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Sunset Over Wallis Lake - Tiona, Pacific Palms
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Photo taken from Tiona Convention Centre, Pacific Palms on 21st May 2011
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Foreground palms are Livistona australis (Cabbage Palm). This palm is the only palm species naturally occurring in this area and occurs in large numbers in swamp, wet sclerophyll forest, littoral rainforest as well as in sclerophyll forest throughout the area.
Booti Booti National Park and nearby Wallingat National Park protect perhaps the largest stands of Livistona australis in Australia.
More Pacific Palms - Tiona Sunsets HERE
Wallis Lake Sunset from Sunset Point Pacific Palms
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Photo taken in Booti Booti National Park at the Sunset Picnic Area on 19.5.2011
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Afternoon Light - Citigate Hotel - 'The Chase' at the end of Conrod Straight, Mount Panorama Car Racing Circuit - Bathurst, NSW
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Mount Panorama Slideshow ++++ Gallery
Mount Panorama Car Racing Circuit is probably Australia's most well known car racing track having been established in 1938. Situated at Bathurst a few hours drive due west of Sydney the track hosts a number of major races each year, the most famous of which is the V8 Super Cars Bathurst 1000 (161 laps), held on the long weekend in October each year. Traditional rivalry has always almost exclusively been between car makers Holden and Ford although other makes of car have always competed in the race.
Current Track Lap Record = 2:08.4651 (Jamie Whincup, Ford BF Falcon, 2007, V8 Supercar)
The current track is just over 6.2 km around rising to 862m at the top with a 174 m difference between the top and bottom of the track. Parts of the track have grades of 1 in 6. Top speeds of up to 300km have been recorded on Conrod Straight.
The circuit is open to the public but a 60kph speed limit is imposed and regularly policed.
The National Motor Racing Museum is located at Mount Panorama and showcases an impressive array of motorcycle and car racing memorabilia from all over the country.The Museum is is located at Murray's Corner, at the foot of Mount Panorama and is open every day (except Christmas Day and Good Friday) - Hours:- 9:00am to 4:30pm
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The Chase,a 3 turn addition to Conrod Straight was completed in 1987 thus interrupting the longest straight in world car racing at that time. Most drivers approach The Chase chicanes at over 290 km/h (180 mph) after reaching speeds of up to 300kph (186mph) coming down Conrod Straight.
Resting Cows, Caffreys Flat, Upper Manning Valley, NSW
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Wallis Lake Sunset from Sunset Point Pacific Palms
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Photo taken in Booti Booti National Park at the Sunset Picnic Area on 19.5.2011
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Sydney Harbour Bridge - Vivid Sydney Festival of Music, Light and Ideas 2011
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Parisian light artists, Superbien, have been contracted to brighten the sails of the Opera House, as part of the Vivid Lights Festival, a festival now in its 3rd year and designed to present Sydney as a creative, vibrant city.
Highlights of the lightshow include alien-like floating jellyfish projected on to the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Additionally many buildings in the harbour precinct other than the Opera House are also bathed in artistically created coloured lights and a plethora of associated music and cultural performances add depth and interest to the annual festival.
Over 40 light sculptures, 25 of them created by Mary-Anne Kyriakou and produced by AGB Events also contribute significantly to the Vivid Lights Sydney event in 2011.
Associated musical entertainment includes - 'Bat For Lashes' at the Opera House.
The Vivid Sydney Festival of Music Light and Ideas commenced on May 27 and will run every night until to June 13th 2011 from 6.00pm.
Cow With Attitude - Hannam Vale, NSW
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Sydney Opera House - Vivid Sydney Festival of Music, Light and Ideas 2011
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Parisian light artists, Superbien, have been contracted to brighten the sails of the Opera House, as part of the Vivid Lights Festival, a festival now in its 3rd year and designed to present Sydney as a creative, vibrant city.
Highlights of the lightshow include alien-like floating jellyfish projected on to the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Additionally many buildings in the harbour precinct other than the Opera House are also bathed in artistically created coloured lights and a plethora of associated music and cultural performances add depth and interest to the annual festival.
Over 40 light sculptures, 25 of them created by Mary-Anne Kyriakou and produced by AGB Events also contribute significantly to the Vivid Lights Sydney event in 2011.
Associated musical entertainment includes - 'Bat For Lashes' at the Opera House.
The Vivid Sydney Festival of Music Light and Ideas commenced on May 27 and will run every night until to June 13th 2011 from 6.00pm.
Black Head Ocean Baths, Hallidays Point, NSW
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This image was taken a few days after the peak of the Mid June 2011 Manning River flood. The Manning enters the sea via the Old Bar entrance possibly less that 8 - 10km, as the crow flys, north of Black Head. There is another entrance at Harrington perhaps a similar distance north of Old Bar. The manning is the only river in NSW to have 2 entrances to the sea as far as I am aware.
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Martin Bridge, Taree, NSW - Sunset or Sunrise???
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PSP Digital edit.
Travellers in the Taree area, can you see what is not right here with this image ??
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Upper Ebor Falls, Guy Fawkes River, Ebor, Waterfall Way, NSW
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More Waterfalls along the WATERFALL WAY
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5.10.2011 Federal Hotel, Nimmitabel, Southern Monaro, NSW
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Established 1890.
Wondering if anyone can confirm that this hotel is still open and operational as a hotel or perhaps just as accommodation..
I was there at around 9.30 am so it naturally appeareded to be shut, perhaps until the standard opening time of 10am.
More images of our recent October 2011 Southern Monaro trip Here
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St Andrews Anglican Church, Jerangle, Monaro, NSW, Australia
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Jerangle is a tiny village in the middle of nowhere with just a church, small primary school and a few dilapidated buildings on the road from Cooma, Numeralla, Peak View and Jerangle. The road continues on to on to Captains Flat. All unsealed road but in reasonable condition following a recent grading of the road.
More images of our recent October 2011 Southern Monaro trip Here
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Peak View Public Hall, Monaro, NSW, Australia
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What you see here is in fact the entire number of buildings in Peak View - a locallity in the middle of nowhere on the road from Numeralla to Jerangle. The road continues on to Captains Flat. All unsealed road but in reasonable condition following a recent grading of the road.
More images of our recent October 2011 Southern Monaro trip Here
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All Saints Catholic Church, Numeralla, Monaro, NSW, Australia
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All Saints Catholic Church Numeralla was Officially Blessed on the 1st February 1914. A small Anglican Church is next door.
Numeralla is a small village situated about approx 30km east of the Monaro Highway (Queanbuyan to Cooma). The area has a history linked to gold mining and Numeralla has a couple of churches, a small primary school as well as a sporting field. We noted also what appeared to be a small museum.
The village hosts an annual Folk Festival held over 4 days from Australia Day.
More Numeralla images located at the Numeralla Flickr site.
Numeralla Progress Association website.
More Numeralla images and images from our recent October 2011 Southern Monaro trip - Here
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Cathcart Catholic Church, Cathcart on The Kings Highway between Bega and Bombala
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This old church, built Circa 1880 and closed in 1970 , looks destined to fall over in not too many more years. It appears it is being allowed to deteriorate and is currently used to store bales of hay. It could be saved if action was taken in the not too distant future. Its impending demise would indeed be a sad loss for this community.
Despite this situation the town does seem to be quite proud of its history and is well worth stopping over in and taking a stroll down the main road to view the many green information plaques located on many of the historic timber buildings. The town appears to need an injection of investment cash but sadly, perhaps the through traffic flow up the Kings Highway to nearby Bombala does not economically justify restorations as profitably as say for Tilba, down on the coast.
Diamond Beach South, Hallidays Point, NSW
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This beautiful NSW mid North Coast beach is just south of Diamond Beach with staircase access to Seascape and Bombora Point residential subdivisions.
The normally pristine white beach sand here was somewhat discoloured owing to the significant nearby Manning River June 2011 flood event of a few days prior to these images being taken.
The Breadknife - Grand High Tops, Warrumbungle National Park - Warrumbungles ,NSW
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Photo taken from the top of the rock wall on the far right of the images posted below.
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The Breadknife - Grand High Tops - Warrumbungle National Park, Warrumbungles, NSW
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Photo taken from the top of the rock wall on the far right of the images posted below.
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Belougery Spire Behind Trees - From the South Western Side Just Below the Grand High Tops - Warrumbungle National Park, NSW
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Belougery Spire is approximately 400m east of the Grand High Tops marker cairn and is over 500m high. It takes at least 3 hours for skilled climbers to ascend to the top.
General Information
With some side detours the up to 14km round trip walk up to the Grand High Tops in the Warrumbungle National Park is well worth the effort and for that reason it is regarded in the top 10 walks in Australia.
The walk departs from the Pincham Car Park with much of the track across Wallaby Flat beside the usually dry creek on level paved ground with gradual but increasing steepness till the stairs are reached. The last section which takes about an hour requires steep ascent of more than 500 steps with a final walk of about 30 minutes over very rough ground adjacent the Bread Knife before finally scrambling up to the Grand High Tops.
Allow 4-5 hours minimum to do this 12.5km walk. The grade is marked as 'moderate to steep'.
Once at the top the view is amazing with all the high peaks visible as far as Bluff Mountain, Mount Exmouth and Siding Springs Observatory while behind you is the impressive Crater Bluff. Directly below is the well named 'Breadknife' which can be seen in the near centre of this image.
This walk is definitely not recommend for anyone with arthritis or fitness or mobility issues.
Warrumbungle National Park is situated 35 km west of Coonabarabran and 80 km from Gilgandra in Central Western NSW. Access to the Park from Coonabarabran is by the bitumened Timor Road which becomes John Renshaw Parkway.
There are many points of interest along the way including White Gums Lookout, Siding Springs Astronomical Observatory and a plethora of astronomical letterboxes, private astronomy telescope shelters and several large roadside educational astronomy billboards associated with Siding Springs Observatory.
The Warrunbungles are considered one of the best night sky viewing points in Australia due to lack of nearby urban light pollution sources.
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Sunset -The Esplanade Hervey Bay
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Smoke haze from annual winter burning off left a pall of smoke on the horizon which turned the sky almost black on sunset.
Hervey Bay is located on the Fraser Coast of South East Queensland and is the main stepping off point for Fraser Island. Hervey Bay is growing rapidly with a current population of around 53,000 residents and is a popular retirement town for people escaping the colder southern areas of Australia.
Captain James Cook first sailed into the area in 1770 but the first European settlement of Hervey Bay was not till the 1850s. Originally Hervey Bay was part of a cattle station known as the the Toogoom Run, which had been established in 1854. Boyle Martin was the first permanent white settler at Hervey Bay arriving with his wife and child, in 1863. Of course aboriginal settlement pre dated European settlement here by many thousands of years with tribes annually visiting the nearby Bunya Mountains and feasting on the delicious Bunya nuts. With the Great Sandy Straits and K'gari or Fraser Island so close life was idyllic with plenty of food always available.
The Great Sandy Straits are an annual stopping off point for migrating Humpback Whales and also Dugong who feed on the seagrasses in the shallow areas of the sandy straits.
Noosa Botanic Gardens Ampitheatre Overlooking Lake McDonald, Cooroy, Queensland
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After extensive preparation work the Noosa Botanic Gardens were officially opened to the public in August 1990 although surprisingly, they are not well known.
The gardens comprise 8 hectares of native and exotic plant species and are ideally located on the shores of Lake MacDonald, a short drive from the Noosa hinterland town of Cooroy.
Among the attractions in these gardens are an open air bush chapel, fern house, lily pond, large lawn areas and a Grecian style amphitheatre. Wildlife is everywhere particularly birdlife around the shores of Lake MacDonald.
The site was originally farmland, part of which was once an unofficial rubbish tip. The land was resumed by Council in the late 1950s. A significant part of the resumed land was utiised to create Lake Macdonald which is now used as a water supply for Coroy and surrounding areas.
Unfortunately these gardens, like so many Botanic Gardens in Australia today, appear to be under-funded so basic labelling of many species has deteriorated and needs attention. The full time staff of 2 do an amazing job though considering all that is necessary to keep these gardens in the presentable fashion that they indeed are.
This lack of resourcing of Botanic Gardens is a similar story right across the nation as funding for Arboretums and Botanic Gardens has become more difficult to obtain from governments while commercial funding is increasingly highly conditional.
Once managed by botanists and a storehouse for native as well as exotic diversity Botanic Gardens today are increasingly being botanically "dumbed down" by economics based management to focus on pretty flowers, and plants of eye catching potential to attract visitors, who may not be necessarily interested in botanic elements of the particular gardens.
www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/sitePage.cfm?code=nbg-history
www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/sitePage.cfm?code=nbg-attrac...
Belougery Spire From the South West Side - Grand High Tops - Warrumbungle National Park, NSW
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Belougery Spire is approximately 400m east of the Grand High Tops marker cairn and is over 500m high. It takes at least 3 hours for skilled climbers to ascend to the top.
General Information
With some side detours the up to 14km round trip walk up to the Grand High Tops in the Warrumbungle National Park is well worth the effort and for that reason it is regarded in the top 10 walks in Australia.
The walk departs from the Pincham Car Park with much of the track across Wallaby Flat beside the usually dry creek on level paved ground with gradual but increasing steepness till the stairs are reached. The last section which takes about an hour requires steep ascent of more than 500 steps with a final walk of about 30 minutes over very rough ground adjacent the Bread Knife before finally scrambling up to the Grand High Tops.
Allow 4-5 hours minimum to do this 12.5km walk. The grade is marked as 'moderate to steep'.
Once at the top the view is amazing with all the high peaks visible as far as Bluff Mountain, Mount Exmouth and Siding Springs Observatory while behind you is the impressive Crater Bluff. Directly below is the well named 'Breadknife' which can be seen in the near centre of this image.
This walk is definitely not recommend for anyone with arthritis or fitness or mobility issues.
Warrumbungle National Park is situated 35 km west of Coonabarabran and 80 km from Gilgandra in Central Western NSW. Access to the Park from Coonabarabran is by the bitumened Timor Road which becomes John Renshaw Parkway.
There are many points of interest along the way including White Gums Lookout, Siding Springs Astronomical Observatory and a plethora of astronomical letterboxes, private astronomy telescope shelters and several large roadside educational astronomy billboards associated with Siding Springs Observatory.
The Warrunbungles are considered one of the best night sky viewing points in Australia due to lack of nearby urban light pollution sources.
More Images HERE
The Breadknife - Grand High Tops, Warrumbungle National Park Warrumbungles ,NSW
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With some side detours the up to 14km round trip walk up to the Grand High Tops in the Warrumbungle National Park is well worth the effort and for that reason it is regarded in the top 10 walks in Australia.
The walk departs from the Pincham Car Park with much of the track across Wallaby Flat beside the usually dry creek on level paved ground with gradual but increasing steepness till the stairs are reached. The last section which takes about an hour requires steep ascent of more than 500 steps with a final walk of about 30 minutes over very rough ground adjacent the Bread Knife before finally scrambling up to the Grand High Tops.
Allow 4-5 hours minimum to do this 12.5km walk. The grade is marked as 'moderate to steep'.
Once at the top the view is amazing with all the high peaks visible as far as Bluff Mountain, Mount Exmouth and Siding Springs Observatory while behind you is the impressive Crater Bluff. Directly below is the well named 'Breadknife' which can be seen in the near centre of this image.
This walk is definitely not recommend for anyone with arthritis or fitness or mobility issues.
Warrumbungle National Park is situated 35 km west of Coonabarabran and 80 km from Gilgandra in Central Western NSW. Access to the Park from Coonabarabran is by the bitumened Timor Road which becomes John Renshaw Parkway.
There are many points of interest along the way including White Gums Lookout, Siding Springs Astronomical Observatory and a plethora of astronomical letterboxes, private astronomy telescope shelters and several large roadside educational astronomy billboards associated with Siding Springs Observatory.
The Warrunbungles are considered one of the best night sky viewing points in Australia due to lack of nearby urban light pollution sources.
More Images HERE
Belougery Spire From the South West Side - Grand High Tops - Warrumbungle National Park, NSW
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Belougery Spire is approximately 400m east of the Grand High Tops marker cairn and is over 500m high. It takes at least 3 hours for skilled climbers to ascend to the top.
General Information
With some side detours the up to 14km round trip walk up to the Grand High Tops in the Warrumbungle National Park is well worth the effort and for that reason it is regarded in the top 10 walks in Australia.
The walk departs from the Pincham Car Park with much of the track across Wallaby Flat beside the usually dry creek on level paved ground with gradual but increasing steepness till the stairs are reached. The last section which takes about an hour requires steep ascent of more than 500 steps with a final walk of about 30 minutes over very rough ground adjacent the Bread Knife before finally scrambling up to the Grand High Tops.
Allow 4-5 hours minimum to do this 12.5km walk. The grade is marked as 'moderate to steep'.
Once at the top the view is amazing with all the high peaks visible as far as Bluff Mountain, Mount Exmouth and Siding Springs Observatory while behind you is the impressive Crater Bluff. Directly below is the well named 'Breadknife' which can be seen in the near centre of this image.
This walk is definitely not recommend for anyone with arthritis or fitness or mobility issues.
Warrumbungle National Park is situated 35 km west of Coonabarabran and 80 km from Gilgandra in Central Western NSW. Access to the Park from Coonabarabran is by the bitumened Timor Road which becomes John Renshaw Parkway.
There are many points of interest along the way including White Gums Lookout, Siding Springs Astronomical Observatory and a plethora of astronomical letterboxes, private astronomy telescope shelters and several large roadside educational astronomy billboards associated with Siding Springs Observatory.
The Warrunbungles are considered one of the best night sky viewing points in Australia due to lack of nearby urban light pollution sources.
routes.sydneyrockies.org.au/display/nswrock/Warrumbungles
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