Todays photos

gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
edited January 3, 2005 in Wildlife
Headed up to Slaughter Falls for a short bush walk & then onto the council gardens below that.

Followed the creek all the way up...

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Female Golden Orb with small male at the top of the photo. Really i dont go looking for spiders its just that there is so bloody many of them here ! You are forever walking into the webs & this spiders web can catch small birds so its really great to get on glasses & lens's....not.

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You want to know how long i sat in 35c (95f) + sun to get this ??? Over an hour...man they are the most inconsiderate %$#@ to shoot ever ! You creep closer & closer then 'bam' off they go at light speed.

& its still out of focus !!!

i think some bushwalkers reported a large bald man lying on a rock cursing in the sun to police though.

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a blue one

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I was up there pretty early so got some decent light.

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Comments

  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    Aboriginal painting of the serpent that formed the creek.

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    On to the gardens....

    These frogs were only 5mm (1/4 inch) long...they were tiny. It was blistering hot on the rocks so i dont know what they were doing.

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    Can you work out that ive just discovered how to set the shutter ?

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    The Gate Keeper..he was a big bugger, maybe 2' 6" long.

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    More flowers..



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    These blokes are bigger than a childs hand...there were 3 but i couldnt get high enough to line them up. There is the small male at the top...waiting with the relish & salt eek7.gif

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,963 moderator
    edited January 3, 2005
    Waterfall's a great one! The yellow flower is also very nice.
    Those spiders kinda creep me out eek7.gif though.

    ian
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    I havnt touched these colours...the things are just that red.


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    These had almost no colour at all...

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    Fig anyone ??

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    Or maybe a sausage from the 'sausage tree' ?

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    Waterfall's a great one! The yellow flower is also very nice.
    Those spiders kinda creep me out eek7.gif though.

    ian
    Ta ian..notice the lizard tail on the rock of the waterfall ? They love running water.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,963 moderator
    edited January 3, 2005
    'gus, I didn't see the lizard. But, DO NOT eat the red berries...the figs look
    tasty tho.

    ian
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    'gus, I didn't see the lizard. But, DO NOT eat the red berries...the figs look
    tasty tho.

    ian




    i ate the lizard...............
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    Some editing.



    http://humoungus.smugmug.com/gallery/342974/1/13631760
  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    More very nice stuff. The spiders creep me out too...
    http://dehmphoto.smugmug.com/

  • bikehikerbikehiker Registered Users Posts: 79 Big grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    Nice shots gus, I really enjoy your nature walks from the other side.
    Mike
    my smugmug
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    Beauty!

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    Sid.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2005
    Thanks all..greaps the spiders havnt got a patch on a brown snake..believe me & thats what im scanning for the whole time. A spider bite will be an inconvenience.

    With weather this good it should be illegal to stay at home.
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