WIGGUM DAILY

 

Have been getting some awesomely colourful

sunsets and sunrises here at WD HQ lately.

Was able to capture one today. 

 

 

 

 

Just a couple of rough-and-ready phonecam panoramas I made while walking along on Saturday arvning.  Everytime I go there I tell myself "I’m NOT going to take any photo’s today…" but most of the time that’s not how it ends up. There’s always something that catches my eye. Most of the time I only have the trusty Motorola V3i along for the trip. Hence the proliferation of phonecam panoramas here on WD. 

 

   

 

Wondering exactly where these pics were created…?

I didn’t think so.  But just in case you were click HERE for a map.

 

 

These disturbing photos were taken with phonecam by WD after a big night out. Sitting on the edge of the bed, pondering if it was safe to lay my head down on the pillow, or if I needed to remain vertical just a bit longer. As I sat there reviewing the events of the night in my head, I noticed strange and demonic patterns appearing on the curtains in the room I was staying. The actual location will remain closely guarded secret for fear of Christian Fundamentalist reprisals. Those of you who recognise these curtains will know where they exist. Keep the secret safe, for the good of all that is holy and sacred.  

 

       

 

Let me tell you, it’s was quite freaky at 4.12am in the morning when these images leapt out at me from what had once been merely simple bedroom curtains, but will now forever henceforth be known as DEMONIC… 

 

 

    

 

 

This is some video taken with the WD digicam on a stormy and freezing cold Sunday afternoon at Pt Leo. Air temperature was a chilly nine degrees C with a biting wind of 25-30km/h coming in from due south made it even colder. The water was actually the warmest place to be.

 

 

 

 

Wiggum Daily was up in the city on Saturday for various appointments and did lots of walking around the CBD. Was in no particular hurry, having planned way ahead, so that afforded me some time to stop along the way and breakout the trusty WD Phonecam. Got these three panorama pics.

 

   

 

Given the obvious limitations of the WD Phonecam - low resolution of just 1MP, and slooow cycles times between shots of 12-15 seconds, I particularly like the flag stadium pano where I’ve manage to successfully capture the flag in mid flutter, which became the key-frame of the pano. There were 18 individual phonecam  photos taken, two layers high, to make that one. Click HERE to view a slide show of the original phonecam photos.

 

You can click HERE and HERE to view maps of the exact places these pics were taken from. One day I’ll get motivated and venture up the track to the city and take a REAL camera along.

 

 

I used the WD Phonecam to capture a series of pics that I made into this panorama of the scene that greeted me 

 

 

This is some content created on my beach walk Sunday 27th May. Would have taken more but the batteries on the digicam decided to die suddenly. So this was all I got. This first one is your garden variety panorama pic. Nothing spectacular. The wrong time of the day for that kind of thing. It was interesting to note how the recent rains have greened up the dune vegetation considerably in the last few weeks. And the winter seaweed has started to arrive also. As always here on WD, you can Click The Pic to view the larger version.

 

 

 

The next item below is a short one minute video of a duck that was swimming about and "fishing" amongst the seaweed in the shallows a bit further along the beach. I’ve seen these ducks swimming at this beach many times, but this was the first time I had a digicam with me to capture the action.  You can click HERE to view a map of the area showing the exact spots where this all took place. 

 

 

 

 

These are some pics of my coffee bush that I call George C Bush.  I figure that my George is a least as smart as the other one. And I know he makes less mistakes and causes less misery in the world. Anyway, I’ve had him for nearly two years and he’s tripled in size during that time.  I don’t know what varietal of coffee bush he is. All I know is he’s definitely from the coffea-arabica species ,the other species being coffea-canephora (robusta). Will have to wait a few more years until he fruits. 

 

      

 

I came across this fellow on my Sunday beach walk. A dead adult CAPE FUR SEAL washed up on the beach. I could not tell if it’s head was missing or just buried under the sand. There were no obvious injuries that I could see. Seemed to be fairly much intact. Was a long way from the water. Looked "fresh" so I reckon it washed up on the high tide the night before. It was a long way up the sand, only 4-5m from the highest tide mark on this beach.

 

            

 

Was a lot bigger than I thought they were. I’d estimate the body to be 120cm long, with another 30-40cm for the "feet" at the back. Very round and big in the body. I couldn’t have wrapped my arms around it. Estimate weight at 80-100kg.  I’ve seen these seals washed up these beaches before, but mostly younger ones about 1/3 the size of this specimen. I tried to include my foot in one picture for scale. Somehow it was bigger in real life than came out in the photo.

 

These fur seals breed just a few km’s from this very spot on the aptly named SEAL ROCKS off the coast of PHILLIP ISLAND.  This is the largest fur seal colony in the southern hemisphere. In fact you can just see Seal Rocks on the horizon of the photos that have the open water in them. The rest of the land on the horizon is Phillip Island. 

 

You can CLICK HERE to view a map of the area and marker pins showing the exact locations of the dead seal in these photos and Seal Rocks where I guarantee this fellow was living happily on until recently.