If it had presented itself to us a few days earlier, the “unanswerable question” would have qualified for the “quirky moments” series.
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If it had presented itself to us a few days earlier, the “unanswerable question” would have qualified for the “quirky moments” series.
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You can see this post’s species in Australia too, but not with such a spectacular, snow-capped backdrop.
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This post’s actual footprints come from bears in Alaska, birds on the Indian subcontinent and continental Australia, a Tasmanian wombat, and humans in an African desert and Australian suburbia.
The musical bonus is courtesy of one of the greatest jazz musicians – equally so as composer, virtuoso instrumentalist and inspired improviser.
There’s also a metaphorical footnote which involves New Zealand’s largest farm…
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A particular pleasure in the intertidal zone: seeing and experiencing – even entering – wonderful things that are only available to you at low tide, or at certain very low tides…
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More famous for its (diminishing, via global warming) spectacular, fully submerged, “underwater forests”, kelp can sometimes be found, alive and well, on “dry” land.
The land in question is only “dry”, briefly, at low tide.
Also, I imagine, this circumstance would only be possible where the climate is cool and humid.
Comments closedWhere a particular intertidal zone’s “bottom” has a very gentle slope, even relatively modest tidal ranges will yield spectacular transformations, often twice-daily
One such place is immediately east of Dunedin, on the southeastern side of New Zealand’s South Island.
Comments closedOnly a modest number of human feet have walked its actual sands, but every day of our so-called “21st” century many millions of human eyes see this singular beach, virtually.
An image of it is the “screensaver” viewed countless times by subscribers to Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system.
Doubtless, most of those subscribers have no idea of what and where is this “iconic” beach.
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So much of Australia is parched, low-lying, flat(-tish)
So much of New Zealand is well-watered, extravagantly green, and its horizons usually include substantial hills or mountains.
Understandably, many visitors to NZ – Australians, especially – are utterly beguiled, and swallow, whole, the assiduously marketed fiction that New Zealand is “green” and “pure”.
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#6 in this series looked out to sea, from a bay on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula – a popular “weekend escape” destination for many residents of Auckland.
This post’s featured image was taken from almost exactly the same spot, but looking into a bay whose waters were very much deeper two centuries ago.
Comments closedThe location pictured in this post’s featured image is not very many kilometres away from the one in #5 in this series.
It is not at all close to the North Queensland coast, where Cairns sits at 16.51 Degrees South – unsurprisingly, a location where mangroves thrive.
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