Just a reminder, the photographs I post will have the same heading as the blog for each day. I'll post my photos today as "Goonga goombar (Humpback Whale)" After a lifetime of trying to see whale migrations on the east coast of Australia, I decided to give the west a shot. SUCCESS at last. Dharawal friends had told me that they used to light fires on the cliffs of Sydney and swing bullroarers to communicate with the whales when they migrated both north and sou...

We headed out to the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse for a guided tour at 9.20. Its around 20 minutes through more heavily timbered country than I had expected. My expectations of what country will look like is almost always toatally wrong, and so it was this time. I had expected coastal scrub and rocky landscape. No, much more like the country described by Bill Gammage: "land that looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abu...