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A waterfall with tree ferns in the rain forest in Australia. I have also uploaded a video of this waterfall to YouTube and if you want to watch it, you should be able to find it by typing "David Clode" or "David Clode waterfall" into the search box. It is simply meant to be a soothing and de stressing video. Millaa Millaa Falls, North Queensland, Australia.
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A platypus photographed in semi-darkness in the evening with low-powered flash. This photo was taken at a popular spot to look for platypus in Yungaburra, so they are used to people. There had just been a tropical thunderstorm with lots of lightning so I was not worried about using flash, and the platypus seemed unperturbed by me or the camera. Unfortunately the photo is noisy, but with platypus, you count yourself lucky just to see one, never mind photograph it.
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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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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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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.
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This huge Queensland groper (or grouper) is a new addition to the Cairns aquarium in Australia. He is maybe 1.2 metres long. Truly a monster fish!
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A Honeycomb Stingray checks me out as it swims past at the Cairns Aquarium. I love the dazzling camouflage pattern. Also known as a Reticulate Whipray, and found in the Indian Ocean off East Africa through to Taiwan and south to Australia in the Pacific Ocean.
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Paddletail snappers are pretty fish found from the Red Sea through to Japan and Australia. People usually avoid eating them as they can cause ciguatera poisoning.
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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 amazing fish can spot an insect or other prey sitting on a branch overhanging the water, come to the surface, and squirt a jet of water at the insect, knocking it off its perch and into the water, where the archer fish catches and eats it.
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A close up of a Queensland Grouper (or Groper as they called in Australia), at the Cairns aquarium. I estimate this fish to be about 1.2 metres long (over a yard).
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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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The water creates some distortion, but I still like the lovely pastel colours of the painted crayfish, which actually works as camouflage on a colourful tropical coral reef.
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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 yellow-banded sweetlips fish swims close to the glass at the Cairns aquarium. In Australia we like to keep things simple, and the name of this fish speaks for itself.
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Eastern Water Dragons often sun bake near water, and then cool off in the water. They also tend to escape and hide in the water if they feel threatened.
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A pretty yellow seahorse at the Cairns Aquarium. These are dainty little creatures, which are difficult to find in nature. I was privileged to see a leafy sea dragon while scuba diving off Portsea pier in Melbourne Australia, years ago.
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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.