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Today’s image looks east, to the eastern end of West Beach.
I do not know why this is so, but, generally speaking, coastal heath on Australia’s western side appears to be in a healthier state than is coastal heath on Australia’s eastern shores.
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Today’s photo was taken less than 60 seconds after yesterday’s image.
This one looks south, across rock pools, to where the Southern Ocean reaches its northern shoreline.
Comments closedWonderfully wild, yet easily accessible, it is a very short walk away from a sealed road, car park and picnic shelter.
This West Beach will definitely not remind you of Adelaide’s tamer beach of the same name!
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Australia has six black cockatoo species.
All are intelligent, sociable, spectacularly agile, and have very powerful beaks.
The world’s only two white-tailed black cockatoo species – both endangered – are endemic to southwest Western Australia.
My beloved and I are lucky enough to see and hear one of them – Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo – on hundreds of occasions, every year.
The featured image shows behaviour which is very familiar to us.
The other photos show something “new”, at least to us.
Comments closedPictured above and below: Hakea victoria, known as Royal Hakea.
Arguably, it has the most spectacularly variegated leaves of any plant on earth; the individuals in this post are by no means unusually splendid examples.
Fitzgerald River National Park is its stronghold, and all naturally occurring Royal Hakeas are within easy driving distance of “the Fitz”.
Most photos in this post were taken on a morning ascent of East Mount Barren on 21 September 2021.
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Neither Cabernets, kangaroos, Communists, nor U.S. Republicans – and never married to Alan Bond…
This post’s “Big Reds” are uncommonly splendid, very upstanding members of the bloodwort family, Haemodoracea.
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Verticordia is a genus of circa 102 “feather flower” species, of which circa 100 naturally occur only in Western Australia’s southwest.
Literally translated, Verticordia means “turner of hearts”, an epithet applied to the Roman goddess Venus.
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My beloved and I have recently returned from a couple of weeks in one of our favourite parts of “our” planet.
Its coastscapes are magnificently “big wide screen”.
Cape Arid National Park, Cape Le Grand National Park and Fitzgerald River National Park are even more jaw-dropping at the “micro” level – one should always pay close attention to the ground immediately in front of one’s feet!
The featured image looks east from Belinup Hill to Mt Arid/Cape Arid.
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As Bob Hudson said nearly half a century ago in his most famous song, “don’t you ever let a chance go by”.
The pictured can’s back label bills the brew as “a light yet indulgent beer to help you through the COVID-19 times”.
Lucky Bay Brewing has excellent beers, their venue is a very congenial lunch spot for anyone lucky enough to be in or near Esperance, and those who don’t love beer will likely be pleasantly surprised by the compact but excellent and reasonably priced wine list.
It is, however, this area’s magnificent, wild coast and its astounding, astonishingly diverse wildflowers that make the adjoining shires of Esperance and Ravensthorpe one of the world’s more compelling “safari” destinations.
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William Bay National Park is less than half an hour’s easy drive, west from Denmark.
Its two much-instagrammed, “iconic” attractions are Greens Pool and the almost-adjoining Elephant Rocks.
Ludicrously, the two “icons” are the only places where most visitors to William Bay National Park ever set foot.
Madfish Bay is also magnificent, dead-easy to reach, often deserted, and only a few minutes away from the oft-thronged/overcrowded Greens Pool!
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