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Keatings Lagoon is fringed by paperbarks. Photo: Tamara Vallance.When I spent my holiday in Cooktown, Australia, where my daughter lives, I 'll never miss an opportunity to pay a visit to Keatings Lagoon, where there is a variety of plants, and animals collected for food and medicines among other things. by the Waymbuurr people—the Traditional Owners of this park— for thousands of years.
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Paperbark trees are everywhere. |
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Waterlilies |
"Waterlilies, sedges and algae grow in and around the lagoon which is fringed with paperbarks and shrubby wrinkle pod mangroves. Tropical woodland and small thickets of vine forest surround the wetland." You can read about this on the informationboards.
"The wetland is a refuge for thousands of waterbirds, especially in the dry season (May to October) when they congregate to feast on the rich aquatic life. Birds include the magpie goose, the black-necked stork, the strikingly-marked Radjah shelduck and the comb-crested jacana—slender agile bird with large feet that is able to walk across the surface of water lilies. Aquatic wildlife in the lagoon includes rainbow fish, snakehead gudgeon cod and freshwater shrimp. The wetland is also an important nursery area for juvenile barramundi which instinctively swim upstream into the lagoon during flood periods. To help protect these fish, fishing is not permitted within the park."
10 comments:
What a special place, and I'm so happy to see the respect paid to the caretakers of centuries!
Thank you for sharing the beautiful Lagoon with
us Wil, so much interest there, I'd love to go there,
Your pictures are very good too.
Best wishes,
Di.
ABCW team.
Without water not life.. and in the water is alway's so many life, I've liked it in my childhood, to watching the water-life.
Happy Easter time
It must be so different in Australia as it's not only in another continent, but also I another hemisphere! I'd love to go there someday, but it is SO far away.
Leslie
abcw team
ergens is het herkenbaar... zou dat komen omdat het Europees is?
Mooie foto's, en je schrijft dat het Londen is, had net zo goed ergens in jouw of mijn omgeving kunnen zijn
Lieve groet
So interesting Wil...we all could learn so much from these people. It is the same here -- Native people revered the land and knew what it could give us if cared for.
That sounds like an interesting place to visit and revisit.
My ABC WEDNESDAY
what a great habitat!
ROG, ABCW
The crocodile warning sign would definitely put me off venturing too far!
I've never heard of a paperbark tree before. - Margy
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