At the moment southwestern Australia’s very own turtle is very evident at Lake Monger.
All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken late afternoon on 27 January 2021.
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Lights Beach is a deal less than half an hour’s easy drive west, from Denmark.
Lights Beach car park sits just outside the eastern boundary of William Bay National Park.
The featured image and the one below were both taken from just below the car park’s edge; the wider-angle view looks south, whilst the one above looks west, along the National Park’s shoreline.
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Many self-declared “jazz lovers” would not recognise his name, nor have ever heard him…wittingly, at least.
That said, I am far from alone – and am in some very good company – in having long regarded Frank Kimbrough as one of the select few improvising pianists who ought be described/remembered as “one of the greats”.
if I were only ever allowed another listen to just ten “piano trio tracks”, his sublimely beautiful Waiting in Santander would be one of them:
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…but free, with an exquisite musical bonus included!
Pelecanus conspicillatus – the Australian Pelican – has the avian world’s biggest bill.
Its bill is remarkable at any time, but most especially so when engaged in actual “pelican yoga”.
Pelican Yoga wishes you a very happy festive season.
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Conifers – pines, traditionally associated with Christmas – comprise the major part of the Northern Hemisphere’s “tree cover equation”.
The Southern Hemisphere has its own endemic conifers, but south of the equator they are relatively minor players, most especially in Australia.
To Australian eyes, the Northern Hemisphere’s vast pine forests appear relatively drab, sadly lacking in species diversity and colour range.
The contrast is most especially marked in the warmer half of our year, which is the colder half of the Northern year.
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Adapted from a “pagan” winter solstice rite, Christmas began in the Northern Hemisphere.
Australians enthusiastically celebrate “the festive season”, even though our December 25 weather is almost guaranteed to be “inappropriate”.
Our plants are “all wrong” too…or are they?
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If you come across corellas in a big city, chances are excellent that you are in Perth or Adelaide, that there a great many of them, they are making a lot of noise, and you can easily see that they are doing a lot of damage.
It is highly likely that the species in question is Cacatua sanguinea, the Little Corella.
Its Latin/“scientific” name means “bloodstained cockatoo” – a reference to its pink markings, between eye and bill.
This species has proved “too adaptable”.
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William Bay National Park is less than half an hour’s easy drive, west from Denmark.
Its two much-instagrammed, “iconic” attractions are Greens Pool and the almost-adjoining Elephant Rocks.
Ludicrously, the two “icons” are the only places where most visitors to William Bay National Park ever set foot.
Madfish Bay is also magnificent, dead-easy to reach, often deserted, and only a few minutes away from the oft-thronged/overcrowded Greens Pool!
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(this post includes photographic advice and a musical bonus)
Officially, Perth’s November 21 2020 sunset occurred at 6.59 pm.
Effectively, on the west side of Lake Monger, the sun had set some minutes earlier, thanks to the (modest) hill/stabilised dune which rises behind the lake’s western side.
Where I took the featured image, the golden hour’s most magical moment was at 6.43 pm.
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It is pleasingly hard to believe that such wonderfully wild, unspoilt shoreline could be so very easy to reach.
All photos copyright Doug Spencer, 14 September 2020.
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