Hi Again,

Here are the photos for April 2016.

OK some are missing due to inability to walk or other personal/business commitments.

This month was highlighted by a large swell event around 24th to 25th, this can be seen by the large amount of sand removed, as evident on the concrete boat ramp, about 3 feet (900mm) was removed but not too much from the boat launching bay.

Hope you enjoy & if you need any other info just comment me.

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Hi Again,

Here is the photo for March.

Ok a very short post this month.

I only have 1 photo for this month, for the 1st.

The rest of the month we went to a wedding in Sydney of our "pseudo adopted son" & then on a trip all around the coast from Coffs Harbour, via Sorrento ferry to The Great Ocean Road, Adelaide, Barossa Valley, Mildura, The Mungo National Park & home via Dubbo Zoo.

Did almost 6000km & had an absolute ball of a trip; will put up some photos later.

Not much to be said about the photo, it's normal.

Until next  month, enjoy.

Hi Again,

edit:-  have added what I think is one of my best photos of the Kingfisher, this was taken on the 3rd of May at about 6-25am;  sunrise was 6-17am so it was very red even with auto white balance, so it has been colour adjusted to account for that. Taken at a zoom of 1200mm at f2.8 aperture, I finally appreciate how awesome this camera is.

These are finally some of my photos of any wildlife (dead or alive) that I have seen while walking the beach.

In particular I have been trying to get decent photos of the Azure Kingfisher; I have seen him/her about 4 to 5 times in the trees on the beach but always very early in the morning with very low light levels.

This was a major problem with both of my old cameras (the FZ8 & FZ150) as they were both F5.1 max at their maximum zoom range, 600mm on the FZ150, which I needed to get a decent close-up photo.

This was impossible to handhold at low light levels & all of my attempts were hopelessly out of focus.

Along came my new FZ300, F2.8 across the entire range from 25mm to 600mm. Love this Leica Glass that Panasonic are using.

Found by accident the iA function which gives me 1200mm zoom at F2.8 with no use of digital zoom (I always have it turned off, hate it with a vengeance).

Have not been able to discern any loss of quality between 600mm & 1200mm; OMG 1200mm at F2.8, that's insane, but I'll use it.

Also just invested in a monopod which for us "old guys" is excellent at removing any out of focus jitters.

Anyway here are the photos, sorry there is so many but I had a terrible time reducing them down to even this many.