We watched as the base of the setting sun touched the horizon. In two minutes It will be gone. You can’t measure the diameter of the sun as it appears in the sky but you can measure the angle it makes with your point of view, about one half a degree. So with a little […]
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Nothing could be further from the traditional ‘White Christmas’ than basking in golden twilight on an Australian beach in 35 degrees C. Well yes I could get creative and go further however the contrast between these two worlds literally poles apart yet sharing the same festive season is profound. All through my childhood Christmas time […]
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With another extraordinary year racing towards the finishing line there is nothing more calming to me than looking out across the ocean to the distant horizon. Gazing out to sea washes away cares and worry and brings back to mind things that really matter. The next few days will be fun and crazy and a […]
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Another beautiful sunset unfolds casting its soft golden glow over Henley Square. Up and down Henley Beach Jetty, on the beach and up along the foreshore most eyes were set to the west horizon as the sun dipped into sea. As sunsets go it was beautiful but for those who thought to look behind it […]
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Far away from the legendary Sargasso Sea this solitary clump of sargassum weed washes back and forth in the gentle surf of Henley Beach. Unlike the huge floating rafts of the Atlantic Ocean, this form of sargassum lives a benthic life attached to the rocky reef off our local coast. On any dive here ‘bubble […]
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