AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Sunday, April 4, 2010

Energised Whirlygig


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A rescue holicopter hovering over a rock (offshore Sorrento Back Beach on Westernport Bay) created an unusual scenic seascape.
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Scenic Sunday #90
SOOC Sunday #74
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ More surprising, the helicopter, for just a moment or two, landed on the rock!
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Spinning metal wings
Freely flying whirlygig
Like a charged real toy
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ More surprising still, I was able to hold the camera steady (I was excited about all this!) as the helicopter took flight again and I managed to get a shot before it quickly rose in the air!
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Scenic Sunday

16 comments:

Gardening in a Sandbox said...

Pretty exciting. Thats being in the right place at the right time. Happy Easter. Valerie

A Wild Thing said...

WOW...I have a small municipal airport about a mile down the road from me, but the planes fry right over my house to the runway, lately we have been having the huge military choppers fly over. They are so loud they make the windows rattle. Can you just imagine being in war torn countries where these craft are everyday occurrences...I'd go crazy with fear from them...cool shots though.

Were they rescuing someone from the ocean or just practicing???

Judy said...

What a neat thing to see. Happy Easter!

Jan said...

Wow, I would have been excited, too. Great series.

EG CameraGirl said...

Nice one, Gemma! I love it when I have my camera and something interesting happens.

Leora said...

Neat - how else could anyone get on that rock but by helicopter? So cool that you captured this little story in photos.

Anonymous said...

How cool. Very good capture my friend. It must have been very exciting to watch that. Happy Easter to you and your family :)

Anonymous said...

Great captures. I love the look of that rock in the middle of the water.

Tania said...

Great shot of the helicopter!!
Wish you a Happy Easter:-)

Vicki said...

Amazinng timing. It's great you had your camera ready.

Momgen said...

Looks great...Happy SOOC Sunday.

MIne is here

☆Mama Ko☆ said...

Sounds exciting!

eileeninmd said...

How cool, to see the helicopter land on the rock. Great set of photos.

Sherrie said...

Hi!
Awesome shots!! Love all that blue of the ocean and that rock. Have a great day!

Sherrie
A View of My Life
http://splummer-aviewofmylife.blogspot.com/2010/04/straight-out-of-camera.html

cat said...

Wonder why they landed like that? Nice capture of the event:)

Momgen said...

It is very cute...happy SS!

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