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I’m still going through my travel photos from our 4-day stay last month at Rocklands Reservoir, near Balmoral, Victoria (Australia). While we didn’t get rain, we did have a couple of frosty mornings, usually with fog lingering until the sun cleared the trees.

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Fog isn’t very conducive to bird photography, but I couldn’t resist taking some pictures of this little fellow perched on top of our camping stove lid.

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It got a few tiny scraps as I hadn’t yet cleaned up the stove from the previous night. I love this next photo of the foggy gum trees. It reminds me of Hans Heysen, who became a household name here for his watercolours – so much so that he became Sir Hans Heysen O.B.E. (1884 – 1968).

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Thanks for looking.

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Winter Camping: frost ‘n fog

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According to the local water authority for Rocklands Reservoir, near Balmoral in Victoria, Rocklands was a mere 28% of capacity when we visited last month. This first photo was taken from the hill between the caravan park and the water. No wonder we only took the kayaks down the once.

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Next: spotted this pair of black swans. I didn’t realise their flight feathers are white.

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The scenery was truly awesome. Thanks for looking.

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Black Swans, Rocklands Reservoir

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They say you should be consistent with your blogging, but I dont’ think consistently bad is a good thing. I haven’t been completely lazy, since I’ve put in two or more hours nearly every day on revision of my second fantasy novel.

The only days I missed were when we attended my Auntie Faye’s funeral at Balmoral, ages ago now it feels. The weather forecast looked great, lots of sunny days despite the winter cold, so we went four days early. Took the kayaks to nearby Rocklands Reservoir. Set up on a powered site and had the whole caravan park to ourselves. Since Mr R. now has his own camera, you will get pics of me!  This first one is with the spillway wall in the background. I was switching to paddling as Mr R.’s pedal unit propeller was loose, and there wasn’t an Allen key aboard – oops.

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There he is, taking a picture of me taking a picture.

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The scenery was awesome.

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Thanks for looking.

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Consistently Bad!

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