Posted by vital on January 28, 2008
…можно набрести на совершенно неожиданные вещи.
Я уже писал о фестивале “Sculpture by the sea“, проходившем в ноябре прошлого года, где толпы зевак собирались поглазеть на противоречивые произведения аффтараф альтернативного жанра. Оказывается, идея украшать берег моря чем-нибудь интересным далеко не нова, по крайней мере, в Сиднее достаточно мест, где, вдоволь нахлебавшись соленой воды и набрав полные плавки песка и обратив наконец взгляд в сторону противоположную западному побережью Южной Америки, можно обнаружить что-нибудь эдакое. Причем это “эдакое” там живет целый год.
Вот, к примеру, элемент декора в Менли (Manly).
Сосредоточенно смотрит в океан, дожидаясь подходящей волны. Явно не бронза и не серебро 
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Posted by highlander-spb on January 5, 2008
Something silly happened in NSW right on NY eve. Almost all beaches have been closed – lifeguards raised signs “no swimming” almost everywhere. Some say surf was up to three meters high, which is quite scary.
We did not believe when TV said that beaches are closed and decided to check it out by ourselves. It has proven true – the waves were so high that well-know Narrabeen rock pool was more suitable for surfers than swimmers.
Just believe me, it looks tremendous right there.
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Posted by highlander-spb on December 18, 2007
Among many things I like in Australia there are some that I just excited about. For example, native Australian fauna. At first, it seems to me that the biggest and most widely spread Australian predator has a habit to laugh very loudly on mornings and is only dangerous to some insects, small lizards and stuff that people try to burn on BBQ (well, this is on ground. In the water things are not that great and it is not necessary to dive in the ocean in search for the main character of “Jaws” movie, on the north of the continent even fresh water ponds may be contaminated with something very alive and not less toothy than shark; I will come back to them later). At second, animals here still have not picked up a habit not to show to humans what puts a big question mark on the idea of going to the Zoo in order to satisfy the obsession to see Australian natives – possums nightly pass through even in areas where population density is very high, kookaburras laugh at 4am right next to the open window of bedroom, even koalas can be spotted while you are doing the bush walk. Moreover, rare spices from of rare kind of monotremes – Echidnas – still can be found in one of many Sydney’s national parks.
But let me talk about kangaroo. After a short lunch at Cambewarra lookout, we headed further south with an intention to have a dip at the famous Pebbly beach, which is situated in Murramarang national park near Ulladulla. Hope this information is sufficient should any traveler have an interest in visiting this place. In the meantime, I will try to explain what is it so special about this beach.
One famous once said something like “a picture worth thousand words”
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Posted by highlander-spb on November 29, 2007
Неоднократно замечал странные подковообразные куски прозрачного желе на пляжах. Вчера потратил весь вечер, пытая гугль, ничего путного не нашел. В общем, вот фотография
Это точно не то, что вы подумали, это вряд ли медуза, не похоже на акулью икру (хотя, может какая-то другая икра?). Какие будут предположения?
Posted by highlander-spb on November 20, 2007
Sometimes in the evening we go for a dip to Narrabeen rock pools. Just like today, but today we saw it. There is nothing unusual for ship to stay at anchor somewhere nearby except this one was too close to the beach and I even thought its crew was seeking Pasha Bulker’s fame. Hopefully, it was close, but not that much.
Unfortunately, I did not have DSLR camera with me.. actualy, I don’t have DSLR at all, but this time the only I had was mobile cameraphone Nokia N95. That’s what I got:
Surprisingly, this mobile phone takes quite good photos. For mobile phone, of course. In any case, its wide-angle lens does it worst and ship on the photo looks smaller than it seemed then.
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Posted by highlander-spb on November 17, 2007
В продолжение репортажа, начатого неделю назад хотелось бы сказать.. ой, откуда эти штампованные фразы времен Нерушимого
Во-первых, не мы одни слонялись по пляжу. Товарищу emjee не повезло с погодой, но повезло с толпами зевак, которых не было. Вот, к примеру – очень классная фотка. Правда, понять, что это за хрень, очень сложно и я даже и не стал пытаться ее фотографировать. Но, с другой стороны, у нас осталось кое-что в загашнике
Нет, это не фотошоп. Это такая постановка – стекло на фоне моря совершенно незаметно.
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