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Our vantage point and the time/date were essentially “as per immediately-preceding post”, but instead of looking due west, to the Atlantic, this post has heads and camera turned in other directions.
To our east, south and north, the view was almost 100% “dunescape”.
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Construction of a cableway on Mount Etna began in the 1950s.
The first version began operations in 1966.
Etna first “intervened” in 1971, destroying the cableway’s upper section.
Various other eruptions have since wreaked varying degrees of destruction, resulting in repeated closures, rebuilds and realignments.
Since the spring of 2023, the cableway and its (new) cable cars have been as they appear in my photo.
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Today’s image finds us still in “our” bus.
In relation to yesterday’s post, we were another six minutes further up Etna’s southern flank.
When I took the photo it was 10. 05 am on 30 September 2023, and we were probably circa 1300 metres above sea level.
Comments closedDear all…subscribers especially. My blog’s notification service appears to have “died”. As is the way with things-Wordpress, none of the alleged “fixes” in fact work,…
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The image is a “looking down, from space”, google-view of Mt Etna and its eastern Sicilian surrounds, in summertime…no snow.
Marked thereon are most of the human settlements relevant to the “Aspects of Etna” series-proper.
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Hmmmmmmmm…
Look!… flying, up there, in the sky….is it a pig, or a pie?
Pelican Yoga wishes you all a happy new year, regardless!
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As the full moon continued to ascend over Lake Monger – and danced in and out of clouds – the sun had just set.
The pelican-sky image was captured within a few seconds of the previous post’s featured photo.
I looked left for the moon; the pelican was to our right.
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One of the nigh-infinite pleasures of walking in southwestern Australian forest/woodland/bush:
once “attuned”, you begin to notice that the “forest floor” – when viewed at or near ground level, up close – often looks like a multi-layered, uncommonly-colourful “forest”, in its own right.
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The locale remains the same as #7’s, and this post also co-stars purple flags and WA-endemic (I think) “daisies”.
The focus is closer.
Comments closedThis little interruption to the current “Darling Range flora” series comes to you via the trigger plants having accidentally made me think fondly of the most celebrated theme ever written for a “Western”.
The relevant film was a so-called “spaghetti western”.
Almost certainly, you have heard its theme, but you have probably not heard what John Zorn did to it in 1987.
To put it mildly, the highly creative Mr Zorn greatly admired Ennio Morricone’s “original”, but he was not the least intimidated by it!
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