This week’s WordPress Photo Challenge – Rise/Set – is another opportunity for me to show off photos I took while Dean and I travelled around Australia. As our plan was to go ‘around the outside’, most of these photos include water, but you will see that we did venture away from the coast a couple of times.
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I’ve discovered that although sunsets can be amazing when your view of the Sun slipping below the horizon is unimpeded, add a little H2O in the form of a visible mass of condensed water vapour floating in the atmosphere, and a moment that is magical suddenly becomes remarkable – completely unforgettable.
Cape Jervis, South Australia
Between April and November each year, both the western and eastern coastlines of Australia come alive with the spectacular, and often very acrobatic, displays of Humpback Whales. Leaving the freezing Antarctic waters behind, they migrate north to warmer sub-tropical waters to mate and give birth to the next generation.
Along Australia’s east coast, during their annual migration, a journey of up to 10,000 kilometres (6,213.1 miles), the humpbacks attract thousands of visitors to coastal towns such as Eden, Byron Bay, and Hervey Bay. This is one of the longest migrations in the animal kingdom and pods start to arrive at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef around the middle of June. They continue to move further north, along the Great Barrier Reef, where they concentrate in the southern Whitsundays area.
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Sunset, Hervey Bay, Queensland
Cloud pattern captured during sunset – Mount Isa, Queensland
