Sulphur-crested Cockatoos are very noisy and this helps me locate them in trees more easily than other birds.  These cockatoos use their movable crests to communicate. This inquisitive cockatoo is looking at my camera and seems to be saying "what are you up to"?

Avalon's 500m surf beach has some pretty epic waves when the winds are coming through from the north east.  It's one of my go to beaches when I want to take surf photos. The American surfing great Kelly Slater (eleven-time world champion) is known to surf there when in Australia.

After being told that black swans were found in the area, I visited the lagoon several times and was eventually rewarded with a sighting of these graceful birds. Black swans are nomadic so not so easy to find.

I keep an eye out for Protea blooms every autumn when they first appear.
This striking flower is Protea Pink Ice. ​