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Emu crossing
Just as we were leaving Coorong Wilderness Lodge, heading to the road, this fella started across the track in front of us. I grabbed the camera and shot quickly, hoping the gear was set correctly. Didn’t get the best of shots but worth seeing anyway.
Nice capture of its leg movement while running, if nothing else.
Pink waters
Driving from Meningie back to Coorong Wilderness Lodge, we passed this section of field alongside the road which has flooded with pink water.
I upped the contrast, boosted the highlights and lowered the shadows in the curve, and then lowered the luminance of most colours in the shot. Finally set a graduated filter over the top half of the shot with lowered brightness so that the sky matched the tone of the water. Quite pleased with the shot.
The pinkness comes from an alga in the water which produces carotene. On the way down to the Coorong we passed a lake of it, less intense than this stretch but I had taken a photo of a sign explaining the colouration.
Coorong road
Driving from Meningie back to the Coorong Wilderness Lodge. Both sides of the road were flooded as the water moved back into the Coorong after years of it being deprived by usage upriver (the Murray).
On the right,
the left,
and straight down the middle:
Here is an article on the rise in the Coorong waters.
More pelicans
and one seagull:
and one pelican in flight:
and coming in to land:
Bigger pics, as ever, on Flickr.
