Properly regulated, zip lining is fun, easy, and safe.
Even young children can do it, as per today’s photo; behind them is something much more dangerous.
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It cost more than ninety million dollars to build.
Does that make it Australia’s most expensive pedestrian bridge?
It may or may not be our longest suspension bridge that carries no cars; certainly, it is more than twice as long as one eastern Australian pretender to the “longest pedestrian bridge” crown.
(I have long since ceased to be surprised that “perhaps we should check to see what has been built or achieved in places west of the Great Dividing Range” is a notion that never occurs to far too many Australians who live east of “The Divide”)
Statistics aside, Perth’s Matagarup Bridge is a singular structure; imagine a pair of swans, in flight…
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Dappled winter sunshine is an ever-shifting delight at Karrakatta Cemetery – a place blessed by geography (Perth’s natural light is remarkably intense) and by the planting of so many different trees, of so many species.
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Visitor numbers to Karrakatta Cemetery exceed one million per year.
Even if you have no funerals to attend, and none of your particular loved ones have been buried or cremated there, Western Australia’s largest cemetery is a richly rewarding destination.
This is most especially true on a non-gloomy winter’s day.
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This kookaburra, perched on a grave cross, has something in common with most of the humans who have been buried in Perth’s largest cemetery over the past 123 years.
In 2022, most living WA humans do not know what it is; most of them, in fact, have a quite wrong view of kookaburras’ “place” in southwestern Australia.
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Lion’s teeth, wind-riders, and a bad reputation….
I am referring to members of Taraxacum – a large genus of flowering plants. which most Australians regard as weeds and/or as highly invasive pests.
They are generally known as dandelions; Australian has some native species, but the ones so very familiar to most of us are indeed “alien invaders”.
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Many of Perth’s streets are lined by “inappropriate” trees.
Just which ones really are inappropriate – and why – are matters of much-divided opinion.
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Perchance, on any particular day, a Perth resident wished to see a pelican, a parrot/cockatoo, and a heron…
… s/he would almost invariably find it very easy to make that wish come true, somewhere within a few kilometres of home, in whatever suburb.
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This series’ #6 location is only a whisker further from the centre of Perth’s CBD than was #5’s, but in the opposite direction.
If our imaginary “crow”/Australian raven decided to fly over from the roof of the GPO, s/he would be able to reach this post’s vantage point in less than two minutes.
An unhurried human could walk it in less than forty minutes, or spend five minutes on a train, then walk for another five minutes.
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If an Australian raven (Corvus coronoides – the bird most Australians have in mind when they say “a crow”) had been perched beside me when I took the photo for #4 in this series, it would have been able to fly to this post’s location in less than 90 seconds.
The sites are less than two kilometres apart, and a frequent, free bus service will get you from one to the other in five minutes or so; a slow-walking human would take less than 30 minutes.
As you can see, they are “worlds apart”.
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