I: Where else?? Low tide at Potato Point, a day before the temperature creeps up, while northern NSW and southern Queensland burn. People lose their homes and their lives and politicians pray and wrangle. It seems almost obscene to be walking along a deserted beach without a wisp of smoke in the air, although there’s […]
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Walking around home: November part 1
I: Potato Point beach at high tide Walking the beach at high tide is not something I usually do, but today is my 75th birthday, and my Queensland daughter is visiting, so why not? As always, there are gifts, this time mainly the subtle ones of sand patterns marking some more than usual ferocity of […]
Walking around home: October (Part 2)
I: Potato Point beach: morning and evening of the same day Two aging bodies need a level, lowish-tide walking surface. Around here at the moment heavy seas have created on many beaches an uncomfortable slant. My home beach is still relatively flat. So it’s there we go from the bush block on a Saturday. The […]
Near home
1: The headland after rain For once promised rain actually eventuates. Not a heap, but more than we’ve had for months. I don’t get up till and unheard of 11 am after an all-night read: is this still a peculiar kind of jet-lag? My determination to walk is undiminished, and I enjoy an unaccustomed world […]
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Walking around home: February 2019
I: Potato Point beach So long! So long it’s been since a reasonable, pleasurable walk. At last, in the cool air of a late summer morning, I hauled myself, no longer reluctant, out for a hill-and-flower walk, which turned into a beach-and-sky-and-rockpool walk along my neglected home beach. II: Moruya – a walk by an […]
