Up in 'da Mountains

This was the first weekend in awhile that I’ve had to myself and didn’t have to worry about Disney drawings, trying to find work and/or a place to live. One thing I’ve always wanted to do was have a look around the mountains just outside of Sydney. I’ve travelled between Sydney and Western New South Wales too many times to remember. Thus I’ve been through the mountains many times but never stopped for a looksy.

I managed to get a new toy for my iPod as a work around to the problems that I’m having with my camera – thus I’m back to taking as many photos as I like while out and about (I feel free again – yippee!). So naturally, here are some of the better photos from the day.

First up is a view looking back towards Sydney itself (ie looking east). Downtown Sydney is about 50km away from here and just past it is the Pacific Ocean. Between this spot and downtown Sydney are all the suburbs of Sydney.



In this photo you are looking south onto all the mountain peaks going far into the distance. A combination of sandstone and other rocks. Hard to think once all this rock was at the bottom of the ocean.



This is somewhat typical of the Australian bush in places – sandstone rock outcrops lined with eculuptyus trees (trees that koala’s only live in)



Unfortunately the drive out took over 2 hours instead of about an hour (an overturned turn spilt soil all over the highway closing it down). Thus got a lot of photos around dusk and this was an interesting cloud pattern.



A few years ago when Sydney had some really bad bush fires, they ripped through this area. Thus this was an old wooden power pole that got burnt out and made for an interesting visual



Just something I found visually interesting about this composition and silhouette with people



Lasty something more humourous to end on. This tree when you look at it you can see somewhat of an animals head side profile (just look for the eyes, nose and mouth).