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Looking down (#11 in series – trees “4” – Spring Gully)

Published January 31, 2026 by Pelidoug

Looking down (#11 in series – trees “4” – Spring Gully)

This sequel to #10 in this series looks down into the actual gully in Spring Gully Conservation Park.

Its own website explains the Park’s raison d’être:

Spring Gully Conservation Park was set aside to conserve the westernmost population of the red stringybark Eucalyptus macrorhyncha. This park is the only reserve in South Australia to contain this particular species.

Alas, Spring Gully’s “hero” species is now in serious trouble in its sole South Australian “refuge”.

Looking down (#10 in series – trees “3”: Spring Gully, South Australia)

Published January 25, 2026 by Pelidoug

Looking down (#10 in series – trees “3”: Spring Gully, South Australia)

Spring Gully Conservation Park is 8 kilometres south of Clare, in South Australia’s mid-north.

From Adelaide, it is a little less than a two hour drive; day-tripping from the city is feasible.

However, the so-called “Clare Valley” (in truth, this distinctive region has more than one valley) is such a rewarding destination that it is a much better idea to base yourself there for at least several days.

As the next post will further explain, Spring Gully is of great “conservation value”, and it is more than a little “vulnerable”.

Meanwhile, enjoy what a ridgetop vantage point can do, late on an autumn day…

Looking down (#8 in series – trees “1”: temperate rainforest, Australia)

Published January 19, 2026 by Pelidoug

Looking down (#8 in series – trees “1”: temperate rainforest, Australia)

Walking on a forest’s or woodland’s floor often yields a great deal of visual delight, as most living humans have directly experienced.

However, relatively few humans have experienced the pleasure of looking down to a forest’s floor, from forest canopy height, or higher.

The view from “up there” is usually a visual treat in its own right.

In recent decades – across a growing number of nations – the construction of elevated walkways has made that experience newly/readily-accessible to millions.

(such walkways also spare tree roots from the potentially-lethal impact of too-many tourists’ feet compacting the relevant soil)

The very same forest looks astonishingly different, when one’s feet are more than 20 metres above the ground.

“Old city”, Lahore (#3 in series: let there be drums + musical bonus)

Published June 23, 2025 by Pelidoug

“Old city”, Lahore (#3 in series: let there be drums + musical bonus)

(The musical bonus features a man who was very possibly the greatest tabla player in recorded history. It is hard to imagine that there has ever been a more prodigiously gifted player of any drum. I am around 99% certain that you have never heard of him, let alone heard him. For the final 49 of his 66 years he lived in Lahore)

Immediately after our more “formal” welcome, we were made even more welcome, more personally, in a courtyard adjacent to Delhi Gate.

Drums and garlands were involved.

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Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#29 in series: living on the edge + musical bonus)

Published June 18, 2025 by Pelidoug

Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#29 in series: living on the edge + musical bonus)

As highlighted in this series, Flnders Island’s shorelines are both beautiful and very demanding – especially for plants.

I imagine that not a few visitors perceive a place such as the one pictured above as “unspoilt”, “wild”, “pristine”.

The above adjectives are “wildly” inaccurate!

(I took the photo on the southern half of Flinders Island’s west coast at 10.08 am on March 2025. I love such places, where things “hard” and “soft”, “massive” and “petite”, “inanimate” and “living” all coexist, near terra firma’s edge)

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Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#28 in series: “natural” forces)

Published June 17, 2025 by Pelidoug

Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#28 in series: “natural” forces)

You are looking at what the strength/weakness, relative abundance/scarcity, or presence/absence of various substances/qualities has delivered.

Likely-major players in the pictured instance: long-extinct volcanoes, erosion, chemical reactions, gravity, wind, rain, salt (windblown, from the nearby sea) and fire, sunlight, shade, shelter, temperature variation, “exhausted” soils, sheep.

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Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#27 in series: rock stars, with hangers-on)

Published June 14, 2025 by Pelidoug

Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#27 in series: rock stars, with hangers-on)

Australia is remarkably rich in exposed rock, including some of “our” planet’s loveliest and longest-exposed rock.

Even by Australian standards, Flinders Island is particularly well-endowed.

Its “rock stars” are often gloriously “decorated” by the wondrous-strange organisms that live on them.

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Flinders Island, March’25 (#26 in series: west coast, again)

Published June 13, 2025 by Pelidoug

Flinders Island, March’25 (#26 in series: west coast, again)

This post’s photos were taken about half an hour after the previous post’s, and circa one kilometre further north.

The featured image involved a telephoto lens; its 400mm focal made Flinders’ highest peaks look very much closer than they actually were.

It also emphasised the ruffled water and the rocks, immediately off the shore on which I stood.

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Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#25 in series: west coast, looking south)

Published June 11, 2025 by Pelidoug

Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#25 in series: west coast, looking south)

This post’s three images were taken within the space of twenty minutes, as we walked in a northerly direction, along part of Flinders Island’s west coast.

All three look south toward Strzelecki National Park; its peaks are the island’s highest, and they dominate its southern end.

The featured image offers a wide-angle view. (34mm focal length)

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Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#24 in series: Mount Chappell Island “3” + musical bonus)

Published June 9, 2025 by Pelidoug

Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#24 in series: Mount Chappell Island “3” + musical bonus)

A bit less than 30 minutes after I took the previous post’s photo, we had walked a little further north, along Flinders’ western shoreline.

By 10.16 am the “face” of Hummocky/ Mount Chappell Island looked very different, albeit still unmistakably-itself.

Mount Chappell is remarkably imposing, given the peak’s modest (198 metres) altitude.

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