Perth is probably the world’s only substantial city where it is possible to walk for more than a kilometre along an unspoiled spit, on which shore birds nest, surrounded by a great expanse of clear, relatively unpolluted water.
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Oblivion is a 1982 composition by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), Nuevo tango’s pre-eminent composer and bandoneon virtuoso.
Perhaps his most uncanny piece, it has survived/endured countless covers.
Some of its finest interpreters are not Argentinian, and although one of this post’s two very different versions does feature a “squeezebox”, it is not a bandoneon.
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Humans may find Lead Belly’s wise advice rather easier to sing than to adopt, but a well-loved local “street cat” exemplifies the notion… most especially when the sun has suitably warmed her favourite footstep.
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Greenhood orchids are currently blooming in Perth’s Kings Park.
Not all of them have green “hoods”!
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The world’s most extensive tropical coastal wilderness is that of the Kimberley, in northern Western Australia.
Its landscapes are epic.
So are the skyscapes; Kimberley thunderheads can dwarf Everest.
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This post alerts you to two provocative essays about Australian governments’ approach to “public spending”.
One looks at general home truths, facts, fictions and illusions, with particular reference to our “post-pandemic” economic & social well-being.
The other addresses Australia’s response to “the threat from China”.
According to Richard Dennis, we Australians are reluctant to look into the simple truth hidden in plain sight:
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Four kilometres south of the little town of Augusta is Cape Leeuwin, atop which sits the Australian mainland’s tallest lighthouse.
The much-promoted notion that this is where two oceans meet is highly debatable; arguably, the Indian Ocean laps both sides of Cape Leeuwin.
Regardless, it is our continent’s bottom left hand “corner”, and the Augusta/Leeuwin “corner” is a wonderful place.
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Southwestern Western Australia is rightly renowned for the extraordinary diversity of its flowering plants.
Its fungi are even more diverse.
Fungi species comprehensively outnumber the combined total of plant and animal species.
Macrofungi are the ones with fruiting bodies big enough to be visible to an observant, naked human eye, in the wild.
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This post’s featured colour photo (copyright Doug Spencer) was taken just four minutes before – and from almost the same vantage point – as the immediately preceding post’s monochrome image.
I have been lucky enough to walk in many different kinds of forest, on six continents and various islands.
All are beautiful, in many different ways, but if I had to choose a favourite, it would be so-called “virgin Karri forest”.
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Photo (copyright Doug Spencer) taken just a few days before today’s winter solstice, in one of my favourite southwest Australian places.
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