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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This is the first in a (very) occasional series, which (eventually) will also feature an Australian urban encounter with an osprey, and a meeting with a fox on a mountain in Japan.
With luck, this series will have more than three episodes!
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The 2018 sequel to a 2017 post: the same “event”, starring same /nearby trees, but this annual event is never the same, twice.
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As the immediately-preceding post observed, Madagascar’s emblematic domesticated animal has a great many uses/aspects.
Its horns can be turned into “cattle birds”, so to speak.
First step, once the abattoir has delivered the horns to the artists/craftspeople: throw the horns into the fire…
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This is a wee postscript to previous post.
Nancy Eisenberg’s White Trash has many telling direct quotes.
My favourite is a remark made by Lyndon Johnson when he encountered a group of “homely” women holding up racist signs in Tennessee:
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…reading Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash (subtitled The 400-year untold history of class in America) will likely give you a whole new perspective on Trump & Trumpism.
(this post’s featured image depicts an absolutely “legitimate” bit of campaigning by an absolutely real Wanker. She was re-elected; all is revealed at this post’s end)
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