There is nothing like being out on the sea with an unblemished sky above and the mysteries of the ocean below. I love it. Sometimes she’s calm and gentle, inviting, caressing. Sometimes she’s indifferent throwing her weight around to remind me not to get complacent. Sometimes she’s a real challenge, scary, pushing my limits, keeping […]
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The End of a Perfect Day
The end of a perfect day. The wind has calmed and the seas have smoothed at least for a while. In a few minutes the sun will be gone and the azure blues of twilight will replace the golden glow of sunset. Until then a fiery spotlight holds us in a silhouette as we gaze […]
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It’s while after sunset now. The iPhones with their attention spans long since turned from sunset to social no longer observe the western sky. Through twilight, the sky transitions through layers of orange and yellow and green before a deep blue heralds the first evening stars. This is a special time when seabirds skim the […]
Read MoreWindow on the Aldinga Dropoff
Just an hour’s drive south of Adelaide is a dive location which evokes adventure, mystery, wonder, danger and awe! Arguably the location of Australia’s most famous shark attack survived by Rodney Fox back in 1963 and the subsequent fatality of Jonathon Lee in 1991. I have dived here many times and just a little anxious […]
Read MoreNever Far Away
The ocean calls and calls and calls. It fills our dreams, it nurtures our souls, it pushes busy elsewhere, it draws the world of nature close. Where ever we go or choose to live the ocean will never be far away. … always calling.
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