Tony and Kim Outdoor Adventures

Snapper Rocks, Gold Coast with Google Pixel 3 Some people don’t believe in magic. But that’s until they see their first breathtaking sunrise light show. Photographers believe in magic and sunrise landscape is a way to deliver it, to share it with others. Because when you share something great, it multiplies.  Queensland beaches are pretty beautiful and I had a spare day so I decided to trek to Snapper Rocks for sunrise. Arriving in time for the spectacular sunrise, I spent a bit of time practicing capturing surfers and people on the rocks.  The results were some Impressive images that made it worth the trip down. It also proved to be a whole lot of fun. Snapper Rocks just consistently is the most perfect warm water waves on the East Coast, smack in the middle of Australia’s urbanized surf-center on the southern border of Queensland. Smartphone camera capabilities are getting better and better. The Google Pix...

'H.M.Q.S. Gayundah'  It’s hard to believe the rusty hulk at the foot of the cliffs of Woody Point was in the 19th century the Navy’s proud premier warship. A ship wreck sitting for years at redcliffe is Gunboat Gayundah, a ship my great grandfather served on 12 th April 1912 till 30 th April 1913, then again 1 st May 1913 till 31 st December 1913, then again 3 rd August   1914 till 31 st January 1915. As one of the newly established Australian Navy’s first ships, a flat-iron gunboat Gayundah was built in Newcastle-on-Tyne in the 1884 at the behest of the Queensland Maritime Defence Force, commissioned to protect the many bays, inlets and estuaries along the east coast from the enemy-of-the-day which at the time was believed to be the Russians.  Attribution State Library Of Queensland    Attribution State Library Of Queensland By 1886 it had been acquired by the fledgling Australian Navy as one of its ten ships. In its...

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