord Howe Island to Ball’s Pyramid

Australia, coastal, Landscape, Lord Howe Island, NSW, ocean, seascape, Uncategorised

A few images from the boat trip from Lord Howe Island to Ball’s Pyramid.

Ball’s Pyramid is the largest single rock stack in the world. It is where the Lord Howe Island stick insect survived after being wiped out by rats on Lord Howe (only rediscovered in the the 1970s).

The birds are mostly Providence petrels. Enjoy.