A Divine Day

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A little while back...

The day began
with a walk out to Hell's Gates
and back through the Tanglewood

The Wedding Bush
Ricinocarpos pinifolius

This sweetly singing bird
in the centre of the tree
is a Brown Cuckoo-Dove.
He has a long tail
and is a lustrous coppery brown colour.
He feeds on forest fruits
and calls "cuckoo-whork"

A flat climbing cactus plant
adheres to the trunk of a tree
with coin like leaves

sending out wiry roots
to cling on with...






After our morning ritual
"two large flat whites please..."
at the beachside cafe






we walk back to First Point
along the edge of the rocks

enjoying the sunshine,
the glistening sea,
watching the tourists at play...

and notice a boat
anchored in Laguna Bay

we will have to ask
Alden
or Dan
to give us a correct name
for this boat...

I watch through the limbs
of the Pandanus tree

and
there is a man on the deck
looking back at me...

a lucky man
to be anchored in Noosa

while the seas are calm
and the winter warm...

On our way up the steps
at First Point
My walking mate
says to me:


What a divine day...


and I have to agree


It is a simply divine day



Thank you universe...




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