Category Archives: Landscape

Dead Dingo

4X4, Australia, Kimberley, Landscape, mammals, Uncategorised, WA, WA, Wildlife

Today we move from the Dashing Dingo to a dead one, roadkill in a remote part of the Kimberley. The Doc was saddened by this find, as the female dingo was heavily pregnant and probably killed by someone traveling fast along the road. With her enlarged nipples and stomach, the bitch was not long from giving birth to a litter. It was fresh kill, so the body was not bloated, just enlarged from the litter.

Tasmanian echidna – Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus

4X4, Australia, Flinders Island, Landscape, mammals, marsupials, Tas, Uncategorised, Wildlife

Also known as an albino echidna because of its lighter colour. The other name is pale-coloured echidna which is more accurate, as it is much lighter in colour than the mainland echidna.

Dashing Dingo

4X4, Australia, desert, mammals, plains, SA, Uncategorised, Wildlife

The healthiest looking Dingo The Doc has seen in the bush, feeding off the rubbish dump at Innaminka in Outback South Australia. You can see rubbish in the background. Click on image to see full size.

Stunning Sturt Desert Pea

4X4, Australia, desert, flowers, Landscape, landscape, macro, NT, Pilbara, Plant, The Red Centre, Uncategorised, WA, Wildflowers

Commonly known as the Sturt Desert Pea, floral emblem of South Australia. The dark eye version is from South Australia, the lighter coloured eye is the northern or WA form found in the Northern Territory and WA.

It is known by some other names as well including: Swainsona formosa, Showy Donia (G. Don 1832), Beautiful Donia (G. Don 1832), Dampier’s clianth (Veitch 1850), Dampier’s Clianthus (Hooker 1858), Sturt’s pea (Adelaide Advertiser 1858), Sturt pea (de Mole 1861), Captain Sturt’s desert pea (Aspinall 1862), Desert pea (Anon 1864), Sturt’s desert pea (Tenison-Woods 1865), Glory flower (Bailey 1883), Glory pea (Bailey 1883), Sturt’s glory pea (Anon 1886), Lobster claws (The Garden 1890), Blood flower (Parker 1898), Dampier’s glory pea (Guilfoyle 1911), Australian glory pea (Guilfoyle 1911), Dampier pea (Harris 1980).

Bridled Nail Tail Wallaby

4X4, Australia, AWC, desert, Landscape, landscape, mammals, marsupials, NSW, Scotia, Scotia Sanctuary, Uncategorised, Wildlife

Working through some images during lockdown. Some rare photos of the endangered Bridled Nail Tail Wallaby from AWC’s Scotia Sanctuary. Click on the image to see full size.

Greens are not always green

4X4, Landscape, macro, NSW, Plant, river/creeks, trees

The other revelation of the colour palettes has been leaves green leaves using transmitted light. We normally look at leaves in reflected light, but transmitted light is when the light source shines through the leaf. Your reaction is to think they are just shades of green, but they are much more complex than that.

On my walk yesterday The Doc picked up some eucalyptus leaves which he identified as Eucalyptus baueriana, or Blue Box. The Doc found an immature leaf and a mature leaf and photographed both.

Here is the immature leaf, a fairly consistent green.

Juvenile leaves disjunct, orbiculate, dull green.

The palette reveals it is more complex 154 core colours!

The mature leaf has core colour palette with 254 colours, 100 more!

The Doc then took both images and looked at the combined colour palette from both, it was 242 colours. While there is an overlap in the colours, the various palettes demonstrate that the leaf over it life varies in colour. More than what we first think. The Doc noticed this in barks as well and it is obvious over the life of flower.