Natural splendour, real musics, wines, wordpower
West Cape Howe National Park includes Torbay Head, the West Australian mainland’s southernmost point.
Near Torbay Head, Shelley Beach is WA’s southernmost 2WD-accessible strand.
The hill above it is WA’s prime location for hang gliding/ parasailing.
Kangaroos like it there, too.
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The day was fine, definitely not stormy.
However, a decidedly brisk breeze had blown for a few hours, so the ocean had some oomph when it met Western Australia’s southern edge on the afternoon of February 7, 2022.
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Unlike Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” – a deservedly celebrated, but much-misunderstood song – this post is 100% free of irony and angst.
The photo (copyright Doug Spencer) was taken at 1.54 pm on 15 March 2021.
The inlet’s shore is surely one of the more sublime picnic lunch spots, anywhere, and the inlet is just part of one of our favourite wild places.
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Lustful, too!
East of the Nullarbor Plain, when an Australian talks of “blue wrens”, chances are they are Superb Fairy-wrens, Malurus cyaneus.
Superb Fairy-wrens do not exist on the WA side of the Nullarbor.
There – at least in WA’s southern half – the (equally superb) blue wren in question is usually the Splendid Fairy-wren, Malurus splendens.
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Anyone who pays close attention to small birds surely cannot fail to marvel at their hyperactivity, their agility, and how radically and swiftly their appearance changes.
From one nanosecond to the next, the very same individual can appear remarkably different in shape, colour, size…and attitude.
All photos feature New Holland Honeyeaters attending the very same Grevillea, adjacent to the eastern wall of a house in Walpole, in Western Australia’s “Deep South”.
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This post is a teaser: each subject of its four photographs will soon be explored further, in its own particular post.
All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken in February 2022.
The first two images were both taken just a few steps outside of the house in which we stayed in Walpole.
Above, feeding, (& probably pollinating the Grevillea) is a New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae.
Immediately below, flaunting, is a male Splendid Fairy-wren Malurus splendens.
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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all…
So begins a justly celebrated poem by Emily Dickinson.
In this post “hope” is viewed through photographic, musical and poetic “lenses”.
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Nobody knows… most especially those who pretend that they do.
Happy New Year, in any event!
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If you are “new” to Anvil Beach, it would be a good idea – before you proceed further – to see/read its earlier post
This one is the fruit of a visit/swim (my beloved did all of the swimming) at the end of an unusually hot day.
The featured image, taken at 6.03 pm on 18 March 2021, shows Anvil Beach’s “anvil”.
One CommentVery easily reached via sealed roads, but astonishing little-visited, Anvil Beach is deliciously wild.
It offers visual splendour, grave danger, and safety.
If you intend to swim there, you must very carefully select exactly where/when/if to do so, how to reach your chosen point of entry, and how/if you can safely return from it…most especially if the tide is soon to turn, or a weather change is imminent.
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