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Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: mutual regard in the forest

 

 

At least one member of each of the two then visibly-present mammal species had a good look at each other.

Deep Creek Conservation Park’s stringybark forest is rich in both flora and fauna…and in other living things.

Humans aside, Deep Creek has at least eleven mammal species, but most human visitors see only the one you are now looking at: Macropus filiginosus, the western grey kangaroo.

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Midwinter on the Fleurieu’s southern edge: walking up from Blowhole Beach

 

 

The featured image was taken at 4.19 pm on 20 June 2023.

We were standing on a rocky headland, adjacent to (and southeast of) Blowhole Beach; the photo looks south-southwest, across Backstairs Passage to Kangaroo Island.

With sunset less than an hour away, there was not enough time to “explore” the actual Blowhole Beach, but we were able to potter around the rocky shores immediately east of it, before heading to the 4WD track – our safer uphill option, should darkness fall before we had “conquered” Cobbler Hill.

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Stringybark forest (#1 in “Deep Creek” single-image teaser series)

 

 

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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Three of the same (#1 in a single-image series: kangaroos)

 

 

Recently, in a “to cull, to tweak, or to let it be?” mission, I waded through nearly 10,000 images.

I suddenly realised that most of my “single species” wildlife photos involve either a single animal, a pair, or a group/flock/herd of more than four individuals.

Three, I think, is the rarest single-species group size…or number of individuals a photographer can “isolate”, successfully.

This little celebration of “companies of three” will range over three continents and at least one island….

It begins in one of my favourite parts of the island continent.

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Point D’Entrecasteaux (#2 in “Deep South WA meets Southern Ocean” series)

Around one hour’s easy drive south from Pemberton, via Northcliffe, you meet the Southern Ocean at Windy Harbour.

To the east, hulking over its sheltered bay and its little collection of shacks and camping ground/caravan park, is Point D’Entrecasteaux.

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