Ben Cooke’s elementography

The almost luminous turquoise waters of the Southern Ocean glow on a warm Spring’s afternoon, west of Albany.

Very tall trees reach for the sky near Walpole.

Trickling waters of coastal streams laden with tannins merge near the ocean west of Denmark.

Small native flowers push up through sand along a boardwalk west of Denmark (WA).

Part of the Kings Park War Memorial is a 180° semi circle that includes inscriptions of many of the theatres of wars that Australian soldiers fought in.

One of the other aspects of the wall is its wonderful ability to transfer sound.  Due to the delightful laws of physics, a person can sit at each end and simply by speaking under their breath easily relay messages to the other person without anyone outside hearing.  Unless, of course, they choose to sit in the middle of you!

The deliciously Western Australia Kangaroo Paw commands the centre of attention in a sea of planted colour in one of the Kings Park’s wildflower gardens.

Reeds from around the ‘water gardens’ in Kings Park exude a glorious mix of spotted patterns and straw colouring.

One of the beautiful things about Kings Park is the wide open spaces nestled in the 400+ hectares of land.  On the fringes of many of the parks they have some excellent places to sit and wile away an afternoon.  There’s also usually some nice artwork to boot.

A couple of smaller boabs sit high on on the Mount Eliza escarpment looking south towards South Perth and Melville Water.  They are surrounding the larger boab transfered to Kings Park late last year.

A juvenile seagull hunkers down to begin a preening regime on the shoreline of Lake Monger.  Many young seagulls are following their parents around this time of the year learning how to trick your mate out of a chip and the best angle of inclination with which to dive bomb a car windscreen.  They make such a quiet squeak; quite in contrast to their older, surlier brethren.