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So I just got home from a night away in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. Drove down into a small public camping area that I have never been to. No real purpose to the night away other than to get the hell away from civilization/work/people etc etc for a night.
Only down side was the weather, but I knew it was going to be wet when I left but what the hell. That said there was a flash of lightening and clap of thunder that must have been right above the tent
Got my attention there
!! I will say the sound of rain falling on the tent is somewhat soothing and I found myself doing NOTHING but laying there watching the light fade and listening
. !!! If only I could make a living out of that
!!!!!
A few pics I managed to snap off
Start of the track (10km) down into the area
Weather was already looking ominous (remember it is almost SUMMER here)
Tent up .
Worlds toughest bread knife
View from the tent around 8pm last night (that is a 30 second exposure)..
Morning after . despite almost constant rain (heavy light heavy light drizzle) there was essentially NO leakage inside . Gotta love the Marine Tents
Morning Coffee on the go .
Dog Father out marking some territory
About 200yds from my camp is a small lake and waterfall(s) . Snapped this pic of the larger falls
Decided to walk around to the left and onto a little spit of land to get a better pic of the waterfall, it was very overgrown with the actual track being about a foot wide . as I got right to the end of the track and to the little point I wanted to use I discovered I was sharing that square of land with a large and VERY cranky Tiger Snake !!!
http://www.reptilepark.com.au/animalprofile.asp?id=117
It appeared that he didnt want to swim away and was pretty insistent about staying just where he was sadly my camera was still attached to a tripod, with a ND filter on the front and all set for a long exposure (see the last waterfall pic). He would have made a great pic all puffed up and mean alas I decided to make a tactical withdrawal out of his sight and rearrange the camera (as I didnt want to take my eyes off him to do this when I was only a couple of metres away from him (or her). When I walk back in he had moved off into a little more cover and, in deference to his ability to kill (I had no phone reception down in here for the most part and was not sure I was going to be able to drive out due to the rain at this point) I elected NOT to antagonize him just for a pic
this was the only bit of him left visible when I got back
Another little waterfall .
Kind of them to point it out . The Red Belly Blacks put on quite a show as well but are not in the same ball park as the Tigers I think the Red Belly is about as toxic as a Rattle Snake +/-. Tigers are No 6 on the kill ya list ..
http://listverse.com/2011/03/30/top-10-most-venomous-snakes/
Packing back up .
Redundant sign posting .. as if you got this far down you WERE in a 4x4 as a sedan would be hung up on the washouts about 1km back up the track
Just about back out
Only down side was the weather, but I knew it was going to be wet when I left but what the hell. That said there was a flash of lightening and clap of thunder that must have been right above the tent
Got my attention there
!! I will say the sound of rain falling on the tent is somewhat soothing and I found myself doing NOTHING but laying there watching the light fade and listening
. !!! If only I could make a living out of that
!!!!!A few pics I managed to snap off
Start of the track (10km) down into the area
Weather was already looking ominous (remember it is almost SUMMER here)
Tent up .
Worlds toughest bread knife
View from the tent around 8pm last night (that is a 30 second exposure)..
Morning after . despite almost constant rain (heavy light heavy light drizzle) there was essentially NO leakage inside .
Gotta love the Marine Tents
Morning Coffee on the go .
Dog Father out marking some territory
About 200yds from my camp is a small lake and waterfall(s) . Snapped this pic of the larger falls
Decided to walk around to the left and onto a little spit of land to get a better pic of the waterfall, it was very overgrown with the actual track being about a foot wide . as I got right to the end of the track and to the little point I wanted to use I discovered I was sharing that square of land with a large and VERY cranky Tiger Snake !!!
http://www.reptilepark.com.au/animalprofile.asp?id=117
It appeared that he didnt want to swim away and was pretty insistent about staying just where he was sadly my camera was still attached to a tripod, with a ND filter on the front and all set for a long exposure (see the last waterfall pic). He would have made a great pic all puffed up and mean alas I decided to make a tactical withdrawal out of his sight and rearrange the camera (as I didnt want to take my eyes off him to do this when I was only a couple of metres away from him (or her). When I walk back in he had moved off into a little more cover and, in deference to his ability to kill
(I had no phone reception down in here for the most part and was not sure I was going to be able to drive out due to the rain at this point) I elected NOT to antagonize him just for a pic
this was the only bit of him left visible when I got back
Another little waterfall .
Kind of them to point it out . The Red Belly Blacks put on quite a show as well but are not in the same ball park as the Tigers I think the Red Belly is about as toxic as a Rattle Snake +/-. Tigers are No 6 on the kill ya list ..
http://listverse.com/2011/03/30/top-10-most-venomous-snakes/
Packing back up .
Redundant sign posting .. as if you got this far down you WERE in a 4x4 as a sedan would be hung up on the washouts about 1km back up the track
Just about back out
Even with the weather and rain it was humid out there...!!
