I went to one of my favourite places to meet a friend – Matilda Bay on the banks of the Swan River. It wasn’t a long visit, so there was no wandering amongst trees – we had coffee and a wonderful chat, but there was time for a few photos.
The first thing I noticed was the floating pier in the river was almost completely covered in cormorants. It was rally hard to fit them all in!
Just below where we sat overlooking the river was a small Grevillea bush with its brilliant scarlet flowers:
There is a lovely mix of trees all around the cafe. Here is Cape Lilac, gum trees and a massive, ancient cypress:
I love the massive strength of the trunk of this cypress:
A cockatoo – I think it’s a major mitchell, but I’m probably wrong) alone in a tree. Later I saw a whole flock of them searching for seeds on the grass but – silly me! – I didn’t get a photo.
A lovely stripey sort of gum tree:
It was a short visit 🙂 Hope you enjoyed.
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How beautiful they are all… These are great trees… And you captured them in such a nice compositions, I loved so much dear Keira, Thank you, love, nia
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thank you Nia – I love taking the photos & often think of you as I do 🙂 Think of your paintings 🙂
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I’ve never seen anything like those Cormorants! There must have bee a school of fish, or perhaps the boats come in?
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I have no idea – but I’ve seen them like that before, sometimes with pelicans in their midst. You might be right about the fish though.
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Hungry Cormorants, that’s for sure:)
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dunno – they aren’t diving or flying. Seems they’re just relaxing, drying their wings 🙂
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Sunning themselves? They’re fantastic – I’m so glad you photographed them to show us:)
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That’s a lovely thing to say. Cormorants are so common here, along this stretch of the river, they seem commonplace. I love ’em – & they have such history in other parts of the world.
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What, you reckon people take them for granted? Perhaps there’s no hope for us then:(
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I dunno. Didn’t see anyone else taking photos & ther ewere plenty ther e- taking photos of the river & the city. And hope does seem in short supply, sometimes, I think.
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Sometimes, yes. But we can’t let ourselves think that way 🙂
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tue 🙂 We have to turn despair into action – which is hard. The only thing I can do is post photos of trees & rivers & birds to get more people aware of them
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That’s positive action … 🙂
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Hopefully 🙂 But here, I’m ‘preaching’ to the converted 🙂
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Well, it’s always better to have sidekicks around so you’re not doin’ it alone all the time:)
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laughing quietly in agreement
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Yes, I enjoyed it. 🙂 Love the shots of the cormorants.
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It was a lucky shot – & amazing! So many in one place!
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Of course I love it, the birds a nice shot. The Grevillea bush such a rewarding shrub for the garden, and then of course the trees, did you major in horticulture or something that you can identify them all, or is it just the love for them that shows in your photos?
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no – no studies in plants or any stripe – just love them 🙂 And can name very few, actually! And yes, that is a dweet little grevillea.
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Love how you know the names of the trees and the birds! I sure don’t. 😀
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Believe you me – I don’t know many of them! Most embarrasing 😀
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