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Month: July 2022

Intertidal: #10 in series (Otago Harbour, viewed from Otago Peninsula)

Where a particular intertidal zone’s “bottom” has a very gentle slope, even relatively modest tidal ranges will yield spectacular transformations, often twice-daily

One such place is immediately east of Dunedin, on the southeastern side of New Zealand’s South Island.

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Intertidal: #9 in series (“Windows 10 Beach”)

Only a modest number of human feet have walked its actual sands, but every day of our so-called “21st” century many millions of human eyes see this singular beach, virtually.

An image of it is the “screensaver” viewed countless times by subscribers to Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system.

Doubtless, most of those subscribers have no idea of what and where is this “iconic” beach.

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Intertidal: #8 in series (what is wrong with this landscape?)

 

 

So much of Australia is parched, low-lying, flat(-tish)

So much of New Zealand is well-watered, extravagantly green, and its horizons usually include substantial hills or mountains.

Understandably, many visitors to NZ – Australians, especially – are utterly beguiled, and swallow, whole, the assiduously marketed fiction that New Zealand is “green” and “pure”.

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Intertidal: #7 in series (looking back into bay)

 

 

#6 in this series looked out to sea, from a bay on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula – a popular “weekend escape” destination for many residents of Auckland.

This post’s featured image was taken from almost exactly the same spot, but looking into a bay whose waters were very much deeper two centuries ago.

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