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“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#11B in series: Creery Wetland, day’s end)

 

 

As dusk began on 05 April 2024, we made our way back from Peel Inlet’s edge and adjacent (unseasonably dry) samphire-dominated wetland.

Before our return to suburbia we skirted some mostly-intact, mostly-native scrub/woodland.

We “met” a few kangaroos, but by 5. 51 pm we were the only humans within view,

Unexpectedly, something lovely – something flaunting – briefly appeared..

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“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#11 A in series: Creery Wetland, day’s end)

 

Even on the (rare) occasions when not a single bird is within sight, day’s end in  Mandurah’s Creery Wetlands Nature Reserve is a superb combination of time and particular place.

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“Landscape” view/ much closer view (#10A in series: Peel Inlet/Creery Wetland)

 

 

Now considered by some demographers as part of “greater Perth”, Mandurah was once an “unspoilt”, sleepy little town on a very big inlet.

It is now Western Australia’s second largest city, with circa 100,000 permanent residents.

Famous/infamous for its “canal developments”, Mandurah still has a surprisingly rich array of natural attractions that are well-protected, but easy-to-access

One of them is an internationally significant bird sanctuary.

To reach it, some migratory birds travel considerably longer distances than do the English-born humans for whom Mandurah is also a “magnet”.

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