Residents of the Australian Perth – a prodigiously sunny city – tend to be very sooky about rain, clouds and cool weather.
Many of them believe that Western Australia’s southernmost coastal region is a “bleak” place, one that only mad persons would voluntarily visit at any time other than summer.
In fact, globally speaking, WA’s Deep South enjoys a warm temperate climate, and even in winter it would not be at all odd to see Mandalay Beach looking as it does in this post.
Discover more about Mandalay Beach here; WA’s south coast is reliably wild and beautiful, and Mandalay is particularly so, but easy to reach in a normal 2WD car.
Do not swim there!
Obey that advice, and you can safely enjoy a magnificent place.
(coming soon on Pelican Yoga is a post that will showcase a number of favourite south coastal WA places)
Photo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 11.50 am on 14 September 2020. At the time we had no need to “rug up”.
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Today’s musical selection also involves places which most people believe to be cold, bleak, miserable.
Again, however, the truth is otherwise.
According to the Köppen climate classification this alfresco performance’s location – a coastal village, not far from Edinburgh – enjoys a temperate climate.
Its fiddler-composer hails from Shetland, circa 500 kilometres north; it too, says Köppen, has a temperate climate.
(a West Australian – even one from Walpole – would find Cellardyke decidedly cool, and Shetland colder, but probably still warmer than he/she had imagined. Respectively, the three places’ average annual temperatures are 15.7, 8.3 and 7.2 degrees Celsius. The West Australian would likely be surprised to discover that Walpole is very much wetter than Cellardyke, and still a little wetter than Lerwick, Shetland’s biggest smoke – respectively, 1198, 659 and 1167 millimetres. Australia’s sunny Perth has a higher annual rainfall average than does Cellardyke. Average rainfall in Australia’s Perth is much the same as in its “bleak” Scottish namesake)
Shetland is a little closer to Norway than to mainland Scotland.
Chris Stout’s tune salutes Shetland’s (troll-equivalent) trows.
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