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South Island to Auckland, New Zealand - 18th November 2016
By: Apperveilchen
The obligatory money shot:
My last view of the mountains of the South Island on my way to Auckland.
waiting to board the plane to Australia:
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Posted Sep 30, 2017, 5:38 pm
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Pinnacles, Nambung NP, Western Australia - 19th November 2016
By: Apperveilchen
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Posted Sep 8, 2017, 8:28 am Last edited Sep 8, 2017, 8:29 am by Apperveilchen
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pink lake, Western Australia - 19th November 2016
By: Apperveilchen
It's not super colorful, but this is one of the pink lakes. The color comes from archaea and algae that live in waters with very high salinity.
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Posted Sep 13, 2017, 4:53 pm Last edited Oct 6, 2017, 5:13 pm by Apperveilchen
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Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia - 20th November 2016
By: Apperveilchen
Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve is part of the UNESCO WHS Shark Bay because of the living stromatolites, structures built by cyanobacteria, some of the oldest forms of life on earth that made other life possible by creating oxygen through photosynthesis.
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Posted Oct 8, 2017, 3:28 pm
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Shell Beach, Shark Bay, Western Australia - 20th November 2016
By: Apperveilchen
Shell Beach is also part of Shark Bay and a part of the coast where the water has very high salinity, because of which Fragum erugatum thrives here and its shells have collected along the beach, creating a kind of stone in the parts further from the water.
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Posted Oct 12, 2017, 5:10 pm
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Cape Range NP, Western Australia - 23rd November 2016
By: Apperveilchen
This is an original plant part that naturally looks like a bird. How cool is that?
Another one of the amazing, almost empty Western Australian beaches with great snorkeling along the Ningaloo Reef.
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Posted Nov 5, 2017, 10:23 am Last edited Nov 5, 2017, 10:24 am by Apperveilchen
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Karijini-Nationalpark , Western Australia - 25th November 2016
By: Apperveilchen
This is a beautiful semiarid area with deep water-filled gorges, some of which can be visited and some of which are too dangerous to visit, e.g. because of asbestos. There are other silicates that are also being mined nearby. From above it'S hard to even see the goges, so one has to be very careful. I'm staying in a permanent camp in the park.
This is Oxer Lookout from where one can see Weano, Red, Hancock and Joffre gorges.
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Posted Nov 12, 2017, 10:42 am Last edited Nov 12, 2017, 10:43 am by Apperveilchen
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Karijini-Nationalpark, Western Australia - 26th November 2016
By: Apperveilchen
One of the huge termite hills that are around everywhere.
What a peaceful view early in the day.
Unfortunately I can't show pictures of the amazing gorges, because getting in and out involved climbing and swimming/wading through streams and pools, so the camera had to stay in camp.
The day ended in a road house on the way further north.
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Posted Nov 25, 2017, 11:13 am
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80 mile beach, Western Australia - 27th December 2016
By: Apperveilchen
This is a really long beach between Port HEdland and Broome, but one has to be careful while walking barefoot or picking up stranded things beaacause of the poinsonous or venomous animals living in these waters like the poor dead snake.
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Posted Dec 10, 2017, 10:28 am
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