Cooloothin Creek Swimming HoleGelatin-silver photograph on Ultrafine Silver Eagle VC FB photographic paper, image size 19.3cm X 24.7cm, from a 8x10 Fomapan 200 negative exposed in a Tachihara 810HD field view camera fitted with a Apo-Nikkor 610mm f9 lens.
Noosa Shire is blessed with kilometres of sandy beaches and sparkling surf but some benighted individuals want to swim in the black tannin-stained, snag-ridden waters of Cooloothin creek. This jungle stream harbours large format marine life, stingrays, bull sharks, and the like. And with the inexorable advance of global warming crocodiles will move in too.