Category: Central Australia
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some of my favourite photos
Author Koh Lin â—¦ It can be really hard to pick your favourite photo, especially when there are more than 38,000 images to choose from… so maybe I should say… “a selection of some of my favourite photos“ To narrow… Continue reading
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Alice Springs Herpetophile
Author Koh Lin â—¦ Someone who love reptiles is known as a “herpetophile”, the word also extends to someone who loves amphibians. A “herpetologist” is someone who studies or has a interest in this group of animals and in scientific… Continue reading
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Whose there…
Author Andrew Turner â—¦ When all there is… Is a piece of reflective glass… But then you know, that one of them knows…. Grammatically, it is “Who’s there?”…. but these birds don’t speak… they just babble 🙂😄🙃 See our Alice… Continue reading
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Time to play…
Author Koh Lin â—¦ Following on from our blog There’s more than size, when opposite attracts, another look at the escapades of the males and the female… when it is time to play for the Australian Goldern Orb Weaver Spiders… Continue reading
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Happy New Year… 2025
Author Koh Lin â—¦ Welcome to 2025, the first flower from our Stapelia next to our fish pond. Then a stroll in our backyard, to our forever bower of the Western Bowerbird, still adorn with treasures that have been continually… Continue reading
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a little bee that looks like a little Crabronid wasp
Author Koh Lin â—¦ It’s either a little bee that looks like a little Crabronid wasp, or a little Crabronid wasp that looks like a little bee… It looked almost deceased, when I fished it out of the swimming pool… Continue reading
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Dingo encounters…
Author Andrew Turner â—¦ Since living in Central Australia, we have crossed paths with dingoes many times… and grown very fond of the Canis dingo (formerly Canis lupus dingo). We learnt about dingoes when we saw the “dog fence” at… Continue reading
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A Hawk Moth in Alice…
Author Koh Lin â—¦ I love seeing large moths… and in particular the beautiful Convolvulus Hawk Moth (scientific classification Agrius convolvuli). I stumbled across this specimen on one of my daily working rounds in Alice Springs… it was just lying… Continue reading
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Sleeping beauty…
Author Koh Lin â—¦ for some… sleeping beauty is forever… whilst others may revive… a life rescued… Check out other blogs by Koh Lin. Continue reading
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The Red Centre / Central Australia
Author Emily Simpsons â—¦ With its many names… The Heart of Australia, The Red Centre, The Arid Centre, The Dead Centre… this region is like a faceted precious gemstone, a place also known as Central Australia, that reflects aspects of… Continue reading
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More treasures to be had…
Author Koh Lin â—¦ Looking beyond the bower… Our Western Bowerbird has been around for many years now… from our very first blog Treasures of our Western Bowerbird (July 2020), we wrote about the bower being there in our garden… Continue reading
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Art of Birds – Sequel
Author Koh Lin â—¦ Photographer Dorothy Latimer â—¦ Why speak, when an image can resonate all that is needed… Check out our following listed pages on the images of the birds above: Continue reading