{"id":6017,"date":"2013-06-18T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2013-12-04T18:11:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T08:11:59","slug":"balmy-winter-sunset-bbqs-and-camel-rides-on-the-beach-in-broome-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=6017","title":{"rendered":"Balmy Winter sunset BBQs and camel rides on the beach in Broome, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winter in Melbourne, Australia is a cool affair with maximum temperatures around 12-14deg C, lovely for bushwalking but hardly warming for the soul needing a bit of Winter UV light and warmth.<\/p>\n

Time to have a break in the Australian tropics, and Cable Beach at Broome in Western Australia<\/a> is a lovely spot to just relax and enjoy the wonderful climate there this time of year.<\/p>\n

Whilst Broome brags that they have some 300 nights a year of clear sky and being remote, is a great place for astronomy, this time of year the weather tends to range from an overnight low of around 17degC to a lovely high of 28-30degC during the day with clear blue skies and lovely sunsets looking across the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n

The water is warm and relatively safe for swimming at this time of year.<\/p>\n

Travelling light with my Micro Four Thirds camera ki<\/a>t consisting of my Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera<\/a>, Olympus 75mm f\/1.8 lens<\/a>, Panasonic 20mm f\/1.7 pancake lens<\/a>, Samyang 7.5mm fisheye lens<\/a> and I was ready for most things, in particular, the sunsets on the beach:<\/p>\n

First, a welcome to a beach BBQ at sunset – who could resist the temptation of a refreshing glass or two of champagne on a gorgeous evening with no nasty insects around to bother you (yes, that is one of the benefits of Winter – not so many insects) – these 1st two were taken with the Panasonic 20mm f\/1.7 lens:
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An awesome buffet spread and you will note in the background are some of the telescopes set up by Greg from AstroTours<\/a> to give us all a tour of the heavens and some lovely views of Saturn and one of my favorite sights, the Omega Centauri globular cluster:<\/p>\n


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No trip to Cable Beach could be complete without some shots of the camel rides at sunset (taken with the 75mm lens):<\/p>\n


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and some of us could not resist getting the iPhone out to tell the world how gorgeous this was (note, for fun, I added a painterly effect in Lightroom for this one):<\/p>\n


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