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 get here.

The ocean was like a millpond tonight. Dolphins could be seen breaking the surface in the distance. A gorgeous sunset painted the western sky orange, while the carnival lights of the Glenelg foreshore to the east responded with colours of their own. Best of all, it is cool out here. Cool, gentle and beautiful.

Whether it is skimming across a millpond ocean or rocking gently adrift at sea, there is nowhere else when it’s 35 degrees that I can imagine I’d rather be.

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