Cheryl
@cherylp14.bsky.social
Botanist with a special interest in marine plants 🪸 I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters presented here and pay my respects to their Elders past and present.
Cape Range’s subterranean streams harbour rare, endemic stygofauna, primarily the Blind Gudgeon Milyeringa veritas (growing up to 5 cm long) these critically protected, translucent fish lack eyes and pigmentation. Tantabiddi Boat ramp sinkhole, Cape Range National Park, Western Australia.
Green sea turtle side eye. Turquoise Bay, Cape Range National Park, Western Australia. 🤿
Clown fish nestling into an anemone, Turquoise Bay, Cape Range National Park, Western Australia 🤿
Hi there from Turquoise Bay, Cape Range National Park, Western Australia 👋🤿
Echidna 🐜🐜🐜 Billiburning Rock. Central Wheatbelt, Western Australia.
Grevillea flower, cultivar ‘Misty Pink’ about to get a serious visitor 🐝Coogee, Western Australia.
Quokka, a small macropod, foraging in the sand dunes, Wadjemup (Rottnest Island), Western Australia.
Chunky, spiny spider known as a Christmas spider (Austracantha minax) common in summer, and is endemic to Australia. This little jewel was spotted on my walk, Coogee, Western Australia 🕸️
Noongar white-tailed black cockatoos refer to Carnaby's cockatoos (Ngolyenok/Ngoolarks), an endangered species endemic to southwest Western Australia gathering at Coogee.
Djilba in full force 🌸 the Noongar season Djilba is represented by the colour pink as it symbolises growth of wildflowers in Western Australia, pink paper daisy 🌞
A cold windy morning Yallingup Beach, Western Australia with gnarly Melaleuca lanceolata trees that have been battling wind here for decades .💨
Dinosaur trackways laid down during the early cretaceous period; some 120 million years ago possibly those of theropods, three toed carnivorous dinosaurs that walked on two legs. Mind blowing - Gantheaume Point, Western Australia..
Small green algae Acetabularia caliculus growing on a shell, Horrocks Beach, Western Australia 🪸🐚
Claudea elegans a Western Australian species of marine algae as illustrated by the phycologist William Harvey in Phycologia Australica (1858)
Grand doggo on misty morning, Gantheaume Point, Broome, Western Australia 🌫️
