A large spider, likely a Garden orb-weaver, and their web. After some coaching the web was high enough to allow human traffic underneath so allowed to remain. Unless webs are built across thoroughfares, or spiders have red on her back, they are left to their own devices around the house / garden.
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The Catalpa Memorial on the Palm Beach foreshore.
The Catalpa incident was an 1876 international incident involving the escape / rescue of 6 Irish Fenian prisoners funded by Irish-Americans from the British colony in Western Australia where they had been sent as convicts. More details below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa_rescue
The folk song The Catalpa was popular in the 1970’s in Australia.
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Ricnmond Avenue Reserve, a small sump at the eastern end of Richmond Avenue.
We’re now 20% of the way trough the year!
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The western end of western section of Apex Reserve, looking east.
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Impulse Lane Park. A small park set into the Lake Richmond bush behind some housing units.
The drain that the bridge is crossing is the drain below that leads into the south drain to Lake Richmond.
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Liechardt Loop Reserve, looking south. We’re not sure we’ve ever visted this park before although we’ve driven just north of it along Townsend Road. A small area that is likely to collect run off in winter, we’ll be back after rain to check.
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The new hydroponic plant containers have arrived – 1L conical flasks! They have a low centre of gravity allowing lots of plant growth before they could become unstable. A new plant stem support has also been devised, replacing solid foam with splits or holes is 30mm strips of 10mm soft foam wound around the stems.
You can see that the Syngonium has done well the last 2 months – the leaf that was developing opened and another came through.
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Bismark Reserve southern section, from the west looking east with the Anchorage Village shops top right. The treeline at the top / left marks the southern drain into Lake Richmond, with below showing the drain looking west after it goes under a foot bridge. The drain extends above ground (under roads) east until the Read Street / Rockingham City Shopping Centre, which we might track in the future.
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Bismark Reserve northern section, from the east looking west. The treeline at the top / left marks the southern drain into Lake Richmond. This section also becomes a lake with decent winter rains.
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The eastern end of western section of Apex Reserve, looking west. While the eastern section is lake dominated, this section is a treed, grassed area.