Leaving home on Saturday morning on a cool clear crisp day i thought i'd take advantage of the lack of haze and stop in at Wild Horse Mountain to photograph the Glass House Mountains ... just my luck, there was a fire and guess where the smoke was blowing to :roll:
i cleaned it up in photoshop as much as i could.
next stop Shelley Beach to scoff my lunch and have a bit of a wander around in.
its quite interesting wandering around the rocks and rockpools.
speaking of birds...
I tried to sneak up on this bird but all i had was the 100mm macro and it took off as soon as i got to within 50 metres of it
spotted these two interesting Plaques just to the south.
some people were just content to just kick back and enjoy the view...
I don't think i've ever seen a pic of the SS Dickey in broad daylights so i headed down there to grab one...
Out at Point Cartright i found a couple of Blue Tongue Lizards ...
and a fishergirl ...
the sun was setting over the harbour ...
as twilight fell the clouds lit up ...
Then as i was walking back to the car i took one last pic ... and got swamped by a rouge wave ... head to toe, camera, lens, tripod ... the lot!!
had to strip off and run the heater in the car to dry everything out
Lucky its a Pentax K7 and its weather proof
that whitish blur in a semi circle across the bottom of the pic is the wave going past ... i was trying to hold the camera and tripod still so i'd at least get the pic
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I was awoken at about 4:15 am by dozens of boats leaving the harbour ... complete with foghorns , after meeting with the rest of the crew, I headed out on the breakwater to get a shot of the sunrise ...
We then headed over to Mooloolaba for brekky before loading the non 4Wdrivers into our 4WD's and driving to Lake MacDonald for some macro shots and to meet up with some of the others who had skipped the early morning part.
These Hover Fly's are tiny ... about half the size of a normal bee... and the shot is quite a big crop ...
With all the participants now with us we headed out to Cooloola way and slipped into the forest for a bit of 4WDrings to the "Secret Spot".
While the others took photo's i walked down through the next few bogholes to check the depth and with everything looking OK we pushed on through to dry ground...
James was having a test run with his new Middy ...
Mark had his new Pajero along ...
We exited the forest and headed to Rainbow beach for a late lunch.
After lunch we backtracked to the Freshwater track and made our way to the beach.
Doug had his new Rodeo out for the run...
We stopped at Red Canyon for a look...
It was getting real close to high tide and James was having overheating problems in the thick soft sand so we stopped on a wide patch to lets some more air out...
Mark helps out...
there was not much room left by the time we got to the end but i only had to drive through salt water in the wheel track once.
The Sun was setting as we aired up and took the ferry across ...
was a great day out and a good test for Mavered.
Thanks to all the rest for a good time
then it was just a matter of headed back to the lights of the Gold Coast ...
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