Old Owl's photos with the keyword: estuary

Sit. Watch the water flow out from and into the Indian Ocean. Look across to the Mandurah side. What could be better than this? Have a Happy Bench Monday, everyone.

May I wish you all a deliriously Happy Fence Friday and a weekend full of frolics and fun. Failing that, I hope your day and your weekend allow you rest and peace.

A Happy Bench Monday to all. The ducks are enjoying the shade and don't seem too bothered about standing up.

I hope you all have a Happy Fence Friday and that your weekend brings you happiness.

A Happy Fence Friday to all. I hope your day is calm and that your weekend offers some respite from the current financial and political turmoil. This fence surrounds the King Carnival which has sat here next to the river for 70 years or so. It is to be demolished to make way for the construction of a brewery and restaurant. After all, we can’t let children’s fun stand in the way of profit, can we?

May I wish a Happy Bench Monday to all.

May I wish a fine and a Happy Bench Monday to all, the final one of 2024. Have a grand week, an enjoyable New Year's Eve and a gentle, peaceful start to 2025 - pirates notwithstanding. Yo ho ho, me hearties.

King Carnival, Halls Head. Across the river from Mandurah. (Better bigger, perhaps. Please press Z to find out.)

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A Happy Fence Friday to everyone from the viewing platform at the seaward end of the estuary in Mandjoogoordap. May your day and your weekend be merry and bright and your every waking moment full of enjoyment and happiness.

This bench sits by the estuary and faces Mandurah’s War Memorial, the white stone blocks across the river. The stones of the memorial rise from the water’s edge in the east and march upwards to the highest columns. At dawn on April 25th each year, the sun shines along the axis of the rising stones and hits the highest point, illuminating the pathway and also causing the shadows from the columns to point towards that highest point. April 25th is ANZAC Day in Australia and the Dawn Service, celebrated throughout the country, is a major part of that day, commemorating all Australians who have served in conflicts worldwide. HBM to everyone wherever you may be. The day of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli by Australian and New Zealander soldiers was 25th April 1915. More than 100 years later we still witness violence, horror and man's inhumanity to man. Not as clever as we like to think we are, are we? Sit on a bench, watch the world and think about how we're going to make things better.

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... like ships in the night ...

Nankeen heron (AKA Night heron). Stingray Wharf, Mandurah WA.

Mandjar Bay, Mandurah. HFF, everyone. Let your weekend bring you peace and joy (or at least a break from the daily grind). (Press Z to see it bigger.)

Stingray Wharf, Mandurah. Not the best photo, I'm afraid. The scene was some distance from me and I was shaky having run/walked some distance on an increasingly hot morning, plus my iPhone skills are rather rudimentary. The bird on the right is, of course, an Australian pelican; the one on the left is, I think, a Nankeen heron (sometimes called a night heron in these parts). I took this and walked on ... They were all still there, in more or less the same positions when I passed by 45 minutes later on my return journey. Now THAT is patience. I hope they were all rewarded by a feed from the estuary waters. Gosh, I love this land.