Footing the Beach. Ipomoea pes-caprae, Goat's Foot or Beach Morning Glory, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia
No jetlag coming in to Bali from Melbourne after a six-hour flight. So I was already footing it on the beach in the morning of my short stop-over on the way to Lombok.
Kuta, of course, is well-known for being a 'playground' for holiday-makers especially from Australia. The scene, too, of terrible violence some ten years ago.
Still there's a lot to be seen of nature on the beaches once you're free of the usual surfers and the coconut-oil smearers.
Here's pretty Goat's Foot or Ipomoea pes-caprae, and perhaps more appropriately after last night's deluge: Beach Morning Glory. I tried to photograph as well some of this pan-tropical plant's insect visitors but without enough success - maybe I was more jet-lagged than I'd admit. The Latin name 'Ipomoea' is a bit odd for such a pretty flower; it has to do with worms. It's understandable why. The stem-strings cross the sand-dunes like so many wiry worms. Still, worms are hardly as pretty as these luminous purple wonders. Even Goat's Foot, pes-caprae, for the shape of the green leaves is not quite 'right'. Ah! But then there's 'Beach Morning Glory'; yes! that name has it!
Then I thought this four-some Glories worth the attention of my flickr friends.
PS I expect now on Lombok to have better internet connections and opportunity for comments...
Footing the Beach. Ipomoea pes-caprae, Goat's Foot or Beach Morning Glory, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia
No jetlag coming in to Bali from Melbourne after a six-hour flight. So I was already footing it on the beach in the morning of my short stop-over on the way to Lombok.
Kuta, of course, is well-known for being a 'playground' for holiday-makers especially from Australia. The scene, too, of terrible violence some ten years ago.
Still there's a lot to be seen of nature on the beaches once you're free of the usual surfers and the coconut-oil smearers.
Here's pretty Goat's Foot or Ipomoea pes-caprae, and perhaps more appropriately after last night's deluge: Beach Morning Glory. I tried to photograph as well some of this pan-tropical plant's insect visitors but without enough success - maybe I was more jet-lagged than I'd admit. The Latin name 'Ipomoea' is a bit odd for such a pretty flower; it has to do with worms. It's understandable why. The stem-strings cross the sand-dunes like so many wiry worms. Still, worms are hardly as pretty as these luminous purple wonders. Even Goat's Foot, pes-caprae, for the shape of the green leaves is not quite 'right'. Ah! But then there's 'Beach Morning Glory'; yes! that name has it!
Then I thought this four-some Glories worth the attention of my flickr friends.
PS I expect now on Lombok to have better internet connections and opportunity for comments...