Monthly Archives: November 2013
Some More Photos from Great Barrier Reef (4)
I have gotten a lot of feedback on the posts with photos from the Great Barrier Reef, so here are a couple more posts with some more photos. I use an Olympus Stylus Tough 8010. It has a slow reaction for taking a photo once you press the button, but I set it on a multiple shot setting as long as the button is depressed. The good news is you can catch a fish in a great shot, but the bad news I would get out of the water with hundreds of photos to sift through each time. It has been a great camera for underwater photos, but I’d look for one with a faster response time and also I think being about 4 years old, you can get better picture quality these days.
Daintree Rainforest & Kuranda
Crocodile on Daintree River
On my recent trip to Australia, I spent a few days in Cairns and took a couple daytrips.
First I went up to the Daintree Rainforest and took a walk at Mossman Gorge. It was a little disappointing after 3 nights out at the Great Barrier Reef with so much wildlife every time I got in the water. I ran into a guy from the boat at a coffee shop our first day back in Cairns and we both had the idea of driving the hour and half or so up North. Daintree Village was a little tourist stop without any real access to trails, but we took a little cruise on the Daintree River and saw one basking crocodile on the shore. We drove back down to Mossman Gorge and took a walk there. It had been very dry, it was an ok walk, but not much wildlife, a few birds: an Australian Brush Turkey digging away next to the trail (photos didn’t turn out well), some nesting Metallic Starlings, and I did see a couple of Cockatoos in flight (sorry, no photo again).
Mossman Gorge
The next day I drove up the hills to Kuranda, a nice little tourist town that had a nice butterfly sanctuary.
Being Fully Human 