Friday, February 23, 2024

Catching some Zees on the Goolwa Barrage



Australian Fur Seals routinely bask in the sun on the Goolwa Barrages. In season, the Great Cormorants come in to the rookery there, and every kind of Grebe can be seen fishing in the quiet lee-side of the barrage. Several kinds of Terns, Sandpipers, Dotterels, Spoonbills, and the Pacific Gulls frequent these waters, on the skirts of Coorong National Park, along with Pelicans, Swans, and the shorebirds. 

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Wishing for waterfalls to be running as summer ends...

Ingalalla Falls

 


Hindmarsh Falls

Morialta Falls



Morialta, Ingalalla, Hindmarsh ... they're all dry and dusty at the end of summer. The season has officially outstayed its welcome, and as we begin to yearn for the coolness and rain of autumn and winter, here's a little "sympathetic magic" ... waterfalls, because I'm wishing for rain as Australia simmers and burns through the Long Dry. All these images were, of course, captured in either autumn or winter.

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Some of the flittiest of the flitty critters

 

Eastern Spinebill at Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens


Grey Fantail at Perry Bend

Sparrow at Sellicks Beach

Black-fronted Dotterel at Laratinga

Rainbow Bee-eater at Langhorne

Nap time!

 






Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Many Rivers to Cross

The Wakefield River, at Port Wakefield

 

The Murray River, at Younghusband

The Onkaparinga River, at Old Noarlunga

The Sturt River, at Coromandel Valley

Redcliff Lookout, Port Augusta

The Murray River, at Mannum

Christie Creek, at Brodie Road

Onkaparinga River, at Riverbend Park, Clarendon