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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In this particular instance, I do not know the answers to the headline’s questions.
Some fungi are “edible, generally”, some are “toxic, generally”, whilst others could be labelled as “it all depends on which fauna species attempts to eat it, and/or on how and when they eat it and/or on how much of it they eat, and/or on how they prepare it”.
If you look carefully, you can see a little fragment at the bottom, apparently broken off from the pictured coral fungus’s fruiting body.
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The pictured fruiting body is a little bigger than was yesterday’s hero, but it looks rather more “delicate”, less “robust”.
Look closely, however…
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