Fly with me ... across Australia

[Mad Aussie]

This is called Natural Bridge and in big seas (they get anything up to around 15 metres and more here) the water crashes right through the hole and into the cove formed by the rock at the bottom of frame. I guess it's about 15 metres across the bridge.


From there moved on until we came to a spot called Greens Pool.
Here we discovered some of the best beach and scenery I've seen in my life.


We walked down to the beach at Greens Pool and found this beautiful little beach


We then walked around the big, sandstone rock cliff and this scene presented itself


Still buzzing from that we walked on and over a large rock. A steep staircase led down between two large boulders. I walked over the rock instead and found this ... Elephant Cove.


Still on that rock I turned to my left. That's Phil standing down there on the beach by a lump of kemp and seaweed


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[Mad Aussie]

I went down the stairs and had to wait for the water to recede and then run between the rocks to get onto the beach. That big boulder there to the right is what I was standing on


Here's the lump of weed and kelp that Phil was standing by


Looking out into the cove from a different angle


Walking a bit further around the rocks away from Elephant Cove the pounding surf kept me amused for awhile longer






Finally, as we were about 3/4's of our way home (we'd done about 700 kms by now) we were lucky enough to finish the day the way we started it ... with a glorious display of light and colour from the sun and clouds. We were in dense forest when the sunset started so only caught the final moments. But any moment that looks like this is something to be thankful for in my opinion.





And so ends Day 5.

Day 6 was another in Bunbury. No photos from Day 6 as Phil had developed a respiratory infection and I spent much of the day driving him to the doctors etc. Leanne and I spent the day looking after him for once.

Day 7 was intended to be another big one but Phil had blood test in the morning and needed more time to recover. In the afternoon we went for a drive nearby to the Bunbury region. We found went for a walk in a forest and also found some more autumn colours, and also a little place called 'Gnomesville' that you won't believe!!

[Marko]

Such beautiful imagery MA.

I especially love this one

[kat]

More fantastic shots! Whoop whoop! Makes me want to get going on a trip..ha ha!

Thanks MA. I've never used the AB before and was wondering how it worked. Been reading on the layering and masking but I'm still a bit confused on that. Maybe with some more reading and trying it out

Hope your friend is feeling better!

[Mad Aussie]

Thanks marko and Kat.
It sure was a beautiful place to visit. And having scenery like that makes it easier to produce nicer photos for certain.

It was a big week. And no rest for the wicked either as this weekend coming I have a 5 hour drive north ahead of me, an over night stay Saturday, in order to shoot another mountain event on Sunday. That means days processing when we get back as well. Lots of traveling lately.

Phil was feeling better within a day or so Kat.

[jjeling]

Nice Job MA. Its been extremely busy at work the past few weeks so Ive had very little time to check the forum out. What you have done here is great. These images are spectacular and Im glad you shared them with us. Keep up the great work.

[Mad Aussie]

Nice Job MA. Its been extremely busy at work the past few weeks so Ive had very little time to check the forum out. What you have done here is great. These images are spectacular and Im glad you shared them with us. Keep up the great work.

Thank you JJ
Glad work has been busy for you. That's a good thing these days.

[Mad Aussie]

DAY 7 - Ferguson Valley

As I said earlier ... there was no Day 6 photographically due to Phil being ill and on Day 7 he was still recovering somewhat.

This day would be an easy one so we were in wind down mode before heading home to Qld now.

We started with a quick walk through a local forest area. Not sure if any of these photos are of interest but here's a few anyhow ...





On our way to the next stop we saw this tree .... another autumn tree




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[Mad Aussie]

Our next stop was Gnomesville. I thought we were going to some property but the reality is this was just a spot of council land at an intersection miles from nowhere at all! Seems many years ago, somebody decided to leave a few gnomes here. And then someone else saw them and added some. The numbers grew. Now, there's hundreds of the things ... maybe thousands. People put them there with little messages and sometimes build little props etc as you'll see below. It's so popular that this shot on the highway (it's not even that ... it's a back road) is now featured on tourist brochures and the council has built paths and steps to make it easier to walk around and admire the gnomes.













Check it out .... I even found some Canadian ones


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[Mad Aussie]

After Gnomesville we went up to a local dam which was completely uninspiring BUT, I found more autumn trees






That wraps up Day 7.

Day 8 sees us travel back to the city of Perth and spend an hour in a beautiful park over looking the city center before flying home again. Loved this park. Hopefully when I process some of those photos you'll see why. Here's a quick sample ...