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To 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.
Comments closedBiodiversity rules, OK? Western Australia has around 13,000 “higher” plant species. The southwest is most especially rich in unique, beautiful and wondrous-strange flowers. This one is WA’s floral emblem.
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This is a sequel to Berkeley River (1). Again, all photos are my own; I took the above one a few metres from the base of an allegedly “unnamed” waterfall, looking to the clifftops on the river’s opposite side.
The one below was taken just after lunch, when the sun hit the “sweet spot” at the top of the waterfall.
One CommentThe Kimberley, in far northern Western Australia, includes the tropical world’s most substantial wilderness coast. The Berkeley is one of its wild rivers. We visited…
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