{"id":15210,"date":"2024-05-23T15:55:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T22:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=15210"},"modified":"2024-05-23T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T22:58:31","slug":"a-day-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2024\/05\/23\/a-day-in-perth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in Perth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a week of diving in Christmas Island, today I decided that we should visit the Aquarium of Western Australia<\/a> so we could figure out the names of all of the fish we’ve been seeing. It was actually a really good aquarium, with a 100m long tunnel through a 3 million liter tank being the highlight, although they also had a swimming-pool sized coral reef tank which Audrey and I agreed is something we should get after we win the Powerball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The afternoon adventure was a walk through the 988 acre King’s Park in downtown Perth. It’s bigger than New York’s Central Park, and two-thirds of it is preserved native bush, while the rest is landscaped mostly with plants from Western Australia, making it a very attractive place for local birds. The highlight of this visit was a walkway 50 feet above the ground in the tree canopy, with the smell of eucalyptus and the sound of birds filling the air. Additionally, just this morning I commented to Audrey that we haven’t seen kookaburras in a while, and this afternoon we encountered five of them huddled together on top of a streetlight. It was an incredibly cute and un-photogenic scene, but one finally flew to the top of a nearby tree, providing our first opportunity for a photo of a kookaburra that wasn’t on an electrical line or other man-made object.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomorrow we’re flying to Alice Springs for a brief visit to the red center of Australia. We’ve been traversing timezones at a rapid rate lately – Christmas Island is one hour behind Perth, and Perth is 1.5 hours behind Alice Springs – so sunrise wakeups over the next few days may be interesting challenges, but I’m looking forward to seeing some iconic landscapes in the morning light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Corella,<\/p>\n

This bird is a corella, which is in the cockatoo family. We photographed him from a parking lot where a local man informed us that they call them Australian alarm clocks due to their loud calls.<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\"Kookaburra,<\/p>\n

We’ve been seeing kookaburras since Tasmania, but they like to perch on electrical wires, which doesn’t make for pretty photos. This guy was perched WAY up in a tree in King’s Park making it hard to see his giant beak and head, but it may be my only photo of this iconic bird where it isn’t perched on a man-made object.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a week of diving in Christmas Island, today I decided that we should visit the Aquarium of Western Australia so we could figure out the names of all of the fish we’ve been seeing. It was actually a really good aquarium, with a 100m long tunnel through a 3 million liter tank being the … Continue reading “A Day in Perth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,78,30],"class_list":["post-15210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2024-walkabout","tag-australia","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15210"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15232,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions\/15232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}