Category: Flowers

Winter weather in Apollo Bay: photographer’s eyrie, winter swell, underwater at Marengo, flowers

The air temperature was 7°C and the wind was blowing at 25-30 knots. The wind chill was around 1°C. There was thunder from time to time and being wet from the near constant rain created a further refrigeration effect. These were the conditions in which some of the photos below were taken. The camera and … Continue reading Winter weather in Apollo Bay: photographer’s eyrie, winter swell, underwater at Marengo, flowers →

Swimming with wild dolphins, cool temperate rainforest, easterly seas, storm clouds and lightning

Night lightning strikes

The awesomeness of an ocean swim with wild dolphins. I have only had wild dolphins intentionally swim to me and with me on two occasions. The first occasion was in the late 1970s off Thistle Island in the Southern Ocean at the mouth of Spencer Gulf. There is a sheltered beach on the north side … Continue reading Swimming with wild dolphins, cool temperate rainforest, easterly seas, storm clouds and lightning →