Solid granite cloaks a lot of Waychinicup’s upper slopes.
As a result, when it rains, a whole lot of water flows downhill, some of it into little gullies which briefly become rushing rivulets.
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The photo was taken at 1.57 pm on 15 March 2021, a little less than one hour before the one in #21 of this series.
#21 offered a telephoto view, focused on Waychinicup Inlet’s eastern shoreline, as viewed from midway along the inlet’s western side.
#22’s is a wide-angle (24mm) view, taken from the inlet’s northwest “corner”; it looks along the inlet’s western side, out to where the Southern Ocean meets the inlet.
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The photo (copyright Doug Spencer) was taken from the inlet’s western edge, looking across to (and focused on) its eastern edge.
Granite – and lichens, flourishing thereon – are key elements.
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The inlet’s “neck”/ inland-most end soon fans out into its much wider and longer, lake-like expanse.
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Pictured is the final stretch of the Waychinicup River’s 17 kilometres.
After this spot, the river tumbles into the Waychinicup Inlet; arguably, the inlet is only truly “estuarine” in the narrow section within circa 150 metres of the river-proper’s end. (you will see that section in #20 of this series)
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Like #17 in this series, today’s post is the fruit of a little walk along the Waychinicup River’s final kilometre, as mid-afternoon turned into late afternoon on 22 September 2020.
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Neither of the above!
This post explains a perfectly natural, Spring 2020 occurrence in the Waychinicup River
It also offers some “truth” about the alleged health benefits of drinking Guinness.
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Nuytsia Floribunda is generally known as the Western Australian Christmas tree.
In southwest WA (its only home range) most people simply call it a “Christmas tree”.
Enormously more colourful and much more bizarre than any “traditional” Christmas tree, it is usually in full bloom at Christmas.
The world’s largest member of the mistletoe family is hemi-parasitic, rather than merely parasitic; Nuytsia (the single member of its own genus) does photosynthesize, and it has prodigiously long roots.
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The (very) different phases of an individual Banksia flower spike’s development are astonishing.
Over time, the very same spike’s appearance can range from “perfectly symmetrical, colourful, immaculately neat” through to “grotesque, seemingly shambolic and almost monochrome”, and from “petite” to “gigantic”.
In some species, an individual bush’s different spikes can simultaneously exhibit all of the aforementioned qualities.
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Banksia coccinea – Scarlet Banksia, also known as “Albany Banksia” or “Waratah Banksia” – is globally popular with gardeners and florists.
Its natural range, however, covers a mere smidgeon of near-coastal southern Western Australia.
Australia has 79 Banksia-proper species.
61 of them occur naturally only in WA’s southwest.
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