There was a time when a solar eclipse was seen as an ominous sign, a warning that forces beyond our understanding had power over us and that the Sun itself might somehow be taken away. Today, solar eclipses are one of those internationally celebrated occasions where countries that have won the next orbital mechanics lottery […]
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We had spent a remarkable day at sea, travelling from Valentia Island to Kerry Head and back again. Now, halfway between Valentia and the Blasket Islands, the long journey home still had one more moment waiting for us. The western sky had become a world of fire and shadow. Great banks of cloud burned orange […]
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There are places where time seems to move differently … in the strangeness of dreams, in the immersion of flow, and in the time spent beneath the ocean. Rising from the Atlantic off Ireland’s south-west coast, Bull Rock is imposing, with its famous navigable ocean tunnel, exposed lighthouse and one of Ireland’s largest gannet rookeries. […]
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It’s 35 degrees C at sunset for most of Adelaide after another sweltering day. Most would be sheltering from the heat indoors, cocooned in power-hungry air-conditioned buildings. There is a place of respite, no more than a couple of kilometres out into the gulf, where comfort costs no more than the effort it takes to […]
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For nearly 20 years of my young adult life I made my way down Button Road, through the middle of the Wangkuntila Aldinga Conservation Park (Aldinga Washpool), to get to Silver Sands Beach. In all that time I never noticed the natural treasure all around me. At the time, windsurfing was everything to me and […]
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