AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

Followers

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Light Support

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Structure next to Flinders Yacht Club, Mornington Peninsula. The tiny hub of its watchtower activity is supported by stilts. But the red and green lights, in particular, give support to yachts launching and entering the shallow waters close to shore. Yes, it is a little like support given by lighthouses. But rather than warning of hazards, keeping boats away from dangers near shores, this "lighthouse" guides boats into the shoreline. (The landing area is in the same vicinity as the launching area.) Traffic lights for boats!
~
PhotoHunt prompt #119: What IS that?
~

I am there
When your landscape is misty
I am there
When your sails are old
I am there
When you feel lost
I am there
When your spirit is
Cold
~

6 comments:

Ralph said...

As if a traffic light to invite the watercraft in. A lighthouse means stay away. I never thought of that...

A Wild Thing said...

Too bad we need traffic lights on the ocean. The scale of human activity has shadowed every beauty we've known to love.

sharon

Hootin Anni said...

This is a very interesting post. I like that you helped explain it all.

My photo hunt this week is a sequence of photos as I open a purchase I made at Michael's Crafts shop. Can you guess what they are before I reveal them?

Come by if you can find time!! Have a super weekend.

Carver said...

I like that shot a lot as well as the poem that goes with it. Creative take on the theme. Happy weekend.

Anonymous said...

This is a very unique entry, lights for the yachts :)

great weekend to you!

YTSL said...

Must admit that it took me a while to recognize your Photo Hunt entry for this week for what it is... this especially since last week's theme was Support! ;b

CALENDAR

Tasmania

Tasmania
A place of beauty in the Western Tiers

Tasmania

Tasmania
View near Blackwood Park Cottages, Mole Creek

New Landscapes

New Landscapes
New Worlds

Archive of Blog Quotes

  • A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
  • Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
  • Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
  • Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman

Google Analytics

The Inner Light of the Spirit

The Inner Light of the Spirit
The Spirit of Inner Light

Lady Gemma

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Lady Gemma the Unique of Walk upon Water
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails