#north head

[kjcreative]

Long Beach, Wa

[katblu42]

Yesterday I was working in one of Sydney's wealthy harbourside suburbs. Took this photo from Balmoral Beach looking across to North Head before work.

Then, after work I decided to go to North Head in search of Flannel Flowers. Got there about an hour and a half before sunset.

And I did indeed find Flannel Flowers . . . in abundance!

There were other flowers too (sorry, I don't know what these ones are called!).

The Fort walk, past the old gun placements . . .

included some wildlife encounters. Echidnas move fast, but this one seemed oblivious to my presence.

Unfortunately, the Numbat was much more shy and hid in the undergrowth before I could snap a good picture!

Plenty of Brush Turkeys though (and magpies, plovers, whip birds . . . and rabbits, but they're not native!).

The start of the Memorial Walk offers views back towards the city

and South Head

Did I mention I arrived in time to watch the sunset?

And Ovation of the Sea leaving port.

[charleeremitz]

Where Washington meets Oregon, there are several lighthouses, and those lighthouses cut through the gloom that gives Astoria its perpetual autumn. I arrived around 9 o’clock to a spa hotel on the pier looking out and up at the Astoria-Megler bridge. The more famous view was up in the hills where a white house with orange trim was made famous by a hodgepodge cast of teenagers called The Goonies. All I can really say is that this part of the world, with all its fishy smells and haar, is magical.

[auckaland]

Két hete jártam a North Head-en. Elég fasza volt.

[trooperpatrol]

Day 236: Rust and decay. 3.75" Star Wars action figures.

[camera-and-ink]

0019 // 0254 // 140517 // Thinly Veiled Cityscape

Cred: @camera-and-ink

[gilgai]

Panoramic view of Sydney Harbour taken from Macquarie Light House in 1859, John Rae, 1859. 10 watercolour panels mounted onto linen to form 1 panorama that folds into sections within a bound album ; 24 x 334 cm., folding into an album 35 x 35 cm. (Dixson Galleries, State Library of NSW: 823497)

[trooperpatrol]

Day 218: Emerging from the darkness. 3.75" Star Wars action figures.