Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) & Mt Warning
Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) & Mt Warning, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
I have been doing some re-editing of the whale and dolphin oics from my August 2009 whake watching trip. Best viewed large
One from my first whale trip last year (23/08/2009) aboard Coolangatta Whale Watch/Aquatic Blue charters whale watching boat. I’ve been out with these folk 6 times now and they run a great trip and get just as excited themselves as the newbies on each trip.
I was trying the whole day to get one with Mt Warning in the background, and it was not until I got home that I saw I’d actually done it about 15 minutes into the trip after all!
Canon EOS30D & 24-105 lens – 230809 _MG_0687
Dolphin Magic #3
Dolphin Magic #3 , originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
I have been doing some re-editing of the whale and dolphin oics from my August 2009 whake watching trip. Best viewed large
While on the whale watching trip (23/08/2009) we had some dolphins (2010, photographybyodille, landscape, nsw, australia) surfing the bow wave. I was leaning right over the rail to get these. They were just magnificent.
They rolled on their sides and would look up at us through the water. Everyone was totally entranced!
Canon 30D & 24-105 lens – 29082010 PY7Z9706
Dolphin Magic # 4
Dolphin Magic # 4, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
This one is my absolute favourite and I would have given anything to have had the whole dolphin in! But it is still nice.
Canon 30D & 24-105 lens – 230810 PY7Z9717
Green Tree Snake, Dendrelaphis punctulata
Green Tree Snake, Dendrelaphis punctulata, originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
Spotted this fellow, about 2m of him, in the garden bed at the front door on Dec 29, the second of our 3 relatively rain free days after weeks of sodden grey weather.
He was a very beautiful fellow who had obviously not long shed his skin. I’m pleased with the detail here, you can see he has even picked up a cat hair (with 6 cats they are everywhere!) and it is stuck to the back of his head!
Since the rain cleared for a few days we have seen pink & blue tongue lizards, eastern brown snakes, this chap and some coastal carpet pythons (they live in our roof). However, the grey set in again yesterday so they’ll be quiet again for a while I think.
Lumix FZ35- P1060393
Whale watching fun
Veolia Wildlife Photographer Competition
White faced heron (100_2935)
This image went through to the semi final round in the Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. As wildlife photography is not my main focus, but an ‘incidental’ I am well pleased.
Carpet python (Morelia spilota)
Carpet python (Morelia spilota), originally uploaded by Photography by Odille.
A juvenile (coastal variety I presume) carpet python we ‘unearthed’ in the garden yesterday. He was about 40cm and as thick through the middle as my thumb. His colouring was a dark cinnamony brown background and creamy/fawn markings. The pic of showing his body is more accurate for colour. (These were taken with the Lumix (everything else is packed for the trip) and it does have a slight orange tendency.)
Yesterday to 9am we had 60 mm rain and then more through the day. This little guy obviously got washed out of his wintering spot. He is on the old weldmesh frame we use for the cherry tomatoes in summer, and as they are all finished we decided to clean it off and get ready for next year. Warwick reached out to move it and saw him wriggle and got a hell of a shock!
We’ve christened him Peter and hope he stays around and does not fall prey to the brown snakes.
