Whale Beach Tuross Heads NSW First Place in the Skyscapes Group / Purple Sunrise/Sunset Challenge First Place in the Sapphire & Nature Coasts, NSW / Beaches I don’t know if the beach is really called whale beach. I only call it that because when I was child a whale was washed up there. He was buried on the beach and there is a mound now covered in vegetation marking the spot where he lay. Featured In
A foggy start to another beautiful morning in the Bega Valley
Taken at Malua Bay, South Coast, NSW Sony A350 / Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm / f/9 / 2.5 seconds / ISO 100 / Cokin ND8 Grad Filter
Sunrise at Gillards Beach on the far south coast of NSW
Sunset over Wallagoot Lake, South Coast NSW. / Untouched… all in camera… a beautiful evening!
Taken with a Sony A350
Tathra beach sunrise. Film camera … just before my switch to all t things digital!
Disaster Bay is located on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
A fantastic day on the Sapphire Coast. The line of clouds stayed put pretty much all day. It’s for days like this that I holiday here every year. (Canon 30D – panorama stitched from 6 source images.)
This evening in February 2007 was a pivotal moment in me deciding to go digital. Not long after this image was taken, each of the puffs of cloud lit up from below, with a single bright point. It was as though someone had placed a few thousand bright-red LED lights at regular spacing. At pretty much that precise moment, I ran out of film, with my stock already packed ready for the trip home to Melbourne. I vowed then that was never going to happen again.
In April 2007 I traveled with my family to Canberra to celebrate my sister in laws 40th birthday. Actually my wife flew up with our three girls and I drove the car… Anyway it was a very family oriented trip but by the end I was getting toey to get out and shoot. So the day the girls flew back I planned the longest and one of the biggest days I’ve ever attempted. I got up at 4:00am and drove from Canberra down to Budawang National Park near the coast (about 250km) traveling a fair part of this on dirt roads and at one point having to back track because of a closed bridge. Finally got there at 10:00am then walked up many many contours (1560m according to these track notes ) to the top of The Castle to spy this wonderful view of Byangee the promised land that I’d seen in an article in Wild magazine. I then returned to the car by 4:00 am and started the 900km drive home to Melbourne. I arrived at 3:00am well and truly stuffed but happy that I’d had my fun without taking any family time away from my wife and kids. Would love to go back for a longer visit one day, maybe after our Canberra trip next year. The distinctive peak in the background is called glasshouse Mountain and faintly in the distance is the ocean. Camera: Canon EOS 30 / Lens: EF24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 USM / Filter: Circular Polariser & 3 stop ND grad / Film: Velvia 50 / Post Production: Manual blend of two exposures, levels etc. / Date: 15/4/2007 10% of all profits go to the Wilderness Society
Early dawn at Merimbula Wharf, New South Wales, Australia. Just me and a single happy fisherman up and about.
Stoney Beach, Tuross Heads, NSW
Sunrise over One Tree Point, Tuross Heads, NSW
This New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae was caught red-handed enjoying some Callistemon (bottlebrush) in a front garden near Mogo on the NSW Far South Coast. Image captured with a Canon EOS1000D with a 150-500 @ 500 handheld (and my arm is sore waiting for this guy to sit still :-) ).
I love these guys! They are one of the coolest birds that visit gardens in backyards (and frontyards) of south-eastern Australia. This male was enjoying a front garden in the coastal town of Tathra, on the NSW Far South Coast. Image taken with a Canon EOS1000D with a 150-500 @ 500 handheld.
Nelligen Bridge, over the Clyde River, Nelligen NSW, Australia
Sunset on Denhams Beach, NSW Australia
The Scarlet Honeyeater Myzomela sanguinolenta is a small bird that inhabits rainforest, eucalypt forests and woodlands, paperbark swamps and heathlands of the east coast of NSW, most of the QLD coast and the far east of Victoria. I captured this male working a Callistemon in a small gully near the shores of Twofold Bay early November 2009, south of Eden, on the NSW Far South Coast with a Canon EOS100D with a 150-500 @ 500 handheld. Steve is the Principal Ecologist at EnviroKey, a specialist ecological consultancy that undertakes surveys, research and education programs across Australia.
The wharf at Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia.
The historic wharf at Tathra, New South Wales, Australia.
The historic wharf at Tathra, New South Wales, Australia.
Merimbula – the jewel of the Sapphire Coast. Merimbula is a coastal resort town on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia. If it’s sun, surf, sand, fishing, golf, bushwalking, fine dining and stunning coastal scenery you’re after, then this is a place to put on your “must do” list. A photographer’s paradise, too. If you’d like to know more about Merimbula and the Sapphire Coast, you’re welcome to contact me by email or bubblemail for information. I have an intimate knowledge of this area due to visiting it on a regular basis since 1987.
The lake at Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia. Merimbula is located in the region known as the Sapphire Coast.
The main objective of this group is to highlight the natural beauty of the Sapphire & Nature Coasts on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. All images must be taken within the Sapphire & Nature Coast areas, which is defined as the Eurobodalla and Bega Valley Council areas. This is between Durras (just north of Batemans Bay) in the north to the Nadgee Nature Reserve and the Victorian Border in the South. Art can include landscapes, fauna or flora, or anything of natural beauty, as long as you include the name of the town, beach, or locality.
Please make sure you read the guidlines below as images that do not meet these standards, including not listing the location will not be approved. If you have works from the Illawarra region, check out the Illawarra group.
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Our current avatar Violet by Melanie Roberts shows just one example of how beautiful this region is!

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