Hamilton Island - post #1

I have been away for 8 days in the tropical, gorgeous holiday and conference retreat that is Australia's version of the Caribbean I would guess and have been working very hard. I was there to photograph the happenings and events for a major retail chain in this country and found it to be both exhilarating and draining. I happened to be there whilst I had my birthday as well, and it was good that it was kept quiet for the most part from the almost 600 delegates, their partners, support crew and event staff.

I was essentially working from 5 am photographing the sunrises, until about 12 midnight each and every night. I think it was the adrenaline and expectation required of me that help keep me going coupled with generous helpings of energy from a higher source and now that I have returned home I have slept some 10 hours and am still yawning. I am drained, but very satisfied at the images I captured and the overwhelming support I received from the delegates who all want copies of the images.

I will show only 2 or 3 here at this point as I have many to go through, but I am particularly proud of these two sunrise images and the shot of the plane I flew home on late last night.

I will write more on Hamilton Island soon, but this place is just gorgeous. There are no private cars on the island at all, except a jaguar they use for weddings, but the mode of transport is golf buggy's and what a civilised way to travel. The only deaths that have occurred on the island from these are from people who have been excessively inebriated and rolled the buggy's from the hill and died or in one case, a person who thought it would be fun roof surfing on the buggy. But in actual fatalaties from general driving they are none. it is something I really liked. I saw a house I loved here and pondered much. I also saw apartments for sale, and drooled. I already know i will be returning here and really like the laid back nature of the place. You can also have breakfast cooked by a wonderfully charming fellow on the island and after breakfast actually cuddle a koala, and I believe it is only one of two places that will actually leave the Koala with you. Most have a cushion or toy the Koala rests on but it was divine. As I started rubbing the Koalas back it started falling asleep and the keeper said dont do that, the others wont get good pictures, but I loved the experience.

The pools are divine, and there are lots of them. I swam for about 30-40 mins everyday after my sunrise excursions before eating brekky and continuing the work. It is a two hour flight North east of Sydney in the middle of the great barrier reef and it is truly heaven on earth. All around us in the week I was there have been raging storms and rising flood waters which have seen the evacuation of thousands of people on the Australian mainland because of rising flood waters and in this pocket of bounty were sunny, warm and sumptuous days. In the distance I even saw and photographed a giant twister like water spout from the storm, but it never affected the island.




If you are looking to have a corporate event or getaway, Hamilton Island is the place to go and Be.



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