This post’s “much closer view” involved almost the very same vantage point as the previous post’s “landscape” image.
You may recognise the particular bush which is present in both photos…but to very different effect.
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South Australia’s Painted Desert has to be seen to believed.
It takes some effort to see it; access to this spectacular, very fragile place is restricted, and the Painted Desert is on private property.
Arckaringa Station handsomely meets any reasonable definition of “remote” – more than 960 kilometres from Adelaide, it is more than 100 kilometres north of Coober Pedy.
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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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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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S/he may have deserved another.
However, the pictured tern was alone…as far as we could see, at least.
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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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This post’s “much closer view” was also taken from the western side of Perth’s Elizabeth Quay, not many footsteps from where ferries depart for South Perth, or return from there.
For “9A” in this series I had looked east, across the Quay’s artificial inlet.
For “9B”, I turned around 180 degrees.
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The featured image looks east, across Perth’s Elizabeth Quay, at 2. 49 pm on 24 April 2024.
Its official name – bestowed in 2012 by then WA Premier Colin Barnett – honoured the then British monarch.
The name came after the monumentally-expensive development’s first sod had been turned.
More than a few Perth residents prefer to call it “Betty’s Jetty.”
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Magnificently stark as Lake Eyre generally is, its banks and surrounding terrain are a deal more vegetated – and the vegetation is more diverse – than most newcomers expect.
Some of the plants are wonderfully weird; necessarily, all are hardy, and adapted to one of the world’s more “demanding” environments.
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However, most (of the relatively few, still) people who have reached the pictured lake do find it decidedly “unearthly”
Moving from “landscape view” to “closer view” is highly likely to alter a first-time visitor’s initial impression/estimation of Kati-Thanda-Lake Eyre, but most visitors continue to feel that they are on “another planet”.
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