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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Rivulets of seawater snake their way in from Barker Inlet through woodlands of white mangrove bringing life to the boggy marshlands of Torrens Island. The colours are surreal with the greens and yellows of magrove canopy yielding to the vibrant crimson of red samphire salt-marsh. So much beauty so close to home.
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Looking down from observation level into the Céide Fields visitor centre is like looking into an old well somehow both shiny new and steeped in history. From the bottom the ancient tree from the bog rises from gnarled roots like some old rusty needle ready to impale any poor soul unfortunate enough to slip and […]
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For thousands of years this tree lay buried deep in an Irish bog high upon a clifftop looking out over the Northern Atlantic ocean. How easily it could have lay there undisturbed for thousands of years more. Or just easily it may have become some peat cutter’s winter firewood giving up its physical existence to […]
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