Epacris impressa (Common Heath) – Victoria’s floral emblem. Shrub grows to 2m, flowers 1 to 2cm, colour ranging from white, pink, red, magenta, but very variable.
Image credit By Sarah ©2017; Bullace Glen, Grampians National Park, Victoria
Prompt: Dutch Goes The Photo, Tuesday Photo Challenge, Week 71 – pink
About 10kms west of Dimboola, VIC, next to the Western Highway, you can find Pink Lake. This lake is easily viewed from the rest-stop beside the highway and you can walk down the path to the edge of the lake. The pink colour comes from a pigment secreted by algae which is more intense when there is water in the lake. During dry periods the salt lake appears more white due to the light reflected by salt crystals.
As you walk along the path to the lake, you will see yellow gums, buloke trees and paperbarks, giving way to the smaller and very distinctive salt tolerant plants that grow in this unique environment.
Information source: http://www.dimboola.com.au and 360 cities (click this for a 360o panorama!)
Image credit By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Dutch Goes The Photo, Tuesday Photo Challenge, Week 71 – pink
Technically, not a door, but thought this was too spectacular not to share. This is one of the gates from the Palace of Versailles at the ‘Versailles: Treasures from the Palace’ exhibition.
Image credit By Sarah ©2017; Versailles Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, ACT
Prompt: Norm 2.0, Thursday Doors – August 17, 2017
Distracted by wine (…especially red wine), I will always pause when passing a winery, to sample their wares if appropriate! Also, these bottles look super shiny and pretty all stacked up and ready to buy!
Image credit By Sarah ©2017; La Cantina Winery, King Valley VIC
Prompt: Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge, Distractions “Oooh, shiny!”
“Silent Street” – This stone alleyway forms one of the last parts of the Pinnacle Walk in the Grampians National Park, Victoria. Due to the high rock walls and almost fully enclosed nature of the gully, there is an eerie silence as you walk through.
Prompt: Dutch Goes The Photo, Week 70 – alley
Street Art Door
Image credit By Sarah; Hoiser Lane, Melbourne VIC
Prompt: Norm 2.0, Thursday Doors – August 10, 2017
Late afternoon – golden sunshine casting shadows on a building
Image credit By Sarah; Opposite Aloha Tower, Honolulu, Oahu, HI
Prompt: Dutch Goes The Photo, Tuesday Photo Challenge, Week 69 – golden
Low tide Urunga Boardwalk, Urunga, NSW
Image credit By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Daily Post, Weekly Photo Challenge, texture
Dried , rope-like lava flow (pahoehoe);
Volcanoes National Park, Big Island HI
Image credit By Sarah ©
Prompt: Daily Post, Weekly Photo Challenge, texture
Good luck getting in this front door! A newly formed sinkhole has made things a little perilous at this home in Whakarewarewa Maori Village, Rotorua, NZ.
Image credit By Sarah
Author’s Note: Whakarewarewa village is situated in the unique geothermal landscape of Te Whakarewarewa Valley. The only living geothermal Māori village, geothermal vents provide a life-giving energy resource along with boiling hot pools and bubbling mud. Residents have been forced to utilise, respect and adapt to the ever-changing forces beneath the land.
Prompt: Norm 2.0, Thursday Doors – August 3, 2017
Just three ‘fun guys’ (fungi) hanging around
Prompt: Dutch Goes The Photo, Tuesday Photo Challenge – Three
These rather deadly looking doors have featured in another blog post of mine from last month. They belong to the Botswana Butchery in Auckland, NZ and I just think they are fantastic!
Prompt: Norm 2.0, Thursday Doors, 27 July 2017
There is nothing I find more satisfying that communing with nature and grounding myself with a bushwalk. Even better if that bushwalk has a spectacular peak and/or view at the end. Here are just a few photos of my favourites!
The Pinnacle, Grampians National Park
Mt Glenrowan, Warby National Park
Gorge Walk, Mt Buffalo National Park
The Balconies, Grampians National Park
Mt Pilot, Mt Pilot National Park
Bullawah Cultural Trail, Wangaratta
Mt Taylor, Canberra
Roper Lookout, Falls Creek
Paradise Falls, King Valley
Prompt: Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge, satisfaction
Wallace Hut is one of 106 huts scattered across the Alpine National Park. Many of these huts were burnt in the 2003 Alpine fires but fortunately Wallace Hut survived. Wallace Hut, near Falls Creek, is the oldest hut in the park. It was built by the three Wallace brothers – Arthur, William and Stewart – who arrived as small boys in Melbourne from Ireland in 1869 with their parents.
The hut is never locked. You enter by pulling the string hanging through a hole at the lower right of the tiny window in the split- paling door. This releases the latch and the sunlight, revealing an unusual split-slab and rammed-earth floor, a rough table of mountain ash on snow-gum legs and the fireplace at the far end. The names of cattlemen who first used the hut are burnt into the tie-beams of the roof and at the back of the mantelpiece. One small window looks towards the distant Mount Kosciusko.
Prompt: Dutch Goes The Photo, Tuesday Photo Challenge, woods
A collection of ‘big’ things…
The Big Merino, Goulburn NSW
The Big Gumboot, Taihape, Manawatu-Whanganui, North Island, NZ
The Big Lobster, Kingston South East, South Australia
The Big Murray Cod, Swan Hill, Victoria
The Big Cherry, Wyuna, Victoria
The Big Olive, Tailem Bend, South Australia
The Big Banana, Coffs Harbor, New South Wales
The Big Pineapple, Woombye, Queensland
The Big Koala, Dadwells Bridge, Victoria
The Big Fruit, Cromwell, Central Otago, South Island, NZ
Not sure what the fascination is that Australia and New Zealand have with ‘big things’ but it makes for interesting road trips! My bucket list consists of taking this trip one day and seeing all 150 big things…
https://www.travelwheels.com.au/site/big-things-of-australia/
Prompt: Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge, unusual
Soft yellow light
Yellow Gold clock from Versailles
Golden yellow sunrise
Yellow Pineapple Dole
Yellow themed wine and cheese tasting
Lemon Margherita
Prompt: Dutch Goes The Photo, Tuesday Photo Challenge, Week 66 – Yellow
Albert Park, Auckland, North Island – New Zealand
Prompt: Norm 2.0, Thursday Doors – July 13, 2017
Bees busy (and buzzy) in this working beehive. A beautiful collage of nature.
Prompt: Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge, collage
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