Whale watching has left me awestruck. It is singularly the best wild life experience I have ever had. I didn't take any photos, I wanted to concentrate on the watching but the company I went with uploaded theirs onto Facebook. I reactivated my Facefook account especially so that I could share them with you but in true Luddite Adilady fashion I couldn't work out how. You will have to do with screen shots.
We saw at least 5 different hump back whales, a mother with her calf and a pod of three. They came right up to the boat and leapt out of the water. Their splash on re-entry sounded like an explosion.
They like to lie on their backs and slap their fins on the water, again it is sooo loud; like gun shots.
This one is diving. They usually stay below for around 3 to 7 minutes.
After whale watching I went to the local library to catch up on bloggingtons and then back to the campsite at Bermagui for one more night. When I came out of the shower block I was greeted by this stunning sky, it took my breath away.
I ran to the bottom of the campsite to take the same shots from previous bloggage...
I had no idea skies like this existed in real life, it brought a tear to my eye because it was so beautiful and a sense of melancholy when the final wisp of crimson faded into night:(
The the next day I went to the general store in Tilba Tilba (so good they named it twice) and asked the nice man about climbing the mountain. He said it should take 4 hours and to keep to the track or else I could fall down a mine shaft, yikes. The aborigines call the mountain Gulaga, which means 'mother mountain.' The settlers renamed it Mt Dromedary, I guess because it looks like a camel? I know which name I prefer.
I told you I'm obsessed with gum trees, this is a particularly fine specimen.
Behold the mother earth mountain that looks like a camel.
Ivory towers with no turrets, foliage or otherwise...
And black towers, a stark reminder to be mindful of the bushfires. There are bushfires in NSW at the moment. A big siren went off on my radio when I was driving and listed a whole heap of places that were on high alert. They all sounded like Spike Milligan nonsense names, 'Wollogong' and 'Bendalong' and I had no idea geographically where they were. Totally freaked out with the image of driving through an inferno with the snail house ablaze, I stopped at the petrol station to seek advice. Worry not Adi lady, the police will close the road way before that scenario, phew.
The view from the top, I'm off to the blue mountains after Sydney, I wonder if they are bluer than this? Not at the moment, they have been hit really hard by the fires so I'm guessing they are charred and black, the situation is pretty serious here:(
At the top I learnt how to use the timer on my new camera.
And I caught this cheeky chappy spying on me on the way down. I think he is a bush wallaby but who knows...
I was thinking on the way up about Australia and how beautiful and varied it is. Haunting blazing sunsets, rugged coastlines, golden and white solitary sands, turquoise oceans and a variety of landscapes from lush green to stark and sterile; I think I am a little in love with the place. It's a shame it's so dangerous, spiders, snakes, sharks, storms, fires! This pommie bird just wasn't prepared. Incidently, I'm doing a shark dive on Wednesday; double yikes.
Above is the general store in Tilba Tilba (so good they named it twice), how cute and quaint? I had a a coffee and chat with the owner. He has lived here man and boy, I told him how pretty his shop was and he positively glowed.
This is Tilba Central another picture perfect little village.
So then I hit the road for Jervis Bay and met the grumpiest Ozzie ever, but that story will have to wait until next bloggingtons. What made me happy? So much, I can't decide between awesome whales or breath taking sunset so you decide, over and out xxx
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