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Our last afternoon in Wyndham so we headed up to the Bastion (the Five Rivers Lookout)

We came here last time we were in Wyndham and the view from here is magnificent

Five Rivers Lookout

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/200 sec at f/5, ISO 100

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It’s pretty much the only “must do” place to go for tourists when coming to Wyndham

What it does allow me to do is fly over those tasty mud flats to the north and shoot straight down. This was another thing I had recce’d on Google Maps before coming here

The view of the “shortcut” we took across the mudflats. Avoiding 10km’s of disastrous corrugated dirt road

The Shortcut

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S @ 48 mm, 1/80 sec at f/11, ISO 64 x 6 Frames

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Mudflat Textures

NIKON Z 7 + NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/4 S @ 25.5 mm, 1/80 sec at f/11, ISO 64

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and a few shots looking down over the river

Spread

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/50 sec at f/5, ISO 100

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Landing Zone

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/50 sec at f/5, ISO 100

A vertical panorama with the Mavic 2 Pro drone looking back over the King River and the extensive mud flats back towards Wyndham in the distance

River to Wyndham

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/1000 sec at f/5, ISO 100 x 3 Frames

and I don’t mean a breeze…

Once we’d finished at the Boab Prison tree I had a chance to spin up the drone to look back along the crazy King River and across the mud flats towards Wyndham

King River

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/1000 sec at f/5, ISO 100

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger. To see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer click any of the images.

I took a number of stitched panorama’s with the drone to show you just how crazy windy the river path is

King River Winds

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/2000 sec at f/5, ISO 100 x 21 Frames

… and Winds

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/1250 sec at f/5, ISO 100 x 9 Frames

Maze Trace

DJI Mavic 2 Pro L1D-20c + 28.0 mm f/2.8 @ 10.26 mm, 1/1000 sec at f/5, ISO 100