My favourite wine “product description”, as spotted yesterday in Kamikochi in the northern Japanese Alps.
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The caption summarises Gio-ji temple, as I and my beloved enjoyed it, uncrowded, two days ago.
Someone else, on Trip Advisor, headlined his post, Disappointing, many better temples in Kyoto.
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This chapter looks at temporarily dry land. Chapter two – coming up in November – looks at softer things that cannot survive quite as far away from the low tide line.
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All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken April 2017, near West Leederville Railway Station, less than 3 kilometres from Perth GPO.
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The shortest of the “big three” that dominate the central plateau on New Zealand’s North Island is Tongariro. The more “perfect” Ngauruhoe deserves an Academy Award – not just for its role as “Mt Doom” in The Lord of the Rings, but for so convincingly presenting itself as an independent entity, when it is in fact Tongariro’s “parasitic”, secondary cone. Ruapehu is the North Island’s highest peak and only currently glaciated mountain.
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Formed by a landslide around 10,000 years ago, Rotopounamu is a forest-fringed little gem – a lovely contrast to the more starkly dramatic, actively-volcanic landscapes that attract most visitors to New Zealand’s Tongariro National Park.
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The name is a “terminological inexactitude”- Ninety Mile Beach is “only” 88 kilometres long – but it is huge, and beautiful.
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Uttterly fearless too! Meet Petroica longipes – New Zealand’s North Island robin.
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Greetings from the Shaky Isles, where volcanic performance is of a higher order than nuncle Vodafone’s portable wi-fi.
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There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than there are people on the planet. A mere teaspoonful contains many miles of fungal filaments. All these work the soil, transform it, and make it so valuable for the trees.
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