If an Australian raven (Corvus coronoides – the bird most Australians have in mind when they say “a crow”) had been perched beside me when I took the photo for #4 in this series, it would have been able to fly to this post’s location in less than 90 seconds.
The sites are less than two kilometres apart, and a frequent, free bus service will get you from one to the other in five minutes or so; a slow-walking human would take less than 30 minutes.
As you can see, they are “worlds apart”.
Literally right next to (and overlooking) Perth CBD, Kings Park is one of the world’s finest urban parks.
Part of it is one of the great Botanic Gardens.
Another large chunk is “natural” bushland.
Kings Park is larger than New York’s Central Park, and also immeasurably richer in endemic flora – flowering plants that only occur, naturally, in one region.
The Spring flowering in southwestern Australia is one of the world’s most spectacular annual, natural phenomena.
That said, at absolutely any time of any year in Kings Park you can easily see some extraordinary WA-endemic flowering plants, flowering.
The photo (copyright Doug Spencer) was taken five days after the Winter solstice.