There’s a little restaurant on the waterfront in Neiafu on the island of Vava’u called Mango. Instead of by car, patrons here all arrived in little dinghies. Already the landing in front of the restaurant was filling up with the little inflatable boats bobbing up and down in the gentle waters of Koko Bay. We […]
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A View to a View to a View to a View
A View to a View to a View to a View It begins looking out over a eucalyptus tree line falling away from the the summit of Mount Lofty, the highest place in the region. Soon the detailed structure of leaves, branches and trunks transitions to a rolling velvety green of the Adelaide foothills. Beyond […]
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It had been drab and overcast all day long but in the late afternoon there were a few tell-tale signs that a trip to the beach for sunset might just be worth my while. When I arrived at ‘my local’, Henley Beach, there were a few people with cameras ready to witness the sun just […]
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Three days in a row with temperatures over 40 degreesC had taken their toll and despite the ominous clouds and the expectant change people flocked to the beaches in droves to escape the saturated heat of the suburbs. When I got down to Henley beach around 8 pm this evening the sky was a sullen […]
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When the sunset plays the game of pretending to be over it pays to stay a while, to look up, to look around and to look behind. Sneaking up from behind, the clouds, now struck with the sun’s golden receding light, have become a new source to colour the world before twilight takes hold. I […]
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