I love the colours in this photo, they calm and soothe me. I need to be calmed and soothed.Labels: Bilgola Beach, surf
Be calmed
31 October 2006
I love the colours in this photo, they calm and soothe me. I need to be calmed and soothed.
posted by Aesthetic
20:35
5 Comments:
It's the wash and flow that does it for me. When you can watch water rise and fall over a reefs edge, almost as if it's breathing, that's just an amazing thing.
The colours that get caught in the vortext are pretty spinny... changing hue - darkness one moment and light the next.
I'd spend as long as the tide would let me wandering up and down a reef shelf. If the sea gave the nod, I'd dive in and swim off the edge.
When we were able to buy our own mask and snorkel set (picked tomatoes watermelons and rockmelons for 3 months for that), it opened a whole new world to me. I became a fish - you couldn't get me out of the water.
One of the things that amazed me when I arrived on your coast A was that you had subtley different saltwater critters and reef systems in and around Sydney, to where I cam from. I spent every moment I could sneak away at the beach just wandering around those headlands (is that what they cal them?) you have there.
My mob are salt water people... sadly - I don't get near it enough these days, and I think it shows. Although now I have to tkae the boy down and introduce hime to the beach proper this summer. I'm really looking forward to that mate...
Cheers forgiving me a little saltwater scene to go with my desert country mate - it made me smile. ;-)
We are united in our love for the sea B. I often wake and for that fleeting moment know I was dreaming of swimming in the ocean.
I bet you treasured that snorkel set because you'd worked for it, and that made your adventures in the water even more special.
I'll bet the boy thrives on the beach, just like my two sprogs.
Yep - worked my bum off for it lol!
(No-one tells you that when you pick ripe tomatoes for a wage - your hands turn green...) Spend most of summer's mornings filling buckets with tomatoes, and the afternoon immersing myself in salt water!
The next year I saved enough money to buy an underwater camera... man we had a lot of fun. don't pursue any of that anymore - which is a shame - but I still derive whatever pleasure I can possibly get from the ocean.
I can't introduce the boy to his traditional water so to speak, but we have the Leeuwin Current that run's down the coast sweeping all that tropical water down around Rottnest Island and below... it's why we get coral so far south on the West Coast. That water comes from his traditional saltwater country... so I'll cheat a little and tell him it's still his county's water - just well travelled! I't's close enoughto legal - if somewhat cooler as it classes with the southern currents raising around and up from Albany.
All ocean is good A... I love desert country, and red dirt but my first love is the sea. When the red dirt and desert runs into the ocean with only a thin band of white beach sand seperating them... I know I'm in paradise mate! And I know a few places like that... they are brilliant!
Have a good one A...
Cheers
This one's sweet. It's not swirly, but it becomes swirly.
Rock on.
B, I like your rationale on the currents bringing your waters to where you are, makes me smile that does. You have a good one also :)
Rich, swirly is an excellent word. Swirly, swirly, swirly!
Swirly is excellent, but it is nowhere near as good as beflippered.
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