Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
There is the small matter of nothing but blue skies being a recipe for the end of all life on “our” planet.
Supplying water is, however, not clouds’ only good quality.
If you wish to photograph birds, trees or flowers – most especially if you are using a digital camera, and there is no “screen” of vegetation immediately behind them – intense, unshaded sunlight is not your “dreams come true”.
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Caladenia latifolia – generally known as “pink fairy orchids”, or simply “pink fairies” – are not endemic to southwest Western Australia.
They also naturally occur in other southern Australian places, including Tasmania.
In my (totally “unscientific”) experience, as someone who has lived on both sides of the Nullarbor, they appear to be much more “common”/easily-seen in southwest WA than anywhere else I have been.
The pictured ones were among more than a few that were flowering in Hollywood Reserve on 01.09.2024.
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In January 2022 parts of Hollywood were devastated by a very fierce (i.e. hot) fire.
You didn’t hear about it?
My beloved and I have visited Hollywood many times, but the only bit of Los Angeles that we have directly “enjoyed” is its godawful airport.
We harbour no desire to set foot in the famous/infamous Hollywood, but are very fond of the petite, not-famous Hollywood Reserve.
This choice patch of inner-urban bushland sits “right next door” to one of Australia’s major cemeteries.
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I took the photo at 8.54 pm on 04 May 2024.
At that time my vantage point – an entertainment barge – was loud and lively, as the preceding several posts have illustrated.
However, if one looked out across the waters of Dal Lake – and up to the ridge overlooking its southern shore – the scene appeared utterly serene, unruffled, “silent”.
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As this post shows, our Dal Lake entertainment barge’s singer-dancer was a very effective encourager-teacher.
During the course of the evening, most physically-able-enough members of our party were coaxed onto the dance floor.
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By 7.15 pm, as pictured above, the singer and dancer on “our” Dal Lake entertainment barge had already shown us that she was a capable and committed performer.
Relatively speaking, however, she was still in “low gear”…but only for another minute or so.
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By the time it was fully dark outside – and we were well away from inhabited shores – our “party on Dal Lake” had become very exuberant.
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As we slowly glided our way out of the “Toorak/Peppermint Grove” end of the houseboats-fringed section of Dal Lake, the musicians were tuning up, plugging in, preparing.
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At 5.36pm on 04 May 2024, we were on board a barge, in front of “our” houseboat.
We were about to head out into the quiet, unpopulated part of Dal Lake, well away from houses and houseboats.
Late afternoon light was flattering the houseboats that were directly opposite “ours”.
A few minutes later MV Bulbul (pictured in immediately-preceding post) would fire up, and begin to tow us, very slowly, toward the lake’s more “open” waters.
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What was going on at 6.40 pm on 04 May 2024?
Why were we under tow, on the quieter end of Dal Lake?
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