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MacKenzie Falls, Grampians Lorraine Parker

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Rocky walking ILUVSWTAS

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AorakiGraham51

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The Three Sisters the tourists never see Skibug

Pre-dawn seascape, tropical far north Louise Fairfax

Capertee CliffsTom Brennan

Elder Range SA Lorraine Parker

Spring day oasis John Walker

Look up Dan Broun

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The frog was photographed on a warm spring evening last year in the Kedumba Valley in Blue Mountains National Park. It is a Rocky River Tree Frog or Lesueur’s Frog, and there were literally dozens of them out and about around the river bank, patiently waiting for the moths and other flying insects that were in abundance. There were so many I had to be careful not to step on them. I absolutely adored their huge eyes, brilliant colors and seemingly placid nature - they really made no effort to flee, even when I sat right next to them.

Female Bower bird Cameron Semple

Amongst the boulders Brian Eglinton

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Brian (aka Eggs) is from SA. Together with a walking friend, he thought it was time to explore some of the Victorian High Country. After overnighting on Mt Cobbler, it was decided to stop near the iconic Craigs Hut before embarking on the next three days in the Mt Howitt area. Craigs Hut is a custom made mountain hut for the movie “The Man from Snowy River” and is located on the Clear Hills Spur off Mt Stirling. It had been burned down in a bushfire and was rebuilt again. There are some walking tracks through that area, and given a reluctance to take the two wheel drive over some of the more interesting four wheel drive sections, they left the car near the top of the ridge and headed along a foot track to arrive at Craigs Hut just before sunset. The hut is not for use by campers, but there are camping locations not far away, so there were a number of school groups cooking up the evening meal on the extensive grassed areas next to the hut. This hut probably attracts a lot of attention because they have placed it with a fantastic view across to Mt Cobbler (where they had been the night before). So they watched the sun set on that distant range and waited long enough to catch the Alpen Glow over Cobbler. This is the pink/red colour of the sky marking the boundary where the sunlight through the atmosphere is giving way to the shadow of the earth.

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Ida and Rim LakeDoogs

Mt Byron awakensILUVSWTAS

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Artists Cascades Cameron Semple

Morning on the Cobbler Brian Eglinton

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Brian (aka Eggs) managed to do some overnight walks in the Victorian Alps for the first time in 2014. And what better place to start than with a tent near the summit of Mt Cobbler.

While the drive up to Lake Cobbler can be a bit challenging for a small car, Brian and a friend managed without having to use the chainsaw they were carting for emergencies. The walk up from Lake Cobbler is not long and is quite pleasant. There is a forest of white snow gum skeletons towards the top, but there are also some notable survivors with their highly coloured striped trunks. They arrived at the summit on a beautiful clear evening, but picked out a tent site a bit down from the false summit, since the adjacent true summit block had a group of campers already settled in. It was while attempting a few star shots that Brian wondered about some artificial lighting thrown into the mix. So in the course of using some very brief sweeps of torch light on some long exposures, he captured this shot of Snow Gums against the night sky.

Lone eucalypt watches over Clear Hill Louise Fairfax

See you Charles Chadwick

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