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Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#22 in series: Mount Chappell Island “1” + musical bonus)

Published June 6, 2025 by Pelidoug

Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#22 in series: Mount Chappell Island “1” + musical bonus)

I took this post’s photo at 9.49 am on 18 March 2025, as we were walking along part of the southern portion of the western shore of Flinders Island.

Flinders is much the largest in the Furneaux Group, which sits at the eastern edge of Bass Strait, off the northeast tip of Tasmania’s “mainland”.

The Furneaux Group has circa 100 members; whatever shorelines you walk on Flinders Island, other islands are always visible.

The pictured “island in the sun” (whilst our vantage point was still cloud-shaded) is variously known as “Mount Chappell Island” or as “Hummocky”.

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Word Power: “ Above all, the Liberals would do well to lose the sneer” + pertinent musical bonus.

Published May 8, 2025 by Pelidoug

Word Power: “ Above all, the Liberals would do well to lose the sneer” + pertinent musical bonus.

The headline above is the key sentence in an essay published on 04 May 2025.

That essay’s headline: Are the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics?

Yesterday’s Pelican Yoga post included its most telling paragraph.

It is a direct quotation from a speech delivered in 1946 by a young, multiply-wounded ex-RAAF pilot; in 1949 he became a Liberal senator.

In 1968 he – John Gorton – became Prime Minister.

As the essay’s author observes:

His vision was generous, compassionate and cosmopolitan: of an Australia and a wider world “in which meanness and poverty, tyranny and hate, have no existence.”

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Deep South WA, Feb ‘25 (#42 in series: wave, with musical bonus)

Published April 26, 2025 by Pelidoug

Deep South WA, Feb ‘25 (#42 in series: wave, with musical bonus)

Western Australia’s south coast is mostly unspoilt, uncrowded, wonderfully wild.

However, in February 2025 sunshine, strong winds and big waves were generally “AWOL”, and the usually-brilliant, clear light was mostly flat, hazy and/or smoke-tainted.

This trip yielded an unprecedentedly low number of worthwhile opportunities for landscape/seascape photography!

Nonetheless, even on a “flat, grey day”…

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Deep South WA, Feb ‘25 (#22 in series: Porongurup “5”, with musical bonus)

Published April 3, 2025 by Pelidoug

Deep South WA, Feb ‘25 (#22 in series: Porongurup “5”, with musical bonus)

This post’s forest floor “natural abstract” was photographed a couple of minutes later than was the “5” Porongurup image.

Their locations were only a few footsteps distant from each other.

One of the world’s greater guitarists has (unwitttingly) provided a sublime musical accompaniment..

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Deep South WA, Feb ‘25 (#11 in series: looking out from “secret” beach)

Published March 20, 2025 by Pelidoug

Deep South WA, Feb ‘25 (#11 in series: looking out from “secret” beach)

On WA’s wonderfully wild south coast there are some calm days, and a few truly safe places to bathe or swim.

16 February 2025 was such a day, and the “secret beach” (just east of Anvil Beach) usually offers safe bathing in perfectly reef-sheltered waters.

As evident in the featured image, even on this exceptionally calm day, the ocean-facing side of the reef gave occasional hints of the ocean’s oomph.

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Deep South WA, Feb ‘25 (#9 in series: fishing & fatherhood, with musical bonus)

Published March 17, 2025 by Pelidoug

Deep South WA, Feb ‘25 (#9 in series: fishing & fatherhood, with musical bonus)

“Stay here with Mom. Dad’s going fishing.”

In the pictured instance no such words had been spoken, nor contemplated.

It was a quiet delight to observe a father who so well understood that “joyful fishing is not just about catching fish”.

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The greatest percussionist, period? Vale Zakir Hussain (1951-2024)

Published December 18, 2024 by Pelidoug

The greatest percussionist, period? Vale Zakir Hussain (1951-2024)

I do not believe in the notion that any single player/composer/writer/whatever kind of artist is – or ever was the best.

That said, Zakir Hussain was undoubtedly the most influential, most eclectically-inclined, and most ubiquitous hand-drummer/percussionist in human history.

(Jim McGuire took the photo of him)

Zakir Hussain died on Monday, in his adoptive home city of San Francisco.

He was born 73 years earlier, in what was then Bombay, now Mumbai.

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Grand sands (#6 in series: questions, with musical bonus)

Published December 15, 2024 by Pelidoug

Grand sands (#6 in series: questions, with musical bonus)

Q #1: what is the pictured jellyfish-like fragment from a (presumably) recently-deceased marine creature?

A: I do not know.

Q #2: upon what has it “washed up”, in very shallow water?

A: sand, obviously.

(on Lights Beach, at eastern end of William Bay National Park, on Western Australia’s south coast)

Bigger question: what is sand, exactly?

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“Jewel in the crown of Kashmir” (final chapter, with musical bonus)

Published October 23, 2024 by Pelidoug

“Jewel in the crown of Kashmir” (final chapter, with musical bonus)

I took the photo at 8.54 pm on 04 May 2024.

At that time my vantage point – an entertainment barge – was loud and lively, as the preceding several posts have illustrated.

However, if one looked out across the waters of Dal Lake – and up to the ridge overlooking its southern shore – the scene appeared utterly serene, unruffled, “silent”.

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“Jewel in the crown of Kashmir” (#22 in series, with musical bonus)

Published October 19, 2024 by Pelidoug

“Jewel in the crown of Kashmir” (#22 in series, with musical bonus)

As we slowly glided our way out of the “Toorak/Peppermint Grove” end of the houseboats-fringed section of Dal Lake, the musicians were tuning up, plugging in, preparing.

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