Not yet on many visitors’ “radar” is Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens’ very different but equally rewarding “other half”, 45 kilometres southeast of the CBD.
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Thanks to Sir Peter Jackson, many millions more human eyes have looked at this active volcano than have human feet walked anywhere near it. Most who “know” it via The Lord of the Rings trilogy do not even know its real name.
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All photos taken early afternoon of May 31, on the “airport/Ascot Racecourse” side of the estuary around which Perth is wrapped. One 21st century good news story: black swans have returned to the Swan River!
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Start in Juneau’s tourist-kitsch-horror-show waterfront. Ascend 1,800 feet/550 metres in 5 minutes, via Mt Roberts Tramway. Admire the view down into the fiord – and above it, as pictured above. Relatively speaking, you ain’t seen nothing, yet! Yes, you really should walk up to the top of the ridge behind you…
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Stand atop its higher hills/dunes and you see that suburbia surrounds this bush “island”. Down in its “valleys”, however, your eyes certainly don’t tell you that Bold Park is within an urban area of more than two million people, and that the CBD is only minutes away.
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Today’s real-life “pelican yoga” on the Swan River was irresistible…and so was both flower and fruit on a Bushy Yate.
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….and a cold-hearted hypocrite gets his come-uppance. With poetic justice, this master of cover-up goes “viral”, thanks to his attempt to censor. (and – as just updated, at bottom of post – he’s since had a second, more substantive come-uppance)
Pelicans first…
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Biodiversity rules, OK? Western Australia has around 13,000 “higher” plant species. The southwest is most especially rich in unique, beautiful and wondrous-strange flowers. This one is WA’s floral emblem.
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This is a sequel to Berkeley River (1). Again, all photos are my own; I took the above one a few metres from the base of an allegedly “unnamed” waterfall, looking to the clifftops on the river’s opposite side.
The one below was taken just after lunch, when the sun hit the “sweet spot” at the top of the waterfall.
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The Kimberley, in far northern Western Australia, includes the tropical world’s most substantial wilderness coast. The Berkeley is one of its wild rivers. We visited…
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