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Rocky Bay, Swan River estuary

Published October 19, 2022 by Pelidoug

Walking along the path atop Rocky Bay’s cliffs, full-on residential suburbia is generally only a few steps away.

If you look over and down to the other (south/ southeastern) side of the Swan, residential suburbia, yachting facilities, and assorted urban infrastructure oft encroach to within a few steps of water’s edge.

Miraculously, however, on the top/ edge of the steep, cliffy (North Fremantle/ Mosman Park) side – and immediately below, on/near that shoreline – Rocky Bay is altogether wilder and lovelier than is usually true of a riverine environment within a “premium residential real estate” area of a capital city

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Domestic front yards/gardens, North Fremantle

Published October 16, 2022 by Pelidoug

Domestic front yards/gardens, North Fremantle

16 October 2022 was – even by Perth standards – a particularly benign Spring day.

All photos in this post involved a long lens peeking over North Fremantle residents’ front fences, into gardens of highly diverse persuasions; the “unkempt” and the “manicured” proved equally alluring.

The two first images were taken from Stirling Highway’s western footpath; I suggest you zoom in/enlarge – the Hibiscus’s stamen is especially worth a closer view.

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Feel the serenity…and the aggro

Published October 13, 2022 by Pelidoug

Feel the serenity…and the aggro

During last Saturday afternoon’s “golden hour” at Lake Monger, both were very apparent.

Above: a Great Crested Grebe, newly in “breeding” mode/plumage.

Below: a very territorial Dusky Moorhen, in hot pursuit of a rival/“intruder”.

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150th Birthday today: Kings Park

Published October 1, 2022 by Pelidoug

150th Birthday today: Kings Park

On the first day of October in 1872 the British Parliament declared a Reserve on Perth’s Mount Eliza,

The new Perth Park overlooked the then decidedly modest capital of the Colony of Western Australia.

In 1901 Perth Park was renamed Kings Park, following the coronation of King Edward VII.

Until more than a decade into the 1900s, Perth was smaller than not a few of eastern Australia’s country towns.

Paradoxically, one reason why Perth managed to have a bigger, wilder – and, arguably, more wonderful, and equally central – city park than New York’s Central Park is that when it was p/reserved, Kings Park’s site would have been viewed as utterly superfluous to Perth’s future urban expansion.

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Teal, dependents…

Published September 28, 2022 by Pelidoug

Teal, dependents…

Perth’s Lake Monger sits within the Federal electorate of Curtin.

It was named after a Labor Prime Minister, but until 2022 Curtin was generally regarded as a perpetually-“safe” Liberal seat.

Curtin’s mostly-affluent electors include the adult residents of Australia’s wealthiest postcode.

In 2022, however, Curtin “fell” to “Teal independent” candidate Kate Chaney.

Apolitically speaking, Teals have thrived here for at least many thousands of years.

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How good is this? Pelican-news exclusive.

Published September 7, 2022 by Pelidoug

How good is this? Pelican-news exclusive.

“Alternative facts” scoop:
DISGRACED FORMER PM BORN AGAIN AS PERTH CAFE SOCIETY KINGPIN

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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: series finale (perpetual flower show)

Published August 31, 2022 by Pelidoug

McGowangrad, winter ‘22: series finale (perpetual flower show)

WA’s emblematic flower may be synonymous with Springtime, but it is no slave to the calendar.

Well before Winter 2022’s alleged end, it – and not a few other “iconic”, “Spring-flowering” WA endemics – were already very evidently flowering in the quasi-natural bushland section of Perth’s Kings Park.

It is an easy walk – or an even shorter free bus trip’s distance – from the CBD.

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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #24 in series (“terrible beauty” in another Hollywood)

Published August 30, 2022 by Pelidoug

McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #24 in series (“terrible beauty” in another Hollywood)

The only Hollywood to have repeatedly appeared in Pelican Yoga is a small but significant piece of remnant bushland, adjacent to Perth’s Karrakatta Cemetery.

Until 19 January this year, the organism pictured above was a fine, living example of a weird, wonderful, and very rare Western Australian Acacia species.

When I photographed a few of its “leaves”, glowing in bright winter light at 2.33 pm on 01 July 2022, it and they were as dead as the many thousands of entombed persons, nearby.

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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #23 in series (Australasian grebe, Lake Monger)

Published August 29, 2022 by Pelidoug

McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #23 in series (Australasian grebe, Lake Monger)

As is often true of Tachybaptus novaehollandiae, our hero/ine was repeatedly disappearing and re-emerging.

Every time s/he resurfaced, the excellence of his/her feathers’ water-repellence was readily apparent.

Incidentally, as highly responsible parents, Australasian grebes sometimes eat their own feathers; click here to discover precisely why they do so.

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McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #20 in series (inner-urban raptor rapture)

Published August 28, 2022 by Pelidoug

McGowangrad, winter ‘22: #20 in series (inner-urban raptor rapture)

Perth is one of very few cities, globally, where such a sight is possible: a large raptor, on patrol above a “great fen”, within a few kilometres of the CBD.

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