Wildsight

I was looking back through our pics from our trip to the Kimberley last year, and I came upon this one from our campsite on Picaninny Creek in the Bungle Bungles, on Gija and Jaru Country. Our tent is just out of sight, on the sandy bank to the right of the waterhole.

Old Weir Falls, on Stoney Creek west of Cairns. Like many waterfalls it can be hard to get a sense of scale from the photo alone, so as a guide the boulder that splits the top of the falls into two tries is easily three metres high and longer then an average campervan.

A cattle egret foraging in early morning on Kuku Yalanji Country in tropical north Queenslan. I actually took this photo during the aptly named Breakfast with the Birds, a daily event held by Wildlife Habitat, an ecotourism and conservation centre near Port Douglas.

Myall Creek and waterhole in the Daintree rainforest, on Kuku Yalanji Country. I checked for crocodiles very carefully before taking this photo!

Mo the saltwater crocodile, sunning himself on the bank of the Daintree River in Kuku Yalanji Country. Mo is named for the Mowbray River further south, where he previously had his territory, but he’s recently moved up the coast to the Daintree.

A dramatic Daintree sunrise, from Myall Beach just south of Cape Tribulation on Kuku YalanjI Country in tropical North Queensland this morning. The change in photography conditions was about as dramatic as I’ve ever experienced, since up to about a minute before I took this photo there was no hint of any colour in the clouds, and five minutes before that I was standing in the rain wondering what on Earth I was doing to myself.

Bruce is on holiday in tropical North Queensland, so expect some photo updates!
As a start, here’s a rainforest waterhole at the base of the Macalister Range, just west of Cairns.

I took advantage of the rainy weather for a quick stroll in the Dandenongs, in Wurundjeri WoI Wurrung Country (and by ‘quick stroll’ I really mean ‘grab my camera and scramble up the nearest walking track where the low cloud was sitting on the mountain’).

With the recent wet weather in Melbourne last weekend seemed like the perfect time to check out the (relatively) recently reopened Olinda Falls track in Dandenong Ranges National Park, in Wurundjeri Country east of Melbourne, and I was not disappointed!

Al making a cup of tea at our campsite on the Bluff, in Taungurung Country. This isn’t a word I always use when it comes to the rugged pursuit that is multi-day hiking, but this walk really was quite delightful!