Out Exploring the Bush looking for Granite outcrops

 I have been doing a bit of research lately on granite outcrops near home in the Perth hills, today was one of the trips I had planned a while ago, we took the daughters Jeep today mainly because she wanted to go offroading in it but didn't want to go too hard with it. I been on Google Earth trying to find the easiest way  to get to the locations that I seen, I have gone passed the track a few times recently and never ending up going down it, I had planned it in recent trips I have been on but usually try to do too much in one day and usually run out of time, my average day trip can be anywhere from 150km to 400km even more a couple of times. Our first stop was a Granite out crop I really wanted to see, although it took us four tracks to find it, I forgot to set my maps for the journey properly. The first track we went to was the right one but there was a downhill part that looked a bit sketchy for the first time offroad not knowing the car properly but we ended up climbing it on the way out. Here is the pictures after we eventually found it.

     

      After spending a little while walking around taking photos, we decide to go for a drive around seeing what else we could find in the area, I spotted a little stream on the first track that I wanted to have a look at. After about 30 mins or so with know luck on various tracks some rocky, some skinny, and some that just literally go to a dead end we found the right track, which turns out it was the same track with the downhill climb that we decided not to go down, which we ended up climbing anyway, I found the spot I was looking for and it didn't disappoint, Here is a few snaps from there definstely on my go back to list.

 

After spending  a good time having a look around, we hopped in the car and did the climb, with no dramas at all we got straight up it was quite rutty in places, so after leaving this area we satrted to head towards home, as we were driving we came acoss a small outcrop on the side of the road we pulled over to see if there was anymore around, immediatley as we got out the car we could here a rush of water, there is a stream running along the road I just had to have a look with no visible path to go on I carefully walked thrugh the bush and it was only a few metres away, a little hidden, almost flat waterfall,

 

I stuck around for a few minutes taking some phots and a couple videos one slow mo which turned out ok, I also did some videos from this trip just to see if I could make a short movie of the places we visited some still shots and others videos it didn't turn out too bad. I will probably add videos from future trips as well on a Youtube channel, but that is still work in progress, I only have a cheap dash cam when I can upgrade to a better one, the quality of the dash cam is really only good for viewing on mobile devices or on your computer in a small window.

After this stop we heading for home, overall it was a good day out.

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Blog Update - Cairns Holiday Last year and my latest interest

    Hi all, so Last year we went on a holiday to Cairns to see my other 2 children we had a great trip and I plan to share some of that trip on here, which I didnt' think to do at the time while eveything was fresh in my mind I will do my best to cover what I remember, I have a lot of photos from that trip so each post will be one day at a time, I will get these posts up when I have caught up on all my recent trips I have done a few recently.

      I have taken an interest in Rock Hounding, geology and the formation of our country so my next few posts will be from trips out in the bush while I have been looking for Rocky outcrops to photograph mainly Granite but some of the formations are not bad some not so great , I still have many trips planned to explore the bush a little more, Geology is a real interesting subject, I am really new at it and are still trying to learn what it is all about. 

    Unfortunately there is not many areas you can Fossick for rocks in Western Australia, but I do have Miners rights, and can Fossick on Crown Land, but hoping I will have many Photo opportunties while out amd about.

I have just been looking through my Photos and it seems I still have a long way to go to catch up on everything been out more than I thought keep and eye out for updates,

I have been going back in time, with my photos and starting my Posts from about 2011, I have been doing trips since about 2004 but images that i have taken are not the best of quality so i have skipped the first few years, so some posts may not exist as of yet but I am working on it and they will be added in the future with published dates back to when they were originally done, I have noticed as I have been going through my photos a lot of the places I have been either no longer exist or have been destroyed or left to rot so to speak. Some places still exist but have been closed to the public for some time, I will keep checking on a regular basis to see it they have been either re-opened or repaired.

You will see regular updates on older trips as I publish them, the problem I have to write them as if they still exist well they did back then, its hard cause I know a few of them no longer exist, but trying to write about them as if they are still here.

Please take care when visiting some of the places that still exist to ensure that generations to come can enjoy them as well, a lot of places closed due to fire or vandalism or just people breaking the law, and lack of maintenence. Take care of our National Parks which are slowly being destroyed by off road vehicles doing the wrong thing or motorbikes tearing up the trails I enjoy off roading myself but I stick to the main tracks, i have visited Boulder rock and seen 4WD's climbing it, a recent trip there shows tracks where the roack has been chipped or scratched and tyre marks up it.