Having trouble taking fantastic outdoors photographs?
Need some advice on how to take great photos when hiking, bushwalking or backpacking?
Don’t understand how your digital camera works or how to get the best out of it?
Always wanted to know how to take a perfect photo of a waterfall, rainbow, sunrise, sunset or beautiful scene?
One of the great things about getting out into the outdoors is the spectacular scenery, or that magic moment you just have to record for ever. We have taken hundreds (probably thousands) of digital photographs on our various hiking trips. Occasionally they have been really fantastic, other times very disappointing.
We needed to learn how to take a great digital photograph.
Walking in a row …
Have you ever returned from a hiking trip and thought?
- never again, it is all too hard, too heavy and too difficult
- my pack was loaded badly
- my tent was too heavy
- my food was awful
Matthias, a fellow blogger and mate at Matt Worldwide posted a fantastic , detailed analysis recently on the lessons he has learnt from his first two Australian bushwalks.
A very thoughtful and thorough blogger, Matthias has put together a long post about his preparations to undertake the South Coast Track in Tasmania over Easter. We highly recommend you read his full post Preparing for a 10 day hike in South West Tasmania
Here are a few of the key points …
Penguins?
Enchanted Forest?
Blowholes?
Seals?
Petrified Forest?
and The End….
The final section of the Great South West Walk is described as “The Capes and Bays” and in his fourth guest post, Dave Tomlinson shares his trip report of this popular and beautiful area.
Petrified Forest
The 27km from Tarragal Camp around Cape Bridgewater to Trewalla Camp was my longest day but also one of the most enjoyable. Initially I had to traverse some pastoral land which offered beautiful views of Bridgewater Lakes. After enjoying some native bush around the lakes the track pushed its way out onto the rugged and windswept headland. As I progressed down the western side the vegetation became sparser until it became barren with a …
Australia has some wonderful multiday hiking trips but your choice can be limited if you, or your companion, are scared of heights (Acrophobia) or falling down (Bathmophobia) .
Tasmania, for example, has some fantastic wilderness trips into areas such as the Western Arthurs, Frenchmans Cap and Federation Peak.
The problem with all of these wonderful bushwalking journeys is they involve heights, some serious rock scrambling and steep “drop offs”
But what if you are afraid of heights or don’t need to be challenged to within an inch of your life?
Dead Horse Point in Moab, Utah by Ivan Makarov
What more moderate hiking trips are out there that are great fun and challenging enough to leave you satisfied having explored …
The Great South West Walk third section is from Discovery Bay to Mount Richmond and Tarragal Camp.
If you like beach walking, sand and sand dunes this section is for you!
If you hate march flies, be prepared…..
In his third guest post, Dave Tomlinson shares some great information about this section of the GSWW. You can check out the map here
Dave’s footprints, Discovery Bay – soft sand makes for hard walking
The Discovery Bay Coastal Park begins at Nelson and extends virtually all the way along the coast to Portland. It is recommended to walk the direction I did because the sun and prevailing wind is generally behind you. However when I came through the dunes at Ocean …
