While in Sydney recently, some colleagues took me for a lunchtime walk through the national park that is located right behind our office.
It's part of Lane Cove National Park, and we walked through an area called Fairyland Park, which used to be an amusement park of sorts that closed in the 1970s.

Here's a few photos taken during that lunchtime walk.

leaves

Fairyland Park, North Ryde, NSW
Canon EOS 50D, 10-22mm @15mm, 1/30 sec, f/4, ISO200

Douglas-fir trees by the side of the road, somewhere between Banff and Lake Louise, in Alberta, Canada.
One of the great things about a roadtrip without specific deadlines is that you can stop on the side of the road whenever you want to take some photos, and I did that plenty of times during the few days I had to myself around Banff and Lake Louise.

Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir trees

Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @43mm, 1/60 sec, f/4, ISO100

The Tessellated Pavement is located just north of Eaglehawk Neck, in Tasmania. Nearby, a number of other geological attractions are located, including the Tasman Arch, Devil's Kitchen, and the Blowhole.
However, the Tessellated Pavement was the most intriguing for me, with the rock formation looking very much like it was man-made, due to the very straight and parallel lines in the rock formation.

There are two main types of formations in the Tessellated Pavement, with the pan formations (as shown in the two photos below) being concave (ie, pan-shaped), and the loaf formations (to be shown in a future blog post) being convex like a loaf.

pan formations at the Tessellated Pavement

Eaglehawk Neck, Tasmania
Canon EOS 350D, 10-22mm @12mm, 1/40 sec, f/9, ISO200