Tuesday Voice: On the estuary

The Black Swan is the state bird of Western Australia.
[Detail from concluding photo below]

Back to close comforts

By Vic Midyett

As I reported recently, Shirley and I were missing the “close comforts,” so we moved back into our van and into a tourist park about a mile away from the house we had been residing most of the time since we returned to Bunbury.
    Our setup at the moment is shown in the photo below. I love the openness but I may put up the annex, which will enclose us more as winter sets in. (The “annex” is three canvas walls that zip onto the frame of the awning and are secured to the ground with steel pegs hammered into the soil. It has three zip-down screen windows and a zip-down door.)

    This is our view of the sunset without going anywhere! Tough, huh?

    Sometimes they're not so dramatic, but oh...so peaceful. This sequence from April 19:

    And here’s the same scene during the day. Boring!

    The water you can see is the estuary, which is only a few feet deep. The land mass in the distance protects us from the ocean.
    I look towards the estuary every time I go out. Sometimes I see lots of bird activity going on with seagulls and pelicans feeding on what must be a large school of small fish.

    After church every Sunday we stop at the other side of town – the “ocean side.” There is a whole lot more beach in this country than there are people, but maybe not more than there are seagulls!

    In the picture below, I meant to capture the fog and the three Black Swans cruising in the estuary.

Copyright © 2015 by Vic Midyett