Aerial images around Caloundra, plus Trichodesmium sp. – the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

Posted on January 4, 2017 by Andrew McInnes Photography

These aerial (drone) scenes include Kings Beach, Wickham Headland, Shelly Beach, Moffat Headland, Pumicestone Passage, Bribie Island, the Glasshouse Mountains (in the background), and Caloundra – on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland.

The sea-sawdust slicks on the water surface in the following images is likely Trichodesmium sp. – a cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), and is also called whale food, sea scum and, incorrectly, whale sperm. Found in nutrient-poor tropical and subtropical ocean waters, Trichodesmium are ‘nitrogen fixers’- they can take nitrogen gas from the air and ‘fix’ it in a form that can be transferred through the food chain. This function is very important as Nitrogen is essential to life and while there is an abundance of it in the air (air is 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen), most plants and animals can’t make use of it in that form.

Cheers 🙂

Aerials of Windang and the mouth of Lake Illawarra – NSW.

Posted on December 23, 2016 by Andrew McInnes Photography

Aerial images of Windang and the mouth of Lake Illawarra, NSW.

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Cheers.

Cabarita Beach and Surrounds – NSW.

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Andrew McInnes Photography

Aerial and terrestrial images of Cabarita Beach, Norries Head, Hastings Point, and Cudgera Creek – on the Tweed Coast of NSW.

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Hastings Point, NSW – where Cudgera Creek enters the sea after it’s sinuous meander.

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Belmore Falls – Southern Highlands, NSW.

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Andrew McInnes Photography

The impressive Belmore Falls, in good flow. These falls are in Morton National Park, very near the town of Robertson in the Southern Highlands region of NSW.

The Belmore Falls is a plunge waterfall with three drops on the Barrengarry Creek in the Southern Highlands and Illawarra regions of New South Wales.

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Austinmer, NSW.

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Andrew McInnes Photography

Some images from Austinmer in the northern Illawarra area of New South Wales, Australia.

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Cheers 🙂

Weather – an East Coast Low and a low pressure trough approaching Australia’s eastern seaboard.

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Andrew McInnes Photography

A very powerful weather system is impacting a considerable portion of the east coast of Australia this weekend. Here is the Bureau of Meteorology link and the ABC link.

Here are three images: the first is an aerial image (drone) at Scarborough showing clear weather conditions before the system began to directly impact this section of the Illawarra Coast, and the remaining two images from Bald Hill show the first wave of weather making its way to the coast.