The stunning landscape of the Pilbara is that - stunning. But it's not green and there is often not much water. If it is green, it's not the soft green of grass, but the harsh green of spinafex - you know that rolling around in the rocky hills is going to be painful between the rocks and the spinafex even if it is green.
So, when water presents itself in the Pilbara, you have to take advantage - capture the moment to prove it to the naysayers who say its not true. In the previous post I described how my husband encouraged me strongly to get out and take a photo this day - I was sick and hungry and wanted to go home, but there was water in the Pilbara and it was sunset!
We pulled off the road and to be honest I was happy as soon as I was out of the car! I took about a hundred photos I think.
Pretty soon the roadside wasn't enough, I had to climb down the rocks to go to the waters' side. I was busy taking photos of dead trees and wildflowers when I heard the husband call out that there were swans on the lake! Swans, colours, sunset Pilbara would equal AWESOME photo so I ran.
I got maybe ten steps when my offroad boots sank into mud. Sticky mud. My boots are ankle high and the mud was above both of them! Neither my husband or my mother in law wanted to venture out into the mud themselves to save me, so I had to squish and squelch my way out. What's the point of offroad boots if they don't save you from mud? I may as well have been in bare feet as in other adventures!
Of course, by the time I got out the swans were far away so my photos of them were inconsequential. But I did get this panorama of dead trees.
No comments:
Post a Comment