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Walking the paths nearly not-taken

14 Monday Apr 2014

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creek, Jemisons Headland, kangaroos, lake, mushrooms, reflections

Tides were wrong for beach walking today, and the 6 am sky was luminous, so I headed along the path behind the dunes onto the headland. I needed to stretch my legs, particularly my left knee, after a weekend bum-shifting under sail.

The creek at the south end of Jemisons was brimming, although not open, and it harvested the pink sunrise clouds. The headland path, churned up by car wheels, was green and puddly. Looking down over lake and ocean to Gulaga, two tracks gave me the kind of option that always leaves me wondering “what if …?” I didn't really hesitate and agonise, but when I came across a clump of fresh white mushrooms, as big as breakfast plates, I thought idly “Aha! If … , then …”. And the next faint thought was, of course, “But what would I have stumbled across if I'd chosen the other option?”

Pelicans, shags and egrets congregated where the meeting of sea and lake offered a feast. The lake encroached on land, disappearing the place where I used to sit and read. Each path I chose offered up mushrooms. The creek below Borang gleamed in the sun. Two kangaroos observed my approach and then splashed into the bush through deep puddles by the track, leaving a trail of bubbles. My walk ended with a prone and otherwise pristine white mushroom.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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A stroll to the shops

13 Thursday Feb 2014

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mangroves, Narooma boardwalk, reflections

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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Mangroves

08 Tuesday Oct 2013

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mangroves, reflections, ripples, shadows, Wagonga Inlet

After the unpleasantness of a tooth scrape and the triumph of finding a suitable boating camera at a reasonable price, I strolled along the foreshores of Wagonga Inlet to revisit the photograhic pleasures of mangroves: reflections, ripples, shadows, and twisted intertwined trunks.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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Traces

23 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by morselsandscraps in photos, South Jemison's beach

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reflections, rock face, tracks in the sand

 

On my first morning back in Potato Point, I went for a 6 am walk, something I haven't done for far too long. I rediscovered many of the pleasures of home: the morning light, reflections in the creek, the spring flowerings, the cliff face, and traces of activity on the beach. There were the footprints of birds, people, kangaroos, dogs and undersand creatures. There were traces of the recent stormy weather: tangles of seaweed, feathers and bluebottles and a steeply eroded sandcliff. There were the tracks of the sea: sand ripples, a thin line of fresh tiny debris left behind by receding waves, There were traces of human activity: a cluster of fishing lines stuck in the sand ready for today's action and the print of a flipper heading for the waves. On a grander scale, there were traces left by wind and water and upheaval and geological time in the weathering and shaping and colouring of the rock face.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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