Wednesday Walk I took a few walks this week

This post if for Wednesday walk challenge And Make me Smile Collaboration challenge, initially our collaboration was once a month but due to the popularity of it we have decided to make the collab a weekly thing :)

Any questions about the challenge read the guide at the Bottom of the post ;)

For this week I am going to share a few shots from a couple of different walks this week, after a few weeks of hardly getting out for walks for a variety of reasons over this last week I have got out for a few walks, some short, some out for an hour or two and it feels good to be getting out again.
One walk I took was a Visit to the Cove Walk to check out the Osprey nest and Osprey, seems it had bene busy and was just chilling on this little platform by its nest, I watched it for a while hoping it would take a flight, but no it just sat there

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I have noticed when getting out for walks during the day I am tending to use my newest lens the Tamron 50-400 lens mostly, its a nice versatile lens, whereas when out for sunrise walks I ended to use my wider lenses a lot more, not that I do not use them I still do but am using the longer lens a lot more and for this post its all shots with the 50-400 lens

After giving up on waiting for the osprey to fly I did walk around a bit and got some shots of an Ibis, which I haven't edited yet, and then went to buttonwood park for a stroll, and saw this bark peeling off a tree and snapped a shot

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in a recent post I showed this little statue/fountain and noted the water was not running, well on this visit is was

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and on another day I took a stroll by the water near the Cisco Restaurant, this moss on the rocks in the water always catches my eye even though my photos do not do it justice

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and on the walkway around the back of the restaurant i noticed someone had bene making some rock sculptures

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there were three of them

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I always find these cool to see and they remind me of a guy in Milford where I lived before who had an amazing talent for making rock sculptures some of them were quite large and ornate

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and to finish off this is in the outdoor bar area of the restaurant

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Weekly giveaway of shares

This week I am sending to the following who joined Wednesday Walk, for this week I did a random draw and the following each received some Hive Hive account@strawberry, Hive account@fadile, Hive account@johannpiber, Hive account@ratel and Hive account@tht

And Hive account@elizacheng will send to Hive account@dora381

As Hive account@elizacheng and I collaborated with our Wednesday Walk and Make me Smile Challenges

And one person is randomly drawn who joins both challenges to receive one Hive from me and this week it is @TBA

Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by me, the idea is to get out for a short walk and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start. And this is my entry for this week, but first, let me explain the challenge.

This is my post for the Wednesday Walk challenge hosted by myself, let me first explain the guidelines

Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of.

Your walk does not have to be on a Wednesday I just ask if possible to share your walk photos on a Wednesday.

Try and get a few shots not just one

Add a bit of a write up about where you walked

Just one Wednesday Walk tagged post a week

You can look for anything in general or decide on one subject you want to get shots off.

Make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss

Do a post with the shots you get on a Wednesday and tag it with #wednesdaywalk, also if you happen to join, please leave a link to your post in a comment on this post and I will try and visit them all, especially if its not one of the first 5 tags or I may miss seeing it .

Following me and re-Hiving the post so more see it would be appreciated but isn't a rule just a suggestion.

I am not strict on these rules and hence why they are called guidelines and not rules

I will try and visit, and upvote all who take part in the Wednesday Walk.

Make me Smile Collaboration

As I mentioned above Wednesday Walk is collaborating with the [Make Me Smile] hosted by Hive account@elizacheng,

Here are the rules for her challenge

Your post can be writing, singing, video, poem,drawing, photography etc.... the most important part is your post Make me" smile, Remember, the ME is whoever read/view/listen to your post and this includes YOURSELF.
b. Your content must be ORIGINAL CONTENT
c. Please include at least 50 Words in your post