Brunswick Heads

2 May 2018

Early morning walk on Brunswick Beach- amazing sun burning through the cloud and I capture still life silhouetted on the breakwall. I capture a father and son standing on the tip just as the full sun is burning through. I approach them, show them the images and arrange to give them the images, they are most appreciative.

Mid morning, Julie Louis and I take off for a paddle on Simpson Creek – Brunswick Heads. We find a location – launch spot within the Caravan Park where we unload and walk down the stairs to a small secluded beach amongst the Mangroves. We take off with a mission in mind to find this sandy landing that leads to the Beach. It’s 5kms each way and I end up towing Louis early as we are paddling against the tide. We explore the mangroves and have a very relaxed paddle to the sandy Landing that we were aiming. We pull up at this little landing and have a short walk through sandy tracks till we hit the beach. We have this all to ourselves and have a lovely swim at the beach for an hour here, we towel down and head back to the kayaks for the return leg on Simpson Creek. For the afternoon, we head to Byron Bay for an afternoon swim at Cape Byron and catch to sunset from the beach. Magic way to end the day. We grab pizza’s for dinner and it’s an early bedtime for all.

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Echuca – Canberra Canberra to Cape York (Via Apostles)

Day 20 – 22 April 2018:

We pack and prepare ourselves for another long day on the road and head home. We begin driving through stunning country side and are constantly passing over the Murray river and passing beautiful Billabongs. We stop somewhere stunning by the river for lunch and it’s a photographer’s dream. Louis and I take off together for a 30-minute photo session and he is loving it. We push on for a long afternoon drive and eventually arrive home to a warm welcome and a lovely home cooked dinner.

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Port Campbell to Echuca Canberra to Cape York (Via Apostles)

Day 18 – 20 April 2018:

We pack up for 10am and begin the journey to Echuca, via Ballarat and Bendigo. This turns out to be an epic drive and we initially find out that we were heading in the wrong direction, we were going to Geelong!  We entrust Siri to take us on a new pathway and that she did. We ended up cutting through the middle of the Victorian farm lands, often on a one width road in the middle of nowhere. The land is barren and so dry. Hats off to the farmers! The scenery is excellent and we stop somewhere (we really don’t know where we are) to fly the drone and take a few images and there are rows and rows of Lucerne or hay fields. They look amazing from the air. We enter into Ballarat, with the view to visit the Biennale but we are unable to find a park as it was located in the city centre. The town is far bigger than we thought. We push onto Bendigo and eventually arrive at Echuca for dark. After several site inspections, Julie finally decides on our plot. We set up for a two-night stay. Glad to see the end of a seven-hour drive.

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