Sunrises, sunsets, kayaking and other adventures
Sunrises are best shared with friends. Rose and I went out to Turimetta Beach this morning. After a drizzly day yesterday, the clouds dispersed enough for the pre-dawn colors to shine through. Glorious. We should have also then persevered and gone swimming at Manly to Shelly, but after a big breakfast, I was ready for …
Christmas morning. Rise and shine. Drove out to Turimetta Beach, my happy place. The tide was high, and my heart was full.
What are the five stages of grief again? Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, then finally acceptance? I feel like I've run through the course over the past hours. My dreams last night were variations of the same living nightmare. I keep waking up, only to find the new reality. It's times like these that show the …
With clear skies forecasted for the entire weekend, it seemed more worth it to sleep in for the sunrise and stay up instead for some astrophotography. So after dinner on Saturday, we skipped up to Turimetta Beach to soak in the stars.
It was cold this morning, with wind chills sending temperatures down to 3 degrees C. And there wasn't any cloud cover in the sky, just low over the horizon out east, recipes for a not so stellar sunrise. Still, it was nice to be out, hearing and seeing the waves crash onto the sand. That's …
Took another pass through my collection of shots from Saturday's colorful sunrise, and my eye caught on this one. Love the pastel colors. Wish I'd set the camera a touch further back though, to get in more of that textured sand in the left foreground.
After browsing the photographs on Facebook for a year, I finally joined the group of seascape photographers to catch the sunrise over at Turimetta Beach. The organizer was warmly welcoming, and told me how the storms of the past week had eroded a ton of sand on the beach, such that there were now shelves …
