Strikingly evident in episodes 5 through 8 of this 10-part sequence is…
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If you stood just a little above West Beach’s high tide line, facing the Southern Ocean, and you then turned around 180 degrees to look at the slope behind the beach…
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Today’s image looks east, to the eastern end of West Beach.
I do not know why this is so, but, generally speaking, coastal heath on Australia’s western side appears to be in a healthier state than is coastal heath on Australia’s eastern shores.
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Today’s photo was taken less than 60 seconds after yesterday’s image.
This one looks south, across rock pools, to where the Southern Ocean reaches its northern shoreline.
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Wonderfully wild, yet easily accessible, it is a very short walk away from a sealed road, car park and picnic shelter.
This West Beach will definitely not remind you of Adelaide’s tamer beach of the same name!
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Neither Cabernets, kangaroos, Communists, nor U.S. Republicans – and never married to Alan Bond…
This post’s “Big Reds” are uncommonly splendid, very upstanding members of the bloodwort family, Haemodoracea.
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Verticordia is a genus of circa 102 “feather flower” species, of which circa 100 naturally occur only in Western Australia’s southwest.
Literally translated, Verticordia means “turner of hearts”, an epithet applied to the Roman goddess Venus.
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How did Australia come to adopt such an unusual, infantile, and palpably unfair approach to inherited wealth?
How can Australian taxpayers/non-payers – and Australia’s remarkably craven/spineless governments – be persuaded to change it?
Peter Browne attempts to answer those questions in his essay, Syd Negus, the forgotten tax-slayer.
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…the smoke cloud had a “silver lining”.
Briefly, it enabled eyes and cameras to look straight at “our” solar system’s only star.
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…and I don’t mean Bluff Knoll, on which snow has fallen five times during Winter and Spring in 2021 – making this year Western Australia’s snowiest in more than half a century.
I have been “snowed” these past couple of weeks, so the promised flood of posts to celebrate southwest Western Australia’s incredible 2021 Spring has been delayed.
The floodgates will open, soon – flowers galore, but also fire, feathers, rocks, seascapes…
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