The contrast is absolute. Today we walk through a fecund eucalypt forest in the Otway National Park. It’s a sharp, winding 500-metre climb through grand, goal post straight gums, dotted with occasional grey bulges that sporadically stretch a rear leg and scratch behind a furry ear. They are koalas, still electrifying to witness in the …
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Lucky Bay, Cape Le Grand National Park, Western Australia
The morning opens heavy and grey. Dark smudges of cloud fill the sky, thick and stagnant, lighter in the east where the morning sun is filtered and confined to a dull constant. There is a sense of the suns presence, but the dense blanket has defeated the raging luminosity. All is damp with an enveloping …
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