#BlackSwan #GippslandLakes #Australia
Wonderful birds. Loving partners and dutiful parents. Wonderful honking voice.

Great cormorant Large, black with gold hints on flanks. Long grey beak, hooked at end. On rock in swirling, clear water. White edge to yellow facial skin.

#cormorant #greatcormorant #birds
Great Cormorant at the entrance, #GippslandLakes #Australia

Water scene across a small boat harbour

Taken from Raymond Island across to Paynesville.

Early morning autumn 1990.

Gunaikurnai land is different

Taken with Minolta X500 with 50mm f1.2, shot on Konica 400asa.

#Water
#Boats
#Dawn
#Film
#Victoria
#GippslandLakes

Black swans on the Gippsland Lakes Two swans gliding in brown - grey water

#birds #BlackSwan #swan #GippslandLakes #Australia
Black swans on the Gippsland Lakes

Contact those in charge: Ask them to look after the Park & the North Arm #GippslandLakes catchment and to stop burning critical unburnt habitat: This burn is scheduled 2025 It takes up nearly all the Colquhuon Regional Park plannedburns.ffm.vic.gov.au/burn-site/30...

The rivers are struggling. Seen firsthand with the Latrobe River system facing competing demands from coal mine rehabilitation, irrigation and recreation. And the Latrobe River flows all the way down into the #GippslandLakes #GunaiKurnaiCountry
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Eucalyptus tereticornis or Forest Red Gum near Bairnsdale Australia

Remnant #Eucalyptustereticornis #Forestredgum at Jones' Bay #Bairnsdle #GippslandLakes

boating With the provision of funding from the Gippsland Lakes Coordinating Committee, Gippsland Ports has recently completed installation of 10 additional

New swing moorings are environmentally friendly, being designed to minimise disturbance of the seafloor and particularly to limit damage to existing seagrass.
#seagrass #seagrassmoorings #protectseagrass #gippslandlakes #victoria
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