Polarising Day on the Beach

  Perfect day to go to the beach, to sit in the sand, to eat sandy sandwiches and drink warm soda or Kool-Aid and stay in the water until your lips turn blue or your mother makes you get out and get ready to go home. Actually… it occurs to me that while this photo

Working class cormorants

Despite our distance from Australia, we have quite a lot of sea-birds in common. Some were brought here, some fly high on air currents and jaunt back and forth every year. Some – who knows? They are here and they are there. These two cormorants are virtually identical to the ones we saw in Melbourne,