Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
Candid photo (copyright Doug Spencer) taken at 12.36 pm on 27 June 2022 in St Georges Terrace, Perth CBD.
I could, of course, have taken a not-dissimilar shot in the main street of any major Australian city, indeed any “First World” city.
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Enjoy modern European and east-meets-west fusion, locally caught seafood and the finest organic produce paired with locally produced wines. Try it from a food truck, in a health-conscious café or tapas style, dress up for the occasion or relax with fish and chips beachside. Perth’s diverse dining scene will have foodies’ mouths watering and no taste bud left unsatisfied.
(First paragraph of “EAT DRINK TASTE PERTH “ section of Perth Holiday Planner 2022, published by Perth Region Tourism Organisation Inc)
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Looking at the ground right in front of your feet can offer surprising rewards, even when your feet are trudging along urban, paved surfaces.
Especially when a decent amount of rain has recently fallen, such “dead” zones can be surprisingly alive, not endlessly-grey.
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McGowanstan’s capital city is a very paradoxical, much-misunderstood metropolis.
State and city, respectively, are also known as Western Australia and Perth.
This single-image series will mostly look at details, but it begins panoramically.
The featured image was taken from one of Perth’s favourite picnic spots – the Matilda Bay foreshore, just across the road from the University of Western Australia, and looking across the Swan River to the Kings Park escarpment and Perth CBD.
How often does “the bleak midwinter” – a time of year which many locally-raised residents abhor – look like it did at 4.30 pm on 12 July 2022?
Comments closedPeerless artist: nature.
Medium: fresh, unpolluted water – in this instance, naturally infused with plant oils and tannins as it is river-rushed, and whipped by wind and waterfall, then briefly detained in the rock-rimmed pool immediately below the waterfall.
Comments closedYou may or may not “know much about art”, and your “knowledge” may or may not have any bearing on whether you like this…
The sequel to this post will reveal the identity of the artist and the medium s/he deployed.
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Wednesday July 13 2022 was (yet another) glorious, bright winter’s day in the non-Scottish Perth.
A walk around the local lake was irresistible, even though mid-winter there usually proves unrewarding, bird-wise.
I almost decided to leave the camera at home…
One CommentToo many Perth residents have never visited Herdsman Lake, nor given any thought to it.
Sir David Attenborough, who described Herdsman as “the Great Fen of Perth”, is keenly aware that Perth is one of very few cities to have such a substantial, internationally significant, RAMSAR-listed wetland within 10 kilometres of its GPO.
Far from pristine, and more “wetland” than “lake”, Herdsman is, nonetheless, a very special place.
As you can see, this year’s shortest day was not at all “wintry”.
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At certain times of year Broome’s Roebuck Bay is a global hotspot for birdlife; for migratory waders it is a key “fuel stop”.
It may be less “instagrammable” than Cable Beach, but Roebuck Bay is much the richer place, biologically speaking.
Its crustaceans provide a deal of the waders’ fuel.
A key factor in all this: Roebuck Bay’s oft-massive, fast-moving tides.
On some days of each month, at low tide the exposed mudflats cover more than 150 square kilometres, and they extend far beyond a shore-based observer’s horizon.
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So begins a series of single-image posts: each depicts a different aspect of the intertidal zone, where the sea “arrives” and “departs” at least once, every day.
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