There’s a lot to like about living in our little corner of the world. One reason amid many is how our setting sun draws my eyes westward at the end of every single day. Looking to the west the sea extends to the horizon. The sun sets on a vista untainted by humanity. There is […]
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Twilight on the Barker Inlet Wetlands
With over 300 hectares of fresh water ponds, the Barker Inlet Wetlands is one of the largest wetland constructions in Australia and I drive right through the middle of them nearly every day. Being at road level most of my fellow commuters have no idea of the beauty around them. They see asphalt, concrete, trucks, […]
Read MoreShadows of the Past
The remaining pylons of the old Port Willunga Jetty would have to be one of the most photographed iconic features of the greater Adelaide coastline. ‘Most photographed icon’ often translates into kitsch so I looked for a different perspective in those last rays of sunlight and found one. You’d never even know there was once […]
Read MoreDrawing Back the Curtains
Framed by curtains of rain, bathed in sunset gold, the sun peeks below the dark clouds of the receding winter. Not since I was a child do I remember rain like this season has brought. As if the curtains of winter were finally drawn back, this weekend was the first in weeks the rain has […]
Read MoreThe Red, Red Sea
Well, more orange perhaps, but plenty of deep deep colour. This was the afterglow of tonight’s beautiful sunset on the Grange beach foreshore. The inclement stormy weather of the last few weeks has turned our coastal waters into something akin to an insipid mocha. As a scuba diver I’ll just have to wait until water […]
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