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Boydtown, Boyd’s Tower and Davidson Whaling Station
NSW South Coast trip, January 2026 In late January some of the family and I went down to Merimbula for a few days camping. Our timing was pretty much spot-on. The couple of days before we arrived it was bucketing down with rain and windy. Flash flooding occurred up and down the coast. We timed
Be Curious Photo Walk – February 2026
Jerrabomberra Wetlands The February 2026 Be Curious Photo Walk was an early (for me, anyway!) walk at the Jerrabombera Wetlands, near Fyshwick in Canberra. It was an 8am start. Add 30 minutes of driving time to get there, and that made it very early for a weekend. But I made it! It was a beautiful
Market Stall incoming!
Well, hopefully, if you’ll support me. I want to set up a Water Sprite Market Stall, but I need your help! I’ve just launched a fundraiser on Pozible to secure funds to buy actual physical product for my shop. In the lead-up to Christmas I plan to have a market stall at the Hall Markets
Highlights Reel – Enlighten 2025
An experiment – the wide-screen highlights reel from Enlighten 2025. I have been producing Reels/Shorts in mobile phone format for about a month, that go out to social media in the intervening week between blog posts. This week I have produced a wide-screen version of the short so you can appreciate the photos better if
Zig Zag Railway – Bathurst and Lithgow 2024
Only a short post this week – covering my visit to the Zig Zag Railway. This lines follows the path of the original railway line that crossed the Blue Mountains on its way to Bathurst. In order to make the steep descent from the top of the mountains down into the valley, the engineers came
Glow Worm Tunnel walk – Bathurst and Lithgow 2024
The Glow Worm Tunnel walk is in the Wollemi National Park. It follows the line of the old railway built in the 1900’s that linked the Newnes Shale Oil complex with Sydney. The old railway line parted from the main line at the top of the Blue Mountains at the clearly named Newnes Junction (just
Lithgow Sightseeing – Bathurst and Lithgow 2024
In this post, a couple of other things I visited while in Lithgow sightseeing. There was a festival on in the main street the first evening we were there, so I didn’t wander around the town proper. Maybe next time. If you are looking for something to do, however, the visit to one of the
Abercrombie House – Bathurst and Lithgow 2024
Abercrombie House, on the outskirts of Bathurst, is a 19th century estate house. It was built in the style, so their information says, of a Scottish Manor House. I can’t say I understand enough about building styles to know whether that makes sense, architecturally. However, it is certainly a grand house. The House Not a
Hill End Village – Bathurst and Lithgow 2024
Hill End Village is the living remains of an 1870’s era mining township. During the peak of the gold rush it had several thousand residents, and was the base for dozens of mining operations. As with many of these places, however, it’s population boomed, and then busted when then rush was over just a few
Exploring Winning Photography Entries: Landscape & Nature
This year I entered three sets of images into the Australian Photography Photographer of the Year competition. I had one entry in the Landscape category and two in the Animals and Nature category. Please forgive the clickbait title, they’re not really “winning” entries. I am nevertheless pleased that all three of my entries scored “Commended”
