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The Karratha Tip 16 Aug 2013 | 07:53 am
I could write a book about the good old days... on a trip down memory lane the hedges either side have been trimmed of the straggly thorns of reality so all I can remember is green neatly trimmed rows...
Jane Austen Vs Charles Darwin & Big Ben 10 Aug 2013 | 04:27 am
In Old Blighty... which is derived from the Hindustani word for foreign... the five pound note was called in Cockney slang the Fiver or even more titillatingly the Lady Godiva. Swap two Lady Godiva’s...
The Big Ramble Rumbles On 13 Jul 2013 | 07:50 am
Is the Big Ramble recreation or science. In the first instance a Big Ramble should be fun as well as quenching the thirst of knowledge... bird watching shouldn’t be a good walk spoilt... it should be ...
Untitled 29 Jun 2013 | 04:33 pm
My Big Ramble (Year) Starts June 28, 2013 4:29 p.m - Day Two There is nothing tastier than eating your own words... little did I imagine that when I suggested that I wouldn’t cavort all over the coun...
My Big Ramble (Year) Starts June 28, 2013 4:29 p.m. 29 Jun 2013 | 02:58 am
The Big Ramble... 4:29 p.m., June 28th, 2013 is the start of my Big Ramble... more of a saunter really! My Big Ramble is going to be a Big Ramble with polarity. No tearing about like a loon ticking o...
More Aboriginal Rock Art From the Burrup Archipelago 20 Jun 2013 | 04:36 pm
Rock carving south of Hearson's Cove on the Burrup Archipelago. On the far top right is another. Many of the hundreds of thousands of carvings are within close proximity to one another. This is a clos...
Sturt's Desert Pea In Flower In The Pilbara 15 Jun 2013 | 02:20 pm
Sturt's Desert Peas - Swainsona formosa - have begun their flowering this year in the Pilbara. Beds of their low growing grey-green leaves gather along the small creek beds sustained by the early autu...
Spotted Harrier - Circus assimilis 10 Jun 2013 | 02:58 pm
The Spotted Harrier is one of my favourite birds. They are fairly common in the Pilbara although they are difficult to get a close enough to photograph because they are quite suspicious of people. One...
Australian Reed Warbler - Gouldi - What Do You Think? 8 Jun 2013 | 03:20 pm
I took these two photos beside the weir below the Damn Harding Dam Wall which is in the Pilbara of WA... sorry about the quality of the second one. My guess is the gouldi race of the Australian Reed W...
A Couple Of Raptors Not To Mention The Black Kites. 19 May 2013 | 05:40 am
Spotted Harrier - Circus assimilis and... ... a Eastern Osprey Pandion haliaetus Talking about raptors... there's been an influx of Black Kites at Karratha over the last month. They've been circling i...
