Betka to Pebbly along the top

 Not having down a longer walk for a few days, and the weather being nice, we decided to walk from Betka Beach along the clifftops to Pebbly Beach.  The first item of interest was that the Betka River is now open to the sea.  Also of interest was the number of folk enjoying the warm day by immersing themselves in the water.

I put in 2 eBird lists for the walk.  The first covers the stretch from Betka to Quarry Beach.  Recording that against the Point Difficult seems lie a reasonable compromise between the onanistic rules of eBird and the prospect of adding yet another location.  

The density of the regrowth is now astonishing.  It makes me think that the Shire should construct a maze or two, perhaps featuring Voldemort (or Herr Kipfler) in the centre.

A view back to Betka.

Looking West, towards Geology Point.

Zooming in on Mummy Rock.

Really zooming in as a wave gives it a bath.

Looking West over Quarry Beach.

Frances called this Pancake Rock.  In trying to get this image my camera gave me attitude about "Press set to cancel" and seemed to need to pause to take a photo,  This gave me the shits, as I couldn't work out how to overcome it (without the manual and effectively no internet connection out on the track).  The solution is covered at the end of this post.

Here is Pancake Rock and its friend.

The second half of the walk was from Quarry Beach to Pebbly Beach.  The total walk was about 9.4km.

Here is the view looking across Secret Beach back to Geology Point.

On the way back I spoke to another Canon user but all he could suggest was lot through the menus for some title featuring words like 'self timer' as that seemed to be the problem.  Couldn't find it but when I got home consulted the manual (When all else fails  ....).  There were 35 hits on a search for "self timer" but none of them told you how to turn the ing thing off. However it suggest that a crucial thing to look for was a phrase about "Drive mode". Once that has been located hit "Single shooting" and all is good: but about as intuitive as the average James Joyce sentence.

However, with that knowledge and an inquisitive mind, I wondered what would happen if I pressed the button indicated with a red arrow on the bac of the camera.

Sure enough, up popped the action set for "Drive mode" and picking the LH icon in that got Single shooting.  I presume that what happened was I pushed that button getting the camera out of its carry bag.  The hidden benefit of this is that it is also the button that gets one into burst mode, which should be good where exposure is iffy,