Cradle Mountain

I am feeling much better tonight so I thought I would post a piccie of the day I shot a couple of years ago.

This is a view of Cradle Mountain viewed across Dove Lake in Tasmania's Central Highlands.

One of the colder parts of Oz bush-walkers (hikers) there are warned to be prepared for snow even in summer.

Snow at Christmas in Oz who would credit it? :-)

Ruin

My piccie of the day is of a ruin of a pioneer era house in Tassie.

I find ruins really appealing, history, architecture and a marker of the fleeting nature of life all in one.

Pushing 180 years old buildings don't get much older in Oz.

More falls

The other night I posted a piccie of the Hopetoun falls. Well almost literally round the corner from the Hopetoun falls are two other gorgeous waterfalls.

One of those is the Beauchamp falls. I'll complete the triplet in the next few days

Piccie of the Day

A quick piccie of the day because I am busy tonight.

I'll answer the WIIW tomorrow.

A Folly

Ben Boyd's Folly, Ben Boyd National Park NSW.

Green Cape Lighthouse.

My Piccie of the day was taken in 2009.

Lu, my youngest, kindly acted as a scale for me.

Stairs Down A Cliff

Piccie of the day. Stairs on Victoria's limestone coast.

Sunset Through a Sea Mist

Tomorrow I'll post an answer to What is it Wednesday?

As for tonight it's "just" a piccie of the day.

I took this on our Holiday back in early April. In the late afternoon we pushed along a rough track that followed the cliff tops well away from the usual tourist haunts. Then as the Sun to dipped to the horizon a sea mist began to form turning these spectacular cliffs into something really special.
I think it counts as one of my favourite ever photos.

Sunset

My piccie of the day is a sunset I took back in July.
I have no time for more this evening.
Tomorrow the lake that came back

Drought in Oz, Piccie of The day

Eastern Oz has for the past two years been wet, very wet. 
But before that we had been in drought that had lasted 10 – 15 years (depending on where in the country you talk about, Oz is a big place).
Lake Eucumbene is in the Australian Alps in NSW and is normally big enough to be worth keeping a sailing boat there.

When I was last there in 2008 it was a very different story; this boat was left high and dry by the receding lake, nearly two miles from where the water was then.


The normal shoreline is at the foot of the trees in the distance. What was left of the lake was out of frame to the right (nearly two miles away)

Piccies of the Day, Dancing Soldiers

At low tide on estuary sand flats, around much of the Oz coast, an army comes out.

Soldier crabs (Mictyris longicarpus) so called because they swarm in armies. But despite the fearsome name and swarms of them these guys are entirely innocuous. They come out of their burrows to filter the sand for tasty morsels.

The biggest, like this handsome fellow in the centre of this piccie, have a body  about the size of a plump cherry.

The most aggressive they get is to each other. That too is ritualised, they get up on their back legs spreading out their forelimbs. Then arm in arm they dance around each other. The smaller (the one with the shortest legs) then makes way for the larger.
 
 If they are evenly matched like this pair they push each other back and forth a time or two.  One decides to make way and it is over.

Piccie of the Day and a Clue!

Here is my piccie of the day. An "outback" road, the Grampians Victoria.

Now for the clue.

Anne was the closest with her "What is it Wednesday?" guess.

So what on Earth do you think this might be?

Answer tomorrow.

Ruin in Western Victoria

My piccie of the day is a shot of a ruined farm house in western Victoria.
I took this last October on one of our weekend day trips.
I asked the farmer if could walk into his canola (rapeseed) crop to get a closer look.