Australia - Manic Street Peachers Part III

 Alternatively, Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil!

A third time, Maybe Lucky, with no errors??

In what might be call the Very Heart of the country

ALICE SPRINGS

CHESTNUT-QUILLED ROCK PIGEON

had not seen or felt a single drop of RAIL in 11 years until just before our arrival

FOREST KINGFISHER

so likely a case of

Out where the river broke, the blood-wood and the desert oak.

Holden wrecks and boiling diesels, steam in 45 degrees.

How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning? 

BLACK-NECKED STORK

Four wheels scare the cockatoos, from Kintore East to Yuendemu.

The Western Desert lives and breathes, in 45 degrees.

RED-COLLARED LORIKEET

A welcoming, clean and value for money Guest House was soon found and having researched the Sewage Works here enquired as to its whereabouts.

MISTLETOE BIRD
and asking of distance and access the landlady suggested we would need a taxi and would see what she could do about a key, which was on our bedside table within the hour - A Great Start.

ALICE SPRINGS SEWERAGE WORKS
devoid of Humans - full of Birds!

with the taxi ride taking a full 15 minutes, and hows this for a trio of Waterfowl

GREEN PYGMY GEESE

PINK-EARED DUCK
along with

RADJAH SHELDUCK

SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER

LEMON-BELLIED FLYCATCHER

WONGA PIGEON

Above the waterline, Point the Finger yeah Point the Bone.

It's the harbour towns, that the grey metal ships call home!

And if we think about it, and if we talk about it.

And if the seas go boiling black, can you tell me what you'll do about that?

BROLGA

WATER MONITOR

MASKED PLOVER

PHEASANT COUCAL

BLUE-FACED

HONEYEATER

PIED HERON

BUSH THICK-KNEE

PEACEFUL DOVE

COMB-CRESTED JACANA

Put down that weapon, or we'll all be gone.

I must know something, to know it's so wrong!

 And it happens to be an emergency, some things aren't meant to be.

Some things don't come for Free!!!!

'BEST PROTEST SONG EVER WRITTEN'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E