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Sunday, 8 November 2015

September 8: Rabbit tomb

An eerie find in a small burrow on the north-west featherbed. This rabbit seems to have died in it's burrow and somehow evaded the eye of the Skuas and Giant Petrels who ordinarily would have ripped carrion such as this to pieces.
Finds like this are the only traces of bunnies left on Macca, after being declared pest free.

Rabbit skeleton in a burrow. Photo: Jacque Comery

Rabbit skeleton. Photo: Jacque Comery

September 3: Whale bones

These whales bones lay amongst soft green cushions of Colobanthus sp well away from the waters edge, on the featherbed of the north-west coast. I am looking into their story, and will try and add an update soon.

Whale vetebrae. Photo: Jacque Comery

Whale bones. Photo: Jacque Comery

Whale bones in the Colobanthus. Photo: Jacque Comery

Saturday, 7 November 2015

August 28: Bone on the beach

An interesting bone find on the beach at Bauer Bay.

Tree of life inside a bone. Photo: Jacque Comery

Bone fragment. Photo: Jacque Comery

Bone structure. Photo: Jacque Comery

Bone. Photo: Jacque Comery

Saturday, 13 June 2015

June 7: Colours and textures in the rain on West Beach of the Isthmus

A rainy Sunday. Too wet to take out my Olympus so I headed out for a walk with my old Lumix Waterproof DMC-FT2. When it is raining on Macca everything is grey. The sky, the ground, the ocean. With my eyes cast down to avoid the horizontal rain, I started to spot all of the little bits of colour the whole way along my walk from the Station to the Razorback at the end of the Isthmus on the west coast, and back along the east coast. The blurry effects are a combination of raindrops and me licking the lens to try and clear it!
With gumboots full of water and soaking wet I returned home after an hour and a half, smiling at how much colour you can find on a grey day, if you look in the right places.