Port Jackson Shark

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Port Jackson Shark, originally uploaded by UltimaRB.

David and I went for a walk on the beach hoping to do some night geocaching. We almost stepped on this bad boy. About 70cm in length and surprisingly still alive. He’d been washed up about 5m from the water. I summoned my inner Bears Grylls instincts and picked up the shark and got it back in the water. He kicked a few times then disappeared. Good times.

Weekly Photo #16 – Knobbys Beach Entrance

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This image has been pretty heavily “cooked” but I reckon it turned out alright. It’s one of the entrances to Knobby’s Beach crossing the sand dunes. Taken with 70-300mm and altered in Lightroom. I also had a play with some macro stuff with my Tamron 18-200mm with 4x, 2x, 1x macro adapters for the dandelion seeds and Megan helped with the eye shot.

Dandelion seeds are carried away by the wind and travel like tiny parachutes. A strong wind can carry the parachutes miles away from the parent plant. Parachute (14k)
A dandelion is really many tiny flowers bunched together. After a dandelion blooms, each of its tiny flowers produces a seed. Each seed is attached to a stem with white fluffy threads.