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Just made it home as the rain hit. Perfect timing.
Australia is pretty unbeatable!
Also great shots and updates GSCO and Blackers.
Blackers. What coast you on?
Craigoss. You captured some iconic Australian essence there. Love no. 2 wit 1 a close second!
Nick Bone wrote:Blackers. What coast you on?
Craigoss. You captured some iconic Australian essence there. Love no. 2 wit 1 a close second!
Blackers is an MP resident I believe bone
Great shots Craig. Was thinking Flinders Ranges, but then the Mt Connor lookalike threw me. Looks like a beautiful trip.
Top end of the MP is home Mr Bone.
Thanks Craig and beautiful shots of Australia. They make me miss home, but in consolation I think I've found my favourite little traditional French stone cottage along the Brittany coast, overlooking a nice beach I've been surfing the past couple wks:
craig ,,,that second shot of yours above is exceptional .........beautiful
Thanks Blackers and yep Flinders. Thanks Simba, yeah stoked with how these came out. Stunning region!
Heres one of Jack robbo at twelve years old at g land, last time he went there twelve years ago...photo by Joli
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=559302878898118&set=pcb.55930290556...
and
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=559302875564785&set=pcb.55930290556...
The best my phone could manage. Milky way was horizon to horizon. Magic night.
Lovely work sprout. What’s the display in the foreground?
Cheers blackers. The Field of Light, Uluru.
GSCO that looks so good. Half ya luck
Sprout nuce pic with a phone. Knew where it was. Love the end of the day in the outback especially the sand country.
This one was with an old iPhone 6 a few years ago.
Edit. Nuce is the new nice. Off course
Edit again. Obviously my pic isn’t sand country
Great stuff gents.,makes me feel like I need another trip back to the centre. As for phones, they can do a great job dealing with lighting that even top end cameras can struggle with. The built-in software is amazing, and much easier than stuffing about in photoshop.
Centre baby. I agree Blackers.
I love it out there.
I gotta say pics lose a lot of colour and vibrancy when posted on here. No doubt someone knows why. I’m a technology nincompoop when it comes to these matters
Your phone has algorithms that dial up the saturation and contrast when displaying an image. You need to post process (photoshop or the like) to get the same pop in a file upload or print. I liked the tones in your shots so wouldn't be too worried. :)
Thanks for that and thanks for that mate
Just looking back, its been nearly 10 years. Time to return. Pic 3 is possibly the furthest from the coast you can be in Aus.
Makes me wanna hit the road again Blackers. What’d you have in that trailer? Tent? swags?
Pic 3. Devils Marbles?
Long dusty road to paradise
Awesome stuff guys.
I think I'm coming down with the travel bug.
Lovely pics fellas :-)
Great shots and that first one of Uluru Blackers is incredible!
Love the inland images.
Off to do the Larapinta trail this year, can’t wait….. fingers crossed the east coast rains don’t follow me there!
Geez that’s hardcore. Awesome!! Are you doing the entire track?
seeds wrote:Makes me wanna hit the road again Blackers. What’d you have in that trailer? Tent? swags?
We went with the pop-up tent option, the kids had one each, and self-inflating 4wd mattresses which took up way too much space but were super comfortable. Doing it again I would just go with swags. Had a gazebo for shelter. Heaps of fun, the kids had a ball.
Good luck on the Larapinta Distracted, its on our list too.
Nice. Those mattresses are bulky. I admire the simplicity. You don’t need much even with kids to see it all. We did a 6 week trip years ago with the lifestyle inhibitors in a tent all crammed into a Pajero. Outback QLD Red Centre up to Darwin and surrounds down through centre again to Coober Pedy to Barossa Valley across to Echuca up to Perisher and then home. Was so good and you don’t need much to make it happen
Just did a week on the Larapinta Distracted, fantastic experience. Be prepared for mice. They're low-key baiting them in places (not meant to but they've bred rather well recently). Keep bags etc. food free before you even leave their smell is that good, even nibbling on people's fingernails at night because of food smell. Some spots they weren't around and they're pretty cute but you'll sleep better without them in your swag haha.
Great photos guys, what a country hey.
after cyclone seroja mice invaded the north west starting in carnarvon then moving south. half of kalbarri is still tarped up so mice got in a lot of houses. we only had two or three mice in our place but we were prepared and baited and killed them.
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I’d heard the mice were bad but nibbling on finger nails is next level! Hopefully the cold weather slows them down.
We were in the Pilbara building a fertiliser plant when my parents on the other side of the country told me they wanted to retire and relocate somewhere nice without neighbours who were within cooee. As it was the buildup to the wet season we didn’t need much more urging than that to get the fuck out of there so we shot down to the South West for a few weeks to shed the Pilbara drinking fat and regain the sea legs before we shots across the bottom to the East coast.
A nice November / December of waves and good times found myself and the missus fighting fit and ready to take on the next chapter. A bit of Christmas cheer catching up with old friends and then we were searching for properties on the Nth Coast hinterland. We found 25 acres of North facing excellence and set about building a place for my parents. Living in a reclaimed banana packing shed whilst we worked.
House built, parents stoked, we were missing the Wild West and said our goodbyes. A few months to get there, we spent a couple of months catching up with friends in Tassie on the way. He was state champ and had a comp to attend so we tagged along. My lady took photos and sold them to Rip Curl. I entered cause the surf was off chops and wound up doing better than my mate. Continued heading West and was running shy of cash after the purchase over East, coming through South Oz when we got a call from a mate in a quiet part of the Margs region. He needed a bit of work done. A few waves and good times later and we pulled up at his place.
We wound up manicuring 107 pounds in 7 weeks in the caravan out the back of his place. Unbelievable gear. Body stoned the whole time. Plenty of epic waves and diving and spearing on the hookah for crays , dhuis and queenies .
He was flush as fuck and buying us “bonuses” every week. Spearguns, surfboards, camping gear and wetsuits.
One of the bonuses was a 6’5” Wayne Lynch for the medium days up North which were next on the agenda. Took the WL for a test drive on a small day at XXXXXXX and that’s the shot. Stoned out of my mind and not a care in the world.
Cashed up again we gunned it North. Always like to get there in early season and acclimate to the waves and the vibe. Parked up at the stone hut for a month or so before relocating to the pannawonica till about November. Surfing , fishing, diving. The WL went like a shower of shit. Epic, epic board. Days spent mixing sticky heads with slices off the tennis ball sized lump of hash I’d made by rolling the gatherings off our hands at the end of each day during the manicuring process.
Approaching Christmas and we we’re running shy of funds again. I rang an Irish fella I knew who was running a start up outfit building remote infrastructure for the richest of clientele. Told him my situation: No way I’d pass a drug test and my lady wanted in on the gravy train.
“No worries chum” he said “ Just drink water for a couple of days and we will game your test. We’ll sort your livings and get your girl in on the action.”
I’ll never forget what he said next.
“Stick with me chum and you’ll be wearing diamonds.”
He wasn’t lying.
Photo :
6’5” Wayne Lynch diamond tail
Great story. Living!
Any pics of the WL?
Shit yeah DS. Top tale mate
what a classic Aussie tale
Far from hot deserts, here's little old NZ during the winter storm of the decade. Tons of snow in the South Island, 150000 lightning strikes this week, and 90 knot winds. The view from our lounge as the showers roll in from the Tasman:
Pretty rough week or so IB? How's the last few nights with the relentless wind and rain squals? Such a stormy mess in the surf too ay
Very much so!
Thankfully our place is sheltered from the wind, but the rain and hail has been so loud on the roof. Had 8 days in a row of stupidly busy work forecasting this event, so only had a look at the ocean this morning when I took the hound for a run in the pine forest. A massive mess.
Looks like we get a bloody tropical low approaching the Far North on Sunday. La Nina is still alive.
Finally dried out here to get out in the paddocks and around the house and have a crack at the lantana, Senna and camphor saplings.
Those camphor's seem to turn from seedlings into trees in the blink of an eye.
Island Bay wrote:Very much so!
Thankfully our place is sheltered from the wind, but the rain and hail has been so loud on the roof. Had 8 days in a row of stupidly busy work forecasting this event, so only had a look at the ocean this morning when I took the hound for a run in the pine forest. A massive mess.
Looks like we get a bloody tropical low approaching the Far North on Sunday. La Nina is still alive.
Yep that low forming to the north looks decent too? A couple of quite incredible weeks of weather from howling westerlies to howling easterlies next week
Who doesn’t like the waving cat?
We've got tons of them Seeds.
I recommend them as souvenirs to take home if you visit Japan.
Haha nice Zen. I’ve only had a few from Indochina. Love those porcelain ones. Ginger disco master is great.
iPhone 6 playing with limited filter options back then
Couple of other iPhone 6 filter jobs
Nice photos Seeds. My iphone five died on me just after i bought credit for it....what phone should i get that takes good shots of the point and other breaks around here but is under three hundred clams?
Any advise?
I hardly use my phone, only for taking photos and ringing family really. Dont want anything flash.
PS i turn my phone off if the surfs pumping and im going out.I dont tell anyone the surfs good.
groundswell wrote:Nice photos Seeds. My iphone five died on me just after i bought credit for it....what phone should i get that takes good shots of the point and other breaks around here but is under three hundred clams?
Any advise?
I hardly use my phone, only for taking photos and ringing family really. Dont want anything flash.
PS i turn my phone off if the surfs pumping and im going out.I dont tell anyone the surfs good.
I've got an Android Google Pixel 4 and the photo quality is remarkable; a very obvious improvement from my last iPhone. Google stopped making the Pixel 4, something to do with bad battery life though I've never had an issue, and I think they're now up to the Pixel 6.
You could take a punt on an older second-hand Pixel 4, or check the camera specs are the same from version 4 to the later versions, and then buy one of those new.
In semi lockdown I'm finally sorting through a lifetime of photos and inspired by what Craig and Andy recently posted I thought why not.
We travel a fair bit and there has to be some crackers in the vaults.
Good if we follow the Swellnet tradition of not naming or being too obvious.