Tonight’s adventure on Garden Island was cold, windy and scattered with intermittant rain showers. I sat for a while watching the light fade in the gloom before the rain finally stopped. There was still enough time for a few images before the curfew of maritime twilight. The landscape was forlorn and moody but as the […]
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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, […]
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I often come here on the way home from my day occupation. Perhaps not so often in these short winter days when I seem to leave and return during the in-between light of twilight. The little tidal creeks of Torrens Island in the last rays of sunset always make be feel like I have stepped […]
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Expansive vistas are hard. Looking out over a landscape that takes your breath away and trying to articulate to someone else why is the realm of poets. It’s not easily expressed. It’s easy to see why you say; “just look at it, out there, at all of it!’ And that’s it right there, the ‘all […]
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This serpentine landscape has probably lay here unseen, unnoticed, unadored. Perhaps someone keen on Google Earthing may have noticed as they explore in the digital realm. For me its a wonderful discovery as I fly over this landscape on my way home. The more I discover about the Barker Inlet wetlands the more I love.
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