Werri Beach
After a fun day kayaking, Catherine and Josh joined me for my evening photo session and I decided to head out to Werri Beach to do some panoramas. I read this tip from an Australian landscape photographer who suggested shooting the photos in portrait mode and I’ve got to say, he was right on the money.
This photo was taken from the coastal path above Werri Beach, which is located in Gerringong. It’s always surprising to me, how different this beach is to Seven Mile. The sand is a lot darker and coarser and the beach itself is much more bowl shaped, leading to a nasty shorebreak on some days.
The coast path itself heads north from this point (so the opposite direction from where this photo’s looking) all the way to Kiama. The path took a shitload of negotiation by the council and was about 15 years in the making. It’s one of the few strips of coastal land you can walk on because the vast majority of coastal land is privately owned and there is no ‘right to roam’.
Summertime fun
We’re lucky enough to live on a river and next to the ocean here in Shoalhaven Heads. Josh had his mate over and we headed to the wharf so they could muck about in the kayak. Afterwards they did a bit of wharf-jumping in time-honoured fashion.
Went for thunder
This massive storm cloud blew up and so I grabbed the camera and headed out to try and get some photos of it. Only by the time I was anywhere decent to shoot it, it was overhead and there wasn’t much to photograph.
I was going to head home when I saw the sun breaking through the clouds as dusk approached, so I headed down to the river. Got some really nice photos during the next hour and wasn’t feasted on too badly by the flies.
As I was thinking about packing up and heading home, Catherine called to ask where I was. She and Josh then rocked up on their mountain bikes and were only at the river for about a minute before the flies started feasting on Catherine and she started coming up in red and white whelps. We all escaped back to the house.
Gerroa and Seven Mile Sunset
Forced myself to go somewhere different last night, instead of doing more river shots. So I headed north to Gerroa to see what sunset’s like there. Shot this looking south towards Mount Coolangatta.
A foggy day near Avebury
Used to live fairly near to Avebury, which is famous on account of the neolithic stone circle in the area.
Coolangatta Clouds
Went to a different spot for my sunset photos on a spit of land on the southern tip of the bird sanctuary. Less flies to much on me when I’m knee deep in the river mud, which is nice.
That hill is Mount Coolangatta. They do rides up and down it in in this massive off-road tractor thing, but unfortunately you’re not allowed to get off at the top, making photo opportunities a bit tricky.