Latest Natural sounds Podcast Episodes
Water 🌊 Element
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - November 07, 2022 06:29 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe Northern Rivers area of eastern Australia is famous for its... rivers! This recording was made near a waterfall in one of the many waterways that form on the slopes of the Wollumbin volcano, which forms the northern edge of the region. The water here is cool and the hue is brown from the rich...
Fire 🔥 Element
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - November 06, 2022 06:25 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe last time Wollumbin erupted was 23 million years ago. So, in bringing the fire element from the slopes of Wollumbin the sound comes from the combustion of local wood that had been felled by a recent storm. Even though the volcano once stood at more the twice its current height and breathed fi...
Air 💨 Element
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - November 06, 2022 06:16 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe Eastern edge of the Wollumbin caldera has eroded down into the sea. This point, called Cape Byron, is the Eastern most point of the entire Australian continent. It is often a very windy place. This recording was taken just off the beach beneath a Coastal Pandanus tree and captures the Air Ele...
Earth 🏔 Element
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - November 06, 2022 06:06 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe north eastern corner of the Australian state of NSW is home to a primordial remnant of Gondwana Land's original rainforest. This area, sometimes called "The Big Scrub" was once a vast subtropical lowland rainforest fed by the rich volcanic soils left over from the ancient Wollumbin Volcano (o...
Thunder & Rain in an Australian Summer
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - January 22, 2021 10:36 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsNot far from what is now called Sydney, on 7 May 1770, Captain James Cook sailed along Australia’s Eastern seaboard and described in his journal "some pretty high land which projected out in three bluff points.” One of the three “bluff points” was called Tudibaring in the local Aboriginal tongue,...
Desert “Dreamtime” in Sound (60 min)
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - January 14, 2021 12:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAs you travel from Australia’s Eastern seaboard, the temperate forests and lush undergrowth slowly shifts to rolling grassland and eventually to a hard scrabble semi-arid region that marks the beginning of Australia’s great deserts. The biggest town in the area, Broken Hill, sits within a small r...
The Seven Sacred Pools of 'O'heo Gulch, Maui
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - March 05, 2020 19:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsOn the remote eastern shores of Maui lies one of the worlds natural wonders: the Pools of ‘O’heo Gulch. Access to the wild shoreline where these pools empty into the Pacific Ocean is only by a multi-hour journey through dense rainforest and a seemingly endless number of muddy single lane bridges...
Midnight in the Shenandoah Woods
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - October 01, 2019 07:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsShenandoah is a phonetic rendering from the Algonquian schind-han-do-wi which means "beautiful daughter of the stars." The rolling hills are so iconic that not only have songs been written about them but the Shenandoah song is also known as the Ballad of America. The steady hum of crickets from d...
Wind and Sun on Southern Utah Slickrock
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - August 01, 2019 01:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, for most of its acreage, is a harsh and unforgiving landscape of slickrock and sand, creosote bushes and cacti. But here and there you will find dry washes in the twisting, layered, petrified sand of white slickrock. And in some of those washes the...
Dawn Birdsong in Southern Utah
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - July 01, 2019 01:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSouthern Utah on a map or from the air looks like a land of sand and rock and heat. But threading through the almost Martian landscape are scores upon scores of narrow canyons and deep gorges. At the bottom of these gullies are rich riparian environments that support a wide range of plant and ani...
Windy Day in the Coastal Scrub of Australia's Royal National Park
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - June 01, 2018 01:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsIf you are looking for a vibrant, undulating, natural white noise to allow you to focus on your meditation or studying or melt into sleep, this windy winter day’s recording near Australia’s Eastern shores makes an excellent choice. Just an hour or so to the south of Sydney lies a sprawling park t...
Bondi Beach Long Before Dawn
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - May 01, 2018 02:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsBondi Beach is one of the world’s most beautiful city beaches. It is graced with clean white sand, turquoise water, perfect sunrises, and a steady swell for surfers. The Northern Headland (aka Ben Buckler) of Bondi Bay consists of weathered sandstone cliffs that drop right down into the surf. Bu...
Sunny Spring Afternoon on Sydney Harbor
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - April 01, 2018 07:02 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe sounds from a busy spring afternoon on a quiet Sydney harbor neighborhood beach: The periodic ferry and occasional rumble of a sea plane or helicopter flying overhead. Clanging of boat rigging. Laughter and calls of children. Cicadas. Lapping waves. Birds chirping. The simple sounds that her...
Muir Woods Upper Catchment Soundscape (14 min)
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - February 28, 2018 23:59 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMuir Woods is nestled at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais, near where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The floor of the valley where this extraordinary redwood forest makes its home is a popular place for tourists and locals alike to visit. Because of this, as beautiful as it is, it lacks the solitude and pe...
Muir Woods Upper Catchment Soundscape (1hr)
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - February 28, 2018 22:46 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsMuir Woods is nestled at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais, near where it meets the Pacific Ocean. The floor of the valley where this extraordinary redwood forest makes its home is a popular place for tourists and locals alike to visit. It is popular mainly because of its extraordinary beauty but it does...
Malibu Creek Sunrise Soundscape
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - January 31, 2018 23:57 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsLas Virgenes Creek lies in the Santa Monica Mountain range near Malibu, California. Not far from the Reagan Ranch it also hosts the (now dilapidated) location for the old television series MASH (it is LA after all). It is hard to believe it is a mere 30 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. While it...
Australian Rainforest Soundscape
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - December 31, 2017 23:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSounds from deep in the heart of the Australian rainforest. Situated near the famous Glass House Mountains and not far from the beaches of Noosa Heads, Kondalilla Falls provides an unexpected diversion from the more popular spots. Though the creek is small, at nearly 300 feet, it is an impressive...
Miyajima Island Night Soundscape near a mountain stream
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - December 01, 2017 03:26 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe enchanted island of Miyajima lies on the Seto Inland Sea in Southern Japan. It is famous for the World Heritage listed Itsukushima Shrine. At high tide the whole temple looks like it is floating on the water and the giant Torii gate is said to be a point of connection between the spirit and p...
Midnight rain in Patagonia
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - November 01, 2017 05:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThis rainy nighttime soundscape was captured from a balcony overlooking a small, protected bay on the eastern side of Chiloé Island just before midnight in late autumn. Chiloé Island sits at the northern end of the Patagonian Archipelago, which stretches south for another 1000-plus kilometers. Pi...
Brazil Rainforest Soundscape (at night, near beach)
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - October 01, 2017 05:40 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsAn ideal nature sound background track for meditation, massage, insomnia, yoga, travel, or working. The rainforest here just south of the Tropic of Capricorn is rich in dense vegetation and unique flora and fauna. Though the recording is mostly just the quiet and rhythmic sounds of the small nigh...
Western Australian Outback - Dawn Soundscape
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - September 01, 2017 06:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThe King Leopold Range lies in the remote northwest of Australia, along the famed Gibb River Rd. It is most renowned for its extraordinary waterfalls, such as Bell and Lennard Gorges, but it also contains innumerable billabongs and other quiet waterways and fishing holes amidst the low hills tha...
Australian Outback - Dusk Soundscape
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - August 01, 2017 06:57 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsHome to roughly 20% of Australia’s bird species, the King Leopold Range is an island of diversity amid the hostile and extremely rugged landscape that characterizes this part of the world. This low-lying mountain range (though they are more like hills, really) lies in the remote northwest of Aust...
Kyoto Buddhist Chanting - Rain Soundscape
Happy Sounds - A Nature Sounds Podcast - July 01, 2017 07:29 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThis soundscape was captured on a rainy autumn morning in Kyoto's temple district. The monks were chanting their morning prayers in an open temple as the rain poured relentlessly down on all sides. The normally busy temple grounds were deserted, allowing for a pure experience that probably could ...
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