SOMEWHERE ALONG THE TRACK…
Day is almost done we stand where the land meets the water here on Frecinet Peninsula. The sun sinks towards the horizon only to be obscured by a cloud bank, something I should say is not all that uncommon hereabouts.

That is the Tasmanian east coast over there across the bay, on the horizon. Somewhere over there is the town of Swansea.

It is now almost half way through the last month of summer and the sun is destined to disappear around 8.30pm. It will be light for some time after that, though. Here in Tasmania at 42°S we have a long summer twilight, the longest day giving us 19 hours and 53 minutes from first to last light.
This is how it is here on the east coast of Australia’s southernmost land mass this late afternoon. The sea calm, the wind mild and gentle, the sun sharing its life-giving warmth, the view wide and uplifting of mind and spirit.

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FLYING IN THE OCEAN…
So there I was when I looked into the water to see a parallelogram glide by.

There is something languid about this geometric fish… about the way it glides along with just a little flap of its wings.

I have always had this wariness of these creatures ever since, way back as a young kid in Queensland, my father told me that they have a viscous barb on their tail.

This one was at Coles Bay on Tasmania's East Coast.

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