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As dusk began on 05 April 2024, we made our way back from Peel Inlet’s edge and adjacent (unseasonably dry) samphire-dominated wetland.
Before our return to suburbia we skirted some mostly-intact, mostly-native scrub/woodland.
We “met” a few kangaroos, but by 5. 51 pm we were the only humans within view,
Unexpectedly, something lovely – something flaunting – briefly appeared..
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Even on the (rare) occasions when not a single bird is within sight, day’s end in Mandurah’s Creery Wetlands Nature Reserve is a superb combination of time and particular place.
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S/he may have deserved another.
However, the pictured tern was alone…as far as we could see, at least.
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Now considered by some demographers as part of “greater Perth”, Mandurah was once an “unspoilt”, sleepy little town on a very big inlet.
It is now Western Australia’s second largest city, with circa 100,000 permanent residents.
Famous/infamous for its “canal developments”, Mandurah still has a surprisingly rich array of natural attractions that are well-protected, but easy-to-access
One of them is an internationally significant bird sanctuary.
To reach it, some migratory birds travel considerably longer distances than do the English-born humans for whom Mandurah is also a “magnet”.
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This post’s “much closer view” was also taken from the western side of Perth’s Elizabeth Quay, not many footsteps from where ferries depart for South Perth, or return from there.
For “9A” in this series I had looked east, across the Quay’s artificial inlet.
For “9B”, I turned around 180 degrees.
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The featured image looks east, across Perth’s Elizabeth Quay, at 2. 49 pm on 24 April 2024.
Its official name – bestowed in 2012 by then WA Premier Colin Barnett – honoured the then British monarch.
The name came after the monumentally-expensive development’s first sod had been turned.
More than a few Perth residents prefer to call it “Betty’s Jetty.”
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Magnificently stark as Lake Eyre generally is, its banks and surrounding terrain are a deal more vegetated – and the vegetation is more diverse – than most newcomers expect.
Some of the plants are wonderfully weird; necessarily, all are hardy, and adapted to one of the world’s more “demanding” environments.
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However, most (of the relatively few, still) people who have reached the pictured lake do find it decidedly “unearthly”
Moving from “landscape view” to “closer view” is highly likely to alter a first-time visitor’s initial impression/estimation of Kati-Thanda-Lake Eyre, but most visitors continue to feel that they are on “another planet”.
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At 3.50 pm on 07 June 2023 my feet were very close to where they had been when I took the “7A” image, just three minutes earlier, whilst enjoying a leisurely walk through part of Parachilna Gorge.
I was, nonetheless, effectively able to get nearly eight times closer to one of the previous photo’s four peaks – by looking through a 400mm lens, as opposed to 54mm.
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This series’ “7” posts both feature a “landscape” photograph, but “7B” will offer a much closer view of one of the “7A” landscape’s four peaks.
Both featured images show just part of what is a striking landscape through all 360 degrees; that holds true through the entire length of Parachilna Gorge.
The gorge is on the western side of the northern Flinders Ranges, and is easily accessed from the nearby “town” of Parachilna.
Parachilna is within daytripping distance of Wilpena, but a much better idea is to stay two nights at Parachilna’s truly-wonderful hotel. (the hotel pretty much is the “town”)
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