Duuuuuuude

It's a bit of a urban (or in this case rural?) myth that koalas are permanently stoned due to the chemical effects that eucalyptus leaves have on them. Apparently the real reason that all they do is sleep most of the time, only to occasionally wake when they get the munchies, is to conserve energy.

Yeah, right. Stoners.

Pretty sure it was something I said

As we were walking along a big breakwater in Port Fairy, a small flock of birds took off from just under our feet - they were virtually invisible against the rocks until they did so, and then their amazing white markings appeared.

Without pier

The remains of a jetty was another excuse for me to ask for the car to be stopped and take my camera for a walk (my carmates exhibited admirable patience throughout three days of this...)

Give me a home amongst them...

So one more...

Lorne at Dawn

Excuse the blatently bad rhyming, I couldn't help myself.

So I thought I'd take advantage of a mild case of jetlag to test out the theory that dawn light is the best for taking photos - one that I haven't really examined too closely before due to my normally night-owlish pattern. I think I'll have to do more of this, as I can't say I was disappointed - I went reflection crazy. There's a LOT more of these, but I've limited it to my favourite three to save viewer boredom. I couldn't get the one directly below quite right - the composition seems a little skewed (hard to keep the horizon straight as well as line up the posts to the left of the frame) - but the reflection and vignetting in the water was so nice I thought I'd leave it in. On the other hand, I like how the top one came out so much it's my desktop background. Finally the last one - I kind of like how the gum trees look like they've got a white halo, and how it becomes apparent why only when you look at the reflection...

Thanks Megs for keeping me company at ridiculous-o'clock - after having had a whole lolly water to yourself the night before no less! :)

Oh, and thanks to the local ducks for doing such a great job on cleaning up the floor of our cabin.