Category: Australia (not WA)

The first three photos in this post were taken within a “window” of just one minute.

At 6.38 pm on 17 March 2025 the sun was low; it would soon “sink” into Bass Strait.

”Paradoxically” (not, in fact) this circumstance saw the west-facing, upper reaches of Strzelecki National Park bathed in “gold”, whilst their lower flanks were “greyed” by shade.

…with a cloudy backdrop: I love what happen when simultaneously-present sunbeams and clouds dapple steep slopes.

A recipe for quiet delight…

1: Be in a place with dramatic topography (ideally, clad with both forest and exposed rock faces and/or outcrops) and oft-changing weather.

2: Find a comfortable vantage point, with late afternoon sun behind you, dramatic topography in front, and a sky that is neither cloudless nor overcast.  Ideally, bring camera/s and/or binoculars.

3: Watch closely, as clouds form, dance, dissolve, whilst the sunlight becomes progressively lovelier as its daily “disappearance” draws closer.

A “static” landscape – even a “stolid”  one – becomes deliciously dynamic when “golden hour” sunlight and shadows move across it.

(The southwestern corner of Flinders Island is an ideal location)

Strzelecki National Park’s signature features are its glorious, unspoilt beaches and the hills  that tower above them.

Generally, the hills have well-wooded lower slopes, which eventually yield to quasi-naked granite.

The above photo was taken just a few minutes after I and the previous post’s star had been mutually-surprised, but unalarmed…just a few wallaby-hops distant from this post’s vantage point.