Arguably, at the relevant time and place – the same as per the previous, full-colour chapter – the view from Stony Hill was best-captured in “glorious, living, black and white”.
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Stony Hill is the highest point on the Torndirrup Peninsula, which shields one of the world’s greatest natural harbours from the Southern Ocean.
Albany’s King George Sound is around twice as large as Sydney Harbour..and is every bit as splendid.
On the first day of November 1914, thirty-six ships sailed out of King George Sound; they (plus another two, which sailed from Fremantle) comprised the convoy that carried the original ANZACs.
Another, not-coincidental claim to fame: “King George” is the name of the most delicious of whiting species.
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Generally, birds make very sure that they get properly wet, no matter how shallow is the available “bath”.
The pictured individual is a grey fantail, Rhipidura albiscapa.
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Where else in the world could one be less than 20 kilometres distant from an eminently civilised town of more than 40,000 permanent residents (plus a large number of tourists) , and enjoy the pictured experience?
My beloved and I are not visible in the featured image.
It does, however, show all other humans present at Muttonbird Beach during the late afternoon “golden hour” on 21 March 2021.
To reach this glorious, safe-swimming spot, on a perfect “beach day”, we drove for less than 30 minutes, on good roads…
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In 37 years of visits to Albany (on Western Australia’s south coast) we had failed to achieve a key ambition: to experience a major storm there.
A few days ago, nature finally obliged; the image shows Lowlands Beach at 3. 54 pm on Sunday 20 September 2020.
Joseph Tawadros provided this post’s suitably tempestuous music.
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Sometimes billed as the world’s oldest mountain range and once soaring higher than Everest now does, Porongurup has eroded to very modest heights. The above image…
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