Whimsical Whitsunday Wanderings and Wondrous Whitehaven Wayfaring

It is remarkable a country with such an abundance of coastline contains such diversity of coastal character. Craggy pebble beaches of Tasmania and the fine snow-like sands of far north Queensland could not differ more. 

If you can navigate around the rambunctious british backpackers, the landscapes and beaches of the Whitsundays are proper world class.

Cairns on Hamilton

  Bikini Atoll or Shute Harbour

The season for idyllic seafaring

Escaping everyday entrapments and exploring entrancing woodlands

 The motivation to explore and to discover, I find, is not at all times constitutional to our state of being. But that we sometimes need to exercise our discipline to go fourth and seek, search, and unearth the extraordinary things that lie just beyond the corner. 

To summon an impetus that starts our journey, knowing that once in motion we may find such joy and wonder that we may never wish to stop...

Amateur photographer's antics antagonise apathetic animals

2017 Photography Edition:

A collection of unimpressed local wildlife

Photographer risked his life to capture this wild animal on film

Retrospective Photographical Repertoire

I wanted to share some landscapes that I have not posted before - from being too self conscious or busy. Revisiting albums with a new perspective, we see colours and details that we never noticed before, and sometimes it is the subtleties that resonate the loudest.

Queenstown

silver linings

Wentworth

I wanted to catch the feeling of this summer as the afternoon clouds roll over the mountains 

and bathe the gumtrees in an ambience of melancholy

Where have you been little bottle? Tell me of all the walls you have climbed and crags you have seen

Interlude of Inhibitions

Sometimes our time is stolen by work and study. 

We forge ahead in the hope that new adventures will once again arrive; that our resolve to carry on and hold out will be soon succeeded by freedom and discovery. Thoughts relentlessly converge on nostalgia, memory is the furniture and crockery of an antique store that is curated, restored, and polished to a grade and quality far exceeding its former standing. So we are to bound ahead with pace and purpose, clear the salt plains and arid flats, until immersed in the crisp mountain air; air not bottled, exported, imagined, but discovered, experienced, pursued. 

The best climbs have the longest walk-ins,

And the best best powder stash is over the ridge.

Busy semester is that much wasn't so obvious already. Many excuses for not going out, few of them very convincing. In the meantime i'm sharing a few photos with some character to fulfil my civic duties to the blogging cause.

A study in sunglasses, Ohope

 Somewhere on Coromandel Peninsula

Newcastle

Jason, Wakatipu

Lost on a ledge

Sometimes more is found when getting lost than one could ever imagine