Some time in the past, on our way down south, we stopped to have a look in Bunbury and came across this wonderful beach spot. The sun was shining, the beach had grass and red flowers, sparrows, and a cobble stone style wall that was just so picturesque. I thought I was taking amazing photos on an old film camera but to my dismay, I wasn't. The camera either didn't work or I didn't load the film correctly. I was totally bummed. So a couple months ago I had the urge to go back to that spot to try and recapture the essence that I felt that day. We thought we would go there, take pictures, have lunch and then head to Dwellingup where we would set up camp for a night.
Now, I have come to realise that you can't always recreate a special moment or sight in time. On the way to Bunbury, just as we arrived (thank god it wasn't half-way) I got a migraine.. Yikes.. Thankfully it wasn't such a bad one, we just parked up at the beach where I sat in the car with a jacket over my head for about an hour listening to the seagulls squabble over chips. I felt annoyed because I was just wasting day light and was eager to go and have a nice day.
Finally, I felt better and we went down to the beach. It wasn't sunny like last time, the red flowers were shrivelled up sea grass and it just didn't have that same feeling as that first time. But there were still sparrows which I was glad about. On reflection, the overcast weather on the film photos does create a different mood altogether that is also quite appealing and romantic.
I recently bought a digital camera [Canon g7x mark 2] and thought it would be fun to do some comparisons of how they turned out. The first one is the digital camera, on the right the film camera. They look so different!
We also revisited the look out tower which has an excellent view over the town of Bunbury.
(Digital)^
(Film)^
We stopped at a lovely, quaint cafe` which I can't remember the name of. But the main street of Bunbury has many many places to chose from if you want to stop for food and it's a nice, cozy vibe.
Once we were done here, we went off on our way to Dwellingup but we were losing day light fast! On the way we saw some super cute cows so we had to stop to say hello and they were surprisingly curious and friendly.
How cute are they!? The first picture is digital the second film. I just so much prefer the way film photos look. It has much more mood and it feels like really capturing a moment without having to edit.
When we arrived at our camp spot in Dwellingup called Nanga Mill, it was dusk and we unfortunately didn't get much time to enjoy seeing our surroundings. We set up quickly and easily, followed by dinner and the usual camp site banter. The weather was perfect, not too cold and there were no bugs. It was a large site and lots of families were there, we felt it had a nice community feeling and we felt very safe.
Just near our spot was a lovely stream of water, it was clean enough to drink.
I was amused for a fair while watching the fantail birds fly around and trying my luck at capturing photos of them despite their manic movements.
(Digital)^ It would have been near impossible to get a decent photo of them without the digital camera and high speed shooting. I really love these birds, very similar to the Willy Wagtail and they have a lovely chittery song when they talk to each other.
This site has such great walking trails to explore, I will deffinately go back and would reccommend it to anyone, but peak times are October through to April so check availability or have a back up before you go.
Another great little get away for the weekend, where will we go next?
All photos taken with both the Canon g7x mark 2 and the Olympus om1 Power Focus
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