Early last Saturday morning I walked the coastal track on the cliff top from Bateau Bay to the Crackneck Lookout in the local Wyrrabalong National Park with my walking partner, Cheryl. It was another glorious winter's day and a great start to the day.
This morning landscape photographer friend, Peter Enderby, and I did the same walk but at sea level. It was all new to me. I was unaware that you could walk/clamber so far up the shoreline at sealevel from Bateau Bay.
And again it was another beautiful winter's day. At first glance the shoreline looks ordinary but the harder you look the more you can see and in particular on the stretch directly beneath the Crackneck Lookout the beach is composed of tens of thousands of beautiful rounded stones which had significance the local Aborigines. This was in the time before white settlers came and murdered most of the Aborigines and filled the oceans with small and large pieces of plastic, plundered the fish stocks and committed thousands of other environmental sins. But at least we have had the good sense to stop hunting whales. A very rare win for nature and the environment.
So now at this time of the year there are literally tens of thousands of whales migrating up the east coast of Australia. We saw some on our Saturday walk and I was in Newcastle yesterday and saw whales and dolphins whilst sitting in the winter sun eating farmed fish and chips at the surfside cafe at Bar Beach.
Some of my photos from this morning's walk including a photo of Peter doing an Ansel Adams impersonation. You can view Peter's work on Instagram at #Peterenderbylandscapes. I used my Leica Q2 for the photos.
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| Special stones |
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| Caution photographer at work |
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| Perfectly formed natural "saucepan" |
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| Looking south |
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| Looking north, Bateau Bay. |
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