Arguably – metaphorically – when it is Australia’s Murray-Darling, as recently described:
the canary, and the coalmine, for the world when it comes to water stress.
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(this little trilogy is best experienced in “1,2,3” order)
Remember the “apparently lifeless” appearance of the tidal flats that dominated this trilogy’s first image?
A closer view shatters that illusion…
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Yesterday’s image offered a wide-angle perspective.
The photo was taken from a crouching position.
Today’s image is the fruit of a much longer lens – in “35 mm camera equivalent” terms, a 400 mm telephoto.
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Today’s, tomorrow’s and the final chapter’s single images were all taken within one half-hour, late on the afternoon of October 25, 2018.
On their “journey” from first to third photo my feet took only a few steps, on a single, nigh-horizontal strand, in almost-unchanging weather and light.
However, if you bend your knees, turn your head a little, and/or change your camera’s focus and/or focal length, one place and circumstance can yield three very different “worlds”.
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According to an alarming recent article in the Australian edition of The Guardian, Australia is “losing the fight” against invasive species.
It quotes scientists who claim that the “invaders” pose a greater threat to Australia’s native species than does climate change.
(so, you may ask, “why on earth does the image atop this Pelican Yoga post depict an Australian native species which is clearly flourishing?”)
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A teaspoon of sugar weighs around 4 grams; 3 teaspoons make up a tablespoon.
The bird in this post’s featured image weighs around 7 grams.
Imagine an old-fashioned set of scales with a 1 ounce weight in one bowl.
To “balance” those scales would require 4 such birds in the other bowl!
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Nowhere else near the coast between Sellicks Hill and Adelaide – a distance of more than 60 kilometres – can one stand within and look across such a “big” chunk of mostly-intact native bush.
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All photos taken on morning of December 21, 2018, just a few minutes easy walk away from houses and streets.
Adelaide’s GPO is 50 kilometres away, within one hour’s driving time in non-rush hours.
These kangaroos are wild, not tame; for one of them, it seems, two ears are one too few.
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Season’s greetings from Pelican Yoga.
The photographed bottoms were raised in pursuit of pipis…
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It starts just a few kilometres east of Apollo Bay, and it takes you up into mostly-forested hill country.
You probably won’t be lucky enough also to have a close, prolonged encounter with the immediately-preceding post’s echidna, but a very scenic drive is guaranteed!
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