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This kookaburra, perched on a grave cross, has something in common with most of the humans who have been buried in Perth’s largest cemetery over the past 123 years.
In 2022, most living WA humans do not know what it is; most of them, in fact, have a quite wrong view of kookaburras’ “place” in southwestern Australia.
Comments closedMany of Perth’s streets are lined by “inappropriate” trees.
Just which ones really are inappropriate – and why – are matters of much-divided opinion.
Comments closedPeerless artist: nature.
Medium: fresh, unpolluted water – in this instance, naturally infused with plant oils and tannins as it is river-rushed, and whipped by wind and waterfall, then briefly detained in the rock-rimmed pool immediately below the waterfall.
Comments closedThe featured image and the one below were both taken from a boat on the Coorong-proper – Australia’s longest lagoon.
Both photos look across its waters to the Younghusband Peninsula – the dune field that separates the Coorong from the Southern Ocean.
Sand and water are the Coorong National Park’s key components.
The former arrives via wind, and Southern Ocean waves.
Most of the “fresh”-ish supply of the latter is delivered by the Murray-Darling river system.
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The featured image’s Southern Ocean waves are breaking on the Younghusband Peninsula’s narrowest, northernmost section.
The peninsula’s tip is the southern “lip” of the mouth of Australia’s biggest river system; the cormorants are on the “freshwater side”, as was yours truly at 3.35 pm on 30 March 2022.
If you have never been to this spot, you may be thinking, “it looks splendidly wild, barely touched by humans”.
Alas, you would be very wrong….
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Neither of the above!
This post explains a perfectly natural, Spring 2020 occurrence in the Waychinicup River
It also offers some “truth” about the alleged health benefits of drinking Guinness.
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For the benefit of those who have not visited the Stirling Range…
The featured image and the one below – wide-angle and telephoto, respectively – look east from Toolbrunup’s east-facing flank, across to Bluff Knoll.
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At 1,159 square kilometres Stirling Range National Park is “large”, or “small”, depending on one’s perspective.
Four hours drive northwest, Perth – Western Australia’s sprawling metropolis – occupies more than five times as much ground.
The Stirlings’ “footprint” is less than one 209th of the United Kingdom’s 242, 495 square kilometres.
Botanically, however, the Stirling Range is much the “bigger”/“hotter” place!
It has more flowering plant species than does the entire UK; many of them grow only in or near the Stirling Range.
Two recent “catastrophic” fires seemingly “destroyed” much more than half of what had been growing there…
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Soil restoration can be expensive, and impractical across vast areas of land. Soil disturbance by echidnas offers a cost-effective restoration option, and this potential should be harnessed.
It’s presumed that the author starts with an intention and if the book’s published they’ve succeeded in it. But successful books are ones that have escaped the author’s intentions and become something else. Novels when they succeed are incoherent and contradictory and mysterious. Nothing is more secondary to a writer’s achievements than their original ambition.
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