Fleurieu Peninsula – Pelican Yoga

Grand sands (#34 in series: “looking down” on Aldinga Beach)

Published January 21, 2025 by Pelidoug

Grand sands (#34 in series: “looking down” on Aldinga Beach)

This post’s photo was taken shortly before sunset, at 8.11 pm on 21 January 2023.

Near the southernmost kink in Aldinga Beach’s Lower Esplanade, I was standing on the top of the stairs to Silver Sands – the southern section of Aldinga’s long strand.

As had been true at the same time on the previous day, a cooling breeze was blowing.

Accordingly, sandgrains were dancing; click here to see a photo, taken at beach level, with a wide-angle (24 mm) rather than a telephoto (146 mm) lens.

Grand sands (#20 in series: Aldinga Beach – “suburban” strand, but grand)

Published January 3, 2025 by Pelidoug

Grand sands (#20 in series: Aldinga Beach – “suburban” strand, but grand)

By car or bus, the pictured location is circa 45 kilometres south of Adelaide’s CBD.

If you avoid rush hours, a car trip from the heart of Adelaide to Aldinga Beach can take just 45 minutes.

Aldinga Beach is definitely not “just yet more of Adelaide’s dispiriting, seemingly never-ending sprawl”; it has well-protected natural bushland, a large number of resident ‘roos, reefs onto which one can walk, at low tide…and glorious beaches.

“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#14B in Series: Second Valley)

Published May 24, 2024 by Pelidoug

“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#14B in Series: Second Valley)

The “14B” image involved the same telephoto lens as did “14A”.

Here, however the focal point is very much closer – water’s edge, just in front of me.

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“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#14A in Series: Second Valley)

Published May 23, 2024 by Pelidoug

“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#14A in Series: Second Valley)

Sometimes, when revisiting a long-favourite place, I intentionally limit my photographic options.

90 kilometres south of Adelaide, Second Valley is one such place – a geologically extraordinary and very beautiful coastal location on the eastern edge of the Fleurieu Peninsula.

If you have never been there, I suggest you now have a look at this December 2017 post; it will – virtually, at least – give you a “good look around”, and convey a sense of how some aspects of Second Valley are very old, whilst others are surprisingly young.

On the first day of April 2022, I opted to use a long telephoto lens, only.

Accordingly, even this post’s “landscape view” embraces just a very small portion of what a pair of naked human eyes would see when gazing at Second Valley’s sea cliffs.

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“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#13B in series: Aldinga Bay)

Published May 22, 2024 by Pelidoug

“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#13B in series: Aldinga Bay)

The previous post’s image was a wide-angle view of Aldinga Beach, taken from the beach itself, looking south, shortly before sunset on 20 January 2023.

This post’s “much closer view” was taken at 7. 51 pm on 21 January 2023.

I was standing on a stairway, above the beach, looking down and east, through a much longer (200 mm) lens.

The wind was more vigorous than it had been at the same hour on the previous day.

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“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#13A in series: Aldinga Bay)

Published May 21, 2024 by Pelidoug

“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#13A in series: Aldinga Bay)

Most of the time, the drive south from Adelaide to Aldinga takes one hour or a little less than that.

Aldinga’s coast is a lovely combination of firm sand, safe swimming, inviting coastal reefs (upon which one can walk at low tide) and big vistas of sea, sky, and obviously-ancient hills.

Aldinga also offers interesting bush, and very easy access to the rest of the Fleurieu Peninsula’s many delights.

We have based ourselves there many times, and have often walked along the pictured beach.

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Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: Fungi series’ beautiful finale + “weirdo” footnote

Published January 31, 2024 by Pelidoug

Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: Fungi series’ beautiful finale + “weirdo” footnote

The featured image was taken at 1.05 pm on 20 June 2023, in the final 15 minutes of a walk in Deep Creek National Park’s old growth stringybark forest.

This particular coral fungus fruiting body (and its particular positioning, midst leaf-litter – it was another “pushy bastard”/ “remover of obstacles”… or, in its case, an uplifter of them) was especially beautiful, I thought…and still do.

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Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: “technicolour”, hi-gloss ‘shrooms

Published January 30, 2024 by Pelidoug

Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: “technicolour”, hi-gloss ‘shrooms

I had never previously seen mushrooms with such spectacularly shiny, exquisitely coloured tops.

If you zoom in on/enlarge them, you should be able to enjoy some Dali-esque, distorted reflections of the old-growth stringybark forest’s canopy.

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Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: tough little mushroom

Published January 28, 2024 by Pelidoug

Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: tough little mushroom

Q: What does the appearance of this mushroom tell us about how it achieved its position and dimensions, as at 1. 07 pm on 20 June 2023?

A: I am not a mycologist, and my hunch/conclusions may be wrong, but….

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Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: edible, obviously

Published January 28, 2024 by Pelidoug

Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: edible, obviously

I have no idea whether a human could safely eat the pictured mushroom.

Clearly, however, at least one other fauna species relishes this fungus.

In any event, from a purely human-centric perspective, “edibility” is merely one of an enormous number of relevant descriptors of fungi species’ actual or potential uses.

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