by sadhaka9
…We diet on water, On crumbs of shadow, Bland-mannered, asking Little or nothing. So many of us! So many of us! We are shelves, we are Tables, we are meek, We are edible, Nudgers and shovers In spite of ourselves. Our kind multiplies: We shall by morning Inherit the earth. Our foot’s in the door. – Sylvia Plath, Mushrooms
Categories: Australia, Hiking, Mushrooms, National Park, Photography • Tags: bush, forest, Fungi, Mushrooms, nature, photography
by sadhaka9
A symphony of joyful tints reside in the Autumn forests of Tasmania. Bursts of colour in the form of small and delicate surprises. Purple, red, blue, pink, orange and white happily mix together in harmony. Brightening the world under the greying sky. If only here for a moment they come to life with joy. Dotting the landscape in a celebration of the seasons just passed and welcoming the white winter wonderland they will soon sleep under.
Categories: Australia, Hiking, Mount Field National Park, National Park, Nature, Photography, Tasmania, Wild Flowers • Tags: Hiking, landscape, national park, nature, photography, Tasmania, travel, wildflowers
by sadhaka9
When you’re walking a track in the middle of the bush and a cockatoo lands next to you and says “Hello” (I kid you not) it’s something special. “Oh hi” I said as he walked a little closer. “Hello”! I gave him a nut and we talked as if old friends. Soon I realised he was a decoy sent in to befriend me. One by one they came. Dropping like snowflakes in front of me. Hungry for a taste of […]
Categories: Australia, Birds, Photography • Tags: birds, Cockatoo, nature, photography
by sadhaka9
A fairly easy walk of 10km from the bush to the sea and back. The word ‘Curra’ is aboriginal for water spring and if going clockwise around the loop this is what you will find about one third a way around the track. Trickling over the rocks, making it’s way to the open sea, the water flows forwards as if in an endless race for freedom. The wind whips up the overflow into a whirlwind of mist. Cheeky lizards get […]
Categories: Australia, Hiking, National Park, Nature, Ocean, Photography, Royal National Park • Tags: Hiking, national park, nature, ocean, photography, Royal National Park
by sadhaka9
An amazing 4 day hike around the southern edge of Tasman National Park, Tasmania. Can only be done through the official Three Capes Track operated by the National Parks. The cabins are well kitted out and we were lucky as there was only 11 of us who started on the same day. I had a whole cabin to myself! From the morning to the afternoon several ecosystems can be passed through. From the cloud forest, to tornado ridge to the most […]
Categories: Australia, Hiking, National Park, Photography, Tasmania, Three Capes Track • Tags: Australia, Hiking, national park, nature, photography, Tasmania, Three Capes Track
by sadhaka9
Across Botany Bay the National Park continues. Walking along the cliff line it is amazing to see that this high up it is still like a beach. Pure white sand becomes amber yellow and back again. The sandstone rocks are molded into strangely beautiful circular shapes by the wind that constantly blows around them eroding each grain over time. Following the track into the vegetation birds flit everywhere. I seem to be surrounded by them in the dense bushes. The […]
Categories: Australia, Botany Bay, National Park, Nature, Ocean, Photography • Tags: Hiking, Kamy Botany Bay National Park, national park, nature, ocean, photography
by sadhaka9
It’s amazing what you can find in your own backyard. I had avoided this place only because I had considered it suburbia. I was so wrong. I was left alone with the waves crashing on the rocks below and the wind shaking the coastal flowers so they danced with the neighbouring grasses. As I ventured around Cape Banks the calm, clear aqua of Henry Head slowly turned into a roaring deep blue that forced itself onto the painted sandstone. A […]
Categories: Australia, Botany Bay, Hiking, National Park, Nature, Ocean, Photography • Tags: Hiking, nature, ocean, photography, sea, travel
by sadhaka9
There are so many national parks around Sydney it’s amazing. The great thing is they are all so different. In one park alone the vegetation can change dramatically. Heathcote NP is no exception. Peppering the landscape the indigenous gymea lily seems like such a jurassic flower. It is so high there is no way to see the top of it. You can tell it comes from a place long before humans. The birds love it. Native aboriginals used to eat […]
Categories: Hiking, National Park, Nature • Tags: Australia, heathcote, Hiking, national park, nature, photography, wildflowers
by sadhaka9
Though poor and in trouble I wander alone, With rebel cockade in my hat, Though friends may desert me, and kindred disown, My country will never do that! You may sing of the Shamrock, the thistle, the rose, Or the three in a bunch if you will; But I know of a country that gathered all those, And I love the great land where the Waratah grows. And the Wattle bough blooms on the hill. Australia! Australia! so fair to […]
Categories: Australia, Nature, Photography • Tags: Australia, flowers, nature, photography, red, waratah, wildflowers
