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Camping in the Blue Mountains

May 29, 2016May 29, 2016Posted in Landscape Photography, Photography, Travel PhotographyTagged astrophotography, Blackheath, Blue Mountains, camping, Katoomba, Lithgow, Lithgow glow worm tunney, milky way, NSW, outdoors, photography, stars, SydneyLeave a comment

Since we’d planned to meet our friends at the Three Sisters Lookout at Echo Point in the Blue Mountains bright and early Sunday, we decided to make a weekend camping trip out of it. The extra time allowed us to make the drive to check out the glow worm tunnel over in Lithgow. It’s a short trek, or at least we chose the short route, but we didn’t realize that the 30km drive to the start of the trail was over a dirt track, so by the time we arrived, it was close to sunset already. No matter, we were armed and ready with our headlamps.

Woot. Happy to have finally shot the glow worms. They’re quite a bit smaller than the species in New Zealand though.

Perrymans Lookdown Astrophotography-5252 — It had been raining and overcast most of the day, but the stars finally came out to play at night. The lookout at the start of the Perrymans Lookdown trail

Perrymans Lookdown Camping-5268 — Our campsite at Perrymans Lookdown. Brr, we’re no longer used to the cold. It went down to 1 deg C at night. In our previous life in Chicago, that would have been positively balmy!

We met up with two of our friends bright and early at Echo Point, then decided to do the short trek down to Wentworth Falls.

Exploring the trails of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains

March 3, 2016Posted in Landscape Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Travel PhotographyTagged Blackheath, Blue Mountains, Bridal Veil Falls, hiking, NSW, photography, Shipley Plateau1 Comment

Sunday was the perfect day to check out a couple trails out in the Blue Mountains. It was hot down in Sydney – at least according to friends who were complaining. And the trails we did passed under waterfalls, where the mist was most welcome.

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