Neither of the above!
This post explains a perfectly natural, Spring 2020 occurrence in the Waychinicup River
It also offers some “truth” about the alleged health benefits of drinking Guinness.
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For the benefit of those who have not visited the Stirling Range…
The featured image and the one below – wide-angle and telephoto, respectively – look east from Toolbrunup’s east-facing flank, across to Bluff Knoll.
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At 1,159 square kilometres Stirling Range National Park is “large”, or “small”, depending on one’s perspective.
Four hours drive northwest, Perth – Western Australia’s sprawling metropolis – occupies more than five times as much ground.
The Stirlings’ “footprint” is less than one 209th of the United Kingdom’s 242, 495 square kilometres.
Botanically, however, the Stirling Range is much the “bigger”/“hotter” place!
It has more flowering plant species than does the entire UK; many of them grow only in or near the Stirling Range.
Two recent “catastrophic” fires seemingly “destroyed” much more than half of what had been growing there…
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Soil restoration can be expensive, and impractical across vast areas of land. Soil disturbance by echidnas offers a cost-effective restoration option, and this potential should be harnessed.
It’s presumed that the author starts with an intention and if the book’s published they’ve succeeded in it. But successful books are ones that have escaped the author’s intentions and become something else. Novels when they succeed are incoherent and contradictory and mysterious. Nothing is more secondary to a writer’s achievements than their original ambition.
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Many of us do not Believe.
A non-Believer, however, can still believe in the power of particular places here on terra firma – earthly “paradises” which inspire us, delight us, even heal us.
One uncanny song is named for a place that really did have the same name as the song which so vividly evoked it, and mourned its destruction: Paradise.
We have just lost its author.
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In Australia, the unpleasant truth – rarely admitted – is that in many instances, the answer to the headline’s question is “no”.
Carbon credits counted in government projections can, quite literally, go up in smoke and blow out the emissions side of the CO2 ledger.
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Because river reds occur in some of the driest and harshest parts of the Australian mainland, you might think they are very efficient users of water. However, nothing could be further from the truth.
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Indonesian artist Mulyana’s “coral islands” are equal parts celebration and warning.
They are on the walls and floors of The Goods Shed – FORM’s Exhibition Space, adjacent to Claremont Railway Station – until 3 pm on Sunday June 9.
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They are very close, as the proverbial crow flies – if the proverbial crow chose to cross New Zealand’s Southern Alps.
Equally beautiful, but quite unlike: the stark contrast between coastal side and inland side is reminiscent of Patagonia.
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