Limestone Suiseki
Nosing out of the terra rossa soil, a limestone boulder with lichen and unusual weathering…
shore 2: changing sea levels
old corrugated iron near Lake Clifton
This iron was part of a fence to stop rabbits (I think) around a Lake Clifton property. Different sheets had different vestiges of blue paint leading me to think long linear lakes and transverse dunes.
apocalyptus avoided?
Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. This is a film called Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip by Leo Murray. Does it explain or hinder? Does it paralyse or promote action? Rhetoric or persuasion? I liked the poor man carrying the fat man …
Thunder and lightning on Banks Island
Banks Island, Canada – Expanded Ranges. The Inuit now regularly see species common much further south that previously were never seen on the island, such as robins and barn swallows. Thunder and lightning, never before recorded in Inuit oral history, have also been reported. http://www.climatehotmap.org/namerica.html
Talk on the palaeogeography of Cottesloe
This was a fantastic talk by Vic Semeniuk covering the old beach and dune surfaces visible at Cottesloe. I had not heard of the importance of freshwater seepage in the formation of what I have always assumed were purely wave cut platforms. Pictured below is a trowel with bubbles formed at the upper end …