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An image taken from Hotel Grand Chancellor looking back up at castle Hill on the outskirts of Townsville city centre in August 2020
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An aerial shot of a remote island off Airlie Beach. Captured out the window during our scenic flight over the islands. Such a cool perspective.
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I like the way the pink ears and the pastel pink grass are backlit in this photo of a young agile wallaby taken during the late afternoon “golden hour”. I like the soft femininity of the photo. Wild wallaby, Edmonton, Cairns, Australia.
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This photo was taken in the afternoon. We were heading back to Cairns after a day on the Great Barrier Reef.
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These cute ducklings were warming up in the morning sun. All in a row, except for one non-conformist. Photo taken at Fun-e-farm, Cairns Australia, where groups of children visit to pet the farm animals.
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The fish in the background look spooked to me, with two swimming away, as an ominous-looking juvenile hammerhead shark glides past. Photo taken at the Cairns aquarium.
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Close up of a lionfish. These fish are beautiful but have poisonous spines, and have been introduced to the Caribbean, where they are now a pest. Photo taken at the Cairns Aquarium, Australia.
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These pelicans at the Cairns mud flats in Australia are jostling for the best position as the tide comes in.
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The tide was coming in, so the pelicans were flying to a dry spot. I am trying to improve my photography of birds in flight (and wildlife generally) because I am going on holiday to Kenya in a month’s time. Pelicans are big and relatively slow so they make good subjects for practice at capturing birds in flight.
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Buddha tree. The trunk of a bodhi tree or peepal tree in Cairns Australia. This is the type of tree under which the Buddha sat (for 49 days!) till he received enlightenment. I am not a Buddhist, but I thought that Buddhists may like a photo of a bodhi tree. The botanical name is appropriate: Ficus religiosa. For those who appreciate the wonders of nature, you may enjoy visiting the page “Divine designs God’s creation” on my site Tracts4Free.wordpress.com which has photos of all sorts of wonderful things in nature.
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A parade of pelicans waddle to higher ground as the tide comes in at the Cairns Esplanade, Australia.
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These cute little bats sleep in large trees in the middle of town (Cairns, Australia), with another larger species, the Spectacled Flying-fox. It is safer for them to sleep in town as there are fewer predators such s snakes.
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This delightful Graphic Flutterer showed off it’s camouflage pattern long enough for me to get a photograph, at the Cattana wetlands, Cairns, Australia.
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Butterfly fishes come in an amazing array of colours and are common on coral reefs. This photo was taken at the Cairns Aquarium.
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The very last shaft of late afternoon light helped to make this Black-fronted Dotterel stand out from its beach and sea surroundings. These cute little birds are slightly larger than a sparrow. I lay flat on the beach sand to get down to the bird’s level. Photographed on the small beach near the lagoon on the Cairns Esplanade, Australia.
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A pair of sunbirds live right outside my front door. I planted these flowers, and a few others, because I know they like to sip nectar from these flowers, and it has worked like a charm. For those who live in the Americas who are familiar with hummingbirds, sunbirds are the equivalent birds in Australia, through Asia and Africa. They are typically not quite as small as hummingbirds, but are usually very colourful, and can hover to sip nectar out of flowers. This is a male Olive-backed or Yellow-bellied sunbird.
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Even baby crocodiles know what to do. Being half submerged like this is typical of crocodiles and alligators. Photo taken at the Cairns Aquarium.
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This dragonfly at Centenary Lakes in Cairns allowed me to get close for a photo, and eventually even allowed me to gently touch its wing.
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A cow nose ray swims past at the Cairns Aquarium. These fascinating and rather weird-looking rays are a type of eagle ray, and are found in the Western Atlantic Ocean from New England to Brazil.
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The Clown triggerfish has a bizarre pattern. Triggerfish are territorial, and will sometimes bite a scuba diver who has intruded into their territory.