Melbourne APUG get together - MAY 2012

[Briand]

Cape Shank Yep?????
Might be. heading to S.A. Next week for 3-4 weeks,( Photography of course) If I'm home in time will try and Make it,
Just got back from 2 weeks on the Coast & Grampians,
Cheers Brian

 

[Oxleyroad]

Either day can work for me.

 

[SMBooth]

So either Saturday 26th OR Sunday 27th May - which suits best (either is good for me)? Assemble at 10am for group portrait?
Currently Cape Schank is the leader...

Marc!

I'm good for that too.

 

[mrsmiggins]

Will be there, work permitting. Are we meeting at the Cape Schanck lighthouse reserve?

/Frank

 

[munz6869]

So who do we have currently?

LJH
Mick Fagan
Joachim_I
Poisson du Jour
SteveR
Colin D
BrianD
SMBooth
mrsmiggins
me & Christine

for Cape Schank, 10am, either Saturday 26th OR Sunday 27th May!

That's a decent start! Who else can make it?

Marc!

 

[Oxleyroad]

Me too

 

[munz6869]

So far....

LJH
Mick Fagan
Joachim_I
Poisson du Jour
SteveR
Colin D
BrianD
SMBooth
mrsmiggins
Oxleyroad
me & Christine

for Cape Schank, 10am, either Saturday 26th OR Sunday 27th May!

Marc!

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

The Professor (Akif) is coming too...
We'll pop down to the Queenscliff-Sorrento Ferry around 8am. Always a good voyage (when the sea isn't chopping...).
Please confirm the actual meeting point e.g. Sorrento somewhere or the actual carpark at Cape Schank.

 

[LJH]

For what it's worth, I'd prefer Sunday.

 

[munz6869]

So far....

LJH
Mick Fagan
Joachim_I
Poisson du Jour & The Professor
SteveR
Colin D
BrianD
SMBooth
mrsmiggins
Oxleyroad
me & Christine

for Cape Schank, 10am, Sunday 27th May - meet at the carpark?

Marc!

 

[Joachim_I]

Cape Schank, 10am, Sunday 27th May - meet at the carpark?

Perfect.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

^ Seconded.

 

[Oxleyroad]

I am a definite for may 27th. I will have my two kids (6&4), but I will also have my brother to look after them

Looking forward to this one.

 

[fdisilvestro]

Hello, I'll be going too.

Francisco

 

[munz6869]

So far....

LJH
Mick Fagan
Joachim_I
Poisson du Jour & The Professor
SteveR
Colin D
BrianD
SMBooth
mrsmiggins
Oxleyroad & family
fdisilvestro
me & Christine

for Cape Schank, 10am, Sunday 27th May - meet at the carpark!

Marc!

 

[wotalegend]

I'd like to say I'll be there, but I have a major household project on at the moment and I don't want to get offside with the project manager, so hopefully there'll be something later in the year. Enjoy the day.

Cheers, Peter.

 

[LJH]

Anyone got any ideas on a fallback option if the wind's up on the day?

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Anyone got any ideas on a fallback option if the wind's up on the day?

"Gimme shelter!" Head for a decent coffee shop!

The lower, very exposed tidal area around Pulpit Rock is not the place to be with any sort of on-shore wind. Here and there along the boardwalk down to Pulpit Rock offers some rugged views across to the lighthouse which is a useful fallback for atmospheric shots in mono. If you want an example of conditions, head down to Bells Beach. If your camera/tripod gets battered by wind and salt spray on the relatively safe tideline there, expect worse at Cape Schank with nowhere to hide or shelter (and a very long trudge back) and the tideline is a medley of rock, sinkholes and platform — and menacing waves. I'm hoping for all of 8octa cover with breaks of sun in clouds. But going prepared for many scenarios — including getting very wet!!

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

Information sheet (577kb, pdf) on Cape Schanck Coastal Park.
Makes interesting reading, especially the long, slow process of repatriation.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

This scheduled outing will be the inauguration for my mint/uncirculated Olympus XA which I purchased today on FleaBay ex-USA (where all good toys come from!!).
A love affair that started in 1980 with my first XA has again been rekindled...

 

[SMBooth]

I'm out, I better stay home and work on getting my new office up and painted/wired.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

We are in the middle of a renovation and I'm starting a new job on Monday, so I'm a "no" unfortunately.

 

[munz6869]

So far....

LJH
Mick Fagan
Joachim_I
Poisson du Jour & The Professor
SteveR
Colin D
BrianD
mrsmiggins
Oxleyroad & family
fdisilvestro
me & Christine

for Cape Schank, 10am, Sunday 27th May - meet at the carpark! Any thoughts on alternate venue for bad weather???

Marc!

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

We're still confirmed, despite the Professor muttering disapprovingly into his coffee that "there...doesn't appear to be much there?" Bollocks! (we compared extant images on Flickr of Pulpit Rock, which raised his enthusiasm a couple of nanonotches!). Just won't be going (he or me) in cold, wet, wintery conditions. Unpleasant would be understating it. Keep a check on the weather forecast.

 

[Poisson Du Jour]

I'm out, I better stay home and work on getting my new office up and painted/wired.

Mmmm. Yes, well...I need the stairs installed on the Doll House before His Eminence rocks up for the obligatory inspection. Besides which, "office"!? I thought it was a darkroom?