Q: Why the inverted commas?
A: Because – even before you consider the diverse delights of its “floor” – “Jarrah forest” is a misnomer. Generally, its “skyline” co-stars two big tree species – Jarrah and Marri
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What could be a rarer and even more cheering sight?
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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.
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Contrary to what your eyes suggest, the prevailing climate at this particular southeast Alaskan location is “cool wet, coastal temperate rainforest.”
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This second chapter is a walk on the island’s natural, wild side…although its final destination is the Rottnest Hotel, as MV Dilligaf departs.
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
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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.
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All 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”.
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Also graceless, this attempt to get airborne was a success. With luck, the lookalike will prove less successful!
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