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Spring in Perth, 2024 (in “winter”)

 

 

Pelican Yoga briefly interrupts its ongoing celebration of autumn 2024 on the Coorong, to celebrate the arrival of spring, in Perth.

Western Australian wildflowers are not fussed about calendars, nor European-derived notions of “the four seasons”.

Four days before the alleged end of winter, in Shenton Bushland it was abundantly evident that spring had already “sprung”.

Kangaroo Paws are now easy to see, as are some (not all, yet) of the “spring-flowering” orchids.

 

 

Cowslip orchids, Shenton Bushland, Perth, 2.26 pm, 28 August 2024. Photos ©️ Doug Spencer.

 

 

 

This post is the fruit of our walk on the afternoon of 28 August 2024…in beautiful bushland, within inner suburbia.

Shenton Bushland is a short and easy walk away from Shenton Park railway station; that train station is less than ten minutes away from Perth, and in the daytime Perth-Shenton Park trains are never more than eight minutes apart.

 

 

 

Pink Fairy orchid, Shenton Bushland, 2.38 pm, 28 August 2024. Photo ©️ Doug Spencer.

 

 

 

 

Donkey orchids, Shenton Bushland, Perth, 2.41 pm, 28 August 2024. Photos ©️ Doug Spencer.

 

 

 

Published in nature and travel photographs Western Australia