Natures Vineyard Australian flora and fauna.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Waves of Wonder

You have the monsters in the video below or you can have ripples.The wind is the source to the wonderous waves.We salute the source for radio waves,sound waves and ocean waves.When it comes to heat and seismic waves, I wish they were optional.

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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Teilhard de Chardin.

Waves of Friendship

The Endless Ocean

Waves Are Formed

The height of a wave increases through wind energy and waves of considerable height develop in open oceans if a strong wind blows for several days. The size of a wave depends upon the strength of the wind, the duration of the wind and the distance of open water over which the wind blows. The stronger the wind, the longer it blows and the greater the distance, the more powerful the wave.

The water of the oceans is in constant motion. The gravitational pull of the sun and moon oscillates the surface of the oceans, while the wind fires up the waves.

Kite Surfing Point Cartwright

Stormy Weather

The Rolling Waves

Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii is world famous for its tubular wave created where the shallow water and coral shelf combine to resemble pipe.

Hawaii Pipeline with music from Santana

Kite Surfing Mooloolaba

Wave at Point Cartwright

Waves rolling in past Old Woman Island Marcoola

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Australian Birdlife

Pelicans

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.
James Montgomery

Pelicans on Marochy River at Dawn

Pelicans Flossing

Sooty and the Eastern Curlew

The Brahminy Kite , also known as the Red-backed Sea-eagle.

Striking colors make this beautiful bird standout in the skies.

White Bellied Eagle

Feeding Seagull and Reflecting Drongo Bird

Egrets and Herons

Finches and Wrens

Red Back Fairy Wren

Double Barred Finch

Kookaburras

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,
Counting all the monkeys he can see.
Stop, kookaburra, stop, kookaburra,
That’s not a monkey, that’s me,

Blue Winged Kookaburra

Swans and Ducks

The duck photo above was taken same day, same lake.Sun was out on the duck photo there was cloud cover on the Swan photo.Amazing how much difference a little sunshine makes.

Lorikeets and Honeyeaters

White Cheeked Honeyeater

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Nature's Vineyard Week of October 28th

Goannas

are monitor lizards and a common sight in Australia.There are over 20 different species.The name goanna was given to Australian monitor lizards by the early European settlers. They thought the monitor lizards looked like the South American Iguanas.

Aboriginal and the Goanna

In Aboriginal tradition, a 'horny-skinned goanna bunyip" is said to have existed in New South Wales and elsewhere across Australia under a variety of different names in the long-ago Dreamtime. It was described as being of enormous size and smelling terrible. Their rock engravings and cave paintings across the continent clearly depict these and other reptilian monsters.

Western Australia Aboriginals believed in the existence of giant-sized goannas which they called "Bungarra". They informed early settlers that these monsters reached lengths of up to 20 and 30 feet and be on the lookout for them.

Komoda Dragons largest species of lizard in the world.

Reaching 3 meters in length and more than 136 kilograms, Komodo dragons are the heaviest lizards on Earth. Currently the Komodo Dragon is on the endangered species list due to illegal hunting and loss of habitat to human settlement.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant

Giant Amazon Waterlilly

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

Max Muller

Black eyed Suzan

Titan Arum Worlds Largest Flower

Venus Fly Trap

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen

Claude Monet Gardens Giverny, France

Monet loved nature and the garden so much they were his inspiration.

In 1883, the Impressionist painter Claude Monet sought tranquility and nature in the Normand village of Giverny. Over the next 43 years until his death, Monet's artist development flourished alongside the garden he cultivated with immense care.