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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As to the name….
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Sometimes billed as the world’s oldest mountain range and once soaring higher than Everest now does, Porongurup has eroded to very modest heights. The above image…
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Sometimes pelicans.. but in all likelihood never human yoga/yogi! That said, there is a real reason for the name..to be explained and illustrated, when this…
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