How often have you sat on a beach gazing out into the ocean. Perhaps counting the waves in sets, perhaps looking for a breaking fin beyond the break, perhaps watching surfers shred it all to pieces. Now try turning it all upside down and imagine gazing on those waves from a completely different world. Better […]
Read MoreMonth: August 2015
No Light Above This Rabbit Hole
As I go about my business at the bottom of these arcane structures I can’t but help feel a sense of being trapped down here. During the day there may be blue skies or clouds. At night stars or nothing at all. There is no light above this rabbit hole. Freedom lies in a torturous […]
Read MoreThe Two of Us
The sun is gone and twilight hues paint the sky through the colours of the rainbow. Night is coming and these glorious changing colours will last only a little while. Perhaps if we fly as fast as we can that colour will never leave so let the two of us fly off into an amber […]
Read MoreWaiting for Summer
The days are getting longer now and the sun setting a little later which means more time in the evening to get down to the beach. There are more people out walking, more people out running and more people just hanging around on the jetty enjoying the evening. Even though winter is not quite over […]
Read MoreMy Mussels
The way this teddybear star (Anthenea australiae) has latched onto that bed of mussels has a kind of possession quality. It’s as if she’s saying ‘Hands off,… My mussels!’ No sooner had I uttered that phrase and I was whisked away into a Sydney dentists office and to his the characters in his marine aquarium. […]
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