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When I took the featured image it was 4. 03 pm, and we had walked the greater portion of the steep track down from Cobbler Hill to Blowhole Beach.
You can see Blowhole Beach on the right hand side.
Kangaroo Island’s northern edge provided most of the photo’s horizon.
You cannot see a blowhole, because Blowhole Beach has none.
However, over umpteen thousands of years, countless humans have stood on or above this beach and witnessed the “blow” emitted by whales, breathing.
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The featured image looks across to the Cape Willoughby lighthouse which sits atop Kangaroo Island’s eastern edge.
We were standing on the nearest part of mainland Australia.
Mainland Oz is “our” world’s largest island; and smallest continental landmass.
Relative to the mainland, Tasmania is tiny – less than 1% as big.
Tasmania is, however, by far the biggest other Australian island; it exceeds the next ranked – Melville Island – by more than ten times.
Kangaroo Island is a little smaller than Melville, but much bigger than any other of Australia’s more than eight thousand islands.
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Hmmmmmmmm…
Look!… flying, up there, in the sky….is it a pig, or a pie?
Pelican Yoga wishes you all a happy new year, regardless!
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Both photos from same morning and location as previous post, but taken 8 minutes later…with self and ‘roos both on the brrrrrrisk outside of Goondooloo Cottage.
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In South Australia’s Deep Creek Conservation Park, those who hire Goondooloo Cottage can expect to see Western grey kangaroos, just outside the walls and windows.
This is especially likely in the first and final hours of daylight.
Comments closedThe featured image looks across the eastern part of Deep Creek Conservation Park, the farmland beyond, and further east, along the southern shoreline…
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The old-growth forest’s floor in Deep Creek Conservation Park is almost certainly South Australia’s finest winter location for fungi-fanciers.
It is also spectacularly well-endowed with successful predators who lack legs and teeth.
They can photosynthesise…
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The pictured mushroom (i.e. fungal “fruiting body”) has a cap so shiny that parts of it act like a “funhouse mirror”, yielding what look like distorted reflections of its forest home’s canopy.
To see them, you probably need a good quality screen – bigger than a phone’s…and/or you may need to zoom in on/enlarge the mushroom’s shiniest surfaces.
In any event, you should have no difficulty “discovering” an ant who made a fatal mistake.
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Deep Creek Conservation Park is circa 110 kilometres south of Adelaide – 90 minutes driving time, almost all of it on good roads.
One of South Australia’s better kept “secrets” includes SA’s best remaining (tiny) remnant of a once relatively common but now very rare type of forest, spectacular coastline, lovely bushland, wildflowers, many birds, and lots of ‘roos,
And that’s not all…
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Superb Fairy-wrens and Splendid Fairy-wrens both deserve their names.
The former – Malurus cyaneus, pictured above – is the “Blue-wren” most familiar to humans who reside in Australia’s southeast.
The latter – Malurus splendens – is the Blue-wren most commonly seen in Australia’s southwest.
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