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Oddly enough, Shark Bay is better known for its dolphins than its sharks. This is the place where folk on boats used to feed the dolphins with fish when they came around their vessels, and this has developed into a … Continue reading
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So, we drove away from Kalbarri, crossed the Murchison, where we did a spot of birdwatching where there were ducks, grebes and swans on the river and a hobby teasing a kite… The next stop was Hamelin Pool, where … Continue reading
Like the wildflowers: Eremophila Murchison Rose Detail of the plant above Birds’-beak Hakea Detail of the flowers of the Hakea And the animals: The big reds around Kalbarri were sometimes brilliantly red And the birds: Where galahs mow the lawn … Continue reading
So, the Kalbarri coastline was pretty spectacular, but the true glory of the area is further up the Murchison River: into the river gorges. We went for many walks and rambles and scrambles… A Hans Heysen painting? No, maybe more … Continue reading
Kalbarri had still more to offer us than I mentioned in yesterday’s post. Spectacular walks along the coast and into coastal gorges and beaches…like these: Mushroom Rock I know this looks as if someone dripped vanilla ice cream on reddish … Continue reading
The Murchison River is supposedly 850 kms long (510 miles), the second largest river in Australia after the Murray-Darling. I say supposedly, because…well, in common with many Australian rivers, much of it is dry riverbed more often than not. The … Continue reading
If you don’t like blogs about places, then proceed no further. I’m blogging about our three week trip into the central districts of a state that is bigger than Texas, New Zealand, Japan and the British Isles combined, plus some. … Continue reading
Some of you will remember a village called Creed (if I remember correctly) in the first book of the Isles of Glory. The entire book was set on a sand spit called Gorthan Spit, and the village was built of … Continue reading
The view from our caravan. Well, the view we had yesterday, anyway. Today it’s raining. And blowing a gale. Which makes it a writing day… Kalbarri … Continue reading
Sometimes lovely things happen to writers, and this is one of them: when you find out that what you have written has inspired the creation of another art form. Some of you may remember Havenstar, and the tainting that occurred … Continue reading