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Tidal creek (teaser)

 

 

Mangroves thrive here.

Heavy industry is also here.

This river is also part of a substantial port, within a metropolis of circa 1.4 million humans; the heart of its CBD is just 14 kilometres inland from the featured photo’s vantage point.

Your eyes are probably telling you that the location is somewhere within the tropics.

But where, exactly?

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Intertidal: #7 in series (looking back into bay)

 

 

#6 in this series looked out to sea, from a bay on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula – a popular “weekend escape” destination for many residents of Auckland.

This post’s featured image was taken from almost exactly the same spot, but looking into a bay whose waters were very much deeper two centuries ago.

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Intertidal: #6 in series (western side of Coromandel Peninsula)

The location pictured in this post’s featured image is not very many kilometres away from the one in #5 in this series.

It is not at all close to the North Queensland coast, where Cairns sits at 16.51 Degrees South – unsurprisingly, a location where mangroves thrive.

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Intertidal: #5 in series (“how close to Cairns CBD are these mangroves?”)

 

#6 in this series will answer the above question.

“If there are no mangrove forests, then the sea will have no meaning. It is like having a tree with no roots, for the mangroves are the roots of the sea.”— fisherman, Trang Province, southern Thailand.

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