Scully woke us up early again, this time at 04:00. Normally she just sleeps through the night until we get up, but not the past few nights. She didn’t sneeze, but was a bit congested. I took her outside for a toilet, which took ages, and got in a bit after 04:30. Scully and my wife went back to sleep, but now I was wide awake again.
I decided to make the most of it and do another sunrise photography session.
This time I went to North Curl Curl, where there is an ocean pool on a rock shelf, just east of the surf life saving club.
I got there well before sunrise, and there was a thin crescent moon in the sky, above where the sun would appear. And yes, as the above photo shows, there is a large rock in the middle of the swimming pool.
The pool is separated from the ocean by a concrete wall. The tide was approaching high for the day, and at this time occasional waves crash over the wall and into the pool. The above photo is a long exposure, and the dark patch in the pool on the left is a swimmer.
A white-faced heron flew onto the rock shelf next to the pool, and as I watched it fished a small crab out of the water to eat. I wasn’t quick enough to a get a photo of it eating the crab.
A few minutes later the sun appeared on the horizon and climbed up into the sky. It goes from dark to light really quickly in Sydney.
Just a few minutes later I had the camera off the tripod and was taking hand-held shots of swimmers in the pool.
And not long after that about 50 kids arrived for some sort of swimming class. They all did a few laps of the pool and then ran off again.
With the sunrise done, I headed home to process the photos. This was interrupted only by taking Scully to the vet to have her congestion looked at. We have some medication to give her to get her feeling 100% again. Hopefully tonight she’ll sleep through… and I can get a decent night’s sleep.
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That terrain is reminding me a lot of central California. Do you get seals?
Not commonly. Occasionally we get a wandering New Zealand fur seal or two, but the Sydney area isn’t considered part of their normal range. There was one that showed up in the harbour and took up residence on the Sydney Opera House boat wharf steps for a while. But that was several years ago.
We do get humpback whales migrating up and down the coast. During the migration season you can often see them from shore.