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This kookaburra, perched on a grave cross, has something in common with most of the humans who have been buried in Perth’s largest cemetery over the past 123 years.
In 2022, most living WA humans do not know what it is; most of them, in fact, have a quite wrong view of kookaburras’ “place” in southwestern Australia.
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Lion’s teeth, wind-riders, and a bad reputation….
I am referring to members of Taraxacum – a large genus of flowering plants. which most Australians regard as weeds and/or as highly invasive pests.
They are generally known as dandelions; Australian has some native species, but the ones so very familiar to most of us are indeed “alien invaders”.
Comments closedMany of Perth’s streets are lined by “inappropriate” trees.
Just which ones really are inappropriate – and why – are matters of much-divided opinion.
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Perchance, on any particular day, a Perth resident wished to see a pelican, a parrot/cockatoo, and a heron…
… s/he would almost invariably find it very easy to make that wish come true, somewhere within a few kilometres of home, in whatever suburb.
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This series’ #6 location is only a whisker further from the centre of Perth’s CBD than was #5’s, but in the opposite direction.
If our imaginary “crow”/Australian raven decided to fly over from the roof of the GPO, s/he would be able to reach this post’s vantage point in less than two minutes.
An unhurried human could walk it in less than forty minutes, or spend five minutes on a train, then walk for another five minutes.
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If an Australian raven (Corvus coronoides – the bird most Australians have in mind when they say “a crow”) had been perched beside me when I took the photo for #4 in this series, it would have been able to fly to this post’s location in less than 90 seconds.
The sites are less than two kilometres apart, and a frequent, free bus service will get you from one to the other in five minutes or so; a slow-walking human would take less than 30 minutes.
As you can see, they are “worlds apart”.
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Candid photo (copyright Doug Spencer) taken at 12.36 pm on 27 June 2022 in St Georges Terrace, Perth CBD.
I could, of course, have taken a not-dissimilar shot in the main street of any major Australian city, indeed any “First World” city.
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Enjoy modern European and east-meets-west fusion, locally caught seafood and the finest organic produce paired with locally produced wines. Try it from a food truck, in a health-conscious café or tapas style, dress up for the occasion or relax with fish and chips beachside. Perth’s diverse dining scene will have foodies’ mouths watering and no taste bud left unsatisfied.
(First paragraph of “EAT DRINK TASTE PERTH “ section of Perth Holiday Planner 2022, published by Perth Region Tourism Organisation Inc)
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Looking at the ground right in front of your feet can offer surprising rewards, even when your feet are trudging along urban, paved surfaces.
Especially when a decent amount of rain has recently fallen, such “dead” zones can be surprisingly alive, not endlessly-grey.
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McGowanstan’s capital city is a very paradoxical, much-misunderstood metropolis.
State and city, respectively, are also known as Western Australia and Perth.
This single-image series will mostly look at details, but it begins panoramically.
The featured image was taken from one of Perth’s favourite picnic spots – the Matilda Bay foreshore, just across the road from the University of Western Australia, and looking across the Swan River to the Kings Park escarpment and Perth CBD.
How often does “the bleak midwinter” – a time of year which many locally-raised residents abhor – look like it did at 4.30 pm on 12 July 2022?
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