OUR WORLD, Wild Bird Wednesday & Nature Notes - Arno Bay

The baked landscape around me makes me think of cooler,

happier times when the Prof and I went on short holidays.

Now, without a travelling companion, 

these long drives are out of my reach.

The Eyre Peninsula, in the west of our state has plenty of 

wonderful beaches and when heading further down the coast, 

we stopped for a couple of nights at the caravan park in 

Arno bay.

Looking back at the township.

We stayed in a charming little cottage right on the beach.

The only blemish to our stay was this young Pacific Gull

with a substantial lure dangling from it's nose.

Humans can piece their noses and hang bricks from them if they 

like but wildlife should not be endanger by our detritus.

Unfortunately I had not the means for catching this 

youngster to relieve it of it's burden.

 Discarded by the sea, something that looks like a 

collection of oddly shape eggs

and a lonely cormorants waiting for shoals of fish with little

hope on an outgoing tide.

I feel refreshed just thinking about it.

Linking with OUR WORLD

Wild Bird Wednesday

and Nature Notes

MY WORLD ~ 41 Pildappa Rock, Eyre Peninsula

15km north of Minnipa in the Eyre Peninsula lies
this giant granite turtle.




The countryside is arid with sparse vegetation and
from here it does not look particularly preposessing.





Come a little closer and it has a way of growing on you.
It was not easy to find a spot to get onto the rock itself
without a ladder because of the eroded layer at ground
level.

A you can see, we did manage it and this granite

boulder turnes out to be quite extensive. There are

a number of these outcrops in this otherwise flat plain.
I put this shot in for a measure of scale, the Prof in

the distance is 6'2" tall and that is only a part of the

rock showing.

On the horizon you can see the Gawler Ranges.

Here again the Prof's legs are an indicator for the size

of the moulins some of which still held water from the

rain some days previously.

A large part of the top of the rock was like a pock marked
lunar landscape.

All this is still part of one single rock. Frost has broken

layers off the top which look small at a distance but in

reality are anything but.
There are a number of fingers of rock stretching into

the landscape

and some bright spark has at some time dumped his

garden waste there thinking nothing of it and certainly
not expecting the hardy plants to take root and create
a garden of exotic species here in the wildernes.

It you ENLARGE, you will see the Geraniums.

As always, click and the photos grow by magic.

The Logo will lead to many wonders in this world.

To Klaus and the My World Team my thanks as ever
for continuing this meme.

SkyWatch *22 Eyre Peninsula Sunrise

Please click on photos to enlarge for best effect.



The sun is thinking of leaving its warm, warm bed



Just opening one eye to peek at the mangroves



nothing like getting your head above the water!



Here she is, up at last and with a little mangrove
in her sights. All shots taken from the Cowell caravan
park on the Eyre Peninsula.

Now, click on the Logo and go fly the sky!

Thank you SkyWatch Team for all your work to
co-ordinate this meme.