Finally the winter gloom is beginning to fade, the days are getting longer and the temperature beginning to edge up. Little by little Spring is making its way into into our world giving tantalizing hints of a Summer to come. Not that you can tell any of this looking out into a Henley Beach sunset. […]
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As the sun rose behind me a great shadow raced down from the distant ridge-top of the Elder Range. It was breathtaking the speed it moved but that was nothing to compared to the way it raced away from the base towards me across the eucalyptus and native pine scrub below. As the shadow got […]
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It’s nice being able to share an experience of being somewhere wild and out of the way. That is why good landscape images are so compelling. It’s also fun to share the actual experience of being there with friends. This image is proof that Gavin actually did make it to the top in time to […]
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We had just settled into our campsite at Rawnsley Park Station in the Flinders Ranges. Gavin had organised a fire for the evening and the others had transitioned into r e l a x e d mode. and I was almost ready to join them. We were at the base of a gully with a […]
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Such a strange name for a strange creature; Goniocidaris tubaria. Actually this odd looking ball of spikey arms is one of our local sea urchins. There really is nothing typical about the appearance of a sea urchin. They all have a hard body called a ‘last’ but the ‘last’ is an internal structure and not […]
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