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Port River (#1 in series: working port)

Published March 25, 2024 by Pelidoug

Port River (#1 in series: working port)

 

 

 

This post answers the question posed in the immediately-preceding one.

The relevant tidal creek is Adelaide’s Port River; its “official name” (which I have never heard anybody actually use, in conversation) is “Port Adelaide River”.

Dredged and much-modified/abused over the last 185 years, this tidal creek is the heart of Port Adelaide – South Australia’s primary seaport.

The Port River is the western branch of the largest estuary on the eastern side of Gulf St Vincent.

Just 14 kilometres southeast – and inland – is the heart of Adelaide’s CBD.

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Tidal creek (teaser)

Published March 24, 2024 by Pelidoug

Tidal creek (teaser)

 

 

Mangroves thrive here.

Heavy industry is also here.

This river is also part of a substantial port, within a metropolis of circa 1.4 million humans; the heart of its CBD is just 14 kilometres inland from the featured photo’s vantage point.

Your eyes are probably telling you that the location is somewhere within the tropics.

But where, exactly?

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Namib Desert’s northwest (#29 in series: riverbed to ridge tops)

Published March 21, 2024 by Pelidoug

Namib Desert’s northwest (#29 in series: riverbed to ridge tops)

 

This is the current series’ final trio of images taken from the bed of the (mostly dry-surfaced, but intermittently greened/vegetated) Hoarusib.

Only on very infrequent occasions is flowing water readily evident; usually, parts of the riverbed double as road.

All three photos were taken within a single “window” of less than two minutes, as I walked a very short distance, and pointed my 400mm lens north/ish.

At this point the Hoarusib’s source is circa 280 kilometres further inland.

The Atlantic’s “skeleton coast” is less than 20 kilometres distant.

Here, I think, is one of “our” planet’s singular places.

Arguably, no other (relatively) accessible location so richly deserves to be described as “pristine wilderness”…

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Namib Desert’s northwest (#25 in series: one dune, three views)

Published March 16, 2024 by Pelidoug

Namib Desert’s northwest (#25 in series: one dune, three views)

 

 

All three images involve the same dune, as viewed from the bed of the Hoarusib – the river the dune was “meeting”, at 9.06/9.07 am on 14 November 2022.

I shot all three within circa 90 seconds, with a 400 mm lens.

You will see more within these images if you enlarge them /zoom in on their details.

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Namib Desert’s northwest (#22 in series: sands, plural…rocks, ditto)

Published March 13, 2024 by Pelidoug

Namib Desert’s northwest (#22 in series: sands, plural…rocks, ditto)

 

 

In this part of the Namib – its western edge, adjacent to the Atlantic’s “skeleton coast” – its dunes are often generally-lighter in colour than are those further inland and further south.

Here, also, variations in colour and texture are more readily-evident/common on the dunes’ surfaces.

Their “sands” are not all of the same kind, colour and density; accordingly, winds “sift”, “sort” and shift them, differentially.

The results are oft-exquisite: “sand mandalas”, sans any human role in their creation.

I especially love what happens when shifting sands meet rocks and/or riverbeds; they, too, are far from “uniform”.

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