A weekend away in Lake Tyers gave me more opportunities to practice my photography skills!
These first couple of photos were taken of the Stony Creek Tressle Bridge - what a magnicent structure to see - but such a shame that it's deteriorating with time.

"The Stony Creek Tressle Bridge was built in 1916 when the existing rail line from Melbourne to Bairnsdale was extended to Orbost. This 97km extension through rugged terrain was reputed to have been the most difficult rail project undertaken in Victoria. The bridge remained in service for over 60 years up until a bushfire damaged it in 1980. The last train crossed the bridge in 1988. At 247 metres long and 20 metres high, the bridge is the largest standing bridge of it's kind in the state. Built of ironbark and grey box timber, it is a fine example of the early engineering skills that made do with the resources and materials found on site."
I just love this next photo - it's taken at the bottom of the bridge, looking between all the upright timber sections of the bridge - I was up on tippy toes to take this photo and had the boys holding a couple of small tree branches out the way BUT it was definately worth it!

The ground around thebase of the bridge had heaps of these tiny little toadstools and you know me and fungi - I just had to take a photo of them with my Macro lens!

This was a different variety growing on the side of the path as you walked up to the top of the bridge.

Fishing off the surf at Lake Tyers didn't generate any fish, however Stuart did pull in a lump of sea sponge that had this cute little Sea Star, a Shrimp and a small Crab all hanging onto it for dear life! Unfortunately the photos of all three on the sea sponge aren't that great BUT this one highlights the detail in the Sea Star just perfectly - this little fellow was only about an inch in diameter!

This last photo features the Foot Bridge at Lakes Entrance - we'd enjoyed a delicious dinner at the floating restaurant and decided to go for a bit of a walk so I could practice some night photography. It was a little breezy and rather cold BUT of all the photos I'd taken, this one seemed to capture the scene the best!

As you can probably guess, I took a heap of photos but I'll keep the rest to share on scrapping projects in the future!