Saturday May 09, 2009 at 20:55

Leaving Australia

I’m sat in the Air New Zealand Lounge in Sydney airport, enjoying one of the rare oases of free wifi in Australia before heading back to Colorado. It makes for a long day – leave Sydney at 2:45pm, arrive more or less at the same time of day in San Francisco, not counting the 14 hour flight.

We spent our final night in Queensland back at Dicky Beach, capturing the image above a while after sunset. The SS Dicky is a photographic gem, very conveniently located a few hundred yards from car parking at Dicky Beach near Caloundra.

The only people who keep the same strange hours as photographers are the local surfers. The other morning, we arrived at 5:45am for dawn, only to be joined by around 40 ten-year old surfers and their instructors by 6am. At least at sunset, they depart as the light fades.

We’ve spent the weekend very enjoyably in Canberra seeing my brothers-in-law and their families. We made an abortive attempt to shoot full moonrise over Australia’s Parliament House, only to be foxed at the last minute by my poor map reading skills and a delay to apparent moonrise due to some distant hills. (It certainly prompted some thoughts on improvements I’d like to make to TPE.)

So, no more seascapes for a while – it’s back to the mountains of Colorado.

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Stephen · Saturday, May 09, 2009, 20:55 · Permalink