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

World Bird & Watery Wednesday ~ At the Seaside

Flying high at sunrise, what else is there for a silver gull,

Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae to do?

Maybe sitting on our balcony rail hoping for a handout!

A white-faced heron, Egretta novaehollandiae, looking for

his breakfast . . .

oh well, nothing doing that way, time to turn around . . .

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Pacific gull, Larus pacificus, a baby of our second largest gull.

A young seagull staring hopefully into the super clear water.

Mature adult flying at some distance from me

and, lucky last, some liquid eye candy.

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MY WORLD ~ Eyre Peninsula Coast

When our souls are in need of a rest cure, we often head to the
Eyre Peninsola in South Australia.
There are miles and miles of unending, pristine beaches and
the constant boom of crashing rollers roaring in to assault the
land. Not another human being in sight.
A perfect paradise for a loner like me to be rejuvenared by
the buffeting winds and the salt sea air.
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The tonal range of blue the sea offers to my hungry eyes
sinks deep within my being
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making me skip and dance on the soft white sand
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to the rhytm of the ever pounding waves.
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A glimpse of coastal vegetation
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and a Pacific gull threatening to shower me with a rich, nourishing
blessing better suited to my garden.
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The sea scapes are worth enlarging if you appreciate the colour 'blue'

or are addicted to water.
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Thanks to the MY WORLD Team, we can all hold hands across the oceans.

MY WORLD ~ 11 Coffin Bay National Park

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COFFIN BAY was discovered by Matthew Flinders
on Feb. 16th. 1802. He named the Bay after Sir Isaak

Coffin, the Resident Naval Commander at Sheerness

where his ship, the Investigator was fitted out.

The weather was, to say the least, interesting!



Pacific Gull Larus pacificus



Engage low ratio and drive along two wheel ruts in
the sand, come over a rise and voila! A beach to die for
romantically sequestered under a layer of spume from
the violently thundering brakers, edged by pristine
massive sand dunes. Sheer heaven for those who avoid
beaches with ten people per inch!



A little car park in the dell and hiking up this to me,
sheer cliff. Some twenty minutes later even I made
it huffing and puffing to the top. To discover that my
hammering heart was well worth it!



This was the view to the left. When we looked to the right,
disappointment was writ large on our faces, the beach was
OCCUPIED! Shock, horror!



There stood a fellow surf fishing. On closer inspection,
he wasn't a bad bloke at all and even showed us the
sea Salmon he had caught for his dinner. Pity he only
had one, we would gladly have bought one off him.
As you can see, the weather was thickening and we
hot footed it back to our vehicle.



Exploring further, we were greeted by this lovely
rainbow so we knew we were on the right track.
I photographed many wildflowers (see post below),
and when the weather had passed, we were treated to
these pristine dunes below.



As we left the park to return to our lodging we
we did so by the gentle light of the setting sun.

The world is large and varied, click on the Logo on
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you find there!

To Klaus and the MY WORLD team, as ever my thanks

for providing us with this vhicle to display that which
is dear to us.