Overnight trip to the coast with a lunch stop at the Halls Gap market. A gaggle of Gang-gang cockatoos flew over and landed up a tree not far from where we’d parked. This time I had my proper camera within reach!

Still tricksy to photograph straight up and into the back-lit drizzle, but this’ll do.

#WildOz #bird #birb #gariwerd

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/27/victoria-grampians-fires-endangered-globe-pea-plant-rescue

https://www.parks.vic.gov.au/-/media/project/pv/main/parks/documents/visitor-guides-and-publications/grampians/grampians-national-park_floraguide.pdf?

“Ball Pod”
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/138642-Sphaerolobium

Globe Peas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphaerolobium_acanthos

#BloomScrolling #environment #Flora #Gariwerd #GlobePeas #revegetation #rewilding

Grampians National Park bushfire contained as rain brings relief
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-06/cool-change-rain-grampians-national-park-bushfire-contained/104787242

Firefighters have succeeded in containing the bushfires in the Grampians region. They worked tirelessly for the last three weeks and today's rain would have been a welcome relief. The bushfire covered 76,000 hectares of national park and farmland.

The Grampians/Gariwerd National Park and surrounding region shows you the rugged beauty of Nature. It's an ancient landscape, and experiencing it in person takes your breath away. I'm fortunate to have been there on holidays and hikes several times over years. I'm no expert, but I think that experience can give you some insights about why it's such an important and sacred place to local Indigenous people, and why it's been home to the Djab Wurrung and Jardwardjali people for more than 20,000 years.

#Victoria #Australia #VictoriaBushires #Grampians #Gariwerd #DjabWurrung #Jardwardjali #NationalPark #HallsGap

‘The "wilderness" myth of Australia’s previous generation of environmentalists has proved to not only be historically and culturally deficient, but has also had dire implications for our physical world’.

– Ben Wilkie

#fire #Gariwerd #Grampians #ecology #IndigenousKnowledge #Colonisation

https://meanjin.com.au/latest/this-continent-of-smoke/