Project 52: Week 11, Margaret River Memories

[billtils]

The Margaret River adventure ended with our return home on Sunday. To close this theme of "Project 52" here are a few images that capture the flavour of our 4 weeks there.

The first is totally Australian - gum trees at the edge of a dam (or to be precise in this case, a weir across the Margaret river) shot just before the sun broke the horizon on what turned out to be an unusually cloudy morning.

Ghostly gums:



The second is also specific to the region - this time the area around Margaret River itself. It is a variety of Red Dragonfly, the Narrow Lobed Glider, Tramea stenoloba.

Red Dragonfly:




Next up is typically Australian, a pesky fly! I think it is a blowfly but was not able to make a definitive identification.

Fly on wire:




One colourful native species that is abundant in the region is the Australian Ringneck, known locally as a 28 from its typical calling which sounds very like someone saying "28".

"28":




Margaret River is a popular surfing spot in Australia - there is a national competition taking place there this week. Not sure if this dude will make it to the finals, but who knows.

Surfer:




The last image was taken on a glorious sunny day when we spent a few hours at the nearest large town, Busselton. Busselton is a popular tourist destination, one of the attractions being its 1.8km long wooden jetty. An Internet search will show you the "tourist view" of it, but I opted for this shot from the other side of the buildings.

Blue and white with a touch of yellow:

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[skitterbug]

Hi Bill - I bet you had a wonderful time during your Margaret River adventure based on these pics. The first one "Ghostly Gums" is my favorite of the series but they are all well done.

[billtils]

Thanks John and Sandy.

Sandy, yes we did thank you, and of the set Ghostly Gums is one of the two I like best (the other being Fly on a wire). This is the second time that I have photographed the gums and these are much better than the first lot (taken a couple of years ago, at same time of day, with the D7100).

[joebranko]

Beautiful shot Ghostly Gums

[Geoff F]

They all look good to me.