This tiny island in the Cooks River is a haven for waterbirds. It's called Fatima Island. A nearby sign says that once there were three tiny islands in this part of the river, where Fatima Island now stands alone. In 1951 hundreds of Catholics made a rosary crusade to the riverbank in homage to the Portuguese pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima. The island has been called Fatima Island since.The birds for which it is a haven include pelicans, ibis, common silver gull, little pied cormorant, little black cormorant and the occasional crested tern.
It's really small but big enough to give home to some animals.
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Valery
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Tiny indeed but really Interesting.
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Mary ElizabethBlog.
it looks tiny. I like the Wonderful reflections
ReplyDeleteI wonder what happened to the other two islands?
ReplyDeleteGood capture. A good bit of nature in the middle of suburbia. If it wasn't for the railway lines on the right, I wouldn't have been able to figure out where that was.
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It looks totally different viewed from that angle than from the train. I wouldn't have recognised it.
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