Weekend adventures!

Well this weekend presented itself with all the makings of a great photographic weekend. I had the time (I have a lot of that these days…) and the weather was certainly cooperating! So I headed out Saturday afternoon with great intentions and several hours of planned, undisturbed adventures.

I headed East and stopped in the Grotto Bay area. After a couple hours of spelunking, tree climbing and coastal walks it kinda dawned on me that I was out trekking and exploring, the photography wasn’t really the focus… That time of day is just bad news for most types of images, oh well, I guess the 30lbs of gear on my back was good exercise anyway!

After exploring Tom Moore’s it was starting to get into the golden hour so the next stop was St.George’s! The problem was that once I started driving around I just couldn’t bring myself to stop anywhere, the clouds got too thick killing the light and all of the places on my list were just not ideal so this ended up becoming a veeeery long drive! A very frustrating end to what was a fun afternoon but with little picture taking.

Determined not to be denied a keeper for the weekend I awoke early this morning and headed out again! This time back to a more familiar patch of the rock, one that I have been meaning to get back to for morning light. Luckily for me it was a stunning morning, certainly making up for the prior day. It actually turned out to be a very wet morning also:

You can see where this is going I’m sure….

Yup! It happened, lured in by the occasional calm that comes with the cycles of waves I inched my gear closer and closer…..

LOL what an idiot! Moments before impact… Luckily none of my gear is really bothered by the water! Nothing a rinse under some fresh water wont fix, I was way more upset that my shoes and socks where soaked!

Anyway after that I found a cute little fella sleeping in!

Check him out in the corner, helluva view huh!