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Sunday, March 29, 2009
What is it about Norfolk Island Pines?
They seem to be an integral status symbol of every coastal town we've visited so far. Obviously they grow well on sand and must be salt and wind tolerant, and one assumes they do not need much water...but why is Australia's southern coastline dotted with these overgrown Christmas Trees? No town is complete without one - on the Yorke Pensinsula there was bugger all native foreshore veg remaining but still enough room for your mandatory row of Norfold Island Pines. Eyre Peninsula yep coastal streets lined with them - perhaps its a South Australian thing we thought. But no....Esperance in WA has some of the biggest we've seen yet. They're like living oblisques - symbols of manhood or the last century - hiding the real identity of each coastal town. Making them all part of some amorphorous coastal precinct.....
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Salt lakes on way to Cactus
The drive into Cactus was amazing - one wonders if surfers are always driving so fast to catch the waves that they don't notice the incredible visions happening roadside - the road stretches through a series of lakes or lagoons each with its own wild colour scheme - backgrounds of huge dune systems reminding me of the shapes of the Egypt you see captured on tv - salt crystals in an array of shapes and sizes encrust the shores in mounds and sheets......bongo buses and station wagons loaded with boards sped past us as we crawled along the road awing and aahing and trying to keep Bill in control - all he could see was dunes, dunes, big, white and beckoning and he wanted to get going and climb them - "bugger the beach"!
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