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Wonga Beach, a popular and remote seaside destination close to Daintree in Queensland, Australia.
It has a beautiful, lush back drop of huge Calophyllum trees interspersed with Coconut palms. In 1770 Captain Cook named the northern bay’s continental Island Snapper Island and the near-by coral cay Low Isles.
Looking south from Wonga Beach you can see Island Point which shelters the harbour entrance of Port Douglas. The rainforest clad mountain range to the north is called Alexandra Range after a Danish princess who married the Prince of Wales. The rainforest clad mountain range behind Wonga Beach is called Dagma Range after Alexandra’s younger sister.
The Daintree River, Wonga Beach and the beach end of Alexandra Range form a natural funnel when the prevailing south-east trade winds are considered and explain why there are no sandflies at Wonga Beach and there are so many different species of mangroves in the Daintree.
There are three maintained graves along the beach. One belongs to a maritime hero Charlie Lifu and includes an inscription of his feats. It is near the Close that bears his name.
Behind the coastal vegetation is an extraordinary array of architecture. From the quaint owner-built holiday and fishing shacks of the 1930s to the newer multimillion dollar homes.
In 1985 a large volcanic eruption beneath the Coral Sea released thousands of Pumice stones to the ocean surface which were then blown along north Queensland's shore by the trade winds.
Birdwatchers visit Wonga Beach to see three uncommon bird species: Gould's bronze cuckoo, double-eyed fig-parrot and the beach stone-curlew. The last species is easily confused with the ubiquitous bush stone-curlew noted for its wailing calls at night.
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Berlin boasts two zoological gardens, a consequence of decades of political and administrative division of the city. The older one, called Zoo Berlin, founded in 1844, is situated in what is now called "City West". It is the most species-rich zoo worldwide. The other one, called Tierpark Berlin ("Animal Park"), was established on the long abandoned premises of Friedrichsfelde Palace Park in the eastern borough of Lichtenberg, in 1954. Covering 160 ha, it is the largest landcape zoo in Europe, but with less species.
5L0A0882 52 river bottlebrush wonga wetlands albury nsw most of the flowers on this local native are lemon yellow colour but sometimes fresh flowers come out pink and on rarer occasions they actually stay pink.
Righteous indignation is typically a reactive emotion of anger over mistreatment, insult, or malice of another. It is akin to what is called the sense of injustice. In some Christian doctrines, righteous anger is considered the only form of anger which is not sinful, e.g., when Jesus drove the money lenders out of the temple (Gospel of Matthew 21).
If you look at the church as a whole these days this seems a bit hypocritical --
Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has promised to put payday lenders such as Wonga out of business by setting up credit unions. He also acknowledged last week that because credit unions were not being set up quickly enough, there was a gap in the availability of credit which could force individuals into the hands of loan sharks.
In a speech in Westminster, Welby pointed out that loan sharks sometimes turn up with baseball bats if customers do not pay. It now turns out that Wonga sends out menacing letters from non-existent solicitors if its customers miss their repayments.
And, herein lies the problem for the Church of England. Its Church Commissioners arm has a £100,000 stake in Wonga – albeit less than it was but a stake nonetheless,
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Candid street shot, Brixham Pirate Festival 2018.
Wonga Wetlands is a revived ecosystem of lagoons and billabongs covering around 80 hectares on a picturesque bend of the Murray River just five minutes' drive from the centre of Albury.
History
'Wonga' is the Wiradjuri word for black cormorant - one of the most abundant bird species in the area. Before European settlement the river and wetlands were a rich food source for the Wiradjuri people, who travelled in bark canoes cut from red river gums.
European settlers began to arrive in the 1830s. In those days the wetlands were fed by extensive spring flooding.
After the construction of the Hume Dam in 1919, the spring floods needed by the river and wetlands ecosystems became much less frequent. Over time, this alteration to natural flows dried out many of the floodplain wetlands and billabongs, degrading vegetation and destroying breeding habitats.
The Wonga Wetlands project began in 2000 to help restore natural water flows and rehabilitate ecosystems
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Photo from Jervois Bridge.
Ship at Princes Wharf is 'Dimsdale' which destroyed the Wonga Shoal Lighthouse in Nov 1912, drowning the two lighthouse keepers.
Francis & McGowan (it should read Franson)
Newspaper articles about that event:
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trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147213864?searchTerm=w...
Barque 'Lobo' at Copper Co. Wharf (right). Adelaide Milling Co Bldg. in background.
A Water Python (Liasis mackloti) looking for an easy feed. Wonga Beach - Far North Queensland - Australia
Wonga Beach, a popular and remote seaside destination close to Daintree in Queensland, Australia.
It has a beautiful, lush back drop of huge Calophyllum trees interspersed with Coconut palms. In 1770 Captain Cook named the northern bay’s continental Island Snapper Island and the near-by coral cay Low Isles.
Looking south from Wonga Beach you can see Island Point which shelters the harbour entrance of Port Douglas. The rainforest clad mountain range to the north is called Alexandra Range after a Danish princess who married the Prince of Wales. The rainforest clad mountain range behind Wonga Beach is called Dagma Range after Alexandra’s younger sister.
The Daintree River, Wonga Beach and the beach end of Alexandra Range form a natural funnel when the prevailing south-east trade winds are considered and explain why there are no sandflies at Wonga Beach and there are so many different species of mangroves in the Daintree.
There are three maintained graves along the beach. One belongs to a maritime hero Charlie Lifu and includes an inscription of his feats. It is near the Close that bears his name.
Behind the coastal vegetation is an extraordinary array of architecture. From the quaint owner-built holiday and fishing shacks of the 1930s to the newer multimillion dollar homes.
In 1985 a large volcanic eruption beneath the Coral Sea released thousands of Pumice stones to the ocean surface which were then blown along north Queensland's shore by the trade winds.
Birdwatchers visit Wonga Beach to see three uncommon bird species: Gould's bronze cuckoo, double-eyed fig-parrot and the beach stone-curlew. The last species is easily confused with the ubiquitous bush stone-curlew noted for its wailing calls at night.
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Wonga Pigeon
Leucosarcia melanoleuca
35-40 cm
AUSTRALIAN ENDEMIC
A large distinctively-marked ground-dwelling rainforest pigeon found in eastern Australia between southeastern Queensland and central Victoria (roughly between Brisbane and Melbourne a few hundred km in from the coast in suitable habitat).
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Consistent excellent soaking rains on almost every day in December 2020 has provided just the strike back response needed for Raintrees Native and Rainforest Gardens following the devastating drought of 2019. That drought, possibly our worst on record, killed a lot of our mature Bangalow Palms, not to mention countless tree species and even many epiphytes.
Throughout 2020 we worked tirelessly to remove resultant fire risk from the property for fear that the summer of 2020 would be a duplicate of that of 2019.
Fortunately that concern proved unfounded with meteorological forecasts predicting the return of a La Niña.
It's been many years, if ever, that we've had such regular daily consistent rainfall that soaks in rather than flooding through the property doing potentially enormous damage.
With the palms removed we've replaced them with hardy rainforest trees and the December rains have given them the dream start to their existence.
With more planting during January we are nearing the end of canopy planting on the property and the focus will turn to understorey planting and positioning of epiphytes on increasing numbers of suitably receptive rainforest trees.
Of course with all the rain a myriad of fungi, moss and lichen species are slowly making their way back, as can be seen in this image, and we now hope for a return to more regular rainfall for the next few years.
The mossy tracks are maintained by use of a leaf blower regularly removing leaves so the moss can be exposed to sunlight.
The mossy tracks are maintained by use of a leaf blower regularly removing leaves so the moss can be exposed to sunlight.
The track name, Wonga Way, is derived from the the shy generally ground dwelling Wonga Pigeons that frequent this part of Raintrees.
Among the the species of moss that have been identified on these tracks are the following :
* Thuidiopsis furfurosa
* Hypnodendron vitiense
* Wijkia papillata ?
* Pyrrobryum parramattense
* Sphagnum novozelandicum
* Dawsonia longiseta
* Dicranoloma billarderi
Wonga Beach, a popular and remote seaside destination close to Daintree in Queensland, Australia.
It has a beautiful, lush back drop of huge Calophyllum trees interspersed with Coconut palms. In 1770 Captain Cook named the northern bay’s continental Island Snapper Island and the near-by coral cay Low Isles.
Looking south from Wonga Beach you can see Island Point which shelters the harbour entrance of Port Douglas. The rainforest clad mountain range to the north is called Alexandra Range after a Danish princess who married the Prince of Wales. The rainforest clad mountain range behind Wonga Beach is called Dagma Range after Alexandra’s younger sister.
The Daintree River, Wonga Beach and the beach end of Alexandra Range form a natural funnel when the prevailing south-east trade winds are considered and explain why there are no sandflies at Wonga Beach and there are so many different species of mangroves in the Daintree.
There are three maintained graves along the beach. One belongs to a maritime hero Charlie Lifu and includes an inscription of his feats. It is near the Close that bears his name.
Behind the coastal vegetation is an extraordinary array of architecture. From the quaint owner-built holiday and fishing shacks of the 1930s to the newer multimillion dollar homes.
In 1985 a large volcanic eruption beneath the Coral Sea released thousands of Pumice stones to the ocean surface which were then blown along north Queensland's shore by the trade winds.
Birdwatchers visit Wonga Beach to see three uncommon bird species: Gould's bronze cuckoo, double-eyed fig-parrot and the beach stone-curlew. The last species is easily confused with the ubiquitous bush stone-curlew noted for its wailing calls at night.
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- So the Carnival reached it´s peak when the Musical section came rolling at a slow pace...
The Piano-synth man wen like this: Kwee-kwee. loon-quee, Kwee-kwee!
and the sax came on in the background like this: djiuouuw-bep-bop djenga-djeeking be-bop-bop-bop
and the drums when like this Tse-tse, bonga wonga, tse-tse, punky-donky Tse- tse...
and then the bagpipe was howling like: Ouiiiiiuiiuuw, uuuouiióouw, like a nessy-swan in the lake kind of and then the keyboard section was going over in to a phase when he was going: wagga-wagga-wagga float-snap! almost like a percussion then the Guitar was strumming like half way between an Irish-whistle and a newspaper printer like: katlack-donderioll-dumma, dumma-dumma-donderellido...
...and as a small cherry on top of the olive the electric base and lead guitar was surfing on each other like this: dun-dun-dun-dom-dom-don-don-dunno-dunno, while the lead floated: do,wengha-do-do-do repluse-doppla-doppla-deeeeed!
(this was written in Memory of Mr. Murray may he rest in peace)
Established in 1962 this aid to navigation was originally known as Hallett Lighthouse after nearby Hallett Cove.
The lighthouse replaced the Wonga Shoal light which stood 25 kilometres to the north west. The Wonga Shoal light had a history of tragedy including being struck by the sailing ship ‘Dimsdale’ resulting in the loss of two lightkeepers in 1912.
Marino Rocks Light originally used a modified airport beacon as its lightsource. This beacon consisted of two 24 inch parabolic reflectors each using a 1000W lamp. In 2005 the site underwent modernisation and a low voltage system was installed.
The lighthouse is managed by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority which has responsibility for a wide range of maritime safety activities including the Commonwealth aids to navigation network.
The tower is 15 metres high and 128 metres above sea level.