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Category Archives: Australasia
Weekly Photo Challenge: Bridge
For this challenge, Cheri Lucas Rowlands asks us to interpret the theme “bridge.” Below is a small selection of bridges in Australia, all different – just like all of us! Have a great end to your week! 😊
Posted in Australia, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Blue skies, Grey Skies, Misty, Sunset, Sydney Harbour Bridge, water, Weekly Photo Challenge: Bridge, WPC: Bridge
11 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Transient
This week, Andrea Badgley challenge us to show our perception of transient. Life itself is transient and when you think about it, so are most things in life.
Posted in Australia, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Autumn Leaves, Flowers, Summersby Water Falls, Transient, water, Weekly Photo Challenge
5 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Danger!
This week, share a photo that says Danger! to you. These colours were amazing, but never the less, they have the potential, to destroy if not properly contained.
Posted in Australia, Photography, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Colours, Danger, Fire, glow, Rainbow, red, Weekly Photo Challenge: Danger
9 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadow
This week Cheri has challenged us to Hunt for shadows. Here is my contribution for this week. Have a great weekend. 😊
Posted in Australia, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Dance, happy, red shoes, Shadows, swirl WPC: shadow
6 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Ambience
This weeks photo challenge is Ambience. Unlike the northern hemisphere, we’re getting record breaking heat! Last night was the hottest night on record for 159 years. In parts of Australia, they were still at 30 degrees Celsius at mid night … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Photography, The Daily Post, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged ambience, Beach, golfen hour, Sunset, WPC
13 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Chaos
Ben has challenged us this week to share our own version of Chaos. Whilst travelling around Australia last year, we stopped at De Grey River in Western Australia for an overnight camp and it became quite scary when at dusk, … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Photography, Travel
Tagged Birds, Chaos, Dusk, Frenzy, WA, Western Australia, WPC: Chaos
11 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Frame
I love old style lamp posts! This one was nicely framed by foliage and the combination of both aspects caught my eye. I don’t know about you, but if I was this pelican, I’d be feeling ‘framed’, a bit intimidated and … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Blue skies, Ducks, Old lamppost, Pelican, water, Weekly Photo Challenge, WPC: Frame
8 Comments
Hump Day Post: Postcard from Somersby Falls
This week’s postcard is from the beautiful Somersby Falls in New South Wales (NSW) Australia. We went there at the beginning of the year and were thrilled with the amount of water there was. For the local families, it’s a favourite spot to … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Hump Day Post, Travel
Tagged Australia, Hump Day Post, New South Wales, NSW, Somersby Falls, water, Waterfalls
4 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rare
Whilst at one of the beaches around Urunga, New South Wales, here in Australia, I came across this rock formation in the shape of a heart and it took my breath away! It was truly a rare find and made me wonder if it’d been … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged heart, natural, Nature, New South Wales, NSW, Rare, Rock, Urunga, Weekly Photo Challenge
28 Comments
Hump Day Post: Now where was I…
This year has been a quiet one with regards to travel. I had a ‘mishap’ at the end of April and I’m now recovering. 😗 BUT, where was I a year ago? I was around the East Kimberley region of Western Australia (WA)! … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Hump Day Post, Photography, Travel
Tagged Blue skies, Boab Tree, East Kimberley, Hump Day Post, Lookout, Reflections, WA, Western Australia
5 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun
Mr Oz and I went to see what’s left of the wreck of MV Signa, a Norwegian bulk carrier that run aground at Stockton Beach, New South Wales in May 1974. Whilst admiring it, a freak wave came and Mr Oz whipped … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Australia, MV Signa, New South Wales, Stockton Beach, Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun
9 Comments
Hump Day Post: Postcard from Lake Macquarie
So, we’re in our last month of winter down under. I can see already that each morning the sun’s path is changing. We’re one month away from our spring equinox (September 23rd) and have been blessed with amazing sunsets during winter. Lake … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Hump Day Post, Photography, Travel
Tagged Hump Day Post, Jetty, Lake, Postcard from Lake Macquarie, Sunset, Winter
12 Comments