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This series final chapter reveals the identity of the “red flecks” in the preceding post’s landscape view.
There’s no finer location in which to experience the two relevant species in their natural state than Fitzgerald River National Park’s East Mount Barren.
If you wish to enjoy a natural experience of them (both species are now popular with gardeners) the only places where you can have that experience are all in or near to Fitzgerald River National Park.
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There is no such thing as “the best place on earth”.
However, there is certainly no better place on earth than Fitzgerald River National Park, if you love unspoilt coastal magnificence, and flowering plants, most especially ones that grow – naturally at least – in only one “place”.
The photo was taken near the Park’s eastern end, whilst standing atop East Mount Barren, looking west.
Comments closedThis post enables you to see how West Beach sits within the expansive landscape/seascape of Fitzgerald River National Park’s eastern section.
(the western section is quite different, and equally splendid, but “the Fitz” is huge…so even the view from atop the Hopetoun end’s best vantage point will only give you a view over the park’s eastern section)
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This series’ concluding image was taken at 2.42 pm on 20 September 2021.
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This series’ penultimate image shows the western end of West Beach.
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Today’s image offers a closer look at part of the rock-face which was featured in episode 7 of this sequence.
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Schistosity is a thin layering of the rock produced by metamorphism that permits the rock to be easily split into thin layers or flakes.
(rocks with a high degree of schistosity are commonly known as schists. Typically, they have a “grainy” appearance)
Some schists look quite prosaic.
Others are very beautiful.
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Only a few metres away from the rock in yesterday’s post, this one also exhibits “a high degree of schistosity”, but its appearance is utterly different.
A deal of the “rockscape” on West Beach resembles a hallucinatory version of the Nazi coastal defences which were intended to make Normandy’s beaches “impregnable”.
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Strikingly evident in episodes 5 through 8 of this 10-part sequence is…
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If you stood just a little above West Beach’s high tide line, facing the Southern Ocean, and you then turned around 180 degrees to look at the slope behind the beach…
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