Garden City is a large, bland shopping centre. Inside, you could be anywhere. But an easy short walk away – “next door” – is a botanical wonderland that could be nowhere other than Australia’s southwest.
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Above the tropical world’s most substantial wilderness coast – in northwestern Australia – are some of our planet’s more spectacular skies.
One CommentThis second chapter is a walk on the island’s natural, wild side…although its final destination is the Rottnest Hotel, as MV Dilligaf departs.
Comments closedTo most West Australians it is “Rotto” – their very own, magical, holiday island, “overseas”, at home…within eyesight of Perth.
To indigenous West Australians it is Wadjemup – a place of exile, imprisonment, premature death. The island’s 19th & early 20th century history is more monumentally unjust & tragic than Alcatraz’s.
4 CommentsAll photos taken near north end of Lake Goollelal on afternoon of July 27, 2016. A passerby – or a casual observer of the first picture – could easily not notice “David”.
Comments closedAll but one of this post’s photos were taken on a single midwinter day. This is when relatively few flowers bloom…but it is prime time for Pterostylis – the orchid genus more commonly known as Greenhoods.
One CommentAll but one of the photos in this post were taken yesterday on a brief, late afternoon walk around our local lake. It is just a few minutes’ drive – or less than an hour’s walk – from the heart of Perth’s CBD.
Comments closedAll photos taken early afternoon of May 31, on the “airport/Ascot Racecourse” side of the estuary around which Perth is wrapped. One 21st century good news story: black swans have returned to the Swan River!
Comments closedStand atop its higher hills/dunes and you see that suburbia surrounds this bush “island”. Down in its “valleys”, however, your eyes certainly don’t tell you that Bold Park is within an urban area of more than two million people, and that the CBD is only minutes away.
Comments closedToday’s real-life “pelican yoga” on the Swan River was irresistible…and so was both flower and fruit on a Bushy Yate.
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